Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School want to turn EHRs into more streamlined, interactive tools that enhance, rather than impede, clinicians’ work.

The school recently launched an initiative seeking out the newest ideas from data experts, health IT researchers and the like on EHR innovation, and is in the early stages of developing new referral models for heart attack patients.

“Increasingly, health information technology plays a foundational role in each domain of our work: patient care, educating the next generation of physicians and scientists, and biomedical research,” said executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine, J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD. “Electronic health records innovations are key to advancing our impact in each of those missions.”

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