Electronic Health Records

In the decade-and-a-half since the startling “To Err is Human” report, it’s still hard to discern whether billions invested in electronic medical records are improving patient safety.

When its EHR vendor wasn’t going to be ready until 2020, the IT team took matters into its own hands in a low-budget open source project that is already paying off.

Penn Medicine’s Mike Restuccia explains why instituting an end user survey is such an important, and eye-opening, step to take.

Voice recognition and natural language processing will enable doctors and nurses to interact with electronic health record platforms in more comfortable ways.

Despite their apparent promise to advance interoperability of clinical and claims data, exactly when the Blue Button 2.0 and MyHealthEData initiatives that CMS unveiled at HIMSS18 will be fully implemented remains unclear.

When EHRs can learn – gather and remember – what works best for each user, they can attain maximum efficiency.

Penn Medicine chief information officer Mike Restuccia shares four tactics for ensuring success with big data projects.

Actionable insights and intelligent health care experiences lead to personalized care and improved operations for providers.

Integration into a clinical workflow is only way to provide value and this app doesn’t offer that yet but many are hopeful Apple can do it.

Chief information officer Mike Restuccia revisits past predictions and builds on recent developments on what's ahead for the new year.