By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
Health Works CollectiveHealth Works CollectiveHealth Works Collective
  • Health
    • Mental Health
    Health
    Healthcare organizations are operating on slimmer profit margins than ever. One report in August showed that they are even lower than the beginning of the…
    Show More
    Top News
    physical health
    5 Ways Playing Games Can Improve Neural and Physical Health
    September 9, 2022
    Reasons For Hair Loss and Its Treatment
    Reasons For Hair Loss and Its Treatment
    February 16, 2022
    healthcare organization
    5 Actionable Strategies For Healthcare Organizations
    August 15, 2022
    Latest News
    7 Most Common Healthcare Accreditation Programs: Which Should You Use?
    August 20, 2025
    Hospital Pest Control and the Fight Against Superbugs
    August 20, 2025
    Hygiene Beyond The Clinic: Attention To Overlooked Non-Clinical Spaces
    August 13, 2025
    5 Steps to a Promising Career as a Healthcare Administrator
    August 3, 2025
  • Policy and Law
    • Global Healthcare
    • Medical Ethics
    Policy and Law
    Get the latest updates about Insurance policies and Laws in the Healthcare industry for different geographical locations.
    Show More
    Top News
    4 Reasons Chris Cornell’s Death Raises Medical Ethics Questions
    December 19, 2018
    What If You Could Sell Your Vote?
    August 24, 2017
    The Sleepy American
    September 12, 2017
    Latest News
    How Social Security Disability Shapes Access to Care and Everyday Health
    August 22, 2025
    How a DUI Lawyer Can Help When Your Future Health Feels Uncertain
    August 22, 2025
    How One Fall Can Lead to a Long Road of Medical Complications
    August 22, 2025
    How IT and Marketing Teams Can Collaborate to Protect Patient Trust
    July 17, 2025
  • Medical Innovations
  • News
  • Wellness
  • Tech
Search
© 2023 HealthWorks Collective. All Rights Reserved.
Reading: EHR System Optimization Strategies For Top-Notch Performance
Share
Notification Show More
Font ResizerAa
Health Works CollectiveHealth Works Collective
Font ResizerAa
Search
Follow US
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
© 2023 HealthWorks Collective. All Rights Reserved.
Health Works Collective > Policy & Law > Global Healthcare > EHR System Optimization Strategies For Top-Notch Performance
Global HealthcarePolicy & LawTechnology

EHR System Optimization Strategies For Top-Notch Performance

Abby Norman
Abby Norman
Share
5 Min Read
EHR system adoption
Shutterstock Licensed Photo - 1376060681
SHARE

 As you may know, electronic health records are primarily used to let healthcare organizations and healthcare professionals securely and quickly access patients’ medical details.

Contents
  • Customize Your EHR System for Your Organization’s Specific Needs
  • Ensure Your Staff Receive Rigorous Training
  • Maintain and Update Your EHR System
  • Use Database Performance Tuning
    • Set Up a System to Receive and Incorporate Feedback

Things like diagnoses, lab results, treatment plans, and radiology images can all be accessed in real-time, enabling a higher level of quality care and a lower expenditure on resources.

Even billing can be included in EHRs to help improve payment efficiency.

EHRs can undoubtedly improve your healthcare organization’s operational efficiency and productivity and provide patients with a better level of care. But for top-notch performance, organizations need to carefully adopt EHR system optimization strategies.

More Read

telehealth
For Telehealth Patient Safety Needs, An Evolution in Policy
IntelliCell BioSciences To Open Adipose Tissue Processing Centre in Houston
Asesinato, Si; Tortura, No
Planning an Enterprise Archive (VNA) to Accommodate Collaboration in Precision Medicine
How Technology-Enabled Communications Drive Use of Routine Services and Revenue

When EHRs are optimized in the right way, healthcare professionals can spend less time retrieving medical records, administrative burdens can become reduced, and usability of the EHRs can become easier for all concerned.

