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User Group Meeting: Curriculum in EHRs
EHR Clinical Learning Platform User Group Meeting June 21st-22nd in Indianapolis Regenstrief will be hosting a 2-day User Group Meeting for our community of users of the Teaching EMR (Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform). Attendees will include 30-40…
Tech Educator of the Year: A Nomination for Innovation
I had my first conversation with Zach Weber in 2016 about our Teaching EMR (tEMR). Zach was originally interested in our EMR for a potential research project at the Purdue College of Pharmacy. We discovered during our initial demonstration of the platform…
Interprofessional Education (IPE) and EHRs in the Classroom
Students are filing into the classroom. It is a frigid morning in January here in the midwest. The snow is coming down outside. Everyone is trying to warm up from the walk across campus. The students in the room are not your typical collection of students. We…
Decision Guide: Is the EHR Clinical Learning Platform Right for Your Program?
You’ve read some blogs, downloaded the curricula report , and had a demo. Now you want to learn a little more so you can share a summary with others on your team the key takeaways about the platform. Even if you haven’t done the above, this is a good place to…
Learn to Drive an EHR in Medical Education that is Good for Everyone
Who taught you how to drive? Do you remember what type of vehicle it was that you spent the most time learning on? For me, it was my grandfather that was brave enough to work with me while I learned how to navigate the roads. That was decades ago now. In…
Upcoming EHR Clinical Learning Platform Event: AMIA 2017 in Washington DC November 4-8, 2017
A sneak peak of the upcoming events for the Teaching EMR at the AMIA Annual Symposium . Blaine will be joined by Dr. William Hersh and Dr. Paul Gorman both from Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Anderson Spickard from Vanderbilt University will also…
Upcoming Event for EHR Clinical Learning Platform: Generalists in Medical Education Conference
Are you curious about how other programs are using an EHR in medical education? It is probably the number one question that I have fielded in the last two years here at the Regenstrief Institute. Schools are curious how other schools are using an EHR in their…
A Case for Curricula: Using EHRs in Medical Education
Cases for Curricula? How many cases do students need in curricula during their time in Medical School? How many would be sufficient? I’m asking because I don’t really know. A couple? A dozen? Or are we thinking 50-100? How about 1,000? That sounds like enough…
Regenstrief Team at ChangeMedEd 2017: Inside the Solution Center
Our team spent 5 days in Chicago the week of September 10th at the ChangeMedEd 2017 conference . The American Medical Association has put on the conference every other year since 2013. This year more than 450 industry professionals from medical education…
Closing the Skills Gap in Traditional Medical Education
Bridging the gap in traditional medical education for the skills that future providers will need using modern adult learning practices and technology is going to take massive effort–just like our snail friend in the picture above. To some in medical…
Lightning in a Bottle: Changing Medical Education
Are we having a ball? Yes. Yes, we are. Quick story. A phenomenon, known as ball lightning, still befuddles scientists. According to the great folks at National Geographic, ball lightning is “a small, charged sphere that floats, glows, and bounces along…
Drivers Wanted: Driver’s Ed for Medical & Allied Health Professions Students
I’ve read all the articles and research on EHRs / EMRs in the classroom over the last couple of years. The information all points to students wanting more time behind the wheel of an EHR before they graduate. While it has been increasing over the last decade…
Redefining Medical Education Using Technology: Spring 2017 Medicine X Event at Stanford University
Stanford’s Medicine X Spring event 2017 The Medicine X Spring event took place on April 22-23, 2017 at the Li Ka Shing Center, Stanford University. The goal of the event was to bring patients, providers, researchers, industry leaders, designers, technologists…
Graduating with 4 Years of EHR Experience
‘Tis the season for graduation. Over 18,000 MD students and over 5,000 DO students will adorn a cap and gown and complete their hooding ceremony this May. How many of those +23K doctors will be graduating with four years of real EHR experience? Not many, but…
AMA, Regenstrief Institute Help Increase EHR Training in Medical Schools
Below is the joint Press Release put out by the American Medical Association and the Regenstrief Institute FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 19, 2017 AMA, Regenstrief Institute Launch Effort to Increase and Improve Electronic Health Record Training in U.S. Medical…
One in a Million: Unique Patients Promote Learning
First-of-its-kind EHR Platform We created one of the first Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems in 1972. Think about that statement for a minute. We have patients in our Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform (formerly the Teaching EMR) that are…
