EMR/EHR

Electronic medical records (EMR) are a digital version of a patient’s chart that store their personal information, medical history and links to prior exams, texts and reports. The goal of these systems is to enable immediate access to the patient's data electronically, rather than needing to request paper file folders that might be stored in fragment files at numerous locations where a patient is seen or treated. EMRs (also called electronic health records, or EHR) improve clinician and health system efficiency by making all this data immediately available. This helps reduce repeat tests, repeat prescriptions and repeat imaging exams because reports, imaging or other patient data is not not immediately available. 

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Webinar: CCHIT's Bell warns 'buyer beware' for EHR purchases

More and more vendors are getting tested day by day [but] its kind of buyer beware out there, said Karen M. Bell, MD, chair of the Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) concerning the EHR/EMR product environment, during a Oct. 20 webinar on the certification process for health IT systems.

NJ-HITEC selects ITelagen for state EHR assistance

The New Jersey Health IT Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) selected EHR software provider ITelagen to assist New Jersey physicians, on behalf of NJ-HITEC, to achieve meaningful use of EHRs.

Greenway's EHR earns 2011 certification

Ambulatory EHR software provider Greenway Medical Technologies PrimeSuite 2011 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified Oct. 14 as a Complete EHR by the Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Quality Partners of Rhode Island named a REC consultant on EHRs

Quality Partners of Rhode Island, a healthcare quality improvement organization, has been selected to participate in the Rhode Island Regional Extension Centers (RI REC) Vendor Marketplace.

Philips equips Geisinger's interventional lab

Philips Healthcare has been selected to equip Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health Systems Heart and Vascular Institute with interventional x-ray equipment in the institute's new Hospital for Advanced Medicine.

ONC issues interim final rule to correct 'erroneous' EHR specs

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued an interim final rule with a request for comment to remove the EHR implementation specifications related to public health surveillance.

AIM Feature: CPOE hard-stop alerts have limitations

An electronic nearly hard-stop alert in an inpatient computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system seems extremely effective in changing prescribing. However, this intervention precipitated clinically important treatment delays in four patients who needed immediate drug therapy, according to an article published Sept. 27 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Report: Physicians slow to email routinely with patients

Although many patients want to email their physicians, physician adoption and use of email with patients remains uncommononly 6.7 percent of office-based physicians routinely emailed patients in 2008, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), based in Washington D.C.

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