Meaningful Use
Many vendors, of course, are benefiting from the stimulus, with scores of hospitals scrambling to install EMR and CPOE systems in hopes of drawing a portion of the billions of dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Technology is always promising something and the iPad is no exception with some seeing it as a “game changer” for healthcare, and physicians in particular.
The American Telemedicine Association’s 15th Annual Meeting and Exposition kicked off May 16 with an expansive attitude, as ATA officials welcomed more than 3,000 registrants representing at least 35 countries to the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.
The past month has seen an overwhelming surge of emphasis on healthcare IT inside the beltway, as a host of agencies prepare to implement the vast changes initiated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Chief information officers at some of the most wired hospitals in the country say they will be hard-pressed to qualify for federal healthcare IT incentives by next year.
Kevin Hutchinson serves on the federal Health Information Technology Standards Panel, advising President Barack Obama's national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, on the development and use of health information interoperability standards.
How do you get physicians to use EHRs? As many early adopters and current implementers are finding, just making them available in the physician office, hospital or clinic is not going to cut it.
A new study shows how a move from paper records to electronic medical records can speed up the treatment of Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease. Expect to see more of these types of studies bolster the use of EMRs and EHRs.
According to a new HIMSS Analytics report, many clinics and hospitals are behind on their transition from paper to digitized patient records. Even worse, the digital divide is alive and well with larger, urban healthcare systems faring better than smaller, rural facilities.
Maricopa County officials will spend $10 million to implement an EMR system, which will help document and manage medical data for its thousands of jail inmates. The county has tied EMR capabilities to efficiency and better clinical outcomes. This is a good story to inspire other jail and prison systems, and healthcare providers that are still on the fence about EMRs.