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Specialty practices: How a tailored system avoids disruption

Ben Scharfe | January 2025

Ben Scharfe discusses the advantages, operational challenges, and the specific type of EHR capabilities that best suit specialty practices.

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Glossary Terms

Downtime

Refers to periods of full or partial EHR system unavailability.

Care Coordination

The act of deliberately organizing patient care activities so that critical patient information is readily shared among all participants concerned with a patient’s care, with the goal of driving safer and more effective care.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

A machine’s or computer’s ability to perform the cognitive functions typically associated with human minds, such as reasoning, learning, interacting and providing guidance; In healthcare this can help drive better clinical decision-making and reduce clinicians’ cognitive burden.

Point-of-care

The point at which a clinician delivers healthcare services to a patient.

Population Health

Relating to health behaviors and outcomes of a broad group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes affected by the contextual factors within the group.

Patient Access

Refers to how easily and efficiently patients can access healthcare services and healthcare information.

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