EMR/EHR

Electronic medical records (EMR) are a digital version of a patient’s chart that store their personal information, medical history and links to prior exams, texts and reports. The goal of these systems is to enable immediate access to the patient's data electronically, rather than needing to request paper file folders that might be stored in fragment files at numerous locations where a patient is seen or treated. EMRs (also called electronic health records, or EHR) improve clinician and health system efficiency by making all this data immediately available. This helps reduce repeat tests, repeat prescriptions and repeat imaging exams because reports, imaging or other patient data is not not immediately available. 

Physicians Share Opinions on Electronic Health Records in Recent DoctorDirectory Survey

Asheville, NC May 16, 2013 -- DoctorDirectory, a leading marketing solutions company serving healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical industry clients, asked their community of HCPs to submit questions for a series of peer surveys. After collecting the submissions, the questions were divided up into separate surveys and sent to HCPs across the United States. Results from the EHR study were recently published.

May 17, 2013

e-MDs Partners with dashboardMD to Provide Enhanced Business Intelligence Reporting Capabilities and Turnkey Healthcare Analytics

Miami, FL, May 16, 2013 -- dashboardMD, a leading provider of business intelligence reporting solutions for healthcare, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with e-MDs, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management (PM) solutions.

May 17, 2013

Video: Physicians sing ‘Ode to EMRs’

The times they are a changin’--most notably when it comes to health IT.

May 15, 2013

McKesson Announces Nationwide Expansion of its Million Dollar EHR Software Give-Away Program, McKesson Gives Back

ATLANTA -- McKesson announced today the expanded, nationwide roll-out of its McKesson Gives Back program, a philanthropic initiative designed to recognize and reward physician practices that provide unreimbursed healthcare to America’s neediest citizens. Initially launched in November 2012 in select cities, the program is now available to physicians and clinics across the United States to support providers delivering care to underserved and uninsured communities.

May 14, 2013

EHNAC to Host Industry Forum for Health Information Service Providers focusing on Direct Protocol, Meaningful Use Stage 2

FARMINGTON, Conn. -- The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, will host a free webinar to discuss the impact of the Direct Protocol on health information service providers (HISP), certificate authorities (CA) and registration authorities (RA) and the need for compliance to achieve Meaningful Use Stage 2 measures. The webinar, “A Closer Look at Direct Protocol: Exploring the Impact and Connection to Meaningful Use Stage 2 Implementation,” is scheduled for 1-2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 30, 2013.

May 14, 2013

EMR and HIE Use Increases Among U.S. Doctors, Accenture Annual Survey Finds

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The vast majority of U.S. doctors (93 percent) reported actively using electronic medical records (EMR) in an annual survey by Accenture (NYSE:ACN) of 3,700 physicians in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States. And, showcasing the growing importance of health information exchange (HIE), nearly half (45 percent) of doctors surveyed said they regularly access clinical data outside their own organization, representing a 32 percent annual increase.

May 13, 2013

Aprima EHR and Homecare Homebase™ Automation Software Interface to Launch This Summer

Dallas, Texas, May 08, 2013 -- Aprima Medical Software announced today that its award-winning EHR and Practice Management system will soon interface with the home healthcare market’s leading automation software, Homecare Homebase, a technology partnership expected to eliminate almost all of the duplicative documentation typically associated with home healthcare visits.

May 10, 2013

Rochester General and EDCO Take a New Approach to Point of Care Medical Record Scanning

St. Louis, MO, May 08, 2013 -- In March, Rochester General Health System (RGHS) implemented EDCO® Health Information Solutions' point of care batch medical record scanning solution to create a completely electronic medical record for improved patient care. This partnership enables RGHS to scan documents on the hospital floors, in clinics, and in physician offices, and enables EDCO to index (file to the patient’s chart) all documents centrally in one hour or less. Using this model, RGHS is able to scan documents faster at the point of care, while maintaining the quality control achieved when records are indexed using a centralized approach.

May 9, 2013

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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