So, let’s take a look at some of the EHR system optimization strategies your healthcare organization can use to improve performance. 

Customize Your EHR System for Your Organization’s Specific Needs

One of the most important EHR system optimization strategies is customization. You need to configure your EHR system based on your healthcare organization’s specific requirements.

For example, you should take staff workflows into consideration. Members of staff may want fewer intrusive alerts or frustrated clinicians may want tools that enable better multitasking.

However, be careful about your customization as too much unauthorized customization could cause problems for end users or make your system unreliable. Therefore, always test customizations that you make before implementing them.

Ensure Your Staff Receive Rigorous Training

You can have the most reliable EHR system in the world that has been customized in the best possible way for your specific healthcare organization. But unless your staff members are rigorously trained on how to use the system correctly, you won’t get top-notch performance out of your system.

Therefore, it’s crucial that you ensure all clinicians and other members of staff spend several hours learning everything there is to know about your customized system.

That will provide better communication and operation efficiency between different healthcare professionals and departments, and ease the pain points of healthcare providers.

All staff members should understand best practices and know how to use the EHR system for operational realities.

Maintain and Update Your EHR System

It’s important that you have technical professionals in charge of monitoring and maintaining your EHR system to ensure it’s always up-to-date and error-free.

For instance, if EHRs aren’t maintained correctly, it could lead to things like duplicate medical records and patient misidentification. In turn, that could lead to poorer patient care and could even result in medical negligence.

So, don’t overlook the importance of keeping EHRs accurately updated.

Use Database Performance Tuning

Following on from the last strategy, it’s vital that EHR systems undergo regular database performance tuning to ensure they’re running as efficiently as possible, just like you should do for any other database system.

For instance, when you use SolarWinds’ database tuning tools, you can reoptimize a database system from top to bottom using database tuning.

That could involve things like deploying clusters and reconfiguring operating systems according to how they’re used as well as identifying ways to improve overall performance and support end users.

Set Up a System to Receive and Incorporate Feedback

Lastly, never overlook the importance of feedback.

It’s not only crucial that you set up methods of receiving feedback from all professionals that use your EHR system. It’s also important that you listen to that feedback and act on it appropriately.

By being open to feedback and incorporating suggestions, you can significantly improve the usability of your EHRs and optimize workflows.

TAGGED:EHR system
Share This Article
Facebook Copy Link Print
Share
By Abby Norman
My name is Abby Norman and I am a healthcare blogger. With over 10 years of experience in the medical field, I have developed a passion for helping others understand the complexities of healthcare.

Stay Connected

1.5kFollowersLike
4.5kFollowersFollow
2.8kFollowersPin
136kSubscribersSubscribe

Latest News

travel nurse in north carolina
Balancing Speed and Scope: Choosing the Nursing Degree That Fits Your Goals
Nursing
September 1, 2025
intimacy
How to Keep Intimacy Comfortable as You Age
Relationship and Lifestyle Senior Care
September 1, 2025
engineer fitting prosthetic arm
How Social Security Disability Shapes Access to Care and Everyday Health
Health care
August 20, 2025
a woman explaining the document
How a DUI Lawyer Can Help When Your Future Health Feels Uncertain
Public Health
August 20, 2025

You Might also Like

eHealthHealth careHospital AdministrationMedical Records

Tips To Follow To Help Avoid Surprise Medical Bills

April 29, 2019

Will There Be Enough PCPs To Treat New Medicaid Patients?

March 28, 2011
The cost of healthcare has increased twice as much as income since 1998
BusinessFinancePublic Health

Would Consumer Accountability for Healthcare Actually Reduce Costs? [INFOGRAPHIC]

January 7, 2014
Mobile HealthTechnology

All The Ingredients You Need For A Successful Health Insurance App

January 25, 2019
Subscribe
Subscribe to our newsletter to get our newest articles instantly!
Follow US
© 2008-2025 HealthWorks Collective. All Rights Reserved.
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Username or Email Address
Password

Lost your password?