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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...

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...

How do I know whether the EMR and EHR products I am considering are truly certified by the US government as Certified Health IT products? And, if I am not confident of receiving incentive payments for my practice, why should I care whether they are...

Michael McBride So you want to be a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). You're not alone. Many primary care physicians (PCPs) have embarked on the same journey and for good reason. It's been shown that PCMHs can lower the cost of...

Maria DeLeon, MD, (sitting) of Southwest Orlando Family Practice says she appreciated that the practice's information technology director, Jason Casorla, (standing) was in the office during its 2004 electronic health record system transition.primary care...

Hospital chief information officers are less confident than they were only a few months ago about their ability to meet federal requirements for meaningful use of electronic medical records. The biggest obstacle, they say, is getting physicians to use...

Surescripts announced yesterday it would expand its electronic prescribing network to offer health information exchange services for all types of clinical information, including the basic health record sharing envisioned under the federal Nationwide...

The Obama administration used about half of a 50-page report on innovations targeted by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to underscore the importance of health and medical IT to the nation’s economic future. The stimulus legislation, passed...

Pharmacists will no longer feel the pinch of e-prescribing after eRx Script Exchange cut its fees to match the Federal Government’s 15 cent incentive per script. The new pricing structure has been designed so that pharmacists will pay a 15 cent fee on...

One of Ohio’s biggest health insurance companies is trying to convince doctors to forego their old-fashioned prescription pads more often. Cleveland-based Medical Mutual of Ohio is teaming up with its pharmacy benefits manager, Medco Health Solutions,...

By Lebowitz & Mzhen In a recent news that our Baltimore, Maryland Attorneys have been following, doctors are reportedly increasingly leaving behind paper when prescribing medications, and depending more and more on electronic prescriptions, or...

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, A new report finds a significant uptick in the number of physicians who prescribe electronically. But the e-prescribers still only account for about one in four physicians, or 26% of office-based doctors. The numbers come from...

Leadership and vision are crucial for an e-prescribing initiative because effective leadership is necessary to build commitment across a team, according to Diane R. Jones, JD, vice president of policy and programs at e-Health Initiative during an...

By Neil Versel Just as predicted at the end of 2008, e-prescribing volume nearly tripled in 2009, according to prescription transaction network Surescripts. And the growth has picked up this year. Surescripts reports that U.S. prescribers wrote 191...

Health care industry experts expect recent policy changes to spur more physicians to start prescribing medications electronically in the coming years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Trends in E-Prescribing A recent report from the electronic...