Search Tag: electronic medical records

IT Management

How-does-your-ehr-affect-quality-and-outcomes

2020 17 Sep

Use of electronic health records (EHR) systems, even beyond minimum meaningful use (MU) requirements, does not necessarily correspond to increased hospital efficiency, patient satisfaction, and safety.   You might also like: EHR Systems: From Record to Plan   These new findings, based on a Johns Hopkins-led study (Murphy et al....Read more

Executive Health Management

Lack-of-interoperability-increases-risks-for-patients

2019 06 Dec

National Health Service (NHS) patients' safety is at risk due to critical deficiencies in medical record keeping. A new research shows that NHS Trusts use at least 21 different electronic medical record systems, which poses a big challenge to the effective sharing of information. The study from the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) at...Read more

IMAGING Management

Radiologists-need-to-brush-up-on-ai

2019 30 Jan

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in healthcare , such as in enhancing the performance and accuracy of diagnostic tools and disease risk prediction algorithms. And while radiology is among the medical specialities most primed to incorporate AI into clinician workflow, it appears that many radiologists are not even sure...Read more

ICU Management

Are-sniffer-systems-effective-in-detecting-ards

2018 11 Dec

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) results in substantial mortality but remains underdiagnosed in clinical practice. For this reason, automated “sniffer” systems that analyse electronic records have been developed to assist clinicians with ARDS diagnosis. However, a new systematic review found that these sniffer tools had moderate to high predictive...Read more

IMAGING Management

Electronic-medical-record-based-interventions-reduce-unnecessary-testing

2018 24 Oct

Multiple electronic medical record-based interventions implemented at Boston Medical Center have reduced unnecessary diagnostic testing and increased the use of postoperative order sets, two indicators of providing high-value medical care, according to a study published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. High-value...Read more

Health Management

Ai-and-healthcare-technology-in-india-opportunities-challenges-and-emerging-trends

2018 23 May

This piece describes the unique opportunities and challenges for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital health technology in India, describes some success stories, and brings up some current trends.   With its vast inequalities in healthcare distribution, glaring lack of trained healthcare clinicians and infrastructure, and low government spending...Read more

Health Management

Deconstruction-of-business-processes-to-disruption-of-business-models

2018 20 Feb

How healthcare IT can impact business models.  What is the potential for information technology to transform healthcare processes and where will the consumer stand? For more than eleven years, I have been active via the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) as a pro-bono member of the board of ENTSCHEIDERFABRIK. This is the incubator...Read more

Health Management

Future-medicine-today-s-healthcare-1

2018 25 Jan

Is the “Smart Hospital” a chance for change? Prof. Heinemann explains how futuristic and smart technologies that are used in preventive and diagnostic  healthcare, are embedded in a new digital professionalism and quality. Artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnostic radiology, robots in nursing and operating theatres, augmented and virtual reality...Read more

IT Management

Enterprise-imaging-1

2017 05 Sep

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are an important tool for clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. EMRs contain plenty of text but do not include pictures, hence these records don't tell the whole story. It is estimated that some 70 million computed tomography and 30 million magnetic resonance imaging procedures are performed annually,...Read more

Health Management

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2016 13 Nov

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Health Management

Interoperability-slow-progress-but-willingness-to-improve

2016 13 Nov

A mere 6% of clinicians can effectively access information from healthcare providers using a different electronic medical record (EMR) in order to facilitate improvement to patient care, according to KLAS Research’s recent report Interoperability 2016: From a Clinician View— Frustrating Reality or Hopeful Future? While this is a low percentage, Bob...Read more

ICU Management

Study-emr-alerts-used-to-identify-at-risk-patients

2016 27 May

An automated process that continuously samples electronic medical record data in real time and triggers an alert to the physician at the patient's bedside to warn of potential clinical decline was successfully implemented in a large U.S. healthcare system. The algorithm works by sampling physiological and laboratory information from the electronic...Read more

IT Management

Are-you-paying-your-patients-enough-attention

2015 11 Dec

Technology is becoming integrated into healthcare processes. In the examination room, for example, use of computers is aimed at promoting safer and more efficient care. However, exam room computing is challenging and there is growing evidence that it can be a threat to patient safety. There is an urgent need to develop and implement patient-centric,...Read more

IT Management

Social-media-may-hold-clues-to-health-information

2015 14 Oct

Many patients are willing to share and link their social media data with electronic medical record (EMR) data for research purposes, finds a first-of-its-kind study published in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety . A databank that merges social media with EMR data may be able to provide insights about individuals’ health and health outcomes, according...Read more

IT Management

Better-patient-care-management-needed

2015 17 Sep

Better coordination of healthcare services helps to reduce costs and improve quality of patient care. While electronic medical records guide physicians through patient encounters and facilitate the required documentation for billing purposes, the records don't actively support true care coordination, according to an opinion piece for MedCity News ....Read more