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.
Category: Health IT
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.
Viewpoint: Telemedicine will be vital for future of emergency medicine
The pandemic required emergency departments to rely on digital technology, but telemedicine should be extended beyond the realm of the pandemic and become further integrated into emergency medicine, a commentary written in the New England Journal of Me…
Mercy using $2.2M from FCC to expand telehealth services in 3 states
Mercy will use a $2.2 million from the Federal Communications Commission to expand its telehealth services for patients in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
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.
A new boon for Big Data and patient care
Big Data in medicine is the data analysis of large amounts of patient medical information to improve medical care. Analysis of data may be used to pick the best intervention for a patient based upon care outcomes of similar patients or to evaluate phys…
Epic integrates MapQuest to help patients find providers
Epic selected acquisition marketing platform System1’s MapQuest Business-to-Business service to help patients reach healthcare providers.
Minnesota hospital reduces postpartum hemorrhages 40% after retooling EHR
Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Hospital used an EHR to create a screening tool that would predict, identify and guide postpartum hemorrhages, resulting in a 40 percent reduction, according to a Jan. 10 report in EpicShare.
Linking EHR data key to maximizing clinical trial insights, Cerner exec says
Hospitals face challenges when conducting clinical trials, such as high costs, difficulty recruiting patients and a lack of resources. Health systems facing these obstacles can accelerate research by extracting insights from EHR data, according to a Ja…
