Epic Emeritus CMIO Dr. David K. Butler advises health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems on important aspects of the ...

Here are eight common mistakes for ASCs to avoid during electronic medical record implementation. Preventing these mistakes will make the implementation process smoother and allow the surgery center ...

Patrick Takahashi, MD, Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at St. Vincent Medical Center, discusses his role in spearheading the electronic health record implementation process at the medical center ...

Record keeping applications have found a static place in many different industries these days. Supply chain systems and customer relationship management, for example, certainly benefit from a more ...

Electronic medical record (EMR) systems have been in use for more than 2 decades. Studies documenting nursing satisfaction with an EMR system, the benefits of an EMR, implementation barriers, user ...

Despite over 96% of hospitals having an electronic health record (EHR), a recent study showed alarming levