Reimagining healthcare IT for the next decade - Improving the physician experience and patient outcomes

The decade following passage of the HITECH Act certainly did not create EHR nirvana for providers – physicians’ frustrations have been well documented – but it wasn’t all bad. “EHR 1.0,” as IDC Health Insights labeled the first-generation systems installed to capture HITECH incentives, provided a foundation and framework for innovations such as electronic prescribing, clinical decision support and predictive analytics. EHR systems are now collecting data that can be the basis for better outcomes, today and tomorrow.

So where do we go from here?

This e-book discusses the significant yet widely untapped potential for optimizing EHRs in the decade ahead – the evolution of “EHR 2.0” – and associated benefits for the entire care delivery chain, from practitioner to patient.