.@memorialhermann Weiss: there’s a lot of crap in our #EHR b/c goal was to put something in the box, not putting useful data in #HCTassembly
— Paul Fu, Jr. (@puhfu) October 27, 2015
Meaningful use definitely creating a rush to implement EHR which meant really poor planning on what data would be put in the EHR and how it would be put in.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens once the low hanging fruit is gone #hctassembly https://t.co/bisMdjN3FF
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
There’s so much low hanging fruit in healthcare, I don’t think we’ll know the answer to this for a while.
One problem with EHR is that we install the EHR and then we move on to the next project. #hctassembly
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
@puhfu So true. I've regularly heard @TBGHealthcareIT talk about the need for optimization and not just implementation #hctassembly
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
These 3 tweets definitely illustrate a theme from these hospital CIOs. We focus too much on the EHR implementation as a one time event and not the ongoing EHR optimization which is 80% of the project (as one CIO defined it).
Understatement of the day: we have a lot more work to do to get to value based care. #hctassembly
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
If we thought EHR was a challenge, the move to value based care is going to be so much harder.
We're creating more problems by focusing on more IT and not transforming care. #hctassembly
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
We don't have the organizational willpower to transform care. #hctassembly
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
We don’t need to throw more IT at the problem. We can throw all the IT at healthcare that we want, but if we don’t transform care in the process, then we won’t see that much impact on healthcare.
Follow the money. Once we applied $$ to readmissions, the willpower appeared. #hctassembly @puhfu https://t.co/ZyqDLMR9kW
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
Changing the incentives are a real challenge. Plus, we know how they can go wrong if implemented poorly. However, will we really transform care given the current incentives?
Some day we're going to wake up and think, we can do this so differently. #hctassembly #healthcare
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
I think all of us can’t wait for this day. I’m not that optimistic that we’ll just wake up to a change. If we do wake up to a change like this I have a feeling it will sneak up on the current healthcare establishment from outside healthcare as we know it today.
How do we ensure we provide the right care the first time, every time? #healthcare #hctassembly
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 27, 2015
This is a great summary of what healthcare IT should help us accomplish.