Hospital EHRs Miss Many Potential Medication Errors: Study

Despite modest improvements in their safety performance over the past decade, the electronic health record (EHR) systems used in US hospitals fail to detect up to 1 in 3 potentially…

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Is Your EHR Ready for PDGM?

When the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) launches Jan. 1, 2020, leveraging tools and resources to ensure compliance will be critical to a successful transition. Home health care providers already have…

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Building a Better Electronic Health Record No Easy Task

Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted overnight with chest pain, and after the first…

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What Are the Benefits of Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)?

As healthcare organizations continue to utilize data that is becoming increasingly complex, it is essential that the data is captured and documented properly. Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) helps ensure that…

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Senior Living Centers Find New Benefits In Adopting Electronic Records

Senior Housing Companies, which offers assisted living services and healthcare to individuals living in retirement communities, was dependent upon manual paper processing to manage its 17 senior living communities in…

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Texas Doctors Send Letter Slamming Blue Cross’ ER Billing Process

Some of the state’s most influential doctors’ groups are pressing the insurance commissioner to investigate a change that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas is making to its emergency…

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AHIMA Fuels Clinical Documentation Improvement with New Toolkits

Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) helps healthcare organizations capture meaningful data for improved quality reporting and clinician productivity. In an effort to ensure that the entire patient record is documented properly,…

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Physician Practices Disillusioned As They Don’t Maximize EHR Benefits

Nearly 90 percent of physician practices with six or fewer practitioners are not using optimization tools included in their electronic health record systems, according to findings in a new report…

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Food Security Screening: Addressing EHR, Coding Challenges

Over 20% of U.S. children live in a household without consistent access to food. To promote food security among all children and families, the Academy supports screening families using the…

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Patient Safety Jeopardized by EHR Downtime, JAMIA Says

Downtime events in hospitals that shut down the functionality of the electronic health record can result in serious patient safety risks, according to a recently published study in the Journal…

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EHR Research: We’re Entering Uncharted Territory

No doubt, electronic health records still are in need of improvement. That said, there's no denying the inroads they're making in research. Recent reports we highlight this week really highlight…

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