Though EHRs were intended to improve medical documentation, in many cases they seem to have made documentation quality worse. Despite their best intentions...
EMR templates
By now, most of us have moved beyond the initial phases of implementing an EMR and into the optimization phase. Templates, ordersets, and documentation tools...
Many would agree that the goal of most healthcare professionals is to promote individualized treatment and care for every person who comes through an...
As part of my ongoing writing about what people are starting to call the EHR Backlash, I started to think about the shifting tides of EMR documentation. One of...
EMR templates are both a curse and a blessing. On the one hand, they systematize clinical data in a way that makes it far easier to share, aggregate and study...
EMR templates are coming under increasing fire of late, with regulators arguing that they’re not doing a good job of justifying the reimbursement that...
While at AHIMA 2012, I asked Susan Sumner, Executive Vice President of Ambulatory Services at Accentus Inc. about some of the problems with EMR documentation...
I’m always fascinated by a discussion of EMR templates. A little while back on the 3M blog, they wrote what I think is a pretty good summary of the pros...
Folks, tonight I hope to nudge everyone who reads this to realize that they’ve got a problem to solve. The problem: How you’ll get doctors...
FierceHealthIT editor Ken Terry had a recent post on the need for better human-computer interfaces in EMRs. He highlighted a few areas where EMRs could stand...