HISTORY
A digital file that provides comprehensive health information about a patient.
What is an Electronic Health Record (EHR)?
This feature of many EHRs enables patients to play a central role in their own care.
What are patient portals?
The percentage of time spent on the EHR during a typical patient visit.
What is 60%?
A common classification system for medical diagnoses.
What is ICD?
(Currently ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases)
Advances in this could automate the synthesis of medical literature, patient history, and possible diagnoses.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
The president who signed the HITECH ACT into law.
Who is Barack Obama?
This feature of many EHRs has been shown to reduce adverse drug interactions, medication errors, and dosage mistakes.
What are Decision Support Systems (DSS)?
The average number of keyboard clicks in a typical provider shift.
What is 4000?
A classification system for procedures, often used for billing.
What is CPT?
(Current Procedures Terminology)
The most practical and significant step providers can take to improve EHR satisfaction.
What is "Better Training"?
The percentage of health centers using electronic records prior to the HITECH Act.
What is 10%?
The use of aggregate data to detect patterns and trends in patient outcome.
What is Data Analytics?
These are often caused by problems in EHR design, workflow, training, or usage.
What are "Unintended Consequences" or "Patient Harm"?
Standardized framework for transferring and sharing patient data between healthcare providers.
What is HL7?
Health Level 7 (hl7.org)
This EHR improvement can have an immediate positive effect on provider/patient relationships.
What is a "better and more intuitive User Interface (UI)"?
The percentage of Nurses who have been included in the EHR design or selection process.
What is 2%?
In a 2011 poll, Nurses report that EHRs especially improve these two aspects of patient care.
What are "Fewer Medication Errors" and "Better Staff Communication"?
In a survey of 500 providers, this was the most important aspect of EHRs that needed to be improved.
What is interoperability?
This data set includes a complete set of patient information that can be shared between providers, including demographics, meds, allergies, and problems.
What is the Continuity of Care Document (CCD)?
This technology can interpret written or spoken plain text to extract clinical information.
What is Natural Language Processing?
Health organizations had to meet 3 stages of these criteria to be eligible for reimbursement.
What is Meaningful use?
Stage 1: Data Capture
Stage 2: Data Sharing
Stage 3: Improved Outcomes
What is Evidence Based Practice?
Two reasons why communications between EHR systems is still a challenge.
What are "Lack of Technical Standards" and "Perceived Ownership"?
A potential shift from in-house EHR hardware and software to vendor based off-site EHR as a service.
What are "Cloudy EHRs"?
This technology could enable direct and secure data sharing between providers that is resistant to tampering by unverified users.
What is BlockChain?