Health IT

Someone else configured your EHR. These 18 defaults quietly add clicks, inbox noise and compliance risk to every clinic day.

A delay would leave practices without the information they need to train staff and test workflows before the deadline, the AMA told CMS.

Federal accessibility rules now cover practice websites, portals and online forms. The deadline moved, but the lawsuits and complaints didn't.

Fax is still the default in most practices. Here is how to retire the lines one workflow at a time, without breaking your referral pipeline.

The EHR is dark and the waiting room is full. Eight moves that keep patients moving and revenue flowing until systems come back.

Providers won the federal fight over website tracking and still face lawsuits, and most practices have never audited their own site.

Adoption outran governance, and these eight fixes close the gap before the 2027 deadlines land.

Physician AI use has doubled since 2023. Vet your next tool on data privacy, liability and EHR fit before you sign.

As AI takes on a larger role in clinical decision-making, the diagnostic coding system underpinning health care data may be too imprecise to keep patients safe.

From ambient transcription to smart scheduling, AI is helping doctors cut costs, save time and improve care. Here’s where it’s making the biggest difference — and what to consider before you invest.

Failure to pay attention to the security of health IT could put practices at risk.

Clinicians need easy access at the point of care to these measures that provide insights into the progression or regression of an illness. Let’s make them available.

Technology to consider implementing in your practice

Solutions that have become more than just “nice-to-have” since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic.

Six major reasons that do not apply only to healthcare.

7 things to look out for this year.

How providers can stand out in a consumer culture.

The key will be effective use of integrated technologies to streamline workflow and automate time-consuming processes.

Make sure email is a part of your cybersecurity strategy.

An entirely remote patient-provider experience can deliver on improving outcomes.

Telemedicine is here to stay, and clinics that perfect the virtual patient experience will experience better patient outcomes.

Working from home can lead to casual conduct, posing compliance risks for your organization.

For practices that have been slow to adopt new technologies, the stakes are much greater as the urgency to get up to speed is intensifying.

Teleworking and telehealth have opened more doors for cybercriminals due to a lack of technical, administrative, and physical safeguards.

Telemedicine is more than a splash in the proverbial healthcare pan.