Reinventing and moving beyond the EHR. The proof is all around us.

HealthITNews reports that at least one popular EHR vendor (eClinicalWorks) is launching the flagship version of its cloud service solution by saying, “Don’t call it an EHR”. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by that as the latest EHR satisfaction survey from the AMA and Medscape shows that while EHR adoption by physicians has surpassed 80 percent, clinician satisfaction with EHRs over the last several years has plummeted. Although widespread physician frustration and dissatisfaction with electronic health record solutions isn’t a good sign, the effect it is having on both vendors and healthcare organizations is pushing much needed change and innovation in the Health IT industry. It has also become a stimulus for many large health organizations to take matters into their own hands and develop new solutions around their existing EHR systems that better meet the expectations of clinical end-users while also improving patient care. Perhaps the latest example of this is an announcement today by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins and Microsoft announced plans to work together to redesign the way medical devices in an intensive care unit (ICU) talk to each other. The two organizations plan to develop a health IT solution that collects data from different monitoring equipment and identifies key trends aimed at preventing injuries and complications that can resul...
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