Health IT

The ability to securely communicate ePHI to any provider at any other medical practice or hospital with any EHR may not be as far off as you think.

Afraid you won't be able to meet the Stage 2 requirements in the government's EHR incentive program? A new hardship exemption may help.

Running behind on the meaningful use requirements for the EHR Incentive Programs? It might not be as bad as it seems for your practice.

Speech recognition software can ease the transition to EHRs, but medical practices must take some important considerations.

Getting your patients to use your patient portal may not be as hard as you think. Here's why.

Medical practices are no strangers to audits. But health IT audits are critical to the financial, legal, and operational success of your office.

Having at least another 18 months until ICD-10 becomes a reality can be a good thing for your medical practice. Here are four things to start doing today.

Chances are you've heard about the Heartbleed Bug, but you may not realize the threats to your medical practice. Here's what you need to know.

On the fence about finding a new EHR for your medical practice? Here are seven signs that it may be time to ditch your current system for a new one.

North Carolina-based Novant Medical Group is like a lot of medical practices: It has attested to Stage 1, but it is bracing for Stage 2 hurdles.

In this webinar, presented March 18, 2014, healthcare attorneys Ericka L. Adler and Rachel V. Rose provide tips to keep your medical practice HIPAA compliant.

With the Stage 2 rules looming, some practices are moving ahead while others remain on the sidelines in the quest to meet meaningful use.

Your EHR and practice management system vendors are important partners in the ICD-10 transition, so be sure they are ready with these 15 questions.

Until narrative and data are united, EHRs will require too much effort, create too much risk, and provide too little benefit to justify imposing them by fiat.

HIPAA and meaningful use demonstrate the challenge today for healthIT: making PHI easily accessible for the authorized, and impenetrable for the non-authorized.

Here's some observations from my walkabout with 38,000 of my closest friends in healthcare IT, better known as the HIMSS14 Conference recently held in Orlando.

With the Stage 2 rules of meaningful use looming, physicians are still struggling with the implementation process for Stage 1.

The U.S. EHR market is projected to reach $9.3 billion by 2015, the largest worldwide, thanks in part to meaningful use incentives, says a new Accenture study.

Want to avoid costly EHR mistakes at your medical practice? I proffer the following, which I call the 'Order-of-Magnitude Heuristic.'

As more practices implement EHRs, more are employing medical records scribes. Here's why your practice might want to consider it.

A recent report from HHS warns physicians about improper use of their EHRs, especially the copy-paste function.

EHR is a burden, and as such, there should be evidence of effectiveness before it is imposed upon physicians and medical practices.

Don't lament the end of Windows XP for your medical practice. With today's advanced technology, the road ahead is actually far better.

A look at some of the smartest technology for physicians today - or in the near future.

To understand why EHRs have the trouble they do, you need to understand the concepts of context and metadata. Here's help.

With the deadline for the end of support and updates for Windows XP, here are five important steps for your practice to avoid HIPAA and HITECH Act violations.

Physicians, are you giving your patients a credit union or big bank experience? Here's how to tell and make some changes.

There are many myths about cloud IT services. Here, we dispel the major ones and provide a checklist for those considering a trip to the cloud.

As big a proponent of technology and data as I am, the truth is data has never cured anything and tech can't replace in-person interactions with physicians.

It's not political or market selfishness that impedes health data interoperability, it's the primitive nature of the technology itself.