We recently stumbled upon an interesting fact from the American Association for Justice. Apparently medical errors are the sixth leading cause of death in America (based on 2010 stats). Here are the numbers:
We recently did a webinar on Shared Charting (a feature we recently released on EHR Tutor) and we thought that even the instructors who could not attend might appreciate one of the scenarios we covered.
Last week we were at the IACTE Conference and did a presentation about using an Academic EHR in the classroom. During the session we had help from our audience to come up with some great teaching tips and tools for Nutrition programs and Nutrition classes.
We recently hosted a free webinar on medication administration and have been promoting our barcode scanning feature for the last few weeks. Why? Because medication administration is a big deal in the world of EHR meaningful use measures. For stage two of meaningful use requirements, medical practices must "enable a user to create a single reconciled list of medications, medication allergies, or problems" among other medication related requirements.
If you're doing a lesson plan and need a sample patient scenario for the classroom, we found a great resource from University of Virginia Medical School. You can find 6 different patients along with common concerns and problems with those patients.
We all know that charting is moving to EHRs and EMRs, largely because of the Affordable Care Act and the HITECH Act. As practitioners are preparing to qualify for Stage 2 Meaningful Use Criteria, it's important for instructors to be aware of what students will be facing in the field from this point forward.
I found this chart on Twitter through one of our followers and I thought I'd share it with all of our friends and readers:
I came across this amazing website that was posted on Twitter. It's a real time EHR user survey with graphs of the results which are constantly updating. Last I checked, 37 people had completed the survey but anyone working at a medical practice that uses an EHR can participate by filling out the questions here - http://www.softwareadvice.com/medical/userview/ehr-survey
A few weeks ago, @FrisoRaemaekers sent me a really interesting graph on Twitter. I'm including the infographic below:
The percentage of medical offices using EHRs/EMRs is skyrocketing. In December 2012 a report was released comparing the percentage of offices using electronic health record usage from 2001 to 2012.