While burnout levels may be improving slightly, physicians’ administrative burden still remains a major issue. Providers are hungry for more tools designed to simplify these tasks, namely documentation, a new report shows.
Interoperability Across Organizational Boundaries Improves Patient Care and Quality
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.
In an effort to bring more useful data into its EHR, eClinicalWorks today said it will integrate data from wearables and fitness trackers from its wholly owned subsidiary healow. The data from the devices will be directed into a consumer’s personal health record via healow.com and the healow mobile application. It will also be available […]
Massachusetts-based eClinicalWorks has signed a deal to implement its cloud-based EHR platform for some 200,000 patients at 23 detention facilities across the country overseen by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The EHRS will be used by some 1,000 medical professionals with the ICE Health Service Corps. at facilities that aren’t quite hospitals but often […]
The implementation of electronic health records across 12 jails in New York City between 2008 and 2011 led to a “significant improvement” in the ability of officials to monitor and safeguard human rights of inmate patients, according to a new study. In addition to the benefits of being able to track health issues and clinical […]
eClinical Works is hiring 100 software developers as part of an effort to strengthen its patient engagement platform and population health solutions. It’s investing $50 million to make that happen over the next 12 months. It may take a while. The demand for IT professionals is rising and healthcare IT is contributing in a big […]
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Electronic medical record companies face plenty of challenges as healthcare reform impacts the medical landscape. Hospitals are absorbing physician practices and health systems are acquiring other health systems. That means electronic health record companies are seeing a certain amount of turnover as clients are lost and gained. Then you have the gains and losses of […]