EHRs

While technology has made significant advancements in healthcare, from EHRs to health sensory wearables, computers still have ample room for growth in helping improve the patient and clinician experience, according to Vanderbilt University Medical Center physician Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD.

The Department of Veterans' Affairs' transition to a Cerner EHR system will allow the agency to move forward from cybersecurity issues it previously dealt with legacy IT systems, according to VA Chief Information Security Officer Paul Cunningham, Federal News Network reports.

International Falls, Minn.-based Rainy Lake Medical Center partnered with Sanford Health of Northern Minnesota to gain access to the health system's Epic EHR, according to International Falls Journal.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

Physicians who received in-room support for EHR documentation reported greater satisfaction, according to research recently published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

Coaching physicians on how to navigate a new EHR system during the implementation process can help alleviate any future burden that may develop with administrative tasks.

Adding a flag to the EHR to notify physicians when a patient has an abnormal test result for chronic kidney disease may help improve patients' follow-up care, according to a recent Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente study.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare on July 1 enacted new patient rights rules for hospitals, including an update to its regulations for patients' access to their medical records, according to Lexology.

St. Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City, Philippines, will implement Allscripts' Sunrise Acute Care EHR system to move its patient records for surgical, radiology, laboratory and ambulatory services onto a single system.

The American Medical Association (AMA) reports that physicians are spending up to six hours a day working with their electronic health record (EHR) to comply with documentation mandates. This is contributing to record-high levels of physician burnout and dissatisfaction with…