Health IT optimization
The health IT optimization process refines healthcare technology systems to improve performance, efficiency and user experience. The process streamlines workflows, enhancing data integration and accessibility, and may include implementing updates or add-ons. Understand how optimization efforts maximize the value of health IT investments.
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19 Nov 2024
Digital Health Most Wired: Health IT budgets doubled in 2024
The 2024 Digital Health Most Wired survey revealed significant increases in health IT budgets, adoption of patient engagement tools and a stronger emphasis on cybersecurity. Continue Reading
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04 Nov 2024
How generative AI in healthcare is helping cut admin burden
Over 90% of healthcare workers feel optimistic about the promise of generative AI in healthcare to alleviate administrative burdens, according to a new survey. Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2021
CDS Alert Fatigue Runs Rampant in Ambulatory Clinics
Health systems with affiliated ambulatory clinics should allocate resources to mitigate CDS alert fatigue and improve CDS integration and training. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2021
Advanced EHR Capabilities Lead to Improved Clinical Performance
The number of EHR super-user providers increased by 10 percent over a three-year period. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2021
EHR Support Team Pushes User Satisfaction to Cut Clinician Burnout
Rush University Medical Center faced a significant clinician burnout problem, but new health IT management found a way to enhance EHR usability and mitigate frustration. Continue Reading
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23 Apr 2021
Strategies for EHR Documentation During Telehealth Visits
EHR telehealth integration is critical for enhanced EHR documentation, but other options could streamline the process. Continue Reading
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22 Apr 2021
Nurses Give EHR Usability a Failing Grade, Report Burnout
Almost half of the nurses experienced burnout, which healthcare professionals connect to low EHR usability. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2021
Modifying EHR Prescribing Settings Can Improve Prescribing Patterns
A simple and effective way to curb opioid prescriptions is to modify the EHR default prescribing settings. Continue Reading
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16 Apr 2021
The Pros and Cons of EHR Clinical Decision Support Alerts
Clinical decision support alerts are often helpful to EHR users, but they are also primarily linked to clinician burden and alert fatigue. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2021
Epic Systems Tops EHR Vendor Expectations During COVID-19
The majority of health IT and EHR vendors across the country rated high for COVID-19 response, but Epic Systems and MEDITECH topped the EHR vendor category. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2021
EHR Adoption Barriers, Facilitators in Behavioral Health Facilities
A behavioral health-centered and well-designed EHR workflow could improve EHR adoption in behavioral health facilities. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2021
EHR Clinician Notes Offer Glimpse into Implicit Bias in Medicine
Researchers identified three EHR documentation aspects in clinical notes that might negatively impact Black patient care in the future. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2021
Ambulatory Docs Spend 5-Plus Hours on EHR Use Per Day
Female physicians spent more time on the EHR per every eight hours of scheduled patient time than their male colleagues. Continue Reading
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25 Mar 2021
Implementing an Automatic Travel History EHR Extraction System
The spread of COVID-19 gave health IT experts another reason to implement patient travel history into the EHR. Continue Reading
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23 Mar 2021
Clinician EHR Workload, Cognitive Efforts Double After EHR Adoption
Providers reported significant cognitive workload increases, such as higher levels of frustration and mental demands following EHR adoption. Continue Reading
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22 Mar 2021
Major NY Health System Leverages Epic EHR COVID-19 Vaccine Solution
A Western New York health system is utilizing its Epic EHR system to streamline a COVID-19 vaccination program. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2021
CVS Health Aims to Alleviate Clinician Burnout Through EHR Alerts
A recent CVS Health report said the company is looking to decrease the number of EHR alerts to lessen clinician burnout. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
How to Leverage Health Information Standards to Boost EHR Usability
Researchers utilized health information standards, such as FHIR, to improve EHR usability in the emergency department. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
MEDITECH, Epic Lead Small Hospital EHR Vendor Satisfaction
Small hospital respondents said MEDITECH, Epic, and Cerner all present challenges, but lead the way in EHR vendor satisfaction. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2021
Ascension to Expand Google EHR Search Tool Integration Across Sites
