Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Oklahoma Heart Hospital CIO David Miles and his team made it through in one piece. He offers tips for those facing an electronic health record switch, discusses staff resistance – and talks about what it takes to successfully work with a consulting firm.
The revised bill now leaves out provisions that would have increased Congressional oversight over the VA's EHR modernization partnership with Oracle, which is set to restart in 2025.
Improving the care experience through technology is at the core of the cardiovascular center's values, says its CIO – who describes how the two-hospital system uses patient feedback to focus on optimal care delivery, and has the accolades to prove it.
The Ministry of Health has secured their commitment to integrate patient data with the national EHR starting next year.
Among other wins, St. Luke's University Health Network has reduced length of stay for patients going to post-acute facilities by 0.3 days. This decrease translates into significant bed availability and improved patient throughput.
The typical chief information officer in healthcare is taking on more responsibility for determining strategy and digital transformation, with 84% of CIOs now part of their organization's executive leadership team.
Also, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department has launched a new patient portal which already helped reduce duplicate records by a tenth.
Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor at Indiana University's school of public health, will helm the IT and data innovations at Regenstrief Data Services.
OpenNotes and Abridge want to find out, as they team up for a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project to assess and develop new clinical documentation tools powered by artificial intelligence.
This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digital health record system.