A new study published in JAMA this month indicates that EHR data may not be completely aligned with what patients report to their providers. Eye health researchers from Michigan Medical School...
While electronic health records still have the potential to standardize care by enabling advanced analytics and informing clinical decision-making, much of the data held within these systems – and a large proportion of the data used...
A coalition of professional pharmacy societies and other stakeholders has released a new framework for mapping medication therapy management (MTM) services to the SNOMED CT codes used for EHR...
A new coalition of nine universities from across the country aims to improve the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) data in electronic health records, including products from Epic Systems and...
Precision medicine, medical research, and improved patient engagement through initiatives like Blue Button are among the highlight achievements of the Obama Administration’s emphasis on data...
EHR data is not strong enough to support research and clinical trials, says the American Medical Informatics Association.
In a letter commenting on the FDA’s draft guidance on the use of EHR data...
Socioeconomic data that helps to take the “vital signs” of a patient’s community must be integrated into the electronic health record if providers are to have a chance of implementing...
LAS VEGAS - When it comes to health data interoperability, FHIR is the name of the game for the Office of the National Coordinator. At HIMSS16 in Las Vegas, National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD,...
Healthcare organizations shouldn’t spend all their time developing sophisticated health information exchange networks that connect clinicians without sparing a thought for how patients will be...
Despite the widespread adoption of electronic health records and a nationwide push to engage patients through online portals, fifty-three percent of patients participating in a new HealthMine poll do...
Fifty million patients across the nation will soon have access to more of their electronic health record information thanks to a $10 million joint initiative between the Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon...
Electronic health records are incomplete and potentially insufficient for use in population health management programs when they are missing social and behavioral data, states the American Academy of...
A study published this month in the American Journal of Managed Care found that more than three quarters of patients experienced a medication reconciliation discrepancy when researchers compared EHR...
Medication adherence is a pervasive, expensive, multi-faceted problem in the healthcare industry, costing hundreds of billions of dollars a year in preventable spending. While patients are...
In order to foster better population health management, providers should routinely collect more behavioral health data in their EHRs.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is recommending that providers...
Healthcare is starting to get more personal. As the finance and entertainment industries have become on-demand, consumer-driven fields in the recent past, healthcare, too, is moving away from being...
Electronic medication reconciliation tools can help to improve patient safety and reduce medication errors by 58 percent, a study at Boston Children’s Hospital found. By using a split screen to...
Nearly one in four healthcare organizations still use some form of the basic Excel spreadsheet to track and report on their clinical and financial analytics, says a new survey from TCS Healthcare...
More than a quarter of a million people die from preventable conditions each year, says a new population health report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), representing a significant opportunity...
If there’s one thing providers are starting to learn about technology-enabled healthcare, it’s that data is everywhere. From standardized EHR reporting to remote monitoring sensors to...