Preparing Students to Use an EHR Today
The field of medicine is changing, and so are learning methods. Medical educators are being called on to teach and quickly prepare students for clinical practice with new formats and tools that enhance learning. Many schools are revisiting their current…
What’s in a Name
We spent some time with members of the American Medical Association’s Marketing (Branding and Communications) and Medical Education leadership team back in December to brainstorm and discuss changing the name of our academic EMR/EHR for Medical and Allied…
Release ME: MedEd Enhancements in RECL (formerly tEMR) v2.3.0
Are you searching for something? Organizing, searching and filtering large volumes of information are at the bedrock of why we started building Electronic Health/ Medical Records (EHR / EMRs) back in the 1970s. There is certainly volumes of data that says…
Giving Thanks: Appreciating Medical and Allied Health Professions Educators
Regenstrief Appreciates Medical and Allied Health Professions Educators Thank you for everything you do to improve Medical and Allied Health Professions Education! During this season of Thanksgiving, my team and I at the Regenstrief Institute’s Center for…
Feats of Strength: Building a Strong Case for an EHR / EMR in the Classroom
It might be challenging to get you academic medical center to open up their EHR / EMR for learning activities in the classroom. In fact, it might take a Herculean effort to make that happen for undergraduate medical students or allied health professionals…
Forged Pathways: How a History of Innovation is Improving Learning for Future Providers
Sam Regenstrief had a vision. The story goes that he had a family member that was being treated in a local hospital care setting. He did not like what he saw and was determined to use his resources to make a positive change in the way we deliver health care.…
Something to RAVE About: How Rule Authoring Promotes Learning
What is Rule Authoring in an EHR? I should probably start with a definition for rule authoring if you are not a familiar with the concept of how an EHR is able to alert or prompt physicians inside the application. I define “Rule Authoring” in EHRs as a system…
Exploring the Education EHR: Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform (formerly the Teaching EMR) Introduction [Video]
A Good Place to Start The Regenstrief Institute has been known in the informatics research community for decades. I worked for a large HealthIT software company for many years and had heard about the EHR and CPOE system developed by Dr. Clem McDonald and the…
What You Get with The Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform (formerly the Teaching EMR)
The Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform (formerly the Teaching EMR) was born on the campus of Indiana University Medical School. The team at Indiana University School of Medicine and also researchers at the Regenstrief Institute, Blaine Takesue, MD,…
Starting a Revolution in Teaching with Health Records
It’s a catchy title, huh? When trying to come up with my first RECL Platform (formerly Teaching EMR – tEMR) blog post, I wondered what I would write about. There will be posts on informatics, education, medicine, EHR’s and technology. As the Project Manager…
Commitment to Change in Medical Education
Sadly, less than 20% of the readers of this article are committed to real change in medical education. The other 80%–need more convincing. Which group are you in today? This “need-for-change” is a common theme in all communities. It covers every aspect of our…
Questions about the Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform?
If you are not familiar with the Regenstrief Institute or the Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform (formerly the Teaching EMR (tEMR)), you might find these articles helpful at the following links. I’m the web software product manager for the Regenstrief…
Classroom Ready EHR / EMR
Ready for Class The Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform (formerly tEMR) is a unique learning tool designed to recreate clinical environments. These “care environments” include inpatient, outpatient and emergency department care settings. The system is…
Tired of Creating Patients?
Your role is to teach and to guide students toward residency and then on to clinical practice. Why then are you spending so much time and effort creating/synthesizing patients to use in your curricula? Please don’t get me wrong. Content is extremely valuable…
Unique New EHR Clinical Learning Platform Community
A very warm “Welcome!” from the team here at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute . The power of connected networks, excellent search tools or good old-fashioned word-of-mouth has helped bring you to our Regenstrief EHR Clinical…
Getting Started
The Teaching EMR blog and community site is coming soon! Interested in being part of the best community for educators to interact and stay informed on the latest activity around EMRs in the classroom? This is where you need to be. Register now to stay…