To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable
The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS)
EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom?
The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. 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.
“Many EHR products were designed with billing, payer requirements, and meaningful use criteria in mind rather than clinician use, resulting in a user e...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT EHR UI EHR Usability Health Information Management Systems Hims Khalid Al-Maskari Patient Care Patient-Provider Relationship Value Based Care Source Type: blogs
ShowdMe Announces Partnership with Spring Mountain Capital and Blue Heron Capital for Series A Funding Round and Expansion
ShowdMe, the premier compliance training partner for home care agencies and skilled nursing facilities, announces today a Series A investment led by Spring Mountain Capital and Blue Heron Capital. The funding will drive expansion for the Company, allowing for the hiring of new employees and continued growth of its products and services. ShowdMe chose to engage with the two firms after growing 90% year over year in 2022, obtaining over 100 new clients in the past 12 months, and achieving 98% logo retention.
Healthcare professionals are required to complete compliance training on an annual basis, as well as during the hiring...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Avi Singer Blue Heron Capital Gordon Crenshaw Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Kenny Soll ShowdMe Spring Mountain Capital Source Type: blogs
The Mindful Body argues against mindlessly accepting age-related decline in cognition and health as inevitable
In 1979, Harvard researcher Ellen Langer invited elderly men to spend a week at a retreat designed to remind them of their younger days, surrounded by the art, music, food, games, décor, and more from the late 1950s. Afterward, the men were tested and found to have made significant gains in hearing, memory, dexterity, posture, and general well-being. It was as if being in a place signaling their younger days made them physiologically “younger.”
Maybe you, too, have had an experience where your mind seemed to affect your health. It turns out there’s a reason for that, according to Langer, author of the new book The M...
Source: SharpBrains - October 9, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning anti-anxiety medication anti-depressants book cognition cognitive change cognitive-abilities Ellen Langer mind mindfulness-meditation mindlessly physiology placebo studies Th Source Type: blogs
Should we activate the cath lab? A Quiz on 5 Cases.
Imagine you just started your ED shift. It ' s a busy Friday afternoon. Triage is backed up, and 10 minutes into your shift one of the ED nurses brings your several ECGs that has not been overread by a physician. All of the patients presented with chest pain, and they are all in triage.Which, if any, of these patients has OMI, with myocardium at risk and need for emergent PCI?ECG#1ECG#2ECG#3ECG#4ECG#5See outcomes of all 5 below, with the Queen of Hearts AI Bot interpretation.YOU TOO CAN HAVE THE PM Cardio AI BOT!! (THE PM CARDIO OMI AI APP)If you want this bot to help you make the early diagnosis of OMI and...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 8, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Magnus Nossen Source Type: blogs
Navigating miscarriage: support and healing insights [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Nurse practitioner Maria Petty shares her experience with miscarriage in March 2023. She discusses the support she received from an early pregnancy assessment clinic, the importance of self-compassion, and practical tips for coping. Maria also touches on the role of faith and community support,
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Navigating miscarriage: support and healing insights [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 7, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
How Technology can Address Clinician Shortage and Burnout. We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Technology can be a great solution to help ease that burden off of your staff so they aren̵...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers
The following is a guest article by Amanda Ford, Executive Vice President of Operations at ScribeAmerica
For care teams across the nation, provider burnout isn’t a buzzword, it’s a reality. And while some by-products of the pandemic are expected to disappear with time, burnout seems to be staying. If anything, the issue is getting worse. Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance. Doctors are stuck spending more time working, but less time with patients.
The issue plagues every specialty in every state. And as providers grap...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Burden AI Scribes Amanda Ford Medical Scribes Patient Documentation Physician Burnout Provider Burnout ScribeAmerica Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Chief Health Information Officer
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Chief Health Information Officer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Hennepin Healthcare and is located in Minneapolis, MN.
Here’s a description of the position:
Hennepin Healthcare System (HHS) operates as an integrated care system which includes HCMC, a nationally recognized Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center along with a high-quality acute care hospital. This comprehensive healthcare network includes a 473-bed academic medical center, a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Chief Health Information Officer CHIO Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Hennepin Healthcare Job Seekers Source Type: blogs
Avel eCare Expands Hospitalist and Senior Care Telemedicine Services with Acquisition of Fident Health
The Deal Helps Strengthen and Scale Avel eCare’s Acute and Post-Acute Care Telemedicine Services to Meet the Growing Demand for Hospitalist and Senior Care Support Amidst Challenges of Clinician Burnout and Staffing Shortages
Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of Fident Health, a Texas-based virtual hospitalist provider dedicated to delivering high-quality telemedicine care to rural and suburban communities. The deal strengthens Avel eCare’s existing clinician network and builds on the company’s successful acute and post-acute t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Avel eCare Denise S. Brown MD Doug Duskin Fident Health Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A NightWatch Source Type: blogs
How Technology can Address Clinician Shortage and Burnout
The following is a guest article by Kim Howard, Chief Client Officer at Nomad Health
The U.S. healthcare system faces an estimated national deficit of more than 900K registered nurses by the end of the decade. Hospital CEOs agree that workforce challenges are the biggest issue they face, with 90% saying nursing shortages are the most pressing – a trend driven by the 4.7M healthcare workers retiring by 2030. The “silver tsunami” is also to blame, with 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage daily, placing even further strain on the situation.
Fewer nurses, a slowed education pipeline, and more patients in need o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Caregiver Clinician Burnout clinician shortage job satisfaction Job Searching Kim Howard Nomad Health Nurse Hiring Nurse Job Boards Nurse Shortage Nursing Traveling Nurs Source Type: blogs
A shop teacher ’s daughter on transforming patient safety
Just a few weeks ago, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report, “A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety.” This was both a “surprise” and “not a surprise” to me because I’m a nurse, a subject matter expert in patient safety, and a shop teacher’s daughter. PCAST’s call for action
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A shop teacher’s daughter on transforming patient safety originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Barbara L. Olson, RN Tags: Conditions Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 1, 2023 – 45 Percent of patients prefer telehealth for minor but urgent issues and much more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
Surveys and Research
Nearly 30% of telehealth visits result in an in-person follow-up within three weeks, and nearly half of patients who used telehealth only did it once, according to Trilliant Health’s latest report on t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Aaron Tendler Accelecom AccYouRate AdvancedMD Affirm Aiberry Akasa Amwell Apollo MD AvaSure Cedar Christine Davis Costco DAX Copilot Evidium Foresite Capital Google Cloud Gozio Health GrayMatters Health Source Type: blogs
Second chances and simple beauty in thrift stores
I like to thrift shop. Aisle after aisle weaves a story of people and their lives. Pieces of trinkets I’ll never need. But I can feel the hidden simple beauty, and then I have to have it. My children can line my gravesite with the thousands of collectible pottery… those awkward, strange gems I know
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Second chances and simple beauty in thrift stores originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Debbie Moore-Black, RN Tags: Conditions Nursing Source Type: blogs
Assertiveness in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! We’re joined by Beth Boynton, a nurse consultant and author, to discuss the critical role of assertiveness in health care. Explore how assertive communication influences patient safety, workforce well-being, and more. Join us for actionable insights and practical tips to enhance your assertiveness skills
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Assertiveness in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Emergency care nightmare: the urgent need for experienced nurses
Imagine you are in a bad car accident. You are in and out of consciousness. There are lights and sirens and the smell of gasoline. Everything hurts more than you can bear. Hands pull you from the car and place you on a hard backboard with a rigid cervical collar around your neck. You bump
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Emergency care nightmare: the urgent need for experienced nurses originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Rachel Basham, RN, CCRN Tags: Conditions Critical Care Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
