Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The electronic health record giant said that health systems had shared more than 221 million patient records in a one-month period this fall.

In our seventh and final feature on burnout, experts at Epic, Cerner, Allscripts and Mad*Pow discuss health IT usability problems and solutions, and describe where user experience is headed.

Jessica Sweeney-Platt, VP of research and editorial strategy at athenahealth, discusses how poor health IT usability can lead to burnout and what kinds of usability efforts are needed to fight stress.

From their EHR workflows, clinicians will have a centralized system enabling them to order and prescribe apps, devices or other digital therapeutic tools for virtual care management.

A research letter published this week found no difference in patient satisfaction scores despite the discrepancy in EHR time between male and female physicians.

Cerner's Hans Buitendijk, EHRA executive committee chair, and Foothold Technology's David Bucciferro, committee vice chair, describe how the association's COVID-19 Task Force is helping provider customers.

Mature health systems recognize the importance of context and design virtual care programs accordingly. Telehealth looks different for millennials and retirees, rural and urban patients and population groups with fundamentally different healthcare needs.

It will expand the data available in its Learning Health Network after an investment in Elligo Health Research, offering under-resourced health systems more equitable opportunities for drug and vaccine development.

Two systems, two vendors, one experience: All staff are happy, which is getting them through the hard times of COVID-19.