Engaging staff in the electronic health record implementation process is an important aspect of ensuring a successful implementation, according to a whitepaper released by SourceMedical, a provider of ...

Despite over 96% of hospitals having an electronic health record (EHR), a recent study showed alarming levels of dissatisfaction among physicians with their current EHR systems and an increased ...

The purpose of the joint VA and DOD audit was to see how well implementing the common EHR is helping data exchange between the departments and healthcare providers. The DOD and VA acquired Cerner's ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston currently provides electronic health records to every owned and affiliated physician. “Since Stark [Law] safe harbors now enable hospitals to fund up to ...

Air-gapped IREs, where critical systems and data can be restored if primary infrastructure is compromised, offer EHR access ...

As waves of hospitals move from older methods of record keeping to new digital electronic health record (EHR) systems, many medical professionals express fears that implementing an EHR system in their ...

The Eye Care Center of Northern Colorado needed to implement a new EHR because its previous EHR implementation, one year prior, left staff and clinicians underwhelmed. The old EHR and practice ...

Thanks to government incentives, more healthcare organizations in the United States are implementing Electronic Health Record systems than ever before. But EHR implementation isn’t the same as EHR ...

The fervor and buzz around electronic health records is mounting as federal legislation threatens fines for non-compliance by 2016. Ironically, the EHR adoption rate for medical practices remains ...

Since 2008, President Barack Obama has made it a goal to cut healthcare costs in the U.S. He has offered almost $27 billion in government funds for practitioners to make the switch to electronic ...

Applying traditional project management methodologies to an ambulatory EHR implementation often yields unexpected and often unpleasant results. Why? Lessons learned in Project Management Professional ...

Like many healthcare operations, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston has been grappling with how best to handle the federal electronic health record (EHR) mandate. Three years ago, ...