Female clinicians see fewer patients per week and spend more time on EHR documentation than their male counterparts, leading to less pay and increased burnout, according to study results released Jan. 26 by EHR company Athenahealth.
Category: EHRs
Cedars-Sinai’s EHR tool saves nurses hours per week
The neonatal intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is using an algorithm within its Epic EHR to calculate a score that displays infants’ weight change from birth in an easily accessible time series visualization, EpicShare r…
Integrating text analytics into EHR helps alleviate clinician burnout, study shows
Using advanced text analytics to assess EHR inbox messages can help clinicians improve their workflow and eliminate unnecessary workloads, according to a study published Jan. 20 in the American Journal of Managed Care.
EHR tool decreases clinicians’ phone calls by 60%: Yale exec shares insights
More automated transfers of electronic health information could bring “huge value” to healthcare providers in terms of saving clinicians’ time, according to David Mulligan, MD, chief of transplant surgery and immunology at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health.
2 Michigan hospitals collaborate on Epic EMR system
Helen Newberry (Mich.) Joy Hospital and Healthcare Center and Midland-based MyMichigan Health joined forces to implement a new Epic EMR system for patients at Helen Newberry.
Cerner CEO, chief technology officer agree not to leave after Oracle acquisition
Cerner’s president and CEO, David Feinberg, MD, as well as its executive vice president and chief technology officer, Jerome Labat, have agreed not to leave the company in the year following its acquisition by Oracle, according to a Jan. 19 filing with…
Patients who are Black, unmarried or on government insurance described more negatively in EHR, study shows
The language clinicians use in their EHR notes varies by patients’ race, marital status and type of insurance, according to a study published Jan. 19 in Health Affairs.
Interoperability not guaranteed between hospitals using same EHR, study finds
Hospitals using the same EHR vendor were found to be more interoperable than hospitals that did not use the same vendor, but interoperability is never guaranteed, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Associa…
Henry Ford Health using EHR to screen for human trafficking victims
An EHR system used by Henry Ford Health System is helping staff identify victims of human trafficking.
Wyoming hospital to deploy Cerner EHR in February
Rock Springs, Wyo.-based Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County is integrating Cerner’s EHR system to offer better patient care, and the new program is set to launch Feb. 28, according to a Jan. 13 Rocket Miner report.
