EHR Technology

Looking for ways to increase practice profits? You may find the answer on your payroll.

One doctor has seen that medical training and trust are key when working with a scribe to document care in the EHR.

No matter how small your practice is, it's important to put technical and human safeguards in place now to protect your data.

Various tools within the EHR can be important in speeding up the process of documenting the patients' care, but providers must be careful about the potential hazards of this added convenience.

Meaningful Use continues to be a pain in the neck for one doctor, who is struggling to attest as a private practice physician.

If your practice is wondering whether it should keep or change its EHR system, there are pluses and minuses to each route.

Is it time to go a new route with your EHR system? Before you decide yes or no, weigh the positives and negatives.

Tax experts provide insight on meaningful use payments and tax write-offs for EHR-related investments. What do practices have to know before April 15th?

From training to hardware to new population health software, budget time is the right time to make sure your current EHR set up meets the needs of your practice.

While there isn't a lot of data available on the EHR, recent studies show the promise of the technology in cost savings, diagnosis, and patient safety.

Given that a majority of practices use digital health records, a simple power outage can have grave consequences.

Practices have to take responsibility for potential liability issues surrounding use of the EHR. Not doing so can have disastrous consequences.

Prepping for a new agreement with a health IT vendor on a critical piece of technology? Consider these 10 tips before signing on the dotted line.

As meaningful use winds down, CMS is shifting its focus to meaningful reporting of valuable healthcare data.

HHS secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell announces major industrywide pledge to make EHRs work better for patients and providers.

Providers are dropping the ball when it comes to what patients want out of mobile health platforms. Here's what they should know about its potential.

Seek out peer organizations for benchmarking and create opportunities for face time with your vendor contacts.

Solicit feedback from physician and non-physician users, and always keep the vendor’s perspective in mind.

Physicians know what true "interoperability" means, but they have to deal with a misguided definition from the health IT industry.

Are you under the belief that because patient’s health records have become digitized, they can’t get lost in the shuffle? As this doctor proves, think again.

Recently, I downloaded my EHR iPhone app. While the app can provide a level of convenience, it isn’t ready for prime time.

Meaningful use is not dead, as some have been suggesting. However, it is nearing its end and that fact has many physicians excited.

Tap your tech-savvy physicians as inside experts and champions while investing time in education and support.

If your practice suffers a security breach, staff must know their part in implementing an incident response.

You’ll thank yourself later if you get everything in writing and establish a milestone-based payment schedule.

Why are more physicians experiencing burnout? The answer doesn’t lie in practicing medicine, but rather in checking boxes and meeting compliance.

Before you throw dirt and write the obituary of meaningful use, physicians should know this about the program supposedly ending in 2016.

Improving EHR documentation will be an essential way to combat the recent trend of upcoding that has gotten the attention of the federal government.

EHRs are still cumbersome and have not yet reached their potential. Yet, they will eventually better patient relations.