Category: Health IT

HIMSS and AMDIS Respond to Reducing Clinician Burden Strategy Report

HIMSS and the AMDIS offered their comments to the Strategy on Reducing Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs.

The Latest Health IT News in State Government from HIMSS

Explore the latest updates in health IT state government.

Post SCOTUS decision, federal judge rules Epic’s individual arbitration agreement valid

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EHR vendors stock report: Week of Jan. 22-25

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Seattle startup 98point6 wants to be Amazon Prime of primary care: 7 notes

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The problem with abbreviations in the medical record

Several patients seen in our practice recently were significantly and dramatically transformed by the electronic health record (EHR). And not in a good way. Take, for instance, the patient whose outside chart was reviewed when she showed up in our offi…

A roadmap of Stanford Children’s telehealth program: 6 questions with Dr. Dennis Lund

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How EMR alert fatigue overwhelms physicians

As a hospitalist, like most in health care, I am afflicted by the slow march of thousands of mouse clicks on the electronic health record (EHR) every day I work.  But after starting a new job and learning a new EHR, I have become painfully aware of the…

V.O.M.I.T. in the ER

First came the SOAP notes. They’ve nothing to do with cleanliness, just the opposite. SOAP stands for: Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan. S: “Patient states that pain is 16/10, sharp, unremitting. Feeling like a crocodile is eating insides eve…

AHA, 6 other hospital groups release interoperability agenda

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