EHR Optimization

HCA Healthcare Launches AI-Enabled Ambient Documentation Partnership

April 20, 2023 - HCA Healthcare and Augmedix have announced a partnership aimed at accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled ambient documentation solutions for acute care providers. According to the press release, these products will use automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology and natural language processing (NLP) to convert...

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Deep-Learning Model Assists Researchers in Obtaining Useable EHR Data

by Mark Melchionna

With the goal of identifying a more efficient method of deciphering clinical notes, researchers from MIT described how a deep-learning model helped clean up her data, leading to information extraction...

Artificial Intelligence Assists with EHR Data Organization

by Erin McNemar, MPA

According to a recent study, physicians devote 62 percent of their time per patient reviewing electronic health records (EHRs), with the most time-consuming portion being clinical data review. To...

Education, Infrastructure Key to Precision Medicine Adoption

by Jessica Kent

To increase precision medicine adoption, healthcare leaders must build education among patients and providers, implement advanced infrastructure, and boost patient engagement, according to a report...

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Clinician Burnout

by Jessica Kent

While the dawn of the EHR promised streamlined, accelerated healthcare delivery, the technology can also include burdensome alerts and documentation requirements that lead to clinician...

How Organizations Can Integrate Precision Medicine with Clinical Care

by Jessica Kent

While the promises of precision medicine in healthcare are seemingly boundless, the industry has had to overcome several challenges to integrating these approaches with everyday clinical care. From...

What Are the Top Challenges of Clinical Decision Support Tools?

by Jessica Kent

Clinical decision support systems can help organizations manage large volumes of data while enabling them to deliver quality, value-based care. Designed to sort through large amounts of data and...

Cerner Deploys Enhanced Clinical Decision Support Technology

by Jessica Kent

Cerner Corporation and Holon Solutions have announced a partnership to offer accelerated, seamless clinical decision support at the point of care. The organizations will deploy patented technology...

Patient Access, Privacy Vital for Integrating Genomic Data in the EHR

by Jessica Kent

Patient access, privacy, and protection are critical in facilitating the integration of genomic data into patient care and the EHR, according to a report from the American College of Medical Genetics...

How Teamwork Fuels Award Winning Health Information Management

by Jessica Kent

At the core of any meaningful healthcare intervention is medical data. A patient’s health history, prescription information, and demographic data are the building blocks of quality care delivery,...

Can Healthcare Overcome Its Past Pitfalls to Leverage Genomic Data?

by Jessica Kent

Genomic data and precision medicine hold the potential for more targeted therapies, allowing clinicians to gain a deeper understanding of patients’ health and wellness. Combined with clinical,...

Collaboration Key to EHR Alert Optimization at St. Jude

by Jessica Kent

Electronic health record (EHR) alerts play an important role in patient safety by notifying providers of potentially dangerous and hazardous clinical events, including inappropriate prescribing and...

EHR Metadata Could Enhance Clinical Decision Support Alerts

by Jessica Kent

Using EHR metadata, such as audit data and access log details, may help optimize the design and development of provider clinical decision support (CDS) and EHR-based alerts, a study published in JMIR...

Provider Experience Impacts EHR Data Workflow, Documentation Time

by Jessica Kent

Providers in the emergency department (ED) who had more experience or training with an electronic health record (EHR) system completed EHR documentation faster than those with less experience, a study...

How to Facilitate User-Centered Design in Health IT Tools

by Jessica Kent

User-centered design in health IT tools is a relatively new phenomenon, but one that is growing increasingly common, especially as end-users continue to gripe about convoluted workflows and...

Satisfaction High with Epic, Cerner Clinical Surveillance Tools

by Jennifer Bresnick

Clinical surveillance tools are generally doing a good job of alerting providers to sudden patient downturns and delivering meaningful decision support, yet optimizing these health IT tools to produce...

Hard Stops in EHRs, Clinical Decision Support Can Improve Care

by Jennifer Bresnick

Clinical decision support systems that use hard stops, in which a response is required before a user can move forward with a task, are associated with higher performance on both process and outcomes...

Persuasive EHR Workflow Design Increased Same-Day Data Entry by 10%

by Jessica Kent

Incorporating persuasive design concepts into primary care electronic health records (EHRs) increased same-day data entry by 10 percent per physician, demonstrating the potential for persuasive design...

Top 4 Ways Providers, Vendors Can Improve EHR Usability

by Jessica Kent

The arrival of the electronic health record (EHR) in healthcare has brought just as many challenges as it has benefits, with patient advocates often citing poor EHR usability as the root cause of...

Population Health, EHR, Analytics Needs Drive Orgs to Consultants

by Jennifer Bresnick

Health IT consultants are reaping significant financial rewards as provider organizations seek to bulk up their population health management technologies and big data analytics toolkits, according to a...

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