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Protecting Provider Productivity
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: Leveraging Manual Clinical Abstraction to preserve patient data integrity during an EHR migration
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) […]
The link between data quality and provider satisfaction
Study after study has confirmed it: American physicians are suffering from extreme dissatisfaction with their work – to the point many say they are considering leaving the medical profession altogether. As noted in the 2018 Medscape National Physician Burnout and Depression Survey, 42 percent of more than 15,000 respondents reported feeling “burned out.”1 But this […]