EHR Technology

EHR construction is analogous to house construction in many ways, but the builders of both structures may not always have the right tools for the job.

When my group practice added a comprehensive electronic health record to our computer system, I was dubious. Slowly, I came to see the benefits to patient care and myself.

While a big proponent of the EHR, I am not an advocate of meaningless rules and criteria … to be 'incentivized' by Medicare.

Surgeon Harry Wilkins on his sometimes-rocky EHR "marriage."

Struggling to find and implement the right EHR for your practice? Maybe it's time for some help.

CMS is stepping up efforts to ferret out fraud through its new Center for Program Integrity. Here's what your practice can do to stay below its radar.

Which tech tools are must-haves? And how much are practices paying for all those tech goodies? Our annual survey of more than 1,300 practices has the answers.

Are you ready to make the EHR leap? Training is crucial, but planning comes first.

Are you waiting for EHR vendors to develop smartphone and iPad-friendly applications, so you can work from home, the hospital, or a coffee shop? Your wait may finally be ending, but there's much to know before taking your mobile EHR for a spin.

Much like our patients, why do physicians balk at changing behavior given all the risks and possible bad outcomes of using an EHR?

Simple strategies to help your patients manage their medications.

Receiving maximum practice compensation requires everyone to be on board. If you have a partner who simply won't comply with practice goals that can really hamper your practice. Here's what you can do to motivate your docs.

Treating Hepatitis C is expensive and difficult. But an EHR made it much easier to do so for a Baltimore gastroenterology practice.

Where do EHRs fit in a world of general purpose and special purpose computers?

Learn more about the benefits and drawbacks of mobile EHRs for your medical practice in this video.

Current EHRs resemble early automobiles - and they will also continue to become more reliable and useful as they mature.

Retail, or minute clinics are seen by some primary-care practices as the competition, but they also have some great patient relations ideas your office can duplicate.

Many of the operational characteristics that are common in today's EHRs encourage dishonest behavior and create a vicious cycle.

With all the talk of trimming healthcare spending, perhaps it is time to look at indirect costs - administrative and regulatory procedures with no proven benefit.

My experience as a leader at our hospital is just one example of using physician assistants as a valuable member of the healthcare team.

CMS’ latest numbers show that registration for the Medicare and Medicaid programs is down about 12 percent from March. What gives?

I’m not a family physician for the money. So, if I’m clicking on that financial tab in my EHR as a way to measure the value of what I did in clinic that day, I am an idiot.

Incentive programs are great for EHR vendors, but are they always what's best for patients and physicians?

When it comes to EHR implementation, the best advice comes through practices that have been there and done that.

Electronic health records are great - if you maximize the positives and minimize the negatives of these digital files.

Why few to none of an EHR’s benefits will be realized if you take shortcuts during training.

Healthcare providers will soon be expected to exchange data via their EHRs. Here’s how one major standards organization wants to help.

While there’s some hesitation to embrace EHRs, a new report shows that physicians are grabbing up tablets, smartphones, and laptop computers faster than researchers imagined. And it’s easy to see why.

Transitioning to ICD-10 presents big challenges, so turn to technology to ease your coding woes.