In today’s information age, as our lives are getting increasingly digitized, health data is valuable. Health data is required for maintaining our health records, for helping physicians and health care ...

Anyone in the biz knows that you don't just put in an EMR and expect success. The federal subsidies, which require "meaningful use" of EMRs, up the ante. Still, implementations continue to fail, or at ...

There is no worse feeling than arriving at your go-live date and realizing your hospital is inadequately prepared to use your EMR to care for patients, many administrators say. Here Kevin Burchill, ...

As waves of hospitals move from older methods of record keeping to new digital electronic health record (EHR) systems, many medical professionals express fears that implementing an EHR system in their ...

Getting people on board when a new electronic health record (EHR) is being implemented is one of the biggest obstacles to overcome and is important for the success of the new EHR, said Teri Kovach, RN ...

Applying traditional project management methodologies to an ambulatory EHR implementation often yields unexpected and often unpleasant results. Why? Lessons learned in Project Management Professional ...

Even after return to pre-EMR efficiency, more time spent on documentation, less on patient interaction. HealthDay News — Following a 6-month learning period to implement an electronic medical record ...

Epic Emeritus CMIO physicians can play a valuable role when it's go-live time for health systems transitioning from legacy systems to the Epic EHR. But while a successful go-live is an important and ...

This excerpt fromThe CIO's Guide to Implementing EHRs in the HITECH Era covers the senior executive's role in implementing an electronic health records system. Those in the C-suite who must lead this ...

ASCs that have purchased and implemented a practice management system or EHR software can take additional steps to reduce cybersecurity risk, according to an HSTpathways whitepaper. 1. Continuously ...

Physician owners report more difficulty in implementing electronic health records (EHR) at their practices than other users, likely because they have more financial and personal responsibility in the ...

Malaysian Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said that it would cost up to RM1.5B to implement an EMR system for the 145 hospitals nationwide in Malaysia over the next five years, according ...