Where Does it Hurt? Specialty Physician Shares Three Ways to Improve EHR Charting

The following is a guest article by Jason Handza, DO, Chief Medical Officer at Nextech Systems. It is no surprise that healthcare providers and other clinical staff want to experience consistent and improved charting capabilities to deliver better patient care. It’s also well known that many physicians remain disappointed with the charting and clinical documentation capabilities of hospital and specialty EHRs. According to KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative, physicians want three basic things from their EHRs: strong user mastery, a sense of ownership and system personalization. In KLAS’s latest EHR satisfaction report, response time and reliability were added as foundational factors for EHR success. However, since each medical service line incorporates unique charting requirements, system personalization and user mastery must rise to the top of these five priority items for physician practices and medical groups. Based on nearly two decades of provider experience with ophthalmology EHRs, here are several tactics physician practices can take to improve ambulatory EHR satisfaction. Tailor the Charting and Data Review Experience EHRs organized around the physician’s unique profile, disease specific data sets and specialty workflow remain the most successful in practice. This includes tailored charting and data views based on the EHR’s underlying knowledge database for each specialty. For charting, ambulatory EHRs should customize the ability to document and view patien...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Arch Collaborative EHR Charting EHR Regulations EHR Training Jason Handza KLAS Medication Compliance Nextech Ophthalmology EHR Physician Dissatisfaction Source Type: blogs