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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...

The latest developments in the speech recognition software have made it quite easy for the dictation provider to directly convert the spoken words into electronic text. This provides great benefit to the healthcare workers, especially the physicians. In...

Electronic medical records appear to have varying effects on different types of primary care physicians based on whether they do more information review or information entry, according to a UC Davis study. The study, one of the first to measure the...

San Diego -- With stage 1 regulations for meaningful use released and discussion begun on stage 2, a federal official speaking at the AMA Interim Meeting called for more feedback to ensure these regulations will be workable for physicians. "We need to...

PORTLAND, MAINE – "What do you really hold dear to you that you want to preserve into the future as you transition to an electronic medical record?" That's the question consulting firm Innovation Partners International posed to Maine providers attending...

 WASHINGTON – Identity management in healthcare was a hot topic at the Smart Card Alliance 9th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference held last week in Washington. Controlling access to healthcare records, particularly when it comes to...

The iHealth Alliance, a non-profit healthcare industry group announced the launch of an online service to report events that involve the patient safety risks associated with using electronic health records. EHRevent.org, a cooperative effort of...

What does this mean and how can you invest in this technology and keep your files secure? By Mary Ann Fitzhugh One of the most common questions chiropractors and patients alike have about electronic health records (EHR) is how records stay...

HIPAA and HITECH final rules could be published by the end of this year or early next year, a top lawyer for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) says. Adam H. Greene, JD, MPH, senior health information technology and privacy specialist for OCR, gave...

Washington -- California has become the first state to create a health insurance marketplace as envisioned under the national health reform law. "Every state is going to have to have some sort of legislative action on this," said Kansas Insurance...

When setting up a contingency plan, the primary goal is to achieve success amidst disaster. There cannot be enough stress emphasized on SIMPLICITY when creating your plan. The last thing you want to do when trying to find solutions is to create bigger...

Health Data Management has named six recipients of its inaugural EHR Game Changers Awards, which honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records technology. The 2010...

For most of my career as a family doctor, I kept track of my patients' health histories by scribbling hand-written notes in a paper chart. For a healthy child, I'd include dates when vaccines were given; for an adult with, say, diabetes, I'd make sure to...