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Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare has achieved significant time savings — and increased physician satisfaction — after implementing a speech recognition solution.

More than half of nurses say they experience burnout most days, a new survey shows, with 61% planning to change jobs or departments, seek a hybrid position, work as travelers or make other career changes.

The informatics group polled clinicians about the "pervasive challenge" of excessive administrative work, and found that 75% of respondents think too much documentation is detracting from care quality.

The agreement supports the use of the World Health Organization's international classifications and terminologies in the HL7 FHIR community and will provide a testing environment and standards documentation to member states. 

In collaboration with Columbia and Vanderbilt, the medical informatics group seeks to optimize EHR charting and reduce burden on U.S. clinicians by 75% by 2025.

The two-year collaboration will focus efforts to extend comprehensive standards for interoperability and specs such as FHIR across the the healthcare community.

A recent task force report offers some preliminary exploration of how definitions of EHI and designated record set might be operationalized going forward under the Cures Act Final Rule.

With the benefit of hindsight, policy experts say the magnitude of the current burnout crisis was largely unforeseen when the law enabling the meaningful use program was passed in 2009.

The informatics group's new position paper explores ways to enable rigorous but flexible oversight and help FDA and other policymakers ensure "adaptive CDS" is safe and effective.