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St. Charles has been preparing to go-live with Epic for two years and has spent that time getting staff on board and ready to launch.
The emergency department EHR enables caregivers to document with much greater speed, which helped knock down the door-to-doc wait time from 67 minutes to less than 30.
A major overhaul of the company's structure, with new standalone micro-services leading to more products than are currently available, just might result in "marvelous change," he says.
CIOs are acutely aware of the security complications medical devices and telehealth bring.
Healthcare leaders Robert Wachter, David Bates, Leah Binder and Tejal Gandhi take the pulse of how far patient safety has come in recent decades – and point toward the work that lies ahead.
Michael Dulin, MD, who has studied the complex dimensions of personalized treatment as both a doctor and a patient, says the U.S. care delivery system has some learning to do.
Caregivers can interact with the EHR using natural language queries and more quickly get the answers they need in an unobtrusive manner.
The typical manner in which hospital leaders construct their budgets is by clinical and ancillary departments, which can hinder innovation.
Robert Wachter, MD, and healthcare futurist Jeff Goldsmith make a case for addressing physician burnout.
The findings underscore financial challenges many health systems are experiencing as the operating room is one of the costliest units to run.