New online community launched to help with EHRs

The College partnered with Cientis Technologies to launch a new, free interactive website last week which will help medical practices compare, select, and implement electronic health records (EHRs).

AmericanEHR Partners brings together professional societies and health care professionals. The resulting collaboration provides credible information, tools, and expertise to support the optimal use of health information technology (health IT), and to improve the delivery of health care.

AmericanEHR Partners will help simplify EHR adoption by allowing healthcare professionals to:

• Evaluate readiness to adopt an EHR and provide a list of recommended resources to help overcome identified challenges;View comprehensive EHR user ratings on different solutions (ratings are based on surveys of physicians conducted through their professional societies);Sort EHR solutions based on medical subspecialty and desired functionality; andProvide side-by-side comparisons of EHR systems.

The site also provides educational content though newsletters, podcasts, webinars, blogs, and more.