Chronic disease management – tracking and quality improvement – is the one promise an EHR makes that rarely delivers. To be fair, almost all of the EHRs on the market offer functionality that can be leveraged to accomplish this goal, but the content must be originally created by each healthcare organization. Enabling chronic disease management […]
Partners Healthcare, has recently reported they “expect a $200 million hit to profits over three years from expenses tied to implementing the new electronic health record (EHR) system.” The EHR in question is Epic. While I cannot speak to this implementation specifically, I have seen this same problem at the other eighty or so organizations I’ve […]
Working to make this blog the place to go for ideas on optimizing your Electronic Health Record (EHR). There are a number of topics to write on, and I’m excited to get going! Initial focus will be on clinical usability and IT maintenance cost reduction. After thoughts on those topics are established we’ll move on to care access, […]