Search Tag: electronic health records

2017 12 Feb

The use of copy and paste functionality in electronic health records (EHRs) has introduced "unintended safety-related issues into the clinical environment,” according to a study by the U.S. National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Copy and paste, which is intended to help clinicians post information in patients’ records, can cause errors to...Read more

2016 12 Jul

Variable use of electronic health records between and within professions could mean that as much as half of patient safety issues could be missed, according to a simulation study. The study, by Knewton K. Sakata, MD, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University , Portland, Oregon, USA,...Read more

2016 06 Jul

The expansion of the electronic environment in healthcare is coming at a cost. According to a national study of physicians led by Mayo Clinic, the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and digital physician order entry is leading to increased professional burnout and lower job satisfaction. “Electronic health records hold great promise...Read more

2016 06 Jul

The expansion of the electronic environment in healthcare is coming at a cost. According to a national study of physicians led by Mayo Clinic, the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and digital physician order entry is leading to increased professional burnout and lower job satisfaction. “Electronic health records hold great promise...Read more

2016 19 Jan

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt has hinted at changes as the healthcare industry embraces the value-based reimbursement scheme. For one, 2016 would likely see the end of the Meaningful Use programme — an electronic health records mandate and incentive programme that healthcare providers put millions into....Read more

2016 05 Jan

Beginning in 1996, hospitals in the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada area started coming together to form Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), a family of seven hospitals, a cancer centre and an urgent care centre, serving more than 2.3 million residents of Hamilton and South Central Ontario, Canada. HHS is the second largest hospital group in Ontario, and serves...Read more

2015 16 Nov

Use of big data has helped University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the second largest integrated payer-provider network in the USA, reduce readmissions. The key was to combine data from both sides of the business — hospital and insurance, according to UPMC Chief Analytics Officer Pamela Peele. “Providers are trained to manage disease, and insurers...Read more

2015 02 Nov

Use of electronics health records (EHRs) is important in achieving coordinated care that leads to a better patient experience. While U.S. government initiatives have helped widen EHR adoption — the percentage of U.S. hospitals using EHRs shot up from 9.4 to 75.5 percent between 2008 and 2014 — the lack of system integration has hampered care coordination...Read more

2015 22 Oct

A new study from Mount Sinai School of Medicine shows that implementation of electronic health records (EHR) at a large tertiary hospital resulted in significant reductions in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and surgical intensive care unit (SICU) mortality rates. The findings are published in CHEST Journal . Health information...Read more

2015 19 Oct

Most patients in the UK (79 percent) would worry about the security of their health record if this was part of a national electronic health record (EHR) system, according to a new study published in the journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . The finding highlights the need for intensive public education and engagement initiatives to...Read more

2015 30 Aug

Results of two recent surveys to gauge physicians' experience in using electronic health records (EHR) have revealed that, overall, physicians in large-group practices are having better EHR experiences compared to their colleagues in small and solo medical practices. "Larger physician organisations are much more satisfied because of their resources...Read more

2015 25 Aug

In his State of the Union Address this January, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) that was launched with a $215 million investment. PMI aims to enable a new era of medicine through research, technology, and policies that will lead to the development of individualised, tailored treatments for patients. PMI is looking...Read more

2015 25 Aug

Electronic exchange of health information amongst healthcare providers has important implications for patient safety and care coordination. However, only 9 percent of hospitals use only electronic means of exchanging patient summary of care records with outside sources, according to a report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT...Read more

2015 07 Aug

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new computer-based method that can help clinicians identify hospital patients at risk of septic shock. The method correctly predicts septic shock in 85 percent of cases, without increasing the false positive rate from screening methods that are currently used, according to a study published in...Read more

2015 16 Jun

Renowned health informatics leader Michael Thick has appointed as chief medical officer (CMO) and chief clinical information officer (CCIO) of electronic patient record software pioneer IMS MAXIMS. Well known for his position as chief clinical officer on the National Programme for Information Technology, he has been instrumental across various successful...Read more

2015 14 Jun

With the easy availability of health apps, it has now become possible to monitor one’s steps, heart beat and sleep patterns. However, this information has not yet reached patient electronic health records. The commentary has been published in Cell Systems . Harvard researchers argue that these mobile devices could reshape the practice of...Read more

2015 02 Jun

Morten Elbæk Petersen is the CEO of the innovative Danish public health portal sundhed.dk. Launched in 2002 for citizens and health professionals and the largest patient portal in Europe, the site won Petersen the HIMSS Europe eHealth Leadership Award this year. Today, twenty per cent of the Danish population uses the portal every month and use is...Read more

2015 02 Jun

Hackensack University Medical Center recently unveiled the interoperability between its electronic health records EpicEHR and automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) from Omnicell. They believe that EHR-ADC link could eliminate redundancies during the ordering process and can help reduce medicine errors at the point-of-care. With the Epic-Omnicell...Read more

2015 21 May

The vision of the “Learning Healthcare System”, established nearly a decade ago, aims to promote a system by which research is integrated rapidly into clinical practice based on electronic health records (EHR). Supporters and critics of the vision have expressed differing opinions on its progress. “The optimists say that patients are engaged and that...Read more

2015 23 Feb

IT giant Epic Systems (WI, USA) is set to launch an app store that will allow third-party companies to develop products in tandem with the vendor's EHR system, which is the most commonly used across hospitals and physician practices. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the app store was announced by Mark Bakken, co-founder and former CEO...Read more

2015 15 Feb

Biobanks are made all the more valuable when the biological samples they hold can be linked to health information collected in research, electronic health records (EHR), or public health practice. Such data linkages, however, have raised concerns about patient privacy and data security. Incidentally, public trust in systems that share health information...Read more

2015 29 Jan

Electronic health record (EHR) technology and electronic prescribing of medications account for 30 percent of total healthcare IT spending in Europe, according to Frost & Sullivan. The company’s European Electronic Health Records Market study, which covers ambulatory and hospital EHR, estimates that the market will earn revenues as high as $3.69...Read more

2014 08 Nov

Note : RSNA recently announced an additional $1.27 million of funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to support research by the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (QIBA). The funding will be used towards the development of a Quantitative Imaging Data Warehouse, research to characterise the sources...Read more

2014 08 Nov

Authors Prof. Karl A. Stroetmann empirica Communication & Technology Research Bonn, Germany School of Health Information Science University of Victoria, BC, Canada   Dr. Rainer Thiel empirica Communication & Technology Research Bonn, Germany [email protected]   Dr. Veli Stroetmann ,...Read more