EHRs

Jackie Rice, VP and chief information officer at Frederick Health, says adding pharmacogenetic data to the health system's EHR enables alerts that advise clinicians on how a patient’s genes can affect drug response.

While they were originally tools for administrative documentation, EHRs now prioritize streamlining clinicians' workflows and enhancing care delivery, says Sandra Johnson, SVP of client services at CliniComp.

According to Office Practicum's Dr. Rich Szabo and Chris Gibson, the company's EHR provides pediatricians with a complete view of patient data so they can more easily manage the immunization process at the point of care.

It is a transformation, not just a move, because it is a fundamental difference in the way systems run in the data center, says Jeff Thomas, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Sentara Health.

Dr. Steven Lane, chief medical officer at Health Gorilla and a HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient, discusses how Health Gorilla provides EHR companies with connectivity to the TEFCA framework as well as to other health information networks.  

Successful documentation improvements require collaboration and frontline nurses to be engaged in the decision-making process to drive change and meaningful improvement, says NYU Langone Health's Denise Dauterman and Deborah Jacques.

The cost burden is lowered when rural hospitals share their EHR because the host can bear the cost of things such as  infrastructure, security and staffing, says David Winn, vice president for Parkview Community Connect at Parkview Health.

Augmedix and Vizient will provide Augmedix Go, Augmedix Assist and Augmedix Live to providers and healthcare systems.