Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Tasked with accomplishing what takes some health systems $100 million with less $10 million, the IT shop conceived a new approach that saved $4.5 million a year and streamlined IT infrastructure management. 

Whether intentional or accidental, coding mistakes can have legal consequences. Experts share insights about avoiding those and advice about what to know when auditors show up at your door.

Disruption is already starting. Hospital and IT vendor executives should should pay close attention to innovations and emerging business and care models, Frost & Sullivan says.

New technology will enable Midland to offer clinicians a more holistic view of patients and give those patients access to a portal.

Kansas-based health system is working toward becoming what Cerner described as a clinically driven revenue cycle.

The EHR market has become a media battleground, she said, rather than vendors competing on quality of products and services. So she, and the PR machine Epic is assembling, are girding for the fight. 

The president, along with researchers and scientists, explored the ways technology will improve healthcare and other industries at the day-long conference on Thursday.

Final rule enables ONC to better support physicians and hospitals amid the rapid pace of innovation in the health information technology market.

Healthcare IT News asks HIT professionals to take part in an important new survey that will study the place of EHRs, cybersecurity, population health, Big Data and more in the year ahead.  

Electronic health records platforms are leaving doctors exposed by making it hard to demonstrate what they did and why. Some providers are even settling malpractice suits and not because of guilt. Hospitals cannot ignore the issue anymore.