Two Ways EHR Data Quality Affects a Provider’s Care
Ensuring data quality in your EHR is vital to clinicians’ ability to provide superior patient care – and to avoid undue frustration and burnout. One of the driving forces behind widespread electronic health record (EHR) adoption has been the mission to improve safety. When physicians have easy, consistent access to a patient’s pertinent current and […]
Three Steps to Maintaining Data Integrity During EHR Migrations
Preserving historical clinical data is a must when moving to a new EHR system. More than two years after PwC christened 2016 the year of “merger mania” in healthcare, merger and acquisition (M&A) deals still abound.1 Currently, hundreds of M&A deals are being signed across the industry – and, as a consequence, a larger number of […]
Halifax Health’s EHR Migration: Manual Abstraction for Data Integrity
Like many health systems across the country, Halifax Health, a large multi-specialty hospital system in central Florida, has spent the last few years acquiring a number of different provider practices across the area. At the time of each acquisition, Halifax’s policy was to allow each practice to continue using their existing electronic health record (EHR) […]