Tag Archives: EHRs

Experts underestimated EHRs’ impact on burnout after HITECH Act

A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that policy experts underestimated the impact of widespread electronic health record use on clinician burnout at the time of the HITECH Act’s passage in 2009.   The retrospective look examined the discussions at the AMIA’s 2009 Annual Health Policy Meeting,… Read More »

AMA calls for fully inclusive EHRs for transgender patients

The American Medical Association has adopted a policy supporting the voluntary inclusion of a transgender patient’s preferred name and clinically relevant sex-specific anatomy in electronic health records. At its interim meeting in San Diego this week, AMA’s House of Delegates called for creating EHR documentation that is fully inclusive of transgender patients. Ted Grudzinski “Failure… Read More »

Criteria of EHRs Selection

Anxiety of adopting an EHR makes things difficult for the health care specialists. The electronic health record system is being the demand of health care industry from past some years. EHR system is being essential for medical practices day by day. On the other hand, it is important for the physicians to know if they… Read More »