Article Archive for July 2020
Value-Based Care and Burnout
A recent study revealed that 86 percent of physicians cite the heightened demand for data reporting to support quality measures as a top driver of physician burnout. Value-based care depends on measuring and reporting outcomes, …
Collaboration Among Benefit Providers
Veterans from the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the US Department of Defense (DoD) can now benefit from a new joint health information exchange (HIE) between the two agencies. EHR Intelligence brought this interesting information to …
EHR Education
The University of North Florida (UNF) has recently launched a new electronic health record (EHR) training program to help graduating students prepare for future jobs in the health IT field. This interesting news came to us …
Assistance in Coding
Computer-assisted coding is often referred to as a form of artificial intelligence (AI) or as being powered by AI. This is not true. Globe Newswire brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Computer-Assisted …
The Value of Health Informatics
Beyond caring for patients, beyond researching the latest cures, there is a specialty within healthcare that is finally getting some accolades. Health informatics is a subspecialty within medicine. Health informatics professionals do not have to …
Caring for Healthcare
Even after the immediate emergency of the current COVID-19 pandemic passes, the healthcare industry is unlikely to return to business as usual. Medical Economics brought this interesting information to our attention in their video article, “How COVID-19 is transforming …
Blockchain in Healthcare
Healthcare is welcoming blockchain technology due to its coming at a time when healthcare has become technology-driven, with patients demanding better analysis and more access to their medical records. Regulatory demands have also become more …
Data Access and the Pandemic
Effective patient data exchange can expedite and improve the response to COVID-19. EHR Intelligence brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “How Interoperability, Patient Data Exchange Can Mitigate COVID-19.”
Tracing the origins of the …
Care Too Much?
American physicians are tired. More and more they are giving up their private practices, and often walking away from medicine completely. This is true in large cities and health systems, as well as the smaller …
The Factors of Burnout
There has been much discussion and debate about the causes of physician burnout. Technology gets most of the blame, but a new perspective is on the other end of the equation. The extent of the …
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