Category: EHR

You’ve got to hand it to the Government Accountability Office. This independent, nonpartisan organization, charged with investigating how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars, does not… read more …read more    

The American Health Information Management Association has released a position statement on the use of the copy-and-paste function found in electronic health records. read more …read more    

The “designated test EHR” program is underway, but providers seem to be running into problems with it. read more …read more    

The following is a guest post by Barry Haitoff, CEO of Medical Management Corporation of America. One of the biggest challenges to revenue a practice will face in 2014 is the move to ICD-10 on October 1, 2014. One of the biggest challenges with ICD-10 is that it impacts the entire healthcare ecosystem. This means…

Providers and others are running into obstacles to sharing their electronic data, and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has not sufficiently addressed the problems, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. read more …read more    

While electronic health record adoption by physicians continues to grow, it is still unknown exactly why it varies so significantly from state to state. read more …read more    

The jury is still out on whether using scribes to input data for doctors is the best way to resolve electronic health record workflow issues. read more …read more    

T5: We are all patients. Patient expectations (our expectations) are changing. EHRs will have to adapt (rapidly) to survive.#EMR #kareochat — S. Turner Dean (@Turbodean) March 20, 2014 I agree completely that patient expectations are changing. I think we’re going to see a dramatic shift in the patient experience. What I’m not as sure about…

Top News Three Detroit hospital systems – Beaumont, Oakwood, and Botsford – announce plans to merge into an eight-hospital, $3.8 billion system, citing shared electronic medical records as one of their four goals. Reader Comments From Tom: “Re: McKesson’s FDA Class 1 recall. The description of their product Anesthesia Care could generically be applied to…

A free population health tool that can import data and calculate, display and export electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) is now certified as a 2014 electronic health record module, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. read more …read more