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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

It can serve every user from the patient to the receptionist to nurses, doctors, counselors, billers, and the CFO. For many clinicians, EHRs have actually been a disservice, a major factor in burnout. That’s because they weren’t invented to help clinicians in the first place. It still holds true.

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Theresa Meadows, SVP & CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System, Chapter 1

Health System CIO

Meadows also discusses the tricky transition from nursing to IT, how her nursing background has helped shape her leadership strategy, and the mistake CIOs can’t afford to make. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. About Cook Children’s. Upgrading to Meditech 6.1.

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Stephen Clark, CIO, Albemarle Health, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

At-the-elbow support” from nursing Struggling with quality measures Stage 2 — “It’s a matter of maturing what we have.” CPOE roadblocks — “The technology gets in the way.”. * “At-the-elbow support” from nursing. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. Telepsychiatry HIE.

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health

Redox

Although their software is sold to healthcare organizations and used by people who treat patients (e.g. physicians or nurses), most software companies do not have any clinicians on staff or provide any care in-house.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

We spoke a bit about the TEFCA — the interoperability framework proposed by ONC under the 21st Century Cures Act — which is intended to create a framework of trust that will ensure that healthcare records can be transferred and used in creation of longitudinal records for everyone. In a nursing facility for over N days?

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The Year 2014 in Review

eHealth

There were several other chapter meetings, chapter leader institute, meaningful use meeting and the Nursing Informatics Institute, all well delivered HIMSS events. In June, I had the opportunity to speak at the Northern Ohio HIMSS conference on the Value of Patient Engagement.

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