Inaccurate EMR Data, Patient Engagement, and Studycure: Around Healthcare Scene

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Primary Docs See Hope For Stronger Financials With EMR

A recent study revealed that 51 percent of doctors felt the EMRs would help solve their problems. In fact, some believe that it will help them financially as well. Their theory? Better coding and documentation will lead to more efficiency and reduction of costs. Is this a worth-while belief, or are these doctors setting themselves up for disappointment?

EMR Data Often “Innaccurate” Or “Missing”, Study Says

EMR adoption is expected to reach nearly 80 percent of healthcare organizations by 2016. This may come as a relief to some who believe that EMRs eliminate data errors that come with paper-based systems. However, EMRs may not be as accurate and complete as everyone might hope. Symptoms on patients who die quickly may not be recorded, and accuracy can depend on if a patient was treated at night or during the day. Teamwork may be the solution to eliminating EMR-based errors.

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Your Facebook-like Health and Status Feed

Should healthcare practices integrate a social media-like system, incorporating real health time and status feeds, into clinical workflow? In theory, it would be a great idea. However, as with Facebook and Twitter, not every status gets read. This may get information out quickly, but maybe not to who needs to see it.

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Patient Engagement in the Digital Era

Patient Engagement has gone from eye-to-eye contact to Googling health questions. While this may seem like patient engagement is becoming less personal, it can be positive. Patients can be more involved in their health care, and take control of it. Dr. Michael West discusses that and more in his article this week.

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Studycure: Experiment Your Way to Better Health

Need some extra motivation to meet goals? Studycure is part social experiment, part motivation, and aims to help people meet their health goals. By implementing a texting program that sends reminders throughout the day and questions concerning your goal, it analyzes after a certain period of time if the methods used to meet a goal are being met. Goals are customizable, can be shared with friends and family, and others goals can be tracked and used as inspiration.

About the author

Katie Clark

Katie Clark is originally from Colorado and currently lives in Utah with her husband and son. She writes primarily for Smart Phone Health Care, but contributes to several Health Care Scene blogs, including EMR Thoughts, EMR and EHR, and EMR and HIPAA. She enjoys learning about Health IT and mHealth, and finding ways to improve her own health along the way.

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