It’s no secret: physicians are reluctant to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) for a host of reasons
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That trend is quickly changing, as electronic health record (EHR) adoption is increasingly becoming a reality thanks to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
What does this mean for ambulatory care electronic health records (EHR) adopters?
A January 8 story in The New York Times shone a bright light on the perils of implementation for electronic health records. “The report was critical of the lack of guidelines around the widely used copy-and-past function…available in many of the largest EHR systems
I’ve written in this space before about how hospitals and medical practices can utilize backfile conversion techniques to fully leverage their investment in an electronic health records (EHR) system
With the growing adoption of electronic health records , explosion of mobile device use among clinicians and the rise of the social enterprise; healthcare staff and clinicians expect instant access to information
With data capture and document processing solutions, patient documents can be automatically converted into electronic formats and routed to an electronic health record system
I recently spent some time participating in a LinkedIn discussion about the most common reasons behind the failure of electronic health records implementations
I am fully in favor of the intentions for this as the goal of meaningful use is focused on use of electronic health records to improve health care in the United States through standardization, accessibility and accuracy of patient information
According to HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), the level of "meaningful use" is accomplished when the EHR (Electronic Health Records) solution/technology, has capabilities to e-prescribe, exchange electronic health information to improve the quality of care, the capacity to provide clinical decision support to support practitioner order entry, and ability to submit clinical quality measures - and other measures - as selected by the Secretary of Health and Human Services
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