Two years after Barack Obama’s presidential campaign pledge to vastly increase usage of electronic health records (EHRs), the White House is following through.
The Obama administration is implementing aggressive and expensive plans rooted in the president’s belief that EHRs are crucial to health care modernization and cost containment, says David Blumenthal, the Harvard information technology expert [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 25th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Ronald Sterling
A provision in the federal stimulus act is expected to transform the healthcare industry because of financial incentives for practices to improve the way medical records are stored. Here’s how Electronic Health Records will help make your operations stronger and improve patient care.
Financial incentives offered under the American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
EHR software or Electronic Health Record software system is a doctor’s new best friend. This software is created to make a doctor’s life easier and more efficient. Doctors must keep tract of their patients’ records and charts. Over time, these records can pile up and be an unmanageable handful of information to organize. A doctor’s [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on March 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
Last week, officials at the Drummond Group announced that the company would apply for authorization from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to test and certify electronic health record systems, Healthcare IT News reports. The Drummond Group is an Austin, Texas-based interoperability test lab.
Company officials said the decision came after they conducted [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Reda Chouffani
As many medical practices shift gears toward a paperless environment, it’s clear to many they must first investigate what potential incentives will be available to them if they participated in the Stimulus healthcare information technology HITECH. Additionally they will need to identify which product would be the most cost effective and offers the [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 12th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Reda Chouffani
While many are still talking to the EHR vendors at the exhibit halls at the HIMSS 2010, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released yesterday the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for the two certification programs. This proposed program has two proposals in it. One that will be temporary [...]
Filed under: CCHIT, EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 9th, 2010 | No Comments »
Fifty-eight percent of physicians who currently do not use electronic health records say they plan to introduce new systems in the next two years, according to a survey released Tuesday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2010 conference, HealthLeaders Media reports.
For the study, Accenture’s Innovation Center for Health and Institute for Health [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 8th, 2010 | No Comments »
The Certification Commission for Healthcare IT has announced plans to offer certification programs for electronic health record systems targeting women’s health and cancer specialists, InformationWeek reports.
CCHIT made its announcement during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2010 conference in Atlanta (Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek, 3/2).
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Congress of [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 3rd, 2010 | No Comments »
