EHR Archive — Page 2 of 3
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April 1, 2021
COVID-19 met with intensive teamwork
Team members serving COVID-19 inpatients were more densely connected, interacting far more than their medical ICU counterparts. -
January 7, 2021
Building a cohort, the easy way
An automated system using keyword searches can help identify candidates for clinical trials on adverse drug reactions. -
December 3, 2020
Team tracks sources of false positives in urine drug screens
False positives on urine drug screens are common and are frequently due to cross-reactivity of these tests to medications. Last year, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers Jacob Hughey, PhD, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Jennifer Colby, PhD, at that time assistant professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, devised, tested and published a method to systematically identify medications that interfere with screenings for drugs of abuse. -
November 4, 2020
Study tracks physician use of electronic health records
According to a new large-scale descriptive study in the journal Pediatrics, for each outpatient encounter, pediatricians on average spend 16 minutes using the electronic health record (EHR). -
October 29, 2020
New tool rapidly identifies health records for studies
Electronic health records (EHR) are increasingly a resource for biomedical discovery, and automated searches for records that reflect a phenotype of interest, typically a disease, are a common starting point. -
October 8, 2020
VUMC teams working to adopt new federal EHR rules
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is working toward a Nov. 1 date to comply with key parts of new federal rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), as part of the 21st Century Cures Act. -
July 16, 2020
Clickbusters program takes on EHR alert fatigue
On April 1, the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC), in coordination with Health IT, launched a grassroots program called Clickbusters to stem alert fatigue at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.