Four years ago, Stanford Hospital & Clinics decided to see if it could cut back on unnecessary blood transfusions, procedures which, though sometimes life...
Tag - electronic medical record
The Cleveland Clinic is stepping up patients’ access to their medical information by providing secure online access to most of the data stored in their medical...
We’ve been working for a long time on creating a nationwide HIE. I still remember when I first started blogging about EMR 7.5 years ago we were talking about...
MGMA ICD-10 survey cites physicians greatest ICD-10 transition concern is the lack of communication and critical coordination between physicians practices and...
Staggering changes in the healthcare market, turbulent costs and increasing regulatory, governance and compliance challenges, entail the evolution of the...
Tired of suffering in silence, physician practices are turning to the editorial pages of their local newspapers to publicize their concerns with their...
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments appear to be abandoning plans to build a joint system to seamlessly share electronic health records when military...
What’s the difference between EMR and EHR? The terms electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) are often used interchangeably...
The use of electronic medical records has now officially become the norm. That is one way to look at the news we read at WRAL TechWire, “Electronic Healthcare...
The premise of this article just disgusts me. I must admit that I remembered the discussion of tying medical licenses to EHR adoption, but I’d forgotten that...
With EHR adoption skyrocketing and the health IT market shifting unpredictably as physicians search for systems tailored to meet their needs, vendors need to...
The unique and limited capabilities of various tablet and mobile devices has forced mobile EHR designers to reconsider the types of functionalities that need...
The NSA surveillance scandal brings to life that “Big Brother” really could be watching. Technology is a double edged sword – it can be used for good or bad...
Most healthcare providers believe enhancing their collection and use of patient data is the only way to move forward in the pursuit of better care delivery...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Beacon team recently released its first guide to help interested stakeholders learn from the...
The usability of electronic health-record systems varies widely, and EHR developers that do a lot of handholding after the sale score highest on usability...