Sep 6, 2022
A recent Morning Consult report revealed 95% of healthcare IT leaders are focused on digital transformation as a top priority. Only a year or two ago, EHRs were at the forefront of provider efforts to hit the triple aim–and today, nearly 6 in 10 see their EHR as a limitation holding back their enterprise data strategy.
For all their good, EHRs have been plagued by inconsistent data entry, insufficient workflow support, cognitive overload for users, rising levels of user burnout, as well as lack of complete data integration for effective and safe care management.
With healthcare costs, patient outcomes, and reduced operating margins on the rise, how can providers improve the limitations in their EHRs? Where should they be investing and most focused on, to best execute on transformation? How will company-based interoperability and unified patient records play a key role?
Our guest is here to answer those questions, and many others. Dr. Alan Weiss, CMIO at BayCare Health System is an industry leader, who holds responsibilities over all their clinical systems, associated governance, as well as over providing executive leadership of data and analytics. He recently won the Changemaker in Health Award from HIMSS, for his work in helping to refine EHRs, use the data within it to help improve quality, address operational concerns, and improve efficiencies.
Joining Dr. Weiss on today’s show is Dr. Anil Jain, chief innovation officer at Innovaccer. Here’s what they discussed:
- Three improvements that help improve care quality and inspire staff
- Why the longitudinal patient story must be told
- Putting an end to chart diving
- When giving a stale diagnosis improves EHR limitations
- Where today’s clinicians are embracing–and resisting–transformation
- Only 6% of cost reduction programs are highly effective, so what’s missing?
- "The Tetris challenge" that’s impacting cost reduction efforts
- When a unified patient record isn’t a unified patient record
- Three top tips for the next generation of clinical IT leaders
- The single biggest problem in healthcare we need to fix
- Why population health and digital transformation are inseparable
- When data becomes a cognitive burden to providers and clinical efficacy
- Five pitfalls of legislating common sense into EHRs
- The two keys to unlocking digital transformation
- How often-neglected workflows impact data and analytics
- Why and how overreliance on
technology hurts patients, families, and clinicians
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