Health IT

If EHRs must evolve, then evolution needs time, opportunity, and freedom to make mistakes and suffer the pitfalls. Unfortunately, the government halts that freedom.

The feeling of innovation that comes from using an EHR can also be matched by the fear that a HIPAA violation is more likely to occur.

Government runs on processes, as seen by its solutions for healthcare. But, medicine is about people, not the process.

The dangers of auto complete and cut and paste in EHRs lie not with EHRs themselves, but with potential misuse.

Whether you are a short-order cook or a physician, it's all about workflow in getting your daily work successfully completed.

It is time to stop repeating the worn out rhetoric that existing EHRs …are going to come to the rescue of medicine, patients, or healthcare costs.

Healthcare IT has great potential, but the lack of compatibility and conformity is making its role as a cost- and time-saving savior improbable.

Providing 24/7 electronic access to primary care through telemedicine is creative, but it has challenges.

Are you craving national attention? Just put patient data on a laptop, as that seems to be the early trend in 2013 to becoming a HIPAA headline.

Healthcare reform and the regulatory push for EHRs involve elaborate plans predicated on the future being a repetition of the past - but your future will not repeat the past.

Health IT can be improved by building applications with the goal of getting the real work done in the shortest possible time and with the least effort.

Physician requirements, including a new requirement for patient-generated health information, called cumbersome by industry.

When it comes to digital health records, electronic silos are no better than paper silos.

HIPAA may protect patient information, but it has come at the cost of direct patient care.

From the emergence of non-physicians to the role of EHRs, it is time for America to take a fresh look at how we care for patients.

Here are five legal issues private practices should be sure to follow in the new year to avoid potential pitfalls.

Physicians, by nature, multi-task. EHRs, by their nature, force physicians to single-task, therefore slowing them down.

It is 2013, but non-compliance with HIPAA remains an issue in the healthcare industry. Here are four tips to get your practice on track and in line.

There is a vocal group of knowledgeable people that are getting pretty fed up not only with EHR software, but software in general and many are quite vocal.

Telemedicine and other health IT tools can help physician assistants be more proactive in patient care. Some of the rules need to change too, however.

Here's guidance on how to avoid violating HIPAA when it comes to de-identification of protected health information.

Here's a simple question for you: Would structured data by any other name smell as sweet?

Make no mistake; your practice is being discussed online. So here's how to see what's being said and when you should and shouldn't act.

Growing health IT innovations may put more space between physician and patient, a stark contrast to concierge medicine, which strives for a closer relationship.

Simply put, today's EHRs are not designed to collect data in a way that allows accurate meaningful use reports to be created.