Six more software vendors in recent weeks had specific electronic health records products certified for meeting some or all requirements of revised Stage 1 and...
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) might be making too much out of a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine...
Electronic health records have been increasingly important in the health care world in recent years, thanks to their strong ability to streamline the needs of...
The EU-funded MyHealthAvatar project is currently trialing a digital representation of personal health status, designed as a lifetime companion (Avatar). Your...
Meeting the goals of accountable care and achieving the associated cost reductions requires a more robust health IT infrastructure than just an electronic...
Even though some New Year’s resolutions are broken as fast as they are made, January represents a timely period to guide patients to better health. Use the...
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is inviting healthcare organizations to participate in a January 10 health IT and patient safety webinar entitled...
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...
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...













