Health IT

Implementing a patient portal is only half the battle. Here's how to get patients to use it.

Three healthcare jobs are seeing increased recruitment thanks to a lack of physicians and the Affordable Care Act.

This video interview with MGMA consultant Rosemarie Nelson is packed with simple ways physicians can better balance patient care and practice management.

EHR construction is analogous to house construction in many ways, but the builders of both structures may not always have the right tools for the job.

Which tech tools are must-haves? And how much are practices paying for all those tech goodies? Our annual survey of more than 1,300 practices has the answers.

Are you waiting for EHR vendors to develop smartphone and iPad-friendly applications, so you can work from home, the hospital, or a coffee shop? Your wait may finally be ending, but there's much to know before taking your mobile EHR for a spin.

From slow machines to system failures, here's how to deal with the most common technology snafus.

Where do EHRs fit in a world of general purpose and special purpose computers?

Learn more about the benefits and drawbacks of mobile EHRs for your medical practice in this video.

Current EHRs resemble early automobiles - and they will also continue to become more reliable and useful as they mature.

How physicians and patients are using mHealth, and why payers are encouraging it, across the globe.

Incentive programs are great for EHR vendors, but are they always what's best for patients and physicians?

Electronic health records are great - if you maximize the positives and minimize the negatives of these digital files.

If people are willing to download games to their personal devices, why not create home healthcare monitoring systems for the same ease-of-use?

While there’s some hesitation to embrace EHRs, a new report shows that physicians are grabbing up tablets, smartphones, and laptop computers faster than researchers imagined. And it’s easy to see why.

An increasing number of medical practices are finding that electronic check-ins go beyond entering basic data and verifying insurance.

Medical identity theft is on the rise at physician practices. But if you arm yours with key tech tools, you’ll lower your likelihood of being a victim.

When patients come with their own cyber-diagnosis, physicians can order tests to satisfy them or simply take the time to explain why it is not needed.

Remote access to a medical group’s server can be as much of a headache as a time saver when things go wrong, according to IT experts.

Juliet Santos, director of business-centered systems for HIMSS, discusses ICD-10 challenges and how technology can help a practice.

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

Be warned that practices using Web-based electronic systems that lack appropriate privacy protection, whether by accident or not, could face the same fate.

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.

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

Tom Walsh discusses the emergence of mobile health technologies and tips to make your practice data more secure.

Paul Grundy, director of healthcare transformation with IBM, discusses meaningful connections through health IT and the patient-centered medical home care model.

Practice Notes blogger and family physician J. Scott Litton, Jr., recently wrote about how his practice improves patient care through technology.

As the market for EHRs has grown, so has the market for mobile voice dictation technology.

These days, everything from EHRs to PM systems are available via cloud computing. Is it time to ditch the servers and join the movement?