electronic health records

Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide, 2nd Edition

Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide, 2nd Edition Co-published by HIMSS, the Scottsdale Institute, AMIA, AMDIS and SHM, this second edition of the authoritative guide to CDS implementation has been substantially enhanced with expanded and updated guidance on using CDS interventions to improve care delivery and outcomes. […]

As congressional action looms, eminent informaticists define EHR interoperability

Fortunately, it looks as though we may have the basis of a definition of “open records,” aka interoperability, from two noted medical informaticians, Dean Sittig, professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston; and Adam Wright, a senior scientist in the general medicine division […]

What makes an EHR “open” or interoperable?

We have identified 5 use cases that comprise a useful definition of an “open or interoperable electronic health record (EHR).”

HISTalk: Defining Our Terms: Does Anyone Know What an “Open EHR” Really Is?

A JAMIA article by Dean Sittig and Adam Wright proposes use cases of exactly what determines whether a given EHR is “open” or “interoperable,” which hopefully will squelch the bleating of robotic vendor CEOs who insist on abusing the term to mean “whatever we’re selling at the moment.” The authors […]

From “Farm Boy” to Director of the Laboratory of Computer Science: 2004 Interview of Octo Barnett

Although he described himself humbly as “just a country doctor,” Dr. G. Octo Barnett altered the course of the practice of medicine when he suggested, in the 1950s, “We ought to try using timesharing computer systems to improve medical care.”

Engineering Computerized Multiphasic Screening: An Interview with Morris F. Collen

Dr. Morris Collen was an internationally respected leader in medical informatics and a pioneer in electronic medical record systems.

EHR Configuration Challenges & Opportunities

A short video presentation using the “TedTalk” format by Dean F. Sittig, PhD that describes various EHR configuration challenges and opportunities.

SAFER EHRs: A Video Introduction to the SAFER Guides

A short video created by Westat for the ONC that describes the SAFER Guides which are designed to help healthcare organizations conduct self-assessments to optimize the safety and safe use of electronic health records (EHRs) in the following areas: High Priority Practices, Organizational Responsibilities, Contingency Planning, System Configuration, System Interfaces, Patient Identification, […]

Demonstration of the Clinical Summarizer developed in conjunction with Harvard SMART SHARP project

A short demonstration of the clinical summarizer by Jeff Klann. The demo is based on this publication: Klann JG, McCoy AB, Wright A, Wattanasin N, Sittig DF, Murphy SN. Health care transformation through collaboration on open-source informatics projects: integrating a medical applications platform, research data repository, and patient summarization. Interact […]

Webinar: ISQua on “Making Health Information Technology SAFER”

Here is a link to a webinar presented to the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua). The webinar provides an introduction and overview of the USA’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) sponsored SAFER Guides (Safety Assurance Factors for Electronic Health Record Resilience) project presented by Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH and Dean F. Sittig, PhD.

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