Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Among other wins, St. Luke's University Health Network has reduced length of stay for patients going to post-acute facilities by 0.3 days. This decrease translates into significant bed availability and improved patient throughput.

The typical chief information officer in healthcare is taking on more responsibility for determining strategy and digital transformation, with 84% of CIOs now part of their organization's executive leadership team.

Also, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department has launched a new patient portal which already helped reduce duplicate records by a tenth.

Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor at Indiana University's school of public health, will helm the IT and data innovations at Regenstrief Data Services.

OpenNotes and Abridge want to find out, as they team up for a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project to assess and develop new clinical documentation tools powered by artificial intelligence.

This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digital health record system.

Also: Kaiser Permanente reported that an unauthorized party gained access to the email accounts of two workforce members and viewed patient health information. 

This is part of an ongoing project to replace paper-based chemotherapy prescribing across South Australia.

According to Svava María Atladóttir, chief transformation officer at Iceland's Landspítali National University Hospital, clinical and IT staff are actively collaborating to improve its in-house EHR and clinical portal.

New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says.