As electronic health records (EHRs) become more prevalent in the healthcare community, the number of software options doctors can choose from seems to range as...
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University Medical Center (UMC) Health System and leading health information technology supplier, Cerner Corp., have agreed to a 10-year extended and enhanced...
Electronic medical records requirements could be unfair to Borderland health care providers Updated: Sunday, January 11, 2015 | Stacey Welsh More Sharing...
Community Health Centers Inc., a federally qualified community health center with 11 sites offering medical and dental care in central Florida, has won a 2014...
On October 19, 2014, Novant Health became the first healthcare system in North Carolina to join the federal-level Health Information Exchange (HIE), eHealth...
The pricing of voice-recognition software as one sign of distortions of the medical market, and other inside insights. For background on the EMR saga, see this...
In 2009, the federal government budgeted $30 billion to incentivize doctors and hospitals to install electronic health records and use them “meaningfully”...
Thursday, April 24th from 2:00 – 3:30 EST U.S. legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA and HITECH outline rules governing the appropriate use of...
Lack of interoperability among data resources for electronic health records is a major hurdle to the unfettered exchange of information and development of a...
As vendors, developers, and caretakers of health information technology, OSEHRA members and staff should have a deep and abiding interest in verifying that the...
As we’ve been saying this for the past couple of years, the annual meetings of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) keep getting...
By Michael Iorfino, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. March 16–For decades, health care providers relied on paper charts filled with handwritten notes and...
According to the Office of the National Coordinator (“ONC”) the purpose of interoperability in Health IT is the following: Interoperability ensures that health...
Most of the world seems to be laser-focused on watching how health information technology (health IT) is being adopted in ambulatory and inpatient settings...
Use of electronic health records is associated with enhanced patient care overall, according to a study published in Health Services Research. Jennifer King...
Health information technology may resemble other forms of hardware, software, systems, and services, but when the focus turns to usability that resemblance...