Health IT Analytics April 18, 2018
Lean methodologies helped improve EHR documentation quality and efficiency, extended patient care time, and increased patient and provider satisfaction.
Applying Lean methodologies to an inefficient, first-generation electronic health record (EHR) system could enhance EHR documentation quality and efficiency, increase patient care time, and improve both provider and patient satisfaction, according to a study published in AHIMA’s Perspectives in Health Information Management.
Led by Maryane M. Dinkins, MS, PT, the research noted that many healthcare professionals are concerned that EHR use is obstructing quality care although one of the primary goals of an EHR is to provide clinicians with timely, accurate, and complete patient data,.
“A major concern among clinicians is that EHR adoption can interfere with practice productivity,” Dinkins et...
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