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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
- 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
- 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
- 14 ways to put your EHR to the test on usability, safety
A multidisciplinary panel that included physicians, nurses, pharmacists, EHR vendors, patients and health information technology experts, helped create 14 safety-based, rigorous test-case scenarios for vendors and health care organizations to use to evaluate the usability and safety of how the system is performing on a certain task
- 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
- Is order entry a physician-only EHR task? | AMA
Members of the care team assisting with documentation, including nurses, credentialed medical assistants, or non-credentialed staff members may enter orders in the electronic health record (EHR) under physician direction in a manner consistent with state and institutional policies Additionally, there is no current Medicare EHR incentive program that requires computerized provider order entry
- Taming the EHR Playbook - American Medical Association
The Taming the EHR Playbook addresses how to maximize the benefits and minimize the burdens of the electronic health record (EHR) Learn more
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