Chris Taylor, The Successful Workplace
“There are real challenges with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) beyond getting doctors to write things down (a feat in itself). Healthcare providers are being pushed to adopt EMR, but few are at Stage 7, shown at right.
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Harold Hambrose, Electronic Ink
“There’s no question about it—electronic medical records have become a growth industry. And I’m worried.
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LawrenceG, Microwize Technology
“Under the HITECH Act, individual physicians and small medical facility managers who can illustrate “meaningful use” through their deployment of electronic medical records software are eligible for thousands of dollars in federal funding.
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Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“One of the biggest objections to the adoption of an EMR is its usability (or lack thereof), which is no surprise considering the ease of its predecessor: paper. Thankfully, there are a few ways to make your system not only more bearable, but significantly easier to use.
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Katie Matlack, Software Advice
“Katie Matlack, the Medical Analyst at Software Advice, recently wrote an article on what separates those who realize the benefits of an EMR, from those who don’t. As research for the article, Matlack spoke with representatives of three healthcare providers with EMRs already in place. The resulting conversations allowed her to create a list of eight critical success factors that can help ensure a practice’s switch to EMRs is truly transformational.
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Feeley TW et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(12)
Physicians’ notes are one of the oldest tools in medicine and have evolved into today’s electronic medical record. As we move toward greater transparency in health care, one emerging concept is that sharing information among patients, caregivers, and involved clinicians can improve efficiency, decrease redundancy, and decrease cost. The concept of improving health care delivery by sharing the medical record with the patient is not new.
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Ryan BL et al, Canadian Family Physician, 57(12)
Inputting information into your EMR requires a balance between being efficient and being complete and accurate. Both goals are critical for patient care. When you intend to conduct research using data from your EMR, there is an additional goal of being able to retrieve the data in a reliable and consistent manner.
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Ryan BL et al, Canadian Family Physician, 57(9)
The pace of EMR adoption among family physicians in Canada is accelerating and the potential of EMR research is tantalizing for physicians, researchers, and policy makers. This 4-part series, written by a team of clinicians and researchers who have expertise in EMR implementation and research, addresses considerations for EMR adoption when the goal is not only individual patient care but also research.
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Charles Fiegl, amednews
“Physicians meeting criteria in 2011 to earn federal electronic medical record incentives will have more time before the Dept. of Health and Human Services requires them to satisfy tougher standards for attaining additional bonuses.
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Haydn Bush, H&HN Daily
“A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that 57 percent of office-based physicians now use electronic medical records or electronic health records, up from 50 percent in 2010 and 18 percent back in 2001.
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Chae YM et al, Healthcare Informatics Research, 17(3)
OBJECTIVES
To examine the current status of hospital information systems (HIS), analyze the effects of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) have upon hospital performance, and examine how management issues change over time according to various growth stages.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“HIMSS Analytics has released a research report, sponsored by medical device technology company Capsule, that examines the evolving roles of chief medical information officers and chief nursing officers and how they view medical device integration with electronic medical records.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Although a growing percentage of physician practices are adopting electronic medical records, a large gap persists in adoption rates between the smallest and largest practices.
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Frankovich J et al, N Engl J Med, 2011
Many physicians take great pride in the practice of evidence-based medicine. Modern medical education emphasizes the value of the randomized, controlled trial, and we learn early on not to rely on anecdotal evidence. But the application of such superior evidence, however admirable the ambition, can be constrained by trials’ strict inclusion and exclusion criteria — or the complete absence of a relevant trial.
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Peter Polack, Medical Practice Trends
“Too many people use these terms interchangeably and they are not the same thing.
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Peter Witonsky, Becker's Hospital Review
“Clinician workflows. IT budgets. It’s easy to understand why hospitals end up integrating a department at a time, or a device-type at a time, on their way to complete electronic medical record integration. But according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, this type of approach is not optimal.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Alexander Stemer, MD, president and CEO of Medical Specialists Centers of Indiana, said that even as the practice converted to an electronic medical record system, it “wanted to preserve the quality of physician-patient relationships by not subbing face time with screen time.”
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“During the change to an electronic medical record system, the focus for many practices is on how data will be collected, stored and analyzed going forward. But in most cases, there are many years’ worth of historical data in paper files that physicians will need post-EMR.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“If you search health IT sites looking for gossip and kvetching, you’d get the impression that Siemens’ Soarian EMR is buggy, hard to use and a general pain in the tuchus. But some of that gossip goes back a few years, and from what I can see, it’s died down a lot. These days, things may be different indeed.
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“Electronic medical records (EMRs) are on the way, and not any too soon. The government is offering large incentives to healthcare providers to start using EMRs and for those who skip the incentive, there will be penalties to follow. Whatever you may think of the EMR, it is at our doorstep. I am not making a political statement about this – to me it is common sense and a technological imperative that will reduce costs, enhance healthcare quality, and improve patient safety.
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