For every patient consultation, physicians spend nearly two additional hours on Electronic Health Record (EHR) and related admin tasks during their shift. As a result, primary care providers are burdened with paperwork and unable…
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“Hospitals and health systems have spent more than $100 billion on EHRs over the last decade, and most believe that these systems are completely safe and usable but that is not necessarily the case,”…
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For the 122nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are taking a look at the recent changes from the HIMSS Conference and other hot news topics. To kick the episode off we share…
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By Shania Kennedy
August 28, 2023 – A machine learning (ML) model can automatically predict esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) three years before a formal diagnosis, according to a study published recently in…
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By Hannah Nelson
August 18, 2023 – According to a study published in JAMIA, a willingness to learn on the job by asking questions was important for resident development in EHR use and clinical documentation.
Researchers…
By Sara Heath
July 10, 2023 – It could be useful for providers treating patients with dementia to encourage their care partners to create their own patient portal proxy accounts, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine…
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Eileen Testa, Administrator at Ninth Street Internal Medicine Associates, explains in this video interview how her team is using the eClinicalWorks HEDIS tools to plan outreach to at-risk patients, focusing on a particular problem…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 01, 2023 – While more primary care practices are screening patients for social risk, the cost of social determinants of health (SDOH) interventions targeting housing security, non-emergency medical transportation, and community-based care…
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According to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine this past week, artificial intelligence chatbot assistants can provide responses to patients’ health questions that are of comparable quality – and empathy – to those written by physicians. A team…
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By Mark Melchionna
May 02, 2023 – Led by MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) researchers and published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, new research indicates a high level of success associated with…
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