The Cost of EHR Downtime

timothy-beglin 09 27, 2023

Electronic health records (EHR) were intended to store patient records, which, though helpful, leaves a lot to be desired. Hospitals run around the clock with zero time to waste, so unexpected EHR downtime within a hospital system can be catastrophic....

will-oconnor 10 28, 2021

While secure texting and EHR-embedded messaging closely resemble one another, clinical collaboration platforms and the EHR differ greatly and should be regarded as separate and equally necessary technologies. Proving this point are the hundreds of enterprise-level health systems and hospitals...

will-oconnor 10 19, 2021

Each year, a small number of healthcare IT buyers are tempted by their EHR vendor to replace existing secure texting software with EHR-provided chat tools. On the surface, this makes sense. After all, EHR chat tools are fully integrated with...

cheryl 09 30, 2021

Now that electronic medical records have finally replaced old school paper records in a file cabinet, health information technology (HIT) and clinical system integrations have become a cornerstone for effective care coordination [2]. Clinical integration enables care coordination across providers,...

julie 09 09, 2020

In the Peer Recovery program at RWJBarnabas Health, timing is everything. Fast intervention and patient data accessibility are vital for quickly setting substance use disorder patients on the road to recovery. With over three million patients treated each year, however,...

chris 03 20, 2019

At HIMSS 2019 Dr. Will O’Connor, MD, CMIO at TigerConnect, sat down for a conversation with John Lynn, the Sr. Editor at healthcareITToday.com. They talked about physician burnout, EHR clicking and coding, the evolution of healthcare communication tools, and the...