The most difficult aspect of an EHR replacement isn’t choosing the system, setting it up, cajoling staff members into embracing a new workflow, or figuring out...
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With more hospitals and health clinics adopting electronic medical records (EMRs) with the incentive of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, there...
Increasing patient access to electronic health records is a priority for ONC and also happens to be a major part of regulations that set out the stage 2...
Hospitals’ and providers’ online networks — including email accounts, electronic health records and remote monitoring devices — could...
Provider uncertainty is hindering the implementation of the Designated Test EHR Program, a data exchange initiative launched earlier this year by the Centers...
The EHR marketplace is full of innovative systems and services aimed at helping healthcare organizations and providers deal with a variety of initiatives. From...
ORLANDO — Robert Wah, MD, is like the Thomas Jefferson of health information technology for physicians. He served as the first deputy national...
New findings published at HIMSS14 show that clinicians not only want to use mobile technology for patient care but also actually using mobile devices and...
Most healthcare organizations possess some degree of business intelligence or analytics capability, but until clinicians can use embedded analytics at the...
QPID, a Partners HealthCare spinoff, creates a clinical decision support tool to solve physicians’ big gripe about EHRs — buried data. The sum of...
Have meaningful use incentives merely propelled sales for a lot of lousy software? Maybe this will be a “no duh” observation for those who work in...
Office visits are likely to decrease as both physician and patient rely more on digital tools, study concludes. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
Formal academic studies about the implementation of clinical decision support (CDS) and computerized provider order entry (CPOE) are generally positive...
Reporting on contextual and implementation details of clinical decision support tools and computerized provider order entry systems has been...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) might be making too much out of a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine...
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is inviting healthcare organizations to participate in a January 10 health IT and patient safety webinar entitled...