Search Tag: EHRs
2023 26 May
Team functioning and communication play a critical role in clinician and physician well-being, and constitute major aspects of a healthy workplace culture. The electronic health record (EHR) affects communication, well-being, and teamwork. This paper tries to layout the interplay between the electronic health record (EHR), health care team relations,...Read more
2019 17 Dec
Healthcare has started moving into the post-electronic health record, with its sights set on a future of advanced analytics, telemedicine, population health, and artificial intelligence. You might also like: Why is New Zealand a Leading Light in EHR Machine Learning Amidst this change, however, EHRs remain a source of daily annoyance for...Read more
2019 10 Sep
Data has become an important asset in today's digital world; moreover, increasing IT use and automation results in more of this asset being created. Interestingly, other industries pale in comparison with healthcare when it comes to the amount of data generated – ie, about a trillion gigabytes of data each year coming from a variety of sources such...Read more
2019 29 Jan
Data forms an important part in clinician decision-making. This is one reason electronic health records serve as a useful and easy-to-access source of patient data and other information needed by care teams. How to make the most of valuable patient data in EHRs and put it to work for better personalised care will require more advanced technologies,...Read more
2018 20 Jun
Electronic health record (EHR) systems were supposed to improve the documentation process and retrieval of patient information to help with diagnostic and treatment decisions. Instead, EHRs became a source of physician discontent and burnout. Most doctors hate EHRs, and it isn’t clear that they make patients any better off either. Now, experts...Read more
2016 06 Jun
A podiatry group has notified its 40, 000 plus patients that their data may have been compromised following a Cyberattack on its IT systems. Connecticut-based Stamford Podiatry Group said the malicious hackers gained access to their systems between Feb. 22 and April 14 and accessed its electronic health record database. "Although we have not been...Read more
2016 18 Apr
If medication is mis-administered it could cause severe harm to a patient – or even death. The route that many hospitals take to avoid errors is using electronic health records (EHR) systems that alert providers when issues arise. But a new report has discovered that the EHR system is not foolproof. Written by the Leapfrog Group, a national...Read more
2016 21 Mar
Interoperability has its advantages with information sharing across networks helping improve efficiency in patient care. But it also comes as no surprise that there are also costs to being connected as has been shown by a study on emails connected to Electronics health Records (EHRs) Researchers in Texas undertook a study on email overload and found...Read more
2016 19 Feb
A group of UCLA researchers that mined thousands of electronic health records (EHRs) with the aim of finding a cheaper and more accurate way of identifying people with Type 2 diabetes discovered more than they expected. As well as developing a screening algorithm that could increase the number of correct Type 2 diabetes diagnoses of the...Read more