Abstracting Medical Records’s Impact on Patient Outcomes
The prevalence and widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR) has resulted in a wealth of patient data that can be retrieved, analyzed, and put into its proper context to improve the quality of care that patients receive. In order for a patient’s medical record to stay up to date, ongoing abstraction is a necessity. […]
Best Practices for Medical Records Abstraction in Quality Improvement Initiatives
The realm of healthcare is vast and intricate, with countless moving parts all working towards the collective goal of ensuring patient well-being. At the heart of this machinery lies the principle of continuous improvement. This principle gives rise to Quality Improvement (QI) Initiatives, dynamic programs designed to refine and enhance healthcare processes, services, and patient […]
Why Ongoing Clinical Data Capture is Essential for Healthcare Operations
As healthcare documentation demands continue to increase, having efficient, accurate patient data management strategies in place is a necessity. Ongoing clinical data capture is one strategy, that with the right process, allows for faster and more effective documentation. Ongoing clinical data capture calls for the continuous collection, review, routing, filing, and abstracting of healthcare documentation […]
MDabstract Easing the EHR Transition
With the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, the era of the electronic patient record was ushered into healthcare at warp speed. What wasn’t known at the time was the burden the transition, and ongoing EHR usage, would place on health systems, providers and the patients they serve. In response to this pain, and […]
Manual Clinical Abstraction: 2 Reasons Why it Should be Part of Your EHR Migration Strategy
Provider productivity is the lynchpin of the healthcare system – here’s how manual clinical abstraction can help organizations better maintain it during an EHR migration. According to a recent American Medical Group Association survey, average physician productivity, or the quantity of physicians’ work, dropped in 2018, thanks, in part, to “burdensome electronic health record (EHR) […]
Push and Squeeze: EHR Migrations in the New Normal
With the business-altering events of 2020, many hospital systems are being stretched in ways previously unimaginable. Despite the new challenges, capital projects that have been in the works for years, such as EHR migrations, must push forward with additional fiscal constraints. Let’s take a look at how utilizing an expert clinical abstraction partner to manually […]
