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A provider's essential critical knowledge is often so obscured that the EHR becomes more of an obstacle than a useful source of clinical information. The meaningful use-compliant electronic health record (EHR) has quickly become very adept at capturing...

Mobile devices, data breaches and patient privacy rights were some of the most talked-about topics in health IT in 2011, and according to expert opinions complied by ID Experts, 2012 won’t be any different. In fact, experts continue to predict an...

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Learn about the positive impact of technology in health care. Innovative health care can save lives and every physician and health care provider has a stake in its success. Through the use of electronic health records...

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Hospitals and eligible professionals will continue to report clinical quality measures for electronic health records meaningful use via attestation in 2012, just as they must do this year. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services remains unable...

If you haven’t spent much time analyzing the costs of EHRs, this part of the process may be an eye opener. Why should one consider the hidden costs of EHRs? EHR costs are much more than just the initial purchase, implementation and maintenance fees. ...

Health Data Management is now accepting nominations for its 2nd Annual EHR Game Changers recognition program, created to honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="194" caption="John Loonsk, MD, FACMI, is chief medical officer for CGI Federal. From 2006-2009, he was director of interoperability and standards in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...

Care for patients with diabetes improved appreciably when their physicians use electronic health records (EHRs) extensively, according to a recent study. Physicians who participated in the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative from 2006 to 2008...

Since the advent of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the more recent Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, healthcare providers have worked to create effective and creative...

The cost, physician practice size, and lack of technical resources still present barriers for small healthcare providers in adopting electronic health records and participating in the meaningful use incentive program. Solo practitioners and small...

Health plan executives say their three major challenges are figuring out how to deal with healthcare reform, the health insurance industry's systemic shift from wholesale to retail business and bending the cost curve. Resolving the challenges...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay physicians four to eight weeks after they verify that they have satisfied conditions for meaningful use of electronic health records. That means that the soonest that CMS will issue incentives is...

For those of you who do not know me personally, I am an internist and have been in private practice in central Florida for more than 30 years. Like so many of you, I have had to make changes -- expensive changes -- over the years to keep my office up...