While it’s not absolutely necessary, hospitals that have enough resources should prepare themselves to report clinical quality measures electronically to...
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Hospitals are making good progress toward achieving Meaningful Use milestones, a new study by HIMSS suggests. HIMSS, which surveyed 298 healthcare CIOs between...
Courtesy of Information Week, we get the following news: apparently, EMRs cost too much. Stop the presses! IW magazine has shared data from a poll by KPMG in...
You know, the whole Direct Project approach seems brain-dead simple compared to the elaborate EMR rollout we’re suffering through in this county. I...
We’re back once again with our regular round up of EMR and healthcare IT related tweets. We’ve got some really important topics in this post. Some...
Helping to measure care quality is supposed to be one of the best tricks EMRs can do. After all, EMRs can round up data in seconds that would take weeks or...
I know some people aren’t going to like hearing this — voice-recognition and dictation are very appealing to some — but the following study...
Meaningful Use incentives may have boosted EMR adoption dramatically, but the incentive program has had an uneven effect on the industry, new research suggests...
There’s a really good article by Paul Cerrato on Information Week which tells the story of how a flawed EHR could threaten a patient. While I can’t...
Two articles I’ve written in the last 24 hours have gotten me thinking that we’ve already entered the post-implementation era of EMRs, even as...