EHR: What’s Next?

I realize this is a simple concept with a million answers. In fact, that’s why I’m posting about it and hopefully starting a rich discussion. A huge portion of the healthcare system has adopted EHR software. I now ask the question:

What’s Next?

I know that some of you reading this will reply meaningful use. Ok. We get that. We know what meaningful use requires. Let’s get beyond meaningful use and talk about what you’re doing with your EHR.

I’m really starting this as a conversation starter. Hopefully you can break it down into two areas:

1. What are you doing with your EHR to optimize your use of your EHR?

2. Now that you have an EHR, what are you going to do next? What are you working on next?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and answers. Hopefully we’ll get a broad cross section of responses from small practices, hospitals, vendors, etc. I’ll join in the comments as well.

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

1 Comment

  • EHR is really the start of practice automation, I see the EHR as the as a core component of a full service platform that offers consumer facing apps and web-content that allows patients to better understand a practices offerings and benefits, as well as better self manage their health. Specifically, the EHR based system should be the tool to better manage the physician’s profile and be the main engagement tool for offered service packages and pricing as well as scheduling, messaging, and per-registration. In addition the EHR system acts as the critical data store for ongoing patient engagement via the patient portal, and enables expanded services such as tele-medicine and chronic care management. In my view, EHR is a fundamental and required component to allow for further value creation that services both the practice and the patient.

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