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Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Patient Data while Managing Large Volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Healthcare IT Today

How can healthcare organizations ensure the security and privacy of patient data while managing large volumes of electronic health records (EHRs) ? Also, make sure your core IT vendors especially your EHR and any analytics vendors do the same. So what is the balance between the two?

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Benefits and Challenges of Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems

Healthcare IT Today

Today we are going to narrow our focus on these exciting and vast technologies down to their impact on EHR systems. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to ask what are the potential benefits and challenges of integrating AI and machine learning into EHR systems? Below are their answers.

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Improving EHR Systems with User Experience and Interface Design to Reduce Clinician Burnout and Enhance Workflow Efficiency

Healthcare IT Today

minutes on EHR per visit trying to find the time to do this for every patient in addition to all of their other tasks is very difficult. Finding a solution that improves EHR systems to increase efficiency and reduce clinician burnout should be a high priority for your organization. The following are their answers.

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Zoom announces new integration with Cerner EHR

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The initiative, which is currently available to beta customers , is aimed at facilitating easier access to telehealth from within Cerner's EHR. Cerner users at hospitals, health systems, physician offices and clinics will be able to launch secure Zoom visits directly within EHR workflows, the companies say. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. They found that physician time spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled hours increased from 4.53

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Combining Technology and Tradition to Transform Indigenous/Indian Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Angie Wilson, Tribal Health Director at RSTHC while she was attending the 2024 NextGen User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM24). We wanted to find out more about their use of NextGen’s EHR and how the announcement from CMS will affect how they deliver care.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

But these health IT leaders feel far from empowered and choiceful as consumers in todays EHR vendor monoculture, Harm Scherpbier, MD, explains in his book , Unvendor. It is not yet something you would find in a typical EHR, although some of the largest firms might say its part of their future roadmap. So Im not anti-vendor.

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