EHR Technology

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.

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.