Health IT

HIEs see themselves as an engine to help practices report on MACRA measures, but there are a few drawbacks.

Physicians will gladly tell you everything wrong with their EHR system, but we asked them to be nice and give it a compliment.

Activity trackers can provide users with statistics on how active they have been, but the devices are too unreliable to help a physician in an exam room.

Massachusetts Medical Society's David Wasserman shares tips on how small practices can overcome interoperability challenges.

Why it's important that your practice management system can integrate with the EHR and six other features it must have.

Cost will be a factor in selecting a practice management system, but it shouldn't be the only one.

Experts say the best way to train a new physician is focusing on patient flow. Do not put them in a classroom.

According to our 2017 Technology Survey, half of physicians don't understand demonstrating IT use under Medicare payment reform. Here's what to know.

The latest batch of 2017 Physicians Practice Tech Survey data reveals that more practices are getting patients to use its portal.

An independent physician and a health IT executive join the podcast to talk about the current landscape of technology in medicine.

Doctors aren't the problem, unusable systems are the problem, says this doctor. She airs her EHR grievances.

Thanks to a new agreement, medical licensure issues won't hold back the growing telehealth industry nearly as much.

To fall in line with its IPA, this practice is reluctantly switching its EHR system. Here's why they aren't happy about it.

Only 5 percent of practices are using technology that monitors their patients' health status. Why haven't wearables made an impact in clinical care?

This doctor details how she's using technology more than ever at her practice and has started to embrace it.

With a growing shortage of mental health providers, primary-care doctors can use telepsychiatry to outsource mental health patients.

The Physicians Practice Tech Survey confirms that physicians aren't fans of EHRs and health IT, in general. Here's a look into why this is the case.

Doctors and their staff are vulnerable to computer viruses, one of the few things they didn't learn to diagnose and treat in medical school.

This year's survey found that three-fourths of practices say the health IT industry is failing because doctors don't like the technology they use.

Many patients are resisting usage of patient portals or abandon using them after signing up. Here are 12 ways to get them on board permanently.

Dr. Robert Wachter wrote the book on the failings of health IT and the effect these systems have on patient safety. He joined us for the Pearls podcast.

Competing interests between EHR vendors is one of the many reasons we may never see true interoperability.

When it comes to drawMD, an app that allows clinicians to illustrate and modify medical images, the pictures do speak a thousand words.

Here's how medical practices can effectively turn a new EHR system from a stranger to a friend in seven easy steps.

Experts say blockchain holds a lot of promise, but it's likely five to 10 years before the healthcare industry embraces the technology.