Health IT

With the Stage 2 rules looming, some practices are moving ahead while others remain on the sidelines in the quest to meet meaningful use.

How to ask the right questions and find the perfect candidate for your practice's healthcare IT needs.

Your EHR and practice management system vendors are important partners in the ICD-10 transition, so be sure they are ready with these 15 questions.

Until narrative and data are united, EHRs will require too much effort, create too much risk, and provide too little benefit to justify imposing them by fiat.

HIPAA and meaningful use demonstrate the challenge today for healthIT: making PHI easily accessible for the authorized, and impenetrable for the non-authorized.

Here's some observations from my walkabout with 38,000 of my closest friends in healthcare IT, better known as the HIMSS14 Conference recently held in Orlando.

With the Stage 2 rules of meaningful use looming, physicians are still struggling with the implementation process for Stage 1.

The U.S. EHR market is projected to reach $9.3 billion by 2015, the largest worldwide, thanks in part to meaningful use incentives, says a new Accenture study.

Want to avoid costly EHR mistakes at your medical practice? I proffer the following, which I call the 'Order-of-Magnitude Heuristic.'

As more practices implement EHRs, more are employing medical records scribes. Here's why your practice might want to consider it.

A recent report from HHS warns physicians about improper use of their EHRs, especially the copy-paste function.

EHR is a burden, and as such, there should be evidence of effectiveness before it is imposed upon physicians and medical practices.

Don't lament the end of Windows XP for your medical practice. With today's advanced technology, the road ahead is actually far better.

A look at some of the smartest technology for physicians today - or in the near future.

To understand why EHRs have the trouble they do, you need to understand the concepts of context and metadata. Here's help.

With the deadline for the end of support and updates for Windows XP, here are five important steps for your practice to avoid HIPAA and HITECH Act violations.

Physicians, are you giving your patients a credit union or big bank experience? Here's how to tell and make some changes.

There are many myths about cloud IT services. Here, we dispel the major ones and provide a checklist for those considering a trip to the cloud.

As big a proponent of technology and data as I am, the truth is data has never cured anything and tech can't replace in-person interactions with physicians.

It's not political or market selfishness that impedes health data interoperability, it's the primitive nature of the technology itself.

Here's a look at five of the latest tablets with high-level security features for physicians.

Like teenagers trying to imagine what sex will be like, the prevailing wisdom about EHRs reflects optimism more than experience and knowledge.

Here are six questions your medical practice should ask a potential billing partner to help you thrive today and remain competitive in the future.

Health IT and its data is rapidly becoming a powerful tool for the federal government in combating potential healthcare fraud nationwide.

What I predict will be the top 10 challenges to physicians' work-life balance in the coming year.