EHR Technology

Thanks to Apple's new health app, accessing patients’ glucose levels, blood pressure, and other information could be as simple as clicking on a tab in your EHR.

There are all kinds of health apps that track blood pressure, medications, nutrition, you name it. Now Apple is entering the fray with the goal of interoperability.

When an article on EHR or data makes it into a medical journal, it is most often a speculative picture of the future; basically, it's science fiction.

Smart use of your patient portal can not only help physicians meet meaningful use rules, but also foster better patient interactions.

Welcome to "This Old EHR," where we look at why your system is lot like older homes: built using outdated methods and in constant danger of structural issues.

The gap between having an EHR and meeting meaningful use is wide. Here are three tips to narrow the divide.

Recording family health history may be one of the easier meaningful-use objectives - because you likely already do it and due to an interesting loophole.

Physicians and medical practices that fail to participate in health information exchange could soon be at a disadvantage.

Measuring a return on investment for EHRs is not only key to showing the project paid off; it can also ensure ongoing success and adoption.

Providing your patients with useful clinical summaries to meet meaningful-use requirements might be trickier than you expect.

One of the new menu objectives for the Stage 2 rules of meaningful use stresses care coordination through recording electronic progress notes.

In the three years since the first providers began attesting, meaningful use has already started benefiting patients.

EHR implementation is still the most pressing tech problem for physicians, but there are ways to make it work for your practice.

Get data from this year's 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, on EHR implementation, mobile technology, meaningful use, and other health IT issues.

If you are willing to trade short-term frustration for long-term financial gain, here are three key areas of potential savings for your medical practice.

While use of an EHR has clear benefits to patients the technology is still in its infancy and can threaten patient safety in certain situations.

Technology can solve your business problems, but it has to be the right system with the right partner to truly result in success.

It appears medical practices, especially independent ones, are becoming more accepting of putting their medical data in the cloud

The debate over pros and cons of health IT persist, but to find success in your medical practice you need one key element: buy-in from the key players.

Increase patient portal adoption by using these sample talking points during four critical portal promotion opportunities.

An unpredictable amount of information in a typical EHR is wrong or meaningless, so it's important for patients to stay on top of their own treatment.

Physicians Practice's 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, contains troubling findings regarding efforts to secure protected health information.

Many practices are employing medical scribes to enter physician notes into the EHR. Do you think they will become standard members of healthcare teams?

CMS has offered a bit of a reprieve to eligible providers struggling to meet the meaningful use guidelines for Stage 2. Here are the details.

The reasons for this unethical and inefficient system are still being examined, but the consequences contain important lessons for every physician practice.