KevinMD

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Now, when our electronic medical records (EMR) freezes, malfunctions, or simply goes on strike, our office is paralyzed. The computerized era has introduced all of us to a genre of errors that never existed during the archaic pen and paper era. The paper medical chart I used during most of my career never "crashed." Read more.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 25, 2019

As a hospitalist, like most in health care, I am afflicted by the slow march of thousands of mouse clicks on the electronic health record (EHR) every day I work. But after starting a new job and learning a new EHR, I have become painfully aware of the volume of alerts that pop up when […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

JULY 6, 2018

EMRs with decision support will improve the quality of healthcare. Drivers are distracted klutzes and computers could obviously do better. Self-driving cars will make all of us safer on he road. Doctors have spotty knowledge and keep illegible records. The parallels are obvious.

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KevinMD

JUNE 21, 2024

Are you tired of spending hours deciphering your colleagues’ EMR notes or struggling to understand your own? Why you Read more… The secret to clear EMR notes originally appeared in KevinMD.com. Excessive details in documentation can lead to confusion and decreased productivity.

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KevinMD

AUGUST 29, 2019

It's always kind of a surprise when you read a patient's chart, and you see an examination of a body part they just don't have. Just the other day, I was reading a consult note on a patient of mine who had been seen by a subspecialist for evaluation of a serious issue, and I […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

What do our patients really want from us? When a patient calls up to schedule an appointment, or sends us a message through the patient portal, or calls our front desk staff to leave a message, what is it that they're looking for? I think, more than anything else, our patients are looking to us […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

MARCH 11, 2019

Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted overnight with chest pain, and after the first bits of the history have been presented, the wise old cardiology attending turns to the gathered medical students who are just starting their first clinical (..)

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KevinMD

APRIL 22, 2018

Eons ago, there was a television show where a non-human character would yell out, "Warning, warning," when he sensed imminent danger. The series was called Lost in Space where we were entertained by a set of quirky characters on a cheesy set. We loved that stuff.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Collaboration is the key. When I think about how hard it is to take care of our patients, and how many different people are involved in their care, it's a wonder that anything ever gets done. We need to simplify systems, and harness the power of the information systems available to us, as well as […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

MARCH 26, 2018

It is all too common for a section in a progress note to look something like this: # Aspiration pneumonia: Continue vancomycin 1 g bid. Continue Zosyn 3.325 g q6h. Follow-up blood cultures. Follow-up sputum cultures. MRSA nares screen negative. Blood cultures negative. Discontinue vancomycin.

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KevinMD

APRIL 11, 2018

I can’t help myself from telling patients how things really work in health care. But I feel they have a right to know.

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KevinMD

AUGUST 15, 2024

The first EMR software was implemented in the early 2000s. AI note-writing software will provide massive short-term relief to stressed-out physicians, effectively disconnecting the quality of notes from personal data entry skills. Unfortunately, after a brief respite from the stress of documentation, things could worsen.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions ! Let us know on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions ! Let us know on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One is aimed at helping Electronic Medical Record (EMR) users in Ontario drive down costs and have a bigger voice with vendors. In the past, OntarioMD has been responsible for Certifying EMRs. Collaborating with EMR Vendors In a groundbreaking move, OntarioMD is considering reimagining the way EMR systems paid for.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2025

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. If none of these jobs fit your needs, be sure to check out our previous health IT job listings.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records. Im not against vendors — some of our top vendors are fantastic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) By Bill Siwicki | October 18, 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Informatics / Data Integrity) Understands the integration points of EMR architecture and provides direction for testing such points in concert with review and oversight for test plans and strategies. which enhances the EMR and proposes/implements compliant solutions. which enhances the EMR and proposes/implements compliant solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Analyzes business and user requirements and collaborates with teams to design and build technology or process solutions which automate or improve the EMR system to support business strategies while considering cost vs value and alternate solutions. which enhances the EMR and proposes/implements compliant solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Unless you’ve been reading Healthcare IT Today for 19 years when I first started writing about EMR, you may not realize that my first job in healthcare was at the UNLV student health and counseling centers. My first entry into healthcare was to implement an EMR for the student health and counselor center.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 3, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Raintree Acquires Yoomi Health, Expanding AI Center of Excellence and Accelerating Roadmap to Become the Leading AI-Centric EMR in Rehab Therapy Raintree announced today that it has acquired Yoomi Health , a New York-based leader in AI technologies for rehab therapy organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These practices play a critical role in maintaining data accuracy and compliance with regulations like HIPAA, while EMR and PM systems ensure data is encrypted and accessible through role-based controls. Seamless integration between EMR, PM, and health information management systems streamlines data handling and reduces risks.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With this in mind, I sat down with V Cantrell, MD, CMO at HealthNet and Abigayle Gomez, EMR Director at HealthNet , at the eClinicalWorks annual conference to learn more about their recent move to the eCW cloud. They shared with me what went into the decision to move to the cloud and details of the results.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2024

While we happily helped many health IT professionals find jobs and healthcare organizations fill their health IT positions, our focus has definitely moved from growing the job board to the content, podcasts, and videos we have been doing on Healthcare IT Today. That doesn’t require a health IT specific job board.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2022

One thing I’ve learned in 16 years writing about health IT and particularly focused on EMR (now EHR if you prefer), is that the EHR still impacts so many things in the life of a clinician. Yes, hospitals and health systems have 1000s of health IT solutions that they have to manage, upgrade, secure, etc. […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

A senior-level role which serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Epic EMR System. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with Epic application analysis!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For the 124th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are mixing together some of the recent health IT news with previews of some upcoming conferences to make our own little health IT potpourri! The first big news item we are discussing is UPMC and Intermountain moving to Epic. Thanks so much for listening!

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This position requires experience specific to Epic EMR clinical environments, healthcare operations, and/or revenue cycle. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. This is a remote position. Candidates must reside in one of these U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Epic Siesmometer (their one and only open source project) is focused on measurement rather than governance, which makes a lot of sense since the EMR is the cosmic microwave background of health care workflows. Instrumentation must happen in the EMR.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Nirvana is available via direct API integration, EHR/EMR integration, or through the always accessible web/mobile OneVerify application. “This antiquated standard is no longer compatible with today’s digital healthcare environment. Therefore, we’re developing our own,” explains Urvish Parikh, CTO at Nirvana.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Here's how some pioneering health IT leaders are using AI today, and how they're planning for the future.

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