Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
The report points to usability, cybersecurity, user training, help desk among reasons to delay implementation.
As hospitals collect patient data they must characterize it well, apply new technologies – and practice what Cleveland Clinic’s Paul Ford calls "human medicine."
Hospitals should expect orders of magnitude more data, with emerging tools, to put information to work.
With 39 hospitals using the health record in an iPhone and many changes predicted for the future of EHRs, here’s a look at what first movers have found.
Indiana Family and Social Services Administration becomes third new Cerner customer in a month that has seen some major EHR implementations.
EHRs in app stores, a new type of supply chain and interoperability’s need for new expertise are on the horizon.
Brent Hicks, senior director of clinical solutions at the Cleveland Clinic, talks about tying EHRs with new applications.
Josh Mandel from Verily talks about the evolution of healthcare apps and their broad adoption by EHR vendors.
When every second counts, treating stroke patients in an ambulance setting with telemedicine means the median time between vehicle arrival to treatment with the clot-busting drug tPA is 31 minutes.
VA CFO Jon Rychalski told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the latest delays in contract negotiations were because the acting secretary “came in cold” to the position.