EHR Technology

Today's computers, including EHR systems, often can't tell "no" from "not applicable" when selecting data for quality reports. Is this really helpful to physicians?

Medical coding guidance on Medicare Annual Wellness Visits; RVU reductions; physician scribes; student documentation; and more.

Your front-desk staff is underappreciated but crucial to your success. Arm them with these high-tech helpers to get their jobs done right without burning out.

With EHRs, physicians have two choices: gather their own information or act on the simplified, perhaps misleading caricature that is provided by their system.

How to keep your practice up to date with changing healthcare policies and industry standards.

Despite what the high court decides this summer, federal health IT initiatives will remain on-track, says one federal official.

When my ideal EHR has finally been developed, I believe that it will be remarkable just how primitive even the best of today's EHRs really are.

Juggling motherhood and private practice makes preparation key.

Many practices fail to appreciate the enormous value of strategic scheduling: a full schedule means a full day of revenue. Because even one missed patient makes a difference, we show you how to stack the deck in your favor.

A study suggesting that EHRs are to blame for over-testing is stirring up controversy.

Not enough hours in the day? Small changes can have a big impact on your practice efficiency - and your life.

You may not be able to intelligibly define EHR interoperability, but you will know it when you have enough of it, and you will also know when you don't.

Thanks to new federal initiatives and the increased use of smart phones and tablets, more physicians are communicating with each other while on the go.

The answer to that question is “not yet,” according to a recent survey. Here’s why.

Some optimists believe the full potential of EHRs will not be realized by practices where income remains tied to the number of face-to-face encounters that can be squeezed into a day.

Although much of what happens in the medical setting is predictable in general terms, the details present almost infinite variety. So some flexibility is needed with EHRs.

A reader argues that we won't solve rising healthcare costs unless we confront the expensive, high-tech treatments.

Interoperability has been hard to achieve, in part, because the standards that have been agreed upon are simultaneously over specified and underspecified making them difficult, if not impossible, to implement.

Going into solo practice has had its rewards and challenges

Lucien Roberts of Pulse Systems examines the current Stage 1 requirements of "meaningful use" for EHRs and explores if the rules are really improving patient care.

Innovation is great. Litigation isn't. Here's how to use the latest tech tools at your practice properly and within the letter of the law.

If practices can become more profitable by spending money to assist physicians, just imagine how much more profitable they could be if physicians could actually be productive with EHR.

Properly using technology at your practice is critical, as is determining who will help you use it effectively.

Practice executive Keith Campanelli explains how selecting the right EHR system for his pediatrics office helped boost both collections and even staff morale.

Huntington Hospital's Rebecca Armato provides some guidance on how to select and use the right EHR at your medical practice.

If EHR was the right thing, adoption would be almost universal by now.

Whatever you choose to do about EHR, please remember that most EHRs are just gadgets, not real longitudinal medical records.

Dr. Eric M. Liederman, director of medical informatics for The Permanente Medical Group, discusses the move to electronic records and what drives privacy violations by practice staff.

Family physician Kenneth Adler, a presenter at the HIMSS12 Conference in Las Vegas, provides a look at national EHR user satisfaction rates.

Separating billing-related data from other clinical documentation and transmitting it to a billing system is not difficult …no matter how the charting is done.