More than 21,000 healthcare providers have registered to participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services electronic health record (EHR) incentive program, with about two thirds ready to confirm that they have met the meaningful use requirements when CMS activates the software for that.
The latest numbers cover the period until only the end of [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on March 23rd, 2011 | No Comments »
An electronic health record system that alerts physicians to possible problems helped boost doctors’ performance and improve patient care, according to a study published in the journal Medical Care, Healthcare IT News reports.
EHR Alert System
To create the alert system, researchers integrated existing EHR tools with physician performance reports.
The system included a yellow light on the [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on March 11th, 2011 | No Comments »
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently published two guides designed to help vendors of electronic health records make their products easier to use, Health Data Management reports (Goedert, Health Data Management, 12/10).
NIST worked with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on the [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on March 4th, 2011 | No Comments »
Hospitals and physician practices that implement electronic health records could see their costs increase for medical liability insurance, at least over the short term, according to a recent report from Conning Research and Consulting, NextGov’s “Health IT Update” reports.
The report notes that underwriters for medical liability insurance are concerned that software failures and medical coding [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on March 1st, 2011 | No Comments »
