EHR Technology

The most effective response to a promising innovation is a combination of active monitoring, healthy skepticism, and an open mind.

Looking to report to cancer and special registries as part of your Stage 2 attestation? Here's what your medical practice needs to know first.

Anyone that is responsible for patients has had "I told you so" moments. Here are mine when it comes to health IT and EHRs. I hope you take my advice.

The misdiagnosis of the Dallas Ebola patient who recently died raises several liability issues for physicians.

Get coding guidance on billing for a family medicine group; patients being seen at a new practice; and more.

Broader definition of personal identifiable information requires medical practices to review HIPAA compliance and adhere to security policies.

Can't decide between myriad EHR vendors in your quest to meet meaningful use? Here are five tips for a DIY approach based on one practice's experience.

The American Medical Association's recommendations to boost EHR usability are touchy-feely, but none really get to the heart of what's wrong with systems.

It’s often difficult to find specific explanations of what makes an EHR user friendly. Still, physician feedback is pointing to three important features.

Imagine an EHR that is put together to work, not just to meet meaningful use (or as I like to say, meaningless) regulations.

This primary-care physician wonders why Google knows her preferences, while her EHR doesn't have a clue.

Guidance on the latest ruling, and five ways that physicians can grasp, embrace, and implement the second stage of meaningful use.

Announcing a new initiative to address problems with EHR, the AMA wants to encourage patient engagement and less time spent documenting data.

Your medical practice's patient portal is not a "field of dreams." Just because you build it, doesn’t guarantee that people will come.

One of the keys to successful implementation of EHRs is good communications with your vendor. Here are four tips to a better dialogue.

Sharing radiology images might seem like the most achievable meaningful use objective in Stage 2, but it needs to be make sense for your medical practice.

Apple anticipates that even the best laid plans go awry, so they seek out the failures and fix them using customer support. Why can't EHR vendors do the same?

When your EHR is no longer working for your practice, it may be time to search for a new product.

Real healthcare reform will remain elusive as long as management accepts the notion that the way to fix healthcare is to automate it.

Understanding the bigger picture can help ease the transition when your EHR system is changed or updated.

Physicians and their practices have a little more breathing room when it comes to meeting the requirements of the EHR incentive program.

Considering the cloud for your medical practice data? Here are four strategies to get your medical practice more familiar with this health IT solution.

How your practice can succeed in Stage 2 of the EHR incentive program despite more complex requirements and higher reporting thresholds.

Thanks to Apple's new health app, accessing patients’ glucose levels, blood pressure, and other information could be as simple as clicking on a tab in your EHR.

There are all kinds of health apps that track blood pressure, medications, nutrition, you name it. Now Apple is entering the fray with the goal of interoperability.

When an article on EHR or data makes it into a medical journal, it is most often a speculative picture of the future; basically, it's science fiction.

Smart use of your patient portal can not only help physicians meet meaningful use rules, but also foster better patient interactions.

Welcome to "This Old EHR," where we look at why your system is lot like older homes: built using outdated methods and in constant danger of structural issues.

The gap between having an EHR and meeting meaningful use is wide. Here are three tips to narrow the divide.

Recording family health history may be one of the easier meaningful-use objectives - because you likely already do it and due to an interesting loophole.