While electronic health records (EHRs) might appear financially feasible for larger senior living providers, the paperless record-keeping technology looks to...
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Imagine going to a new doctor and he already knows your complete health history. You don’t have to rack your brain trying to remember every bump and bruise...
Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens in Astoria was honored last week by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society for its electronic medical records...
The tides have shifted quickly in the EHR marketplace. As adoption several years ago surpassed fifty percent, dissatisfaction began rising sharply. According...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a lot on its plate. From its rocky path towards interoperability with the Department of Defense to a disability...
The sudden hospitalization yesterday of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, while vacationing on Nantucket Island is an unfortunate...
We asked area physicians and health executives how technology has improved their patient care over the past few years. Here are their responses. “There is no...
SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) The President and CEO of SmartMetric, Inc., Ms. Chaya Hendrick, said today that SmartMetric will be releasing for sale direct...
Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard has 200,000 reasons why you should want to have your doctor keep your medical records online. Two hundred thousand is how many...
Even with the increased adoption and meaningful use of EHR technologies, current attempts at healthcare reform will not avoid history repeating itself unless...
There are three major components to the ICD-10 transition: physicians and their documentation, payers and their claims processing, and the medical coders that...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is quite adamant about the role of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in...
When hospitals attest to Meaningful Use compliance, the stakes are high. As blogger Jim Tate points out, a 30-bed hospital might receive $1M plus in incentives...
Cerner has announced plans to support and participate in the Blue Button + initiative, marking a small step towards freer sharing of patient health information...
Electronic health records (EHRs) or electronic medical records (EMRs) have become not only commonplace, but a virtual federal mandate. Doctors no longer write...













