EHR Technology

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.

Hospitals appear to be growing frustrated with physicians on their medical staff who refuse to get on board with EHRs and are driving their own mandates.

From e-books to your EHR-based data, how long do computer-stored files actually "exist"?

An EHR's impact on practice productivity can render meaningful use incentive payments irrelevant.

As the interest in and adoption of EHRs grows, so does the market for new and improved speech-recognition products for time-pressed physicians.

The promise of the EHR is to do the administrative work of recordkeeping in a medical practice better, and easier, than paper records. So far, our EHR is meeting that promise.

Today's computers, including EHR systems, often can't tell "no" from "not applicable" when selecting data for quality reports. Is this really helpful to physicians?

Medical coding guidance on Medicare Annual Wellness Visits; RVU reductions; physician scribes; student documentation; and more.

Your front-desk staff is underappreciated but crucial to your success. Arm them with these high-tech helpers to get their jobs done right without burning out.

With EHRs, physicians have two choices: gather their own information or act on the simplified, perhaps misleading caricature that is provided by their system.

How to keep your practice up to date with changing healthcare policies and industry standards.

Despite what the high court decides this summer, federal health IT initiatives will remain on-track, says one federal official.

When my ideal EHR has finally been developed, I believe that it will be remarkable just how primitive even the best of today's EHRs really are.

Juggling motherhood and private practice makes preparation key.

Many practices fail to appreciate the enormous value of strategic scheduling: a full schedule means a full day of revenue. Because even one missed patient makes a difference, we show you how to stack the deck in your favor.

A study suggesting that EHRs are to blame for over-testing is stirring up controversy.

Not enough hours in the day? Small changes can have a big impact on your practice efficiency - and your life.

You may not be able to intelligibly define EHR interoperability, but you will know it when you have enough of it, and you will also know when you don't.

Thanks to new federal initiatives and the increased use of smart phones and tablets, more physicians are communicating with each other while on the go.

The answer to that question is “not yet,” according to a recent survey. Here’s why.

Some optimists believe the full potential of EHRs will not be realized by practices where income remains tied to the number of face-to-face encounters that can be squeezed into a day.

Although much of what happens in the medical setting is predictable in general terms, the details present almost infinite variety. So some flexibility is needed with EHRs.

A reader argues that we won't solve rising healthcare costs unless we confront the expensive, high-tech treatments.

Interoperability has been hard to achieve, in part, because the standards that have been agreed upon are simultaneously over specified and underspecified making them difficult, if not impossible, to implement.