EHR Technology

A physician shortage may be contributing to burnout, but help is on the way-and creative staffing might keep you going until it gets here.

Use Excel Pivot Tables and Microsoft SQL Server to enhance the way your practice creates reports from its PM and EHR systems.

Here are the major shifts from the Medicare Quality Payment Program’s proposed rule to the recently released final rule.

The EHR is creating some risk and liability for providers. Some of these risks are obvious and some are not.

Insight into CMS' 2018 MACRA final rule released earlier this week.

Patients want in-demand service. Here are a few ways to provide that to them at your practice.

Also: President Donald Trump declared a national public health emergency for the opioid epidemic this week.

On Thursday, 24 Senators reached agreement on a short-term bipartisan legislation bill that would help stabilize health insurance markets.

From not blaming everything on the EHR to taking care of yourself, a few strategies to improve your symptoms of physician burnout.

Physician practices can learn from Equifax's security breach by asking the right questions. Here are a few to ask their vendor.

Planning ahead for a security breach related to your EHR can make the practice's response much smoother, according to experts.

MACRA madness, good advice, and a few other observations from the conference, held in Anaheim.

President Trump said he was mad at HHS Secretary Tom Price for misusing public money to fly on a private charter plane.

Here are six common themes that often emerge when practices examine their tech work flows.

Practices need to ask some hard questions to determine if an EHR switch is the right move. Here are a few.

From decreased physician productivity to lack of awareness about your EHR vendor's other product offerings, here's why you stay put.

In its latest attempt to unravel the ACA, Republicans unveil a proposal to transfer federal healthcare spending into state block grants.

As things start to pick up at her new practice, this doctor shares some of the challenges of her new practice model.

The HIMSS EHR association submits a letter to CMS, expressing concern and offering suggestions for MACRA payment requirements.

Some physician readers are hesitant to retire no matter the age, due to their everlasting drive to care for others.

A recent Merritt Hawkins survey found 56 percent of docs in support of single-payer healthcare due to a variety of reasons, including feelings of inevitably.

Physicians need to document care in the EHR, but they can either keep the computer out of the room or embrace it to focus on the patient.

Quality alerts in the EHR can help remind physicians of urgent issues, but it's important to tailor the alerts to specific patients and leverage medical research.

Here are 10 things you should consider if you are planning to let go of your practice's IT person or vendor. Don't act rash!

Our reader's debate whether or not EHRs should have lemon laws and if a single-payer healthcare system would work in the U.S.