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 Steven Shea, M.D., and George Hripcsak, M.D.
North Shore Hospital System on Long Island in New York recently announced that it will pay an incentive of up to $40,000 to each physician in its network who adopts its electronic health record (EHR) — paying 50% of the cost to physicians who install an EHR that [...]
Filed under: ARRA, EHR, Electronic Health Records on January 25th, 2010 | No Comments »
More than 40% of office-based physicians used electronic health record systems in 2009, according to the latest National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, MedPage Today reports.
The latest findings suggest that EHR adoption has increased significantly during the past decade, up from 18% in 2001.
Survey Details
For the report, NCHS interviewed [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on January 12th, 2010 | No Comments »
Health IT adoption and telemedicine are among the top 10 health care trends expected to emerge in the coming year, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report, Healthcare IT News reports.
PwC’s Health Research Institute publishes the annual report on key issues in the health care industry (Manos, Healthcare IT News, 12/17).
For 2010, the report contends that [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on December 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
Bernie Monegain, Editor
EHR adoption and finances remain the top challenges facing medical practices, according to a new survey from the Medical Group Management Association.
For the second year in a row, medical practice professionals sounded off to the MGMA about a variety of challenges faced while safeguarding their practices’ financial solvency.
The 2009 survey “Medical practice today: [...]
Filed under: EHR, Health Care on September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
By Don A. Solberg, MD, Kathryn L Houck and Jim Roberts
Successful electronic health record (EHR) adoption not only improves quality of care by making patient information easily accessible, it also provides valuable clinical decision support. In addition, organizations benefit from streamlined operations — enabling physicians to spend less time on charting and documentation, and [...]
Filed under: Electronic Health Records on September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »