Tag: EHR

VA Ready to Junk Vista

For as long as anyone can remember, the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) has managed patient data on VistA, their EHR system that was started in the 1970s. VistA consists of 180 different applications for clinical, financial, administrative and infrastructure functions in the VA. The Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) represents the common clinical graphical […]

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

In a recent article on emrdailynews.com titled “EHR Re-evaluation and Replacement is on the Rise”, Stephen Campbell reports that the replacement market for EHR systems is being driven by ‘systems that are too complex (in form and function)’ and the trend to cloud-hosted systems that run on mobile devices. He defines the ‘Goldilocks’ Principle as […]

Your Nurses May Hate Your Hospital’s EHR

That’s the title of an article seen in Healthcare Business & Technology. The article draws from a survey of 14,000 registered nurses and covers many of the systems in place today: 94% of nurses thought that the EHR hurt communication with patients and physicians instead of helping. Among the factors nurses noted as frustrating were: • Having […]

Échapper au Piège DSE

Dans un récent article paru dans le New England Journal of Medicine intitulé “Échapper au piège de DSE – l’avenir de la santé IT“, le Dr Kenneth Mandi et le Dr Isaac Kohane présentent un argument fort pour le changement perturbateur dans l’espace de DSE comme suit: «La santé fournisseurs de TI doivent adopter des […]