Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The company says CareCloud’s integrated clinical and financial tools will help it offer its healthcare customers more ways to streamline physician workflows, improve patient outcomes and increase practice profitability.

Five top electronic health record systems experts offer healthcare C-suite executives and IT leaders some valuable best practices for getting the most out of their EHR investments.

For the newly-created role of chief research information officer, Cleveland Clinic has hired one of its own physicians to lead improvement in its network infrastructure and digital deployments, optimizing its IT to enable more innovative clinical research.

Using advanced clinical healthcare IT to optimize your most common workflows provides immediate and long-lasting payoffs.

Automated sig translation system created time savings of 34 hours per month for clinicians, translating into about $11,000 in recaptured nursing productivity over 12 months. Further, 30-day readmission rate fell from 6.2% to 5.5%.

A broad look of HIT-related developments in the APAC region in 2019, as well as a glimpse of what might happen in 2020.  

A chief medical officer says 2020 will be a breakthrough year in making EHRs less stressful for providers if the growing avalanche of data is reined in with health IT that makes EHRs work better.

TrakCare implementation aims to improve patient care and support clinical decision-making.

EMRAM is used to manage healthcare, but all stakeholders must work collaboratively to improve outcomes, says Ilker Köse, technology transfer office director at Istanbul Medipol University in Turkey.

There have been many frustrations with how the federal EHR incentive program was implemented this past decade, but those big government subsidies have enabled headway that might not have happened otherwise.