Health IT

Patient portals and telemedicine can improve efficiency and patient access to care, but in-person interaction with providers should always be a top priority.

Considering the cloud for your medical practice data? Here are four strategies to get your medical practice more familiar with this health IT solution.

Charge capture has evolved, from paper to PC to PDA and now to mobile applications, providing physicians with better access to patient data.

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.

Welcome to "This Old EHR," where we look at why your system is lot like older homes: built using outdated methods and in constant danger of structural issues.

Anyone involved with protected health information at your medical practice can be the one who gets you fined for a HIPAA violation. So due diligence is a must.

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

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

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

From apps to analyzing big data, the future of healthcare may be about predicting the future of a patient's well-being and having physicians intervene.

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.

Our 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, gives insight on what mobile devices physicians are using daily and for what purposes at their medical practices.

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

A patient portal expert answers this common question voiced by medical practices, and three others about portal implementation and use.

Think passwords are passé and that biometrics will come to the rescue to keep healthcare records safe? Think again - it's only one part of the security puzzle.

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.

Meaningful use can be confusing. Here are some of the key things practices should know about attesting for Stage 1 of the EHR incentive program.

You lock up your house and car each day, so be sure to do the same with your digital assets. Here are six tips to start employing today.

It's important to work with your EHR vendor to ensure ICD-10 compliance in 2015. Here are some of the challenges to address right away.

Here are four key areas of concern those in healthcare have when it comes to the future of mHealth apps, tools patient are utilizing in greater numbers.

Big data might lead to cost-savings in healthcare, but it is very costly to begin with.

There is a lot of confusion about the meaningful use incentives. The most significant relates to the government's objectives in offering them.

Apple unveiled its Health app, compiling data from a user's health- and fitness-related apps in one place. Can it help patients take ownership of their health?

There is much confusion regarding the Stage 2 rules for the meaningful use incentive program. Here are four key elements that physicians need to be aware of.