Following patient privacy allegations, Ascension and Google are growing their partnership to integrate the Google EHR search tool across additional healthcare facilities. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2021
Clinicians Unable to Complete Tasks with an EHR Documentation Scribe
Clinicians were unable to devote more time to answering patient portal messages, fill prescription requests, and send test results even with a hired EHR documentation scribe. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2021
Mitigating Specialty Clinician Burnout with a Customizable EHR
With clinicians across different specialties encountering separate issues, a bespoke EHR can mitigate clinician burnout. Continue Reading
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11 Feb 2021
EHR Multitasking Causes and How to Improve Clinician Burnout
EHR usability, patient data overload, and patient and provider communication behavior are some of the top EHR multitasking practices that result in clinician burnout. Continue Reading
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08 Feb 2021
6 EHR Usability Pitfalls, Challenges Leading to Clinician Burnout
Total EHR time, clinician age, and EHR documentation were some of the top EHR usability factors that lead to clinician burnout. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2021
Top EHR Usability Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Inappropriate EHR alerts, cognitive support matters, and objective encounters are a few of the top EHR usability challenges that health IT professionals encounter. Continue Reading
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01 Feb 2021
Users Override Clinical Decision Support Alerts at High Rates
Renal medication clinical decision support alerts were overridden 100 percent of the time, resulting in adverse drug events and clinician burden. Continue Reading
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28 Jan 2021
COVID-19 Telehealth Boom Stymied Clinical Decision Support Alerts
The increase of telehealth visits during COVID-19 negatively impacted the volume of clinical decision support alerts within the EHR workflow. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2021
How EHR Informatics Can Drive EHR Usability for New Clinicians
Two health IT experts shared their top EHR usability tips for young clinicians who are getting their first real experience with the technology. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2021
Clinical Decision Support Tools Boost Cardio Health Communication
Oncologists, clinicians, and patients reported increased cardiovascular health awareness and care with an EHR-integrated clinical decision support tool. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2021
How to Determine Effective CDS Tools for High-Risk Prescriptions
Although clinical decision support (CDS) tools have the potential to mitigate prescription rates, especially for high-risk prescribing, there is room for growth. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2021
3 Key Strategies to Mitigate Health IT, EHR Clinician Burnout
Researchers conducted a systematic review of multiple databases to uncover the top ways to mitigate EHR-related clinician burnout. Continue Reading
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14 Jan 2021
MEDITECH Launches COVID-19 Vaccination EHR Solution
The MEDITECH COVID-19 Vaccination EHR solution embeds directly into a health system’s EHR to boost patient safety and mitigate clinician burden. Continue Reading
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12 Jan 2021
Increased EHR Workload Has a Major Impact on Clinician Burnout
A physicians’ daily task load shows a strong connection to clinician burnout and usability scores. Continue Reading
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12 Jan 2021
A Deep Dive into the EHR COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Process
A health system in the Kansas City metro area was one of the first 150 hospitals in the country to implement COVID-19 vaccine administration software into its EHR. Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2021
Expanded Patient Medical History Can Improve Clinical Notes
Researchers added additional patient history information, such as family history timelines, to determine a patient’s disease risk and predict outcomes. Continue Reading
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04 Jan 2021
The 3 Eras of Clinician Burnout and How EHRs Can Mitigate It
Health IT professionals dove into the history of medical documentation, EHRs and how EHR vendors, clinicians, and health IT professionals can use history to help decrease clinician burnout in the future. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2020
Cerner Boosts Digital Health, Monitoring Solutions Ordering in EHR
Cerner is building off its existing partnership with a digital health vendor to help its clients choose, manage, and deploy digital ordering and monitoring tools and applications. Continue Reading
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07 Dec 2020
How an AI Assistant is Advancing EHR Documentation, Decreasing Burden
Providence is implementing an artificial intelligence EHR documentation solution to mitigate clinician burden and enhance EHR documentation. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2020
