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Industry Voices—Want to improve the patient experience? Start by meeting patients where they spend their digital lives

Those are useful, but there is also a major revolution going on in communications between doctors, hospitals ... The current crop of electronic health records (EHRs) and patient portals have mostly ... read more

Heart failure patients in UK do not receive the long-term care they need

In this retrospective study, Rahimi and colleagues used electronic health records ... in hospital than by their general practitioner, received insufficient follow-up after hospital discharge ... read more

Study: Optimal use of EHRs result in faster hospital discharges

Hospitals with the highest use of electronic health records discharge their patients quicker ... “Electronic health records when meaningfully implemented help patients go home sooner, reducing their ... read more

Why Don't More Hospitals Use Electronic Health Records?

Yet electronic health records ... Hospital in Cincinnati. Once he arrives, he can’t afford any wasted moments. Most of Aguilar’s patients are recovering on the hospital floor after a visit to the ... read more

Changes to hospital electronic health records could improve care of patients on warfarin

MU Health Care currently uses an EHR that generates a comprehensive health summary for each admitted patient. Day said that her team found the discharge ... to hospital electronic health records could ... read more

Electronic health records were supposed to be everywhere this year. They’re not — but it’s okay.

The costs could run into the millions for hospitals. Though there's been a recent shift toward electronic health records ... patients were discharged alive, and Alabama, where 35 percent were." Peter ... read more

A Randomized Trial of Epinephrine in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

In a randomized, double-blind trial involving 8014 patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United Kingdom, paramedics at five National Health Service ... outcome at discharge. All ... read more

Deep Patient: An Unsupervised Representation to Predict the Future of Patients from the Electronic Health Records

Secondary use of electronic health ... unless they moved or changed insurance. Electronic records were completely implemented by our health system starting in 2003. The data related to patients who ... read more

Providers look to ramp up efforts to optimize records systems

For example, hospitals with the highest use of electronic health records discharge their patients quicker ... “Electronic health records when meaningfully implemented help patients go home sooner, ... read more

How are hospitals complying with patient medical record requests? Not well, study finds

The hospitals were among the top 20 hospitals for each of the 16 adult specialties in the 2016-17 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals National Rankings. Under HIPAA, patients have a right to ... read more

Electronic health records may not improve outcomes in ischemic stroke patients

Electronic health records may ... health records to those that did not. They found that after controlling for patient and hospital characteristics, having an electronic health record was not ... read more