Despite widespread market adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, provider frustration with the technology has been well documented. Many healthcare organizations have struggled to ...

> Keeping your nursing staff in the loop and scheduling lots of training time are among the six "golden rules" of electronic health record implementation, according to Rosemarie Nelson, principal of ...

In today’s information age, as our lives are getting increasingly digitized, health data is valuable. Health data is required for maintaining our health records, for helping physicians and health care ...

Electronic health record (EHR) systems centralize and streamline patient data, much like customer relationship management (CRM) systems organize customer data for small businesses. EHR platforms ...

"EHRs by their nature are designed to protect and keep patient data private and confidential," says Doug Cusick, CEO of TransformativeMed. Editor’s note: The following Q&A resulted from a conversation ...

Chief information officers, chief medical information officers, and other clinical and IT leaders are well familiar by now with the many challenges of implementing and optimizing new electronic health ...

This excerpt fromThe CIO's Guide to Implementing EHRs in the HITECH Era covers the senior executive's role in implementing an electronic health records system. Those in the C-suite who must lead this ...

EHR implementations are getting larger, more comprehensive and, in turn, more expensive. Hospitals are increasingly adopting enterprisewide systems and implementing solution suites all at once instead ...

A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this past week found that, while electronic health record vendors have demonstrated promising levels of advancement, ...

Thanks to government incentives, more healthcare organizations in the United States are implementing Electronic Health Record systems than ever before. But EHR implementation isn’t the same as EHR ...

The Veterans Affairs Department has delayed plans to begin end-user training for its new electronic health record system, which was slated to begin this week. That could lead to a delay for the VA's ...