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PEW urges ONC to improve safety of pediatric EHR software

Health IT ... criteria for pediatric EHRs—as required by Section 4001 of the 21st Century Cures Act within two years (end of 2018)—offers ONC an opportunity to focus on improving the safety and usabil... read more

Quality and Safety in Pediatric Anesthesia

Health care quality and value are leading issues in medicine today for patients, health care professionals, and policy makers. Outcome, safety ... and incorporated into the electronic intraoperative a... read more

Building a Rapid Learning Health Care System for Oncology: Why CancerLinQ Collects Identifiable Health Information to Achieve Its Vision

The ever-increasing volume of scientific discoveries, clinical knowledge, novel diagnostic tools, and treatment options juxtaposed with rising costs in health care challenge physicians to identify ... ... read more

Systematic Update of Computerized Physician Order Entry Order Sets to Improve Quality of Care: A Case Study

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Seattle Children’s Hospital was one of the early adopters of computerized physician order entry ... is not enough for electronic health records to implement CPOE, but that a ... read more

Electronic Medical Records–Past, Present and Future?

Donald Voltz, MD discusses how the electronic ... record, serves these purposes with the promise of improving oversight and error detection. The potential reach of the medical record extends far beyon... read more

EMR v. EHR: Electronic Medical, Health Record Differences

EMRs are more valuable than paper records because they enable providers to track data over time, identify patients for preventive visits and screenings, monitor patients, and improve health care quali... read more

There is an opportunity on the horizon to improve health IT safety for kids

While the switch from paper records to electronic health ... As it issues its draft policies, ONC should focus on rules to better monitor and test EHRs — including safety evaluations of high-risk func... read more

Electronic health records could give rise to more liability risk

Electronic health record systems likely will soon become a fixture in medical settings ... that causes a wrong output, the usability of the system may be lacking, and that may lead a user to make mist... read more

Oncologists’ Views Regarding the Role of Electronic Health Records in Care Coordination

Electronic health records (EHRs) play a significant role ... introducing new patient safety risks. To date, little investigation has been performed in oncology settings, despite the need for quality p... read more

How Design Thinking Is Improving Patient-Caregiver Conversations

Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Predictive analytics, telemedicine, electronic health records — technology ... also includes questions on issues such as infection pre... read more

Healthcare reform, health IT, and EHRs: The nurse executive's role

1 The 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “To Err Is Human,” examined ways to decrease healthcare errors and enhance patient safety; health information technology (IT), such as electronic health ... read more

Preparing Adolescents With Chronic Disease for Transition to Adult Care: A Technology Program

BACKGROUND: Adolescents with chronic disease (ACD) must develop independent disease self-management and learn to communicate effectively with their health care team to transition from pediatric ... an... read more