Switch From Epic To Cerner Comes With Patient Safety Questions
Here’s a story in which no health system hopes to take a lead role — the tale of a Cerner installation that didn’t go well and the blowback the system faced afterward. On October 1 of last year,...
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EHR Efficiency Takes Extra Training, Optimized Systems, and One-on-One Support
We all know that physician burnout is a real problem and the EHR gets a lot of the blame for that burnout. Well, the team at UC Davis Health decided to address this problem by creating a team focused...
View ArticleDo We Need Another Interoperability Group?
Over the last few years, industry groups dedicated to interoperability have been popping up like mushrooms after a hard rain. All seem to be dedicated to solving the same set of intractable data...
View ArticlePatient Directed Health Data Exchange on The Blockchain
I’ve long been friends with Dr. Tom Giannulli who most of you will probably have known as the CMO of Kareo. I first met Dr. Tom back when he created what I would call the first iPad optimized EHR...
View ArticleEpic to Hold Startup Competition at App Orchard Conference
I know it’s Friday and we usually do a Fun Friday post, but while this might look like a joke I assure you it’s not. Epic has recently announced to their App Orchard community that they’ll be doing a...
View ArticleProviders Tell KLAS That Existing EMRs Can’t Handle Genomic Medicine
Providers are still in the early stages of applying genomics to patient care. However, at least among providers that can afford the investment, clinical genomics programs are beginning to become far...
View ArticleHas Amazon Brought Something New To Healthcare Data Analytics?
Amazon’s announcement that it was getting into healthcare data analytics didn’t come as a major surprise. It was just a matter of time. After all, the retail giant has been making noises about its...
View ArticleMost Popular 2018 Healthcare IT Today Articles
At the end of a year and start of a new year, I always like to look back and see what we’ve accomplished. This year will be a big year looking back on the Healthcare Scene media network. We’ve grown...
View ArticleHealthcare and Health IT Analogies – Fun Friday
At today’s #HITsm chat we asked those participating to create a food analogy for healthcare. Needless to say we got some pretty funny responses. Plus, it communicated something pretty interesting about...
View ArticleApple Should Acquire Epic EHR According to Mad Money’s Jim Cramer
The healthcare IT and EHR world is ablaze after Jim Cramer on his show Mad Money on CNBC suggested that the best thing Apple could do to help its stock price is to do a big, splashy acquisition. Here’s...
View ArticleThink EHR Maintenance Is A Resource Sink? It Might Be Worse Than You Thought
We all know that maintaining an EHR can be a massive drain on your resources, eating up huge amounts of both money and staff time. In fact, over the long term, it’s a commitment on par with investing...
View ArticleVanderbilt Creating Voice-Command Interface For Its Epic EHR
I am not convinced that voice assistants like Siri and Alexa are the best way to access healthcare data. My experience with voice recognition – which has been a staple of my life since I broke my...
View ArticleNon-Traditional Healthcare Entrants - Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 5
For the 5th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re taking a look at the Non-Traditional Healthcare Entrants who seem to be swarming into healthcare. Coming out of the HIMSS conference, one of the...
View ArticleSome Good Ideas On Transforming The Patient Portal
To be sure, I’m grateful for the patient portal provided to me by Kaiser Permanente, my insurer and healthcare provider. Using MyChart, the standard Epic portal, I can at least get the basics of what I...
View ArticleInformation Blocking
For the 6th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we dove into the recently released Information Blocking regulations. There’s a lot to unwrap in these regulations, but we give you an overview of the...
View ArticleEpic April Fool’s Day Jokes
April Fool’s Day is a great and awful day. I have to admit that I really enjoyed playing an April Fool’s joke on my daughter, but I also felt a little bad for her. It’s such a mixed basket for me....
View ArticleSutter Joins Growing List Of Orgs Piloting Voice-Based Services For...
In what appears to be part of a growing trend, another health system is kicking off an experiment using voice-assistant tools. In this case, the Sutter Health system announced plans to pilot test an...
View ArticleEpic EMR Parody Account – Fun Friday
Who doesn’t love a good parody account? Notice that I said “good.” There are some bad ones out there that aren’t worth the effort. However, a good one can be really entertaining and also educate people...
View ArticleHaving Access To Medical Records Is Useless For Most Patients
I knew up front that it would be ugly. After two years of treatment, a chronically-ill patient like me generates a lot of records, and I had every reason to expect that they would be disorganized and...
View ArticleBanner Health Chatbot Offers Answers To ED Patients As They Wait
I’ve got to say that it’s nice to write a positive story about a healthcare system’s health IT efforts after covering troubles they’ve faced previously. I’m not saying that health IT shops don’t...
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