The University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to measure EHR best practices, collect provider feedback and construct a customized model EHR system to improve patient safety and provider satisfaction, according to a report from NBC Omaha.
UNMC will work in partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Interdisciplinary Informatics School to implement the study at cardiology departments at four sites, including Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C., Christiana Health in Newark, Del., Parkview Health in Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Faith Regional Service in Norfolk, Neb.
By the end of the first year, the team hopes to identify best practices for efficiency, effectiveness and safety.
"EHRs were originally designed, developed and optimized as a financial system and a way to document payment and services rendered. But, the EHR really has never been designed or developed for the people using it to take care of patients," said John Windle, MD, chief of cardiology at UNMC, in the report. "We've been adversely affected by it because of how we take care of patients. It has slowed us down. It was a barrier to communication.
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