As we head into the next stage of EHR adoption, now that the meaningful use criteria have been finalized, it’s time for health IT advocates to start rallying their physician colleagues to get serious about implementing and deriving value from EHRs.
Eugene Heslin, MD, lead physician at Bridge Street Medical Group in the New York Hudson [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on August 4th, 2010 | No Comments »
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 | No Comments »
According to this report: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, there is a distinction between EMR (electronic medical record) and EHR (electronic health record). I don’t think that most people will argue that PHR (personal [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
In my coverage of the healthcare technology industry, I’ve noticed that many software and hardware vendors, clinicians, and even some analysts tend to use the terms EMR (electronic medical record) and EHR (electronic health record) interchangeably. However, according to the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), there is a [...]
Filed under: CCHIT, EHR, HL7 on October 7th, 2009 | No Comments »