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UW Health is an integrated health system serving 618,000 patients each year in the Upper Midwest and beyond with 1,400 physicians, 16,500 employees, six hospitals, and 80 outpatient sites. UW Health is governed by the UW Hospitals and Clinics Authority Board, UW Health supports patient care, research, educations and community service missions of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. UW Health was voted the best hospital in Wisconsin. UW Health has a large transplant program that has been serving WI for over 40 years.

Healthcare regulations and processes continue to change. Tools that have been adopted and adapted throughout the evolution of healthcare technology include the EHR (electronic health record) and the EMR (electronic medical record). The EHR and EMR are complementary technologies, providing more benefit together than on their own.

New Pagination Rules
Make Verification a Snap!

We have automated the detection of page boundaries by pagination rules, by using machine learning algorithms to set weighted values that match the expected output. This is going to streamline the pagination process and make verification even easier.

Let’s be honest. We could all use an extra hour in the day. Or two… or three… or even just 30 minutes!

In working with labs we have found one of the biggest pain points is the inability to find the time to scan or fax in lab results and manually enter the data into the EMR. This is an enormous issue, considering if these results aren’t entered into the EMR quickly and accurately, someone’s life could be in harm’s way.

I like to boast about my epic workload balancing and prioritization skills. I have researched proven methods and applied my own advice to share tips and tricks on managing time and workloads in the lab in order to be a lab powerhouse.

What is better? Manual or automatic?  How do they work? Which one to choose? Why?

No, this isn’t an article about buying cars.  Although it may sound like it, I'm actually talking about clinical extraction software.  There are some striking parallels when comparing car purchases and data extraction software purchases.

Aside from the fact that modern cars are essentially computers on wheels—on average containing thirty computers and millions of lines of code—buying a car is similar to the purchasing process of choosing an extraction software in a more practical way.  

“You can match a blood transfusion to a blood type – that was an important discovery. What if matching a cancer cure to our genetic code was just as easy, just as standard? What if figuring out the right dose of medicine was as simple as taking our temperature?” –President Obama, January 30, 2015

There are six key principles of the federal Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). PMI was a federal initiative announced by President Obama in 2015 and was incorporated into the 2016 budget. The mission statement for PMI is “to enable a new era of medicine through research, technology, and policies that empower patients, researchers, and providers to work together toward development of individualized care.” The White House

Stop digging through PDF attachments in your EHR media tab.

For clinicians, finding test results in the EHR can feel like an archeological dig – except it’s not as fun.

Too often the complete patient story is buried deep within unstructured document attachments, such as scanned copies of faxed test results. 

There’s no question that users rely on the EMR In Basket for day-to-day workflow management. The “In Basket” or “Inbox,” depending on what EMR you’re using, provides a centralized location to receive notifications and important patient information, such as admission and discharge notifications, new lab results, refill requests, patient calls, appointment reminders, patient portal communication and much more.