Despite over 96% of hospitals having an electronic health record (EHR), a recent study showed alarming levels of dissatisfaction among physicians with their current EHR systems and an increased ...

Pressure is growing on physician practices nationwide to implement EHRs, but the national rate still hovers around 62 percent. A survey from SK&A, a research company based in Irvine, Calif., found the ...

Enlisting electronic health record (EHR) super users to provide support to employees is not enough to foster EHR implementation success-super users' behaviors can be an important influence, ...

Numbers are meaningless without context, but those in health IT can often get trapped in a numbers game. When dollar signs related to EHR implementations are ablaze in headlines, it’s easy to take ...

Record keeping applications have found a static place in many different industries these days. Supply chain systems and customer relationship management, for example, certainly benefit from a more ...

This excerpt fromThe CIO's Guide to Implementing EHRs in the HITECH Era covers the senior executive's role in implementing an electronic health records system. Those in the C-suite who must lead this ...

Electronic health record (EHR) systems centralize and streamline patient data, much like customer relationship management (CRM) systems organize customer data for small businesses. EHR platforms ...

Chief information officers, chief medical information officers, and other clinical and IT leaders are well familiar by now with the many challenges of implementing and optimizing new electronic health ...

The purpose of the joint VA and DOD audit was to see how well implementing the common EHR is helping data exchange between the departments and healthcare providers. The DOD and VA acquired Cerner's ...

Ambulatory surgery centers are not mandated to make the switch to electronic health records, but as changes in healthcare continue to rollout many ASCs are finding the transition to be a viable ...