Top 5 EHR Replacement Tips to Ensure Patient Safety, EHR Training
Health IT experts at Penn Medicine focused on EHR training, EHR optimization, and patient safety to run a successful EHR replacement. Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2020
Combating Health Inequities Through EHR Data Collection
A lack of standardization can lead to gaps and inaccuracies in EHR data collection, resulting in inequitable care delivery. But providers are finding ways to overcome this challenge to deliver more equitable care to patients. Continue Reading
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10 Nov 2020
Cleaning Up the EHR Master Patient Index to Boost Patient Matching
Integrating a simple spell-checking algorithm into the EHR could mitigate patient matching issues, especially during COVID-19. Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2020
How EHR Systems Improve COVID-19 Public Health Response
Although health IT developers and public health systems were caught off guard by COVID-19, both should be ready for the next wave or a future pandemic. Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2020
Docs Add 1 Hour of Administrative Work for EHR Inbox Management
Patient-initiated messages made up the majority of physician EHR inbox messages. Continue Reading
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27 Jul 2020
Agile Health IT Infrastructure Critical to Healthcare’s Future
Agile health IT infrastructure is essential to enabling healthcare organizations to respond to changes in care access and delivery. Continue Reading
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13 Jul 2020
Why Healthcare Organizations Must Rethink Data Protection
With healthcare organizations focused on a public health emergency, cybersecurity threats are emerging to exploit the current pandemic. Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2020
Adopting a New Operating Model for Health IT Infrastructure
Increased financial flexibility can give healthcare organizations greater choice when investing in health IT infrastructure. Continue Reading
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17 Jun 2020
Epic Systems Tool to Boost EHR Data Exchange for Payer, Providers
For the first time, Epic Systems aims to navigate the difficult payer-provider relationship and facilitate EHR data between the two. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2020
Heavy EHR Workload Leads to Higher Clinician Burnout, Exhaustion
Researchers found that clinicians are engaging with over 300 messages in the EHR on a weekly basis, resulting in clinician burnout. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2020
3 Strategies to Enhance EHR Usability Through EHR Optimization
Being able to adapt and optimize new EHR technology is crucial to the future of EHR usability. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2020
3 Reasons to Favor Cloud-Based EHRs Over In-House EHRs
Cloud-based EHRs not only have the ability to save health systems money, but they are also more secure and promote interoperability. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2020
3 EHR Usability, Optimization Fixes That Address Clinician Burnout
EHR usability is a top cause of clinician burnout, but researchers and companies are looking to address this issue with new technology advancements in the EHR. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2019
How the Cloud Technologies Benefit Enterprise Resource Planning
Cloud technologies are a catalyst for change in digital finance with the potential to disrupt the entire healthcare landscape, especially enterprise resource planning. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2019
Using EHR Optimization to Address Physician Burnout
Provider organizations are working to address physician burnout, with EHR optimization offering one avenue for improving clinical workflows and productivity. Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2019
How to Design a Comprehensive EHR Usability Assessment
Performing an EHR usability assessment can support effective EHR optimization projects for healthcare organizations. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2019
Achieving a Return on Investment Through EHR Optimization
Physician support prior to, during, and following implementation holds the key to effective EHR optimization. Continue Reading
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27 Feb 2018
Healthcare Orgs Increasingly Value Information Governance
Eighty-four percent of surveyed healthcare organizations are familiar with information governance, according to AHIMA. Continue Reading
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07 Dec 2017
6 Use Cases for EHR Data Utilization in Public, Community Health
A report demonstrates six ways public health agencies can use EHR data to improve community health. Continue Reading
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23 May 2017
ECMC EHR Outage Teaches Valuable Ransomware Recovery Lesson
The New York medical center shared insights into the aftermath of the ransomware attack that led to a month-long EHR outage. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2017
Virus-related EHR Outage Forces NY Hospital Back to Paper
A New York hospital battling a computer virus must temporarily use paper records as a result of an EHR outage. Continue Reading