Catholic Healthcare West announced plans to increase its system-wide budget for electronic health records to more than $1 billion, the San Francisco Business Times reports.
CHW’s board of directors originally allocated $590 million to implement acute-care and ambulatory information systems at all of its 41 hospitals over the next seven years.
However, after successfully implementing EHR systems [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on February 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
Here’s some interesting data from a market research report generated by SK&A: “36.1 Percent EHR Adoption Rate in Physician Offices”
I’m sure this number will dramatically change over the next few years. According to SK&A, the adoption rate is much higher (over 70%) in physician groups that have 26 or more physicians. What’s somewhat surprising is [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on February 24th, 2010 | No Comments »
By, Andis Robeznieks
A government survey indicates there was an 18.7% increase in the use of electronic health-record systems in physician offices to 41.5% in 2008 from 34% in 2007, but preliminary results for 2009 show only a slight increase up to 43.9%.
Doctors were asked, “Does this practice use electronic medical records or electronic health records [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on February 15th, 2010 | No Comments »
Pfizer announced results of a survey the company recently sponsored that shows physicians are more likely to report side effects through an electronic health records (EHR) system, as compared to traditional paper methods. Nearly 60 percent of physicians who responded to the survey also agreed that adverse event reporting through an EHR system would improve [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on February 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
With nearly $19 billion of incentives for medical practices to convert to electronic records included in President Obama’s economic stimulus plan, it might be the right time to select an Electronic Health Record system EHR software solution, also called and EMR, for your medical practice. A quick look at hundreds of different EHR vendors on [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on February 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In a Huffington Post opinion piece, Steven Schiff — medical director of invasive cardiology and chair of medical informatics at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in California — writes that physicians’ “adoption of critical health care IT will not only improve in-house productivity, it will also enable patients to become more active participants in the [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on February 4th, 2010 | No Comments »
By, Diana Manos
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will grant Alaska, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wisconsin federal matching funds for EHR implementations.
The funding is allotted under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The grants cosist of:
$900,000 for Alaska;
$2.6 million for Kentucky;
$1.48 million for South Carolina; and
$1.37 million for Wisconsin
According to CMS officials, [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Federal Economic Stimulus Package on February 1st, 2010 | No Comments »