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This is the third installment of the interview conducted with Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, whose book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, was published in May.

As any left-handed person that has struggled to use a pair of scissors or a fountain pen will verify, the design of a tool impacts the quality of the work done with that tool. That’s true for electronic health records, as well. EMRs support complex cognitive processes, and the way they are designed directly impacts the speed and accuracy of a clinician’s work.

This is the second installment of the interview conducted with Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, whose book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, was published in May.

Questions abound when it comes to meeting the meaningful use requirements, and the central questions often are 1.) How can our organization stay focused when putting IT systems into place; and 2.) How can we ensure our organization stays on track with meaningful use guidelines?

While many people know that HITECH generally creates requirements for data breach notification, there are at least four things you may not know about HITECH that you really should.

The fervor over health insurance reform and electronic medical records in the HITECH Act seems to have sucked all the oxygen away from health information technology that is not about direct patient care.

Although HIPAA 5010 essentially serves as the EDI pre-cursor to ICD-10, the new transaction standard also brings a fistful of its own noteworthy advantages.

Researchers Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, wrote their recently released book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, to highlight common themes to EMR adoption barriers that they were seeing in their work with clients and to provide a basic methodology for breaking through those barriers.

There are quite a number of hospitals that have embarked on health IT projects years ago, and they have a big advantage over those hospitals that are just now building their roadmap for the implementation and adoption of EMRs and EHRs.

David Blumenthal, MD, head of ONC, announced on Friday, June 18, the final rules for temporary certification of EHR products. With the temporary certification rule in place, he expects EHRs with this particular certification on the market by this fall.