KevinMD

DECEMBER 9, 2017

You sign in, and there it is, your third request for your password just to open your electronic health record (EHR). It seems physicians are becoming increasingly frustrated with EHRs, and in most surveys, EHRs are noted as a main contributing factor to physician burnout. Read more.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A recent study found that primary care physicians (PCPs) spend 28.9 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. One solution to this problem lies in the EHR systems’ user experience and interface design.

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KevinMD

MARCH 20, 2018

At the start of the transition to electronic health records (EHRs), I was totally on board as one would expect of a millennial doctor. I, along with my fellow millennials, grew up alongside the internet. But, I did find myself in a unique position in the millennial.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2024

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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

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. Key Takeaways EHR is the central nervous system. RSTHC uses NextGen’s EHR system to streamline operations, improve patient engagement, and reduce clinician burnout.

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 19, 2018

To paraphrase Bill Gates: "The purpose of humanity is not just to sit behind a counter and do things. More free time is not a terrible thing." I have innovated. I developed a mutation assay. I discovered that vacuum ultraviolet light from excimer lasers is safe to use on human tissue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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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KevinMD

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Nearly all hospitals and 80 percent of medical practices use electronic health records (EHRs), presumably to help improve access to health information and increase productivity. Historically, the doctor-patient relationship has been at the heart of medical practice, with administrative tasks and record-keeping at the border.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. "This created a stepped-wedge study design to study the impact of shared inpatient-outpatient EHR use," the researchers wrote. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2025

A key differentiator for the new-tech-DTC/AI purveyors is that “Bit Tech maintains control over their own data ecosystems,” and do not, in Dr. M’s estimation, “cede(d) control of their data assets to EHR vendors.”

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Navina, a platform turning patient data into clinical insights, is teaming up with Agilon Health to help deliver additional insights to primary care docs at the point of care. It will now support Agilons network of physician partners, made up of more than 2,800 PCPs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“With the telemedicine solution, we could potentially serve our patients in all of our primary care centers from the comfort and safety of their homes,” said Jeffrey M. The eClinicalWorks telemedicine system was integrated directly into the EHR the primary care centers already were using.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2022

Yet, that is exactly what happens when you sit down for a discussion about Direct Primary Care (DPC). This new model of care is engaging physicians as much as the patients they serve. Why Direct Primary Care? Check out the summary of the event in this article: Momentum Growing for Direct Primary Care.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 29, 2024

As artificial intelligence tools make their way into hospitals and doctor's offices, Elation Health saw a big opportunity to leverage its expertise in building clinical-first tech to roll out AI pu | As artificial intelligence tools make their way into hospitals and doctor's offices, Elation Health saw a big opportunity to leverage its expertise (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was a pleasant surprise to see Direct Primary Care (DPC) well represented at the recent #HLTH2022 conference. There is real momentum building for this alternate form of care. They also acquired a DPC EHR aimed at the solo practitioner market. Elation Health Continues to Add DPC Customers.

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KevinMD

JULY 16, 2019

Topping the latest list: insurance paperwork, followed closely by electronic health records (EHRs). Insurers and EHRs get between doctors and their patients. Each year, Medical Economics surveys physician readers to find out what irks them most. The reason is the same for both. Doctors sit behind a screen, focused […].

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I often say that electronic health records (EHRs) is like Skynet in the Terminator. We practice in a time when EHR confounds us by freezing, crashing and chaining us continuously to our work, as we spend evenings and weekends on documentation.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Elation Health has long been known as an electronic health record provider, but the company has set its sights on being an "all-in-one" technology solution for primary care practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the central technology pillar for healthcare organizations. EHRs are vital to both clinical and administrative operations. Because of that, we wanted to dedicate an entire article to where EHRs are headed in 2023. What is your prediction for the EHR market in 2023?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. It takes a personalized approach to care, as well as a whole-patient approach. CareTeam used athenahealth's EHR technology to operate more clinics and scale its business.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Strategic Client Services at HCTec Gone are the days when patients or couriers physically transported copies of patient records from their primary care physician’s office, lab or imagining center to a specialist. Modern EHR systems are modifiable.

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KevinMD

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

If you are a physician or know a physician or have ever visited one, chances are you have probably heard them complain about technology in health care. More to the point, they are likely to be complaining about the one piece of technology that affects their lives minute-to-minute: the electronic health record (EHR). To get […].

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

Most Millennials have postponed health care due to cost, and nearly half of younger consumers between 18 and 29 don’t have an ongoing primary care medical home. These patients lookf or care in an episodic way, KPMG notes. There’s a continuum of care that we all age into… eventually.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

MedStar Health was fundamental in helping us build essential capabilities including our bidirectional and seemingly ‘invisible’ EHR integration, which is why we have the highest clinician adoption rates in the industry. Suki’s mission is to make healthcare technology invisible and assistive with an AI platform that powers the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2024

There is the potential for AI to help with the shortage of physicians in primary care. By reducing burnout and workload, AI may encourage existing physicians to delay retirement and new physicians to choose primary care.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The company currently supports 30,000 primary-care-first clinicians delivering high-value care to more than 12 million Americans. Welcoming Tom and Seth to the Elation leadership team supports our continued work to facilitate and elevate the delivery of primary care in any setting,” said Kyna Fong, Ph.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Thanks to insurance companies’ and the governor’s direction, telehealth visits were allowed, which prompted Riad to explore options using the athenaOne Mobile EHR app. ” The EHR has a feature that connects FaceTime through the patient’s chart. If it continues, it’s a huge benefit.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Healee

MARCH 27, 2025

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have been heralded as transformative tools in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

As Howland and her research team noted, patient self-management via in-home technologies can allow for more timely changes to care and collaborative goal-setting. The study relied on EHR data from a fairly small number of patients: 36 who used in-home monitoring, and 38 who received what researchers deemed "usual care."

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

With this barrier top-of-mind, it was welcome news communicated during CES 2025 that Drew Schiller, President of Validic, announced the ability for consumers’ health tracking data from wearable tech to join with their clinical data in electronic health records (EHRs).

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 23, 2024

Elena Christofides, an Elation EHR customer in Columbus, OH. Together with Elation, Surescripts is simplifying patient intelligence sharing, removing burdens on clinicians and helping them focus on what they do best — providing quality, safe and less costly care for their patients.”

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to the survey, 67% of primary care physicians have not yet tried an AI scribe solution and are looking to EHR vendors to guide them to the best option that integrates with their system. For those who have tried AI scribing and have decided not to purchase yet, they are also looking to EHR vendors to provide a solution.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Alex Butler, MD, Chief Product Officer at River Records , and his team started the company after reading a paper by Jake Kantrowitz, MD, PhD, Primary Care Physician & Chief Medical Officer, that led him to ask “Can you build a health care system without notes?”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

What contributes most to burnout, doctors told Medscape, was by far onerous bureaucratic tasks — paperwork, charting, and lack of time for hands-on patient care. It’s EHR implementation and the computerization of practice. Women in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

So a patient will have to travel to a primary care or clinic setting and the on-site providers will set up a telemedicine cart within their room. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR. At the Wright Center for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, Medent is both our EHR [and] telemedicine service provider."

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