Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Gavel and hand signing paper
By Mike Miliard 09:57 am July 17, 2023
The electronic health record vendor was accused by the DOJ of "misrepresenting the capabilities of certain versions of its EHR software" and providing kickbacks to customers to drive new sales.
Healthcare worker with eapiece looking at medical images on a computer screen
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By 09:23 am July 17, 2023
How to tackle staff shortages and manage increasingly complex diagnostics.
A doctor checking a patient's record on a digital tablet
By Adam Ang 11:51 pm July 13, 2023
Also, SA Health is launching an e-Referrals system based on Salesforce and Mulesoft.
Jenny M. Smith of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
By Bill Siwicki 11:07 am July 13, 2023
The Louisiana health system is using the technology to help meet other Quadruple Aim goals of improving care quality, boosting patient access and reducing costs.
A doctor shows a patient some information on a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 10:47 am July 13, 2023
Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University developed three new natural language processing algorithms to extract housing, financial and employment data.
A doctor and patient look at patient records on a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 10:51 am July 12, 2023
Eleven healthcare organizations have also joined the Data Usability Taking Root project, which is designed to improve the quality and actionability of health information received by end users within their workflows.
Clinician copies and pastes notes in an electronic health record
By Andrea Fox 02:20 pm July 07, 2023
The study of 1.7 billion clinical notes over a three-year period found an increase in the use of digital tools and copy/paste functionality correlated with longer notes and a decrease in the average time spent writing notes.
Tracy Warren of Astarte Medical
By Bill Siwicki 10:16 am July 07, 2023
Tracy Warren, CEO of Astarte Medical and a former venture investor, talks the best data, the pace of tech innovation, curbing the all-time high in premature births, and best practices to prevent lapses and medical errors in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Fire sparks light up a dark sky.
By Andrea Fox 03:35 pm July 05, 2023
The agreement supports the use of the World Health Organization's international classifications and terminologies in the HL7 FHIR community and will provide a testing environment and standards documentation to member states. 
A female patient navigator sits at her desk working on a desktop.
By Andrea Fox 10:59 am June 29, 2023
Deploying the model with EHR data could help address cancer patient navigator burnout. The process could be scaled to serve all oncology patients in need, a retrospective simulation study showed.