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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. Outside of PSHs, their time spent documenting in the EHR increased from 4.29

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Insights Into EHR Documentation Workstations

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most important and least covered things in healthcare IT is the various EHR Documentation Workstations. No doubt it’s a regular topic of conversations at healthcare organizations because an EHR workstation configuration really impacts EHR users experience and therefore the patient.

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'Much bigger than just a global pandemic': How hospitals can plan crisis EHR documentation

Mobi Health News

In a preview of their HIMSS22 panel, Serena Bumpus of Ascension and Stephanie Hoelscher of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center explain their Texas pilot study on crisis documentation during COVID-19 surges and how it could lessen the burden on nurses.

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Beating the Documentation Backlog in Mental and Behavioral Health

TheraNest

Documentation is essential to delivering high-quality care. However, the increasing demands on providers often lead to a documentation backlog, affecting efficiency, patient care, and even provider well-being. This post will help you implement a plan and establish good habits that will help make efficient documentation second nature.

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Can Performance Analytics Impact the EHR Clinical Documentation Conundrum?

Healthcare IT Today

EHRs have been implemented for nearly two decades in healthcare and many usability issues still remain. Of these, one of the top issues reported by physician users in virtually every EHR usability study is clinical documentation. The following is a guest article by Michael Clark, CEO at DeliverHealth. The ONC concurs.

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Telehealth, hybrid care adding to physicians' EHR workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. more medical record review minutes.

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Suki expands availability of its ambient AI clinical documentation platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It can be used for clinical documentation, diagnosis coding, real-time information retrieval from the electronic health record and other applications. "We support bidirectional integration with all major EHRs, including Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and Athena." " He points out the U.S.

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