Tag Archive for ‘EHR’

Sentara’s New EMPI Reduces Duplication Creation Rates

Sentara sought to boost physician satisfaction and increase patient safety, so they decided to implement an Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) to help more effectively manage patient identity data by streamlining records into a better, more accurate view of their patients.

Challenging Your EMPI to Do More

In this economy, it’s all about doing more with the resources you already have. Healthcare organizations are challenging their embedded EMPIs to do more to improve patient care – and the bottom line.

DCIPA Fulfills Vision of a Connected Healthcare Community

DCIPA needed a highly secure and reliable patient identification system to integrate its more than 60 individual practice management systems and other disparate health and clinical information sources across the single-chart electronic health record enterprise.

Three Essential Keys to Transforming Health IT

For any hope of successful implementation and adoption of Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology, there are three essential keys: reliability, integration into workflows and cost effectiveness.

Poll: What type of electronic patient data is toughest to share?

What type of electronic patient data is the most difficult to share across all points of care?

UPH Providing a Better Customer Experience

University Physicians Healthcare (UPH) is a leader in the healthcare community with its sponsorship of the Southern Arizona HIE (health information exchange) and its innovative use of technology to improve quality of care.

Poll: Your Biggest Provider Data Stumbling Block

Not having provider data accessible at the point-of-service can pose numerous challenges. The problem is complicated by poor, inaccurate data. Take our poll and share your experience.

Taking a Sensible Approach to “Meaningful Use”

Drastic measures, like scrapping existing systems or locking in with a single vendor to achieve “meaningful use” are expensive, resource intensive and won’t necessarily get you where you need to be by 2011. What will?

Poll: Your Greatest Challenge for Health Information

What is your greatest challenge in maintaining health information across your enterprise? Take our poll!

A Document Registry for Patient Data Sharing

The capability to locate and link documents and images that comprise a patient’s medical history is critical to the foundation of interoperability and clinical data exchange. What’s unique about Initiate’s document registry?