Tips for training staff to use EHRs
Six tips focus on choosing a team, developing a plan, and scheduling regular training and testing.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Eye contact affects patient satisfaction
Patients perceive clinicians who make direct eye contact as being more empathetic.
EHRs failing to meet user expectations
Poor software performance may trigger many small physician practices to leave vendors.
Incorrect EHR settings cause medication errors
Default settings in electronic health records designed to improve efficiency and standardization can cause harm when not used properly.
Few met EHR meaningful use criteria in 2012
Only 1-in-10 physicians surveyed met stage one meaningful use criteria necessary to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments in early 2012.
HHS: 2013 EHR targets met early
The U.S. has achieved the end-of-2013 goal of implementing EHRs in 50% of doctor offices and 80% of eligible hospitals.
Clinician satisfaction with EHRs down
Overall, clinicians were less satisfied with the ability of EHRs to improve care and with ease of use in 2012 versus 2010.
Juggling EHR meaningful use incentives
Balancing the art and science of medicine with government and business is a tricky act.
EHRs not a cure-all for medical errors
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Report identified 3,946 electronic health record-related medical errors from 2004 to 2012.
EHRs: It will get better!
One day health-care providers will wonder how we could have possibly ever gotten by without EHRs.
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