I’m always happy to look at data. Certainly data can lie, but it can also inform if you are looking at the right data and considering the biases of the data. I...
Tag - EHR
👁 1129 views
I’ve long been a proponent of the role of specialty specific EHRs. In fact, at one point I suggested that a really great EHR company could be a roll up of the...
👁 964 views
You transitioned to electronic medical records a few years back and your practice has streamlined. Why then should you go for specialized EMR solutions? For a...
👁 1064 views
Established to enable provider-to-provider communication, health information exchanges (HIEs) integrate with multiple systems, technologies, and provider...
👁 1998 views
Although paper medical records have been around for a long time, electronic medical records are slowly beginning to replace paper claims, according to...
👁 916 views
Converting from a record system using paper charts to an electronic medical record (EMR) system requires significant amounts of money, time and personnel...
👁 594 views
At the Government Health IT Conference and Exhibition last week, two military CIOs discussed efforts by the departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense to...
👁 868 views
You can now measure your blood pressure, glucose, and other vitals at home with your smartphone. What if the next time you step into your doctor’s office for...
👁 1245 views
Health information technology usage has more than doubled since 2012, the Obama administration touted this week. Especially when teasing out physicians and...
👁 920 views
Med Access and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute are pleased to announce that the Associates in Cardiology, following a rigorous selection process to...
👁 798 views
Since initial rollouts, vendors are scrambling to develop smartphone and tablet applications that go beyond replicating the desktop record on smaller screens...
👁 1084 views
Understanding a doctor’s decision-making process can help devise strategies to get the most benefit out of an electronic health record system. Whether...
👁 863 views
Solo practices and physicians approaching retirement age could become exempt from Medicare pay reductions if expanded hardship exemptions for EHR adoption are...
👁 1451 views
A survey of Massachusetts physicians finds that the rate of claims when EHRs were used was one-sixth the rate when they were not used. As physicians and...
👁 1166 views
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a full subsidiary of Quality Systems Inc. ( QSII ) and a player in the health care information technology market...
👁 1029 views
For health data captured in an electronic health record to prove meaningful, this information needs to be able to move with the patient. And nowhere is health...
