Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Electronic health record vendors are making the software more user-friendly, but not nearly fast enough. Doctors weigh in on what they need for a better EHR experience.
HIMSS and 24 other organizations want the feds to support creating unique patient identifiers to improve care delivery.
drchrono was one of the first companies to offer an EHR that ran on mobile devices natively.
Startup sees total Series B funding swell to $10 million.
Baystate Health CIO Joel Vengco talks with Healthcare IT News about applying the three pillars of IT to healthcare, as well how his organization has focused on optimizing their legacy EHR rather than replacing it.
A failed contract to build a customer database for HealthNow Networks, left personal health information exposed online for months, according to an investigation by ZDNet and DataBreaches.net.
The contest seeks better ways to determine where data has come from, and whether it's reliable and trustworthy.
Researchers said asking patients to type a note into their medical record made for a more engaging experience.
Doctors are reimbursed for office visits, labwork and medical procedures but not for desktop tasks.
But HIMSS Analytics director Brendan FitzGerald says you do need a core set of tech tools to get the job done.