Forbes
“Mobile devices are proving instrumental for a growing number of healthcare professionals. Smartphones and tablets are progressing beyond ways for doctors and nurses to check in during a busy day, and becoming part of the very fabric of healthcare delivery.
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Janet Dillione, Huffington Post
“The adoption of healthcare IT as a means to improve clinical workflow processes and ultimately to improve the delivery of patient care has accelerated.
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Margaret Polaneczky, KevinMD
“One day, about 5 years into using the electronic medical record in my practice, I came to the realization that I wasn’t having fun anymore. I was sitting throughout most of every office encounter facing a computer screen, my back to the patient on the exam table across the room.
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Angela Hart, The Health Care Blog
“The San Francisco Department of Public Health says it is ahead of the curve in rolling out databases that keep tabs on tens of thousands of patients across a citywide network of clinics and hospitals. The rollout is needed not just to make a local form of “universal health care” work, but also to meet a 2014 deadline under national health reform.
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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“People who have grown up using technology, or “digital natives,” tend to adopt technology, at least initially, for different reasons compared to those who are new to technology, or “digital immigrants,” according to Ryan Sandefer, chair of the health informatics and information management department, and Shirley Eichenwald-Maki, assistant professor in the department at College of St Scholastica in Duluth, Minn. “Digital natives are more willing to use [HIT] for technology’s sake,” Mr. Sandefer says. “Digital immigrants are more interested in how this will help them.”
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Robert C. Davis, McKnight's
“There is little doubt that these are difficult times for long-term care providers. Margins are tight, new regulations are constantly emerging, and staff turnover is a chronic problem. Given these and other challenges, it’s more important that operators carefully manage every aspect of care delivery and overall operations.
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Shahid Shah, Healthcare IT News
“Productivity loss and workflow disruptions are commonplace as our industry gets on the Meaningful Use bandwagon and is starting to adopt EHR systems at a slightly more rapid pace than in previous years (things aren’t really as rosy as many think, but the pace is picking up).
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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“Workflows can make or break a health IT initiative at hospitals and health systems because they dictate the difficulty of adoption of new technology. The less congruent an HIT system is with a physician’s workflow, the less likely the physician is to use it.
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Richard Scott, EHR Outlook
“With electronic health records touted as a way to transform healthcare delivery en masse, you can be sure that implementing them within your own practice will result in a slight tweak or two.
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Luke Gale, CMIO
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2011 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), the EHR adoption rate for Rhode Island, at 45 percent, is classified as significantly lower among the total U.S. office-based physicians’ adoption rate of 57 percent.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Physicians might not realize it, but how they and their staffs use an electronic medical record system could open themselves up to accusations of fraud or misrepresentation.
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Beth Walsh, CMIO
“When Hospital Sisters Health System, a 13-hospital system in Wisconsin and Illinois, implemented computerized physician order entry and EHR, everything seemed fine—for a little while. Just a couple of months after the installation, William Montgomery, CIO, received a letter from the physicians listing 38 issues that they wanted fixed within two weeks.
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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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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Chances are, if you’re managing a hospital’s EHR workflow, someone still needs paper, and it’s a hassle moving data from paper into the EHR. Maybe someone is using intake forms for inpatients, or signed consents for same-day surgery patients.
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Paul Lynch, Tory McJunkin, Randy Braunm, Pain Medicine News
“My IT [information technology] manager has submitted several proposals for purchasing new software and hardware to supplement our current systems. All of our systems are working now, so I can’t help but think most of these updates are unnecessary.
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Acker B et al, Journal of AHIMA
Problem lists facilitate continuity of patient care by providing a comprehensive and accessible list of patient problems in one place. Problem lists used within health records are a list of illnesses, injuries, and other factors that affect the health of an individual patient, usually identifying the time of occurrence or identification and resolution.1 They are an important communication vehicle used throughout the entire healthcare continuum.
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“One of the challenges many face in their evaluation of Electronic Health Records is the treatment of an EHR as an application that provides all necessary functionality out of the box, rather than a platform that enables it.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Emergency responders at disaster sites have a difficult problem — organizing patient data quickly, in a rapidly evolving, stressful environment. Adding an electronic health record (EHR) system to that scenario adds a layer of complexity.
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Charlotte Hays, IWF
“When President Obama was trying to sell Obamacare, an oft-touted reform was electronic health records. EHRs were second only to “If you like your health care you can keep it” as a selling point for better, less expensive medical care. EHRs would empower patients and make information more readily available to physicians. What could go wrong?
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Angel Garcia, Healthcare IT News
“Talking to doctors about an EMR makes them run the other way or just simply tune out the speaker even with all of the government incentives and impending penalties by Medicare and Medicaid.
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