A new study has concluded that as EHR use has become ubiquitous, the number of medical malpractice claims in which EHRs contributed to injuries is continuing...
EHR Templates
The following is a guest blog post by Lisa Eramo, a regular contributor to Kareo’s Go Practice Blog. In the rush to implement EHRs for Meaningful Use...
Though EHRs were intended to improve medical documentation, in many cases they seem to have made documentation quality worse. Despite their best intentions...
Recently, I read an interesting blog item by healthcare veteran Bobby Gladd, kicking around the notion of whether structured EMR data is killing medical...
Throughout my HIM career, I have seen many different methods of capturing clinical documentation. We are always looking for solutions to get accurate and...
A really great discussion has been started on this post about staged patient portal implementations. Here’s one comment that really struck a chord with...
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...
Pamela Lewis Dolan has a great article in AMA’s American Medical news about the automated E&M coding using an EHR versus manual E&M coding...
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...
Time for the latest entry in my series of Common EHR Implementation Issues. See also my previous posts on Unexpected EHR Expenses, EHR Performance Issues and a...