When doctors, nurses and pharmacists are hit with too much information, specifically related to electronic health records (EHRs), they can tune out the information. This fatigue can result in real problems affecting patient health and overall efficiencies in the system.

Health IT safety isn’t just about protecting electronic health records, said two new reports released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

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Large practices are increasingly more satisfied with their electronic health record (EHR) vendors and products and plan on implementing updates this year to optimize those systems to assist in value-based reimbursement.

At ProMedica, a 13-hospital system serving northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan, the lineup of clinical departments soon to benefit from leadership’s decision to expand a long-installed radiology PACS into an enterprise VNA practically reads like a who’s who of the entire system. Cardiology, pathology and ophthalmology are on line or in line to be soon. So too are dermatology, wound care, maternal-fetal medicine, outpatient physician practices and more.

McKesson Corp. is considering a sale or a merger for its IT unit in an effort to contain costs and refocus on its drug distribution business, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Reporting requirements and the extra time spent learning and using new software may be limiting the payoff from using electronic health records, according to the New York Times.

As patients become more like shoppers, practices will have to give the customers what they want, and in imaging that means online access to radiology reports.