The Top 5 Roadblocks HIEs Face
Just as young businesses of most any sort must circumvent myriad challenges to succeed, health providers are encountering multiple roadblocks in the implementation of HIEs. At the core of those:...
View ArticleThe 5 Traits of a Usable EMR
There are several factors inhibiting EMR adoption, but the concept of usability is often at the root, and rightfully so. Although effective training and implementation methods affect user adoption...
View ArticleSo I Have an EMR System. Now What?
Technology has profoundly transformed the practice of medicine with new diagnostic tools and treatment options that would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago.Read more in the full...
View ArticleReport: Strong EHR Market Growth Through 2016
While some industry research firms have forecast a slowdown in the electronic health records market after 2013, Millennium Research Group predicts strong revenue growth for the next half-decade.Read...
View ArticleMy Updated 2013 List of 'Open Source' Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems
I've been following and reporting on 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) and/or electronic medical record (EMR) systems over the past decade. In the late 1990's and early years of the 21st...
View ArticleHow Restyling The Mundane Medical Record Could Improve Health Care
The results of a contest sponsored by the White House shows how powerful a dose of design can be in treating what ails our medical system.Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleHospital EMR Crashes and Burns Because Community Docs Hate It
While we may argue over the stats — is it 30 percent, 40 percent, even 50 percent? — everyone knows that the failure rates for hospital EMR installations are frighteningly high. So it never hurts to...
View ArticleFor Hospitals, There's No App For That
Hospitals are usually eager to embrace the latest medical technology, but the road to deploying tablet computers has been bumpy. iPads have been available since April 2010, but less than one percent of...
View ArticleEMR users given preference in CMS payment bundling program
The new voluntary bundling demonstration project revealed last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Innovation Center seeks to incentivize hospitals, physicians and others who...
View ArticleEMR Implementation: Efficiency vs. Incentives
Government incentives have made EMR implementation a hot topic for many medical practitioners. Everyone loves getting money back from the government, but don’t let the incentive money push you into a...
View ArticleAxial Wins ONC Challenge with 'Elegant' Care Coordination App
A product pegged as an up-and-comer last September just popped back up on the radar, winning the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services'"Ensuring Safe Transitions from Hospital to Home" mobile...
View Article5 Points of View from an EHR End User
Discussions surrounding EHRs and their adoption (or lack thereof) have grown into heated debates concerning their usability and effectiveness. And the most vocal folks, whose opinions could very well...
View Article4 Best Health IT Innovations Within the Past Year
New health IT was anywhere and everywhere in 2011, promising ways to streamline data and increase patient care. Now, with even more technology on the cusp of the mainstream market, it’s only natural to...
View Article27,000 providers expected for CMS electronic documentation pilot by year’s end
Providers who opt to send their medical documentation electronically to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services contractors will need to do some shopping.Read more in the full article.read more
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