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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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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...

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...

As providers adopt electronic health records systems, they gradually become more adept with the technology as they flip the switch on advanced features and become conversant with the capabilities and quirks of the software. Each advance, however small,...

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...

Recruiting thousands of patients to collect health data for genetic clues to disease is expensive and time consuming. But that arduous process of collecting data for genetic studies could be faster and cheaper by instead mining patient data that...

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...

Electronic health records get a special nod in the new national quality strategy release this week by the Department of Health and Human Services. The strategy, which was called for under the Affordable Care Act, is an initiative designed to establish...

In today’s Internet era, the way we view, edit, and exchange documents has changed to a new advanced level. This has also led to emergence of electronic Medical Records (EMR) in the field of healthcare. Earlier, there was no other option for...

I knew when I couldn't find a parking spot that life would never be the same. The day had finally arrived: September 14, 2010. As I left for work that morning, I told my wife not to expect me for dinner—maybe not even for breakfast the next...

Seven rural hospitals in Texas will implement certified electronic health records software from two Texas-based vendors to go after meaningful use incentive payments. Cameron-based Central Texas Hospital, with six facilities totaling 305 beds, will...

Four years ago, pediatrician Jeffrey T. VanGelderen and his partner at the Children's Medical Group of Saginaw Bay in Michigan were looking for an EHR for their practice. Before shopping, they had a difficult decision to make: Find an EHR...

Physicians who fail to tackle quality improvement, adopt electronic medical records and embrace teamwork risk being at a competitive disadvantage with doctors who join the modern era of health care, federal officials warned physicians at the AMA...

A recent survey of nearly 3,000 physicians shows high levels of displeasure with the Affordable Care Act--and a lot of them don't like electronic health records either. Of the 2,958 physicians surveyed in September, only 39 percent believe EHRs will...