Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The growth of Sharp Healthcare, the largest health system in San Diego County, has generated millions of additional patient records and back-office documents. Like other health systems, staff working within EHR, ERP and other core systems did not have the ability to easily access, integrate and process medical records and other supply chain documents received via email, fax, web forms, patient monitors and scanned paper documents.

Having real-time insights into every experience that matters allows healthcare organizations to understand the patient journey from end-to-end, connect feedback from multiple data channels, make data-driven business decisions that improve their bottom line and drive action at every level to deliver on patient and employee expectations.

While understanding and reconciling drugs after discharge from the hospital can be challenging, it's a necessity for greater efficacy of care delivery. HL7's Da Vinci project can help.

Healthcare organizations are facing extraordinary change that’s impacting the industry at every turn, including changing consumer expectations, shifting payment models and growing volumes of IoMT data requiring analytics and management. Migrating EHR systems to the cloud can enhance an organization’s agility, as well as strengthen security and accelerate opportunities for innovation. Learn how healthcare organizations have realized cost savings and have met organizational goals more readily after moving their EHRs to Azure.

Healthcare organizations must be able to pivot quickly and respond to today’s ever-changing environment. An increasing number of organizations are moving their electronic medical records (EMRs) to the cloud as part of their digital transformations. Why? The cloud offers a means to update aging infrastructure and also adopt modern EMR technology that can help improve outcomes. Large health systems, including Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, are recognizing the value of moving clinical applications, including EMR, to the cloud.

AHRQ is helping the transition towards evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical decision-making that incorporates patients' needs and preferences. 

At Penn Medicine, agile methods have been adopted by a number of information technology teams, including teams that support its enterprise EHR, data analytics, IT operations and systems administration.

EHR deployment in the cloud can help HCOs shift their resources from managing IT infrastructure to improving care coordination, revenue cycle management and patient outcomes.

Having a proactive, comprehensive disaster resiliency plan that identifies, protects against and detects threats can avoid or minimize the impacts of disasters of all sizes.

Provider burnout has become a $4.6 billion a year problem, resulting in patient and provider churn and a growing physician shortage due to those leaving the profession. Reducing the time that physicians spend documenting patient visits can help decrease fatigue and burnout, as well as allow physicians more time to spend with patients.