June 20, 2017
Best practices in clinical communications: The Rocket, The Reuben, and The Rubberband
Preparing your medical staff for an electronic health record implementation takes a lot of time and effort. A fundamental key to success is proper clinical communication strategies; taking into account everyone who is involved with patient care delivery, while ensuring constant dialogue about the ...
April 18, 2017
How MEDITECH’s optimized EHR can prevent physician burnout
I hear it more and more from my colleagues: They’re feeling burnt out. Studies of physician satisfaction find that doctors are reducing the number of patients they see, and report feelings of emotional exhaustion, loss of enthusiasm, and depersonalization of patient care. The most recent study by ...
March 15, 2017
How we achieved a 99% query response rate with our EHR
As Medical Director of Clinical Document Improvement at St. Joseph Health, it is my department’s responsibility to facilitate an accurate representation of a patient’s clinical status, which can be translated into useable, coded data. This data is then processed into quality reporting, physician ...