Your EHR Is Not A Filing Cabinet: Five Ways To Use Your EHR Data For Competitive Advantage

Your electronic health record-keeping system is up and running. The disorienting implementation process is over. Processes have been reengineered. Clinical records are now electronic. And, you might even be getting some Meaningful Use dollars (see Getting To Meaningful Use Payments Is A Matter of Math  and Meaningful Use Stage 2 Update). So now it is time to turn your attention to other initiatives, right?

Wrong. Now is the time to get the “Big ROI” from your investment in an information management system. We’ve written a lot about the return-on-investment (ROI) of EHRs (see The Many Routes . . .