Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Regional Health in South Dakota advocates standardized electronic charting system as a means to improve care coordination while reducing legal risks.

The Accountable Care Organization draft rule is out, and the political, clinical and technical trek to establishing these lynchpins of the Affordable Care Act and health reform is on.

As the need for certified electronic health record specialists grows, it is important that healthcare organizations are able to recognize whether potential candidates are EHR-ready, says one consultant.

Qualifying for meaningful use incentives and choosing the right electronic health record system are among the top 5 challenges medical practice managers are facing today, according to new research from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), which represents 21,500 members.

Health IT company Allscripts plans to double its Chicago workforce, adding 300 new jobs by the end of 2012. It's good news for Chicago, and Allscripts gave Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel first dibs on the June 28 announcement.

With the prohibitive and rising cost of healthcare, there has never been a greater need for accountable care organizations, according to Mark McClellan, MD, former administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Farzad Mostashari, MD, the nation's healthcare IT chief, pronounced the graduates of a new health information technology program at Columbia University and Weill Cornell Medical College to be leaders in a healthcare movement that's critical to the nation, as he addressed the graduating class on June 24.

Healthcare IT News interviewed three solo practitioners who have met Stage 1 meaningful use guidelines, and asked what advice they might have for other solo practitioners or small practices.

athenahealth, which provides practice management, electronic health record and patient communication services to physician practices, has closed on the purchase of property in Northport, Maine, for $7.7 million, where it plans to establish a training center near another of its facilities.

Texas Health Resources received more than $19.5 million in Medicare incentive payments at the end of May for meeting first stage meaningful use. But according to Ferdinand Velasco, MD, vice president and CMIO, the heath system didn’t do it for the money.