Following last year’s announcement by the Health Secretary setting the target for all hospitals to go paperless by 2018, the application of EMRs became...
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NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) – If you went to visit your doctor and a drug company representative was sitting in the room with you, ready to hand out...
A new study by the Health and Human Services department’s Inspector General has found shortcomings in the way the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
EHR adoption has had unintended consequences, both good and bad, on who does what in hospitals by John Nelson, MD, MHM Dr. Nelson The accumulated wisdom...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is exploring the possibility of gaining direct access to de-identified EHR information on millions of patients in order...
The American Medical Association is gearing up for an action-packed year, says AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven, MD in a blog post. Between the implementation of...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is inviting eligible professionals (EPs) who have completed two or more years of Stage 1 Meaningful...
Health information technology may resemble other forms of hardware, software, systems, and services, but when the focus turns to usability that resemblance...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”)...
The use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) could be widespread soon in the United States, and health professionals need to efficiently plan for their...
This past November, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services downgraded the credit rating of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Healthcare views electronic health information as a pillar for the improved...
In 2011, the federal government began handing out hefty Medicare and Medicaid bonuses to physicians who demonstrated “meaningful use” of electronic...
Throughout my 35 years in practice, one of the many important lessons that I have learned is to be successful you must make a serious commitment to your...
As the work between the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) has shown, true EHR interoperability is no small feat. The two federal agencies...













