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...
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I went down to Orlando, Florida a few weeks ago, joining about 35,000 of my closest friends to learn about the latest developments in healthcare related...
WHAT IS AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD? An electronic health record (EHR) is a computerized collection of a patient’s health records. It includes information such...
Patient portals, clinical data warehousing/mining and radiology bar coding applications are the EMR applications that HIMSS Analytics expects will dominate...
Stage 2 Meaningful Use requires providers to use clinical decision support, but most hospitals and practices aren’t even doing the bare minimum to obtain...
NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) – If you went to visit your doctor and a drug company representative was sitting in the room with you, ready to hand out...
The use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) could be widespread soon in the United States, and health professionals need to efficiently plan for their...
Dr. Stephen Beck discusses how HL7 Infobutton technology helps improve outcomes, accelerate clinician adoption of CDS and EHR technologies at Catholic Health...
HIMSS put forward its take on why health IT products, particularly electronic medical records, shouldn’t be considered a medical device. The group published a...
Implementation expected to streamline processes,Cloud-Based EHR improve communication between locations as well as emphasize preventative care Rush Health, a...
When the CommonWell Health Alliance launched at HIMSS13 in March, it made headlines and sent ripples through the healthcare community. However, since then the...
Analysis of Select Trends and Technologies The current healthcare market is centered around two factors: cutting overall healthcare costs and providing to...
It might not sound like much, but 2.5% of all healthcare jobs are directly related to EHR system implementations, informatics, and other health IT strategies...
Canterbury in particular offers an ideal example to corroborate the claim that healthcare IT integration works best if accompanied by an integrated overall...
I have worked with dozens of hospitals to plan, implement, and optimize their EMR, so I’ve learned a great deal about what creates a successful implementation...