Electronic Health Records (EHR) - American Medical Association
6 days ago · An electronic health record (EHR) digitizes a patient’s paper chart. It collects the patient’s history of conditions, tests and treatments and can be used to create a more holistic view of the …
Practice innovation strategies: EHR improvements
Sep 24, 2024 · This collection of AMA STEPS Forward® Practice Innovation Strategies—including playbook and checklist PDFs—offers proven approaches on how to maximize the benefits of EHR …
10 challenges when switching EHRs—and how to meet them
Jul 26, 2024 · Navigating the EHR, with its incessant demands on physicians’ time, focus and energy, can be a challenge even in the best of times. When transitioning to a new EHR system, physicians …
7 EHR usability, safety challenges—and how to overcome them
Dec 11, 2023 · For example, a 2018 report from the AMA, Pew Charitable Trusts and Medstar Health, Ways to Improve Electronic Health Record Safety, identified shortfalls with EHR usability, …
Improving EHR usability requires significant efort among all stakeholders—vendors, physicians, other health care professionals, institutions, patients, researchers and policymakers.
Meaningful Use: Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive programs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program—also known as Meaningful Use or MU—initially provided incentives to accelerate the adoption of electronic health …
Big jump seen in EHR secure messaging. Is that a good thing?
Feb 27, 2024 · One health system saw a 29% rise in EHR secure-message use in just six months. But does avoiding the phone offer a leg up for better care?
Is order entry a physician-only EHR task? | AMA
Oct 2, 2025 · Additionally, there is no current Medicare EHR incentive program that requires computerized provider order entry (CPOE). 1 Background CPOE is the process of electronic entry of …
8 things physicians are saying about their EHRs
Aug 10, 2015 · Most physicians have major issues with their electronic health record (EHR) systems, but regulatory requirements mean they must use the technology or face penalties. Read 8 things …
Enable real-time Rx benefit info to boost truth in drug pricing
Nov 17, 2021 · Patients and their physicians making joint decisions on prescription drugs don’t always have timely information on drug prices. RTPB embeds up-to-date, patient-specific coverage in the e …