By this point, few would argue that patients are unlikely to be engaged with their medical care if they don’t have free, unfettered access to the medical...
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A study of clinical decision support system use has found that abiding by its recommendations can lower medical costs, adding weight to the notion that they...
A new survey has found that hospitals are having a hard time managing and tracking user compliance with mobile communications policies. The survey, which was...
Over the past few years, hospitals have gotten closer and closer to connecting all of their medical devices to the Internet — and more importantly...
The IT worker was shocked. All he had done was buy an antenna and try to get TV channels on his laptop computer, but to his amazement, he inadvertently...
I always enjoy attending the HFMA Annual Conference (Formerly known as ANI) which brings together healthcare CFOs and others in the healthcare financial...
Ordinarily, snagging a contract to help with an Epic install is a prized opportunity. Anyone involved with this kind of project makes very good money, and the...
In mid-May, Sutter Health’s Epic EMR crashed, accompanied by other technical problems. Officials said the system failures were caused by the activation of the...
While revenue cycle management isn’t the sexiest topic on the block, hospitals need to get it right or they won’t be able to pay their bills. One key element...
While they may not say so out loud, most healthcare organizations bought EMRs largely because they believed they could use them to lower revenue cycle...