Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Getting rural providers, including critical access hospitals, to adopt electronic medical records is a monumental challenge, as the healthcare industry and advocates of healthcare IT are experiencing.

Medical Informatics Engineering, which has carved out a healthy niche for itself as a regional EHR player in the Midwest, has about 68 employees. Cerner, by comparison, has nearly 8,000.

Analysts offer their hints on the top trends and tricks for the coming year

Miramont Family Medicine in Fort Collins, Colo., is crediting its recognition as a HIMSS Davies Award winner to its participation in a slew of IT projects at both state and national levels.

Diabetes clinic opened by a nurse practitioner after Katrina wins Davies Award.

Clinic is one of 10 groups in Medicare demo project.

The Gastorf Family Clinic, a small, family-owned clinic in Durant, Okla., was the first in the country to receive a physician-paid incentive check under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive programs.

Neurological Services of Orlando is poised to roll out a Web-based neurology-specific electronic health record and practice management system developed by Waiting Room Solutions of Goshen, N.Y.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey that indicates more than half of physicians use electronic health records represents a significant IT milestone, but the news doesn’t come as a surprise to those in the medical community.

A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data breach and governance have identified the top seven trends in healthcare information privacy for 2011.