Health IT

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

Hackers are well-organized and hungry for patient records. Here’s what practices need to know to protect their patients and their business.

Despite flooding, power outages, and physical loss, the cloud recently helped modern medical practices avoid four disasters.

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

Clinical Data Registries have taken on renewed meaning because of MIPS reporting requirements. What do physicians have to know about them?

Stephen Jones, MD, isn't looking to make a name for himself in comedy, he's looking to get patients in the door for their well visits.

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.

Natural disasters can often lead to data breach, here's what you need to know to prevent a breach at your practice.

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

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!

President Trump announced a new telehealth initiative at the VA Health System this week. Also docs are undertreating opioid addiction, researchers say.

Text messaging allows practice's to easily interact with patients, saving time and hassle, while also improving the overall patient experience.

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.