The electronic health record is at the heart of efforts to improve clinical documentation. One effort strives to get disparate EHR software programs—and the...
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Less than a decade ago, nine out of 10 U.S. doctors updated their patients’ records by hand and stored them in color-coded files. Today, nearly half of all...
Health information technology is most useful at the point of care so why do so many emergency medical services (EMS) professionals lack access to patient...
I went down to Orlando, Florida a few weeks ago, joining about 35,000 of my closest friends to learn about the latest developments in healthcare related...
In 2010, the federal government approved a hotly contested law aimed to increase the number of Americans with health insurance and decrease the cost of...
By Michael Iorfino, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. March 16–For decades, health care providers relied on paper charts filled with handwritten notes and...
WHAT IS AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD? An electronic health record (EHR) is a computerized collection of a patient’s health records. It includes information such...
I’ve seen integration success stories in the medical records field. And we’ve all seen hybrid cloud integration stories. But this is the first time I’ve seen a...
HealthDay News — Interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) systems is a national priority of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health...
Nationwide mandate requires doctors to share health records electronically ORLANDO, Fla. – The traditional pad and pencil are disappearing from...
If you walk into any Central Utah Clinic, you’ll see physicians and staff using electronic health records, or EHRs. Instead of the paper charts of...
Digital health products and services will play an important role in reducing cost and improving population health and the patient experience. However, the...
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — UC Davis researchers have found that routine information — blood pressure, respiratory rate, temperature and white blood cell count —...
A health IT company has developed a care coordination platform to help physicians access patient information remotely and improve communication with care teams...
A new National Institute of Standards and Technology report offers recommendations on how electronic health record developers and ambulatory care centers can...













