It’s no secret: physicians are reluctant to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) for a host of reasons
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In June, Bloomberg published a story that put the blame for a hospital patient’s death squarely on electronic medical records (EMR)
2 Comments - If not, then didn't he violate HIPAA TPO permissions accessing a record he shouldn't have?...It is a big mission, but with out 99% accuracy rate, we hope to change all paper medical records to Electronic Medical Records
Big Data and Social Analytics - The volume of healthcare data has been exploding, especially with the increasing deployment of electronic medical record systems in both ambulatory and in-patient settings. Most of us are familiar with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Centricity but did you know that PracticeFusion (the leading SaaS EMR vendor) has 120,000 providers and 30 million patient records? Impressive right
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
But to the shock of the medical investigators, it quickly became clear that very few combat records were found for any of their patients. Shockingly, in many cases, no records existed at all. Understandably, the Department of Defense was outraged to discover their soldiers’ most important records were being so badly mismanaged and it wasn’t long before the DoD had completely revised their records management policies and overhauled many of their long-standing records management procedures
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And Iron Mountain, Recall, and other records storage vendors have no problem with a constant flow of paper-based records directed toward them
I recently spent some time participating in a LinkedIn discussion about the most common reasons behind the failure of electronic health records implementations...But if a hospital doesn’t incorporate its legacy backfile of patient records into its EHR plans, it won’t
Last month, Emory Healthcare in Atlanta announced that 10 discs containing electronic records on 315,000 patients had gone missing
What does this mean for ambulatory care electronic health records (EHR) adopters?
We exchanged a couple of tweets about saving tweets as records and then he asked whether that picture that came up with the email would be part of the business record, given that it's what the user saw
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