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Patients discharged sooner in hospitals with highest use of electronic health records

Electronic health records (EHRs) produce savings for hospitals by reducing the average length of patient stays—but only in facilities meeting the highest federal standards for implementing the technol... read more

Helping Patients Stay Engaged in their Own Care

[READ: Hospital of Tomorrow: How the Industry is Facing the Future] Notably, the $27 billion federal incentive program for "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs ... within 30 days of hos... read more

Financial incentives for physicians did not increase follow-up of patients after discharge

A financial incentive for physicians to see patients sooner after discharge from hospital ... and Health Care Research at the University of Toronto's Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluat... read more

Design Flaws In Electronic Health Records Can Harm Patients, Study Finds

11 percent, that mentioned a top-five health record ... part of MedStar Health, a 10-hospital system in the mid-Atlantic. Our exchange, edited: What prompted you to undertake this study? Electronic he... read more

California EMS Agencies Work to Improve Exchange of Health Information with Hospitals

Even though many EMS agencies have adopted electronic patient care reporting (ePCRs) software, those systems use different data standards than the electronic health records (EHRs) used by hospitals .. ... read more

Medicare fines 2,610 hospitals in third round of readmission penalties

Medicare is fining a record number of hospitals — 2,610 nationwide, including 28 in the St. Louis area — for having too many patients return within a month for additional treatments, federal records r... read more

How Keeping Psych Records Too Private Can Hurt Patient Care

Some of the most sensitive information in medicine involves mental health ... hospitals that both use electronic psychiatric records and allow them to be shared with other doctors have a 32% to 39% lo... read more

Why Hospitals Need Better Data Science

Airlines are arguably more operationally complex, asset-intensive, and regulated than hospitals ... prevent discharge delays. Electronic health records or other internal systems often gather data on “ ... read more

Report: Hospitals That Use Tablets/Mobile Devices Are More Efficient

74 percent of hospitals that use ... hospital visits are more efficient (85 percent) andhospital admission and discharge processes go much faster (83 percent). “Everyone knows that paperwork can be in... read more

What Is a Hospitalist?

Because they knew the environment and how to get things done, patients could see specialty consultants and receive diagnostic testing faster and be discharged sooner ... issues are" is important. Elec... read more

Top 50 Most Popular Hospital Inpatient EHR Systems in US

While CAHs and rural hospitals are less likely than their larger counterparts to engage in advanced EHR use, a recent study found more ... and eliminate the risk of lost patient health records or char... read more

Patients, doctors dissatisfied by Electronic Health Records

Electronic Health ... related hospital visit prior to giving birth at a hospital, co-author Chad Meyerhoefer, professor of economics at Lehigh University, said. Previous to the integrated EHR—digital ... read more