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
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...
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...
Established to enable provider-to-provider communication, health information exchanges (HIEs) integrate with multiple systems, technologies, and provider...
Although paper medical records have been around for a long time, electronic medical records are slowly beginning to replace paper claims, according to...
Converting from a record system using paper charts to an electronic medical record (EMR) system requires significant amounts of money, time and personnel...
At the Government Health IT Conference and Exhibition last week, two military CIOs discussed efforts by the departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense to...
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...
Health information technology usage has more than doubled since 2012, the Obama administration touted this week. Especially when teasing out physicians and...
Med Access and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute are pleased to announce that the Associates in Cardiology, following a rigorous selection process to...
Since initial rollouts, vendors are scrambling to develop smartphone and tablet applications that go beyond replicating the desktop record on smaller screens...
Understanding a doctor’s decision-making process can help devise strategies to get the most benefit out of an electronic health record system. Whether...
Solo practices and physicians approaching retirement age could become exempt from Medicare pay reductions if expanded hardship exemptions for EHR adoption are...
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...
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a full subsidiary of Quality Systems Inc. ( QSII ) and a player in the health care information technology market...
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...