Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
CIO Brian Jacobs says the award is the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort by hundreds of Children’s National employees, IT and otherwise.
The combination of Medsphere’s EHR and Stockell’s revenue cycle management in the cloud will be offered through a subscription service payment model.
System factors in the EHR itself – poor integration, suboptimal design and UX, failures of alerts and alarms – were up 8 percent since the last time The Doctors Company did a similar report.
At Kaiser Permanente, an EHR-linked biobank is opening new avenues for treatment and opportunities for other health systems to collaborate.
Through the EHR vendor’s developer program, Zocdoc connects with Allscripts’ clinical scheduling software.
But experts at Monday’s National Committee for Quality Assurance event say cutting costs without compromising quality is the hardest part.
Cerner, IBM, Intermountain, AMIA are early sign-ons to the new Integrated Health Model Initiative, which seeks to improve the way healthcare information is organized and shared.
Goal is to give patients access to their clinical and behavioral info through MyChart, Epic’s patient portal.
Solutions should reduce the burden of repetitive data input that now takes place and enable seamless ways for clinicians to talk to each other, experts say.
Using big data to find incidents of medication nonadherence – and using it to tailor patient interventions – is a key component to population health, says Harvard's Niteesh Choudhry.