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- Electronic Health Records (EHR) - American Medical Association
An electronic health record (EHR) digitizes a patient’s paper chart It collects the patient’s history of conditions, tests and treatments and can be used to create a more holistic view of the patient’s care A medical EHR also improves upon paper by making the patient’s information available instantly and securely to an authorized user But for all these advantages, EHRs can create
- Practice innovation strategies: EHR improvements
This collection of AMA STEPS Forward® Practice Innovation Strategies—including playbook and checklist PDFs—offers proven approaches on how to maximize the benefits of EHR use, strategies and tactics
- 7 EHR usability, safety challenges—and how to overcome them
EHR design, customization or configuration can contribute to patient harm Researchers also are quantifying the physician burdens of EHRs
- Is order entry a physician-only EHR task? | AMA
Additionally, there is no current Medicare EHR incentive program that requires computerized provider order entry (CPOE) 1 Background CPOE is the process of electronic entry of physician and APP orders for diagnosis and treatment of patients (e g , prescription medications, lab and imaging tests, referrals, etc )
- 10 challenges when switching EHRs—and how to meet them
The EHR is a driver of burnout for doctors Then comes time to switch to a new one Early communication, training are musts for a smooth transition
- Meaningful Use: Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive programs
The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program—also known as Meaningful Use or MU—initially provided incentives to accelerate the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) to meet program requirements
- Digging into the data to cut EHR burdens that drive burnout
The AMA recognizes that EHR-use data will only get more robust as vendors adopt new and better data collection and as health systems learn to maximize the potential of the data that is available
- Big jump seen in EHR secure messaging. Is that a good thing?
One health system saw a 29% rise in EHR secure-message use in just six months But does avoiding the phone offer a leg up for better care?
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