EHR Technology

Given that a majority of practices use digital health records, a simple power outage can have grave consequences.

Practices have to take responsibility for potential liability issues surrounding use of the EHR. Not doing so can have disastrous consequences.

Prepping for a new agreement with a health IT vendor on a critical piece of technology? Consider these 10 tips before signing on the dotted line.

As meaningful use winds down, CMS is shifting its focus to meaningful reporting of valuable healthcare data.

HHS secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell announces major industrywide pledge to make EHRs work better for patients and providers.

Providers are dropping the ball when it comes to what patients want out of mobile health platforms. Here's what they should know about its potential.

Seek out peer organizations for benchmarking and create opportunities for face time with your vendor contacts.

Solicit feedback from physician and non-physician users, and always keep the vendor’s perspective in mind.

Physicians know what true "interoperability" means, but they have to deal with a misguided definition from the health IT industry.

Are you under the belief that because patient’s health records have become digitized, they can’t get lost in the shuffle? As this doctor proves, think again.

Recently, I downloaded my EHR iPhone app. While the app can provide a level of convenience, it isn’t ready for prime time.

Meaningful use is not dead, as some have been suggesting. However, it is nearing its end and that fact has many physicians excited.

Tap your tech-savvy physicians as inside experts and champions while investing time in education and support.

If your practice suffers a security breach, staff must know their part in implementing an incident response.

You’ll thank yourself later if you get everything in writing and establish a milestone-based payment schedule.

Why are more physicians experiencing burnout? The answer doesn’t lie in practicing medicine, but rather in checking boxes and meeting compliance.

Before you throw dirt and write the obituary of meaningful use, physicians should know this about the program supposedly ending in 2016.

Improving EHR documentation will be an essential way to combat the recent trend of upcoding that has gotten the attention of the federal government.

EHRs are still cumbersome and have not yet reached their potential. Yet, they will eventually better patient relations.

With the new year upon us, here are six predictions on how physician practices will continue to automate their processes in 2016.

Can the government intervene and save meaningful use? It could vital to saving the program and healthcare interoperability.

As the PA profession gets younger, the adoption of EHRs has become easier at practices which employ them. This has helped increase adoption rates.

Part two of a two-part series where Physicians Practice looks back at the top health IT issues of the year. More practices looked to the cloud in 2015.

Long distances to drive and limited access to specialty care can make managing care transitions difficult. Technology can help.

In a two-part series, Physicians Practice looks back at the top health IT issues of the year. Part one focuses on meaningful use and ICD-10.