Mar 25: Electronic health records can prevent sepsis, confusion and death
Electronic health records have been a contentious but important aspect of the healthcare market for the past few years, but […]
Mar 25: Uncertainty clouds federal Test EHR Program
Provider uncertainty is hindering the implementation of the Designated Test EHR Program, a data exchange initiative launched earlier this year
Mar 25: Health IT firm rolls out middleware to ease some of the EMR interoperability headaches
When a patient arrives in the intensive care unit, ideally clinicians would be able to see the most up-to-date record
Mar 24: Doctors Love/Hate Relationship With EHRs
Another in a long list of studies shows most doctors are dissatisfied with their EHR, but they don’t want to
Mar 24: Can You Trust What’s In Your Electronic Medical Record?
It isn’t often that a doctor is mistaken about how many feet his patient has. But that’s the mistake this
Mar 24: DeSalvo Says $24B Already Spent Through Meaningful Use Program
At a Federal Trade Commission event on Thursday, National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo said $24 billion already has
Mar 24: Wellmont to roll out new electronic medical records system March 29
KINGSPORT, Tenn. — A new $100 million electronic medical records system is intended to improve health care, efficiency and provide
Mar 24: Why is EHR usability overlooked for the sake of innovation?
The EHR marketplace is full of innovative systems and services aimed at helping healthcare organizations and providers deal with a
Mar 24: Electronic health records allow patients to manage care
A patient’s medical records used to be more or less a closed book. The large, sometimes inches-thick file sitting on
Mar 20: The future of healthcare
Imagine if patients’ medical records could follow them wherever they went. A New Yorker experiencing a health emergency while visiting
Mar 20: EHR adoption climbing, but is your state falling behind?
The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is an annual nationally
Mar 20: Why Doctors Still Use Pen and Paper
The healthcare reformer David Blumenthal explains why the medical system can’t move into the digital age. The health-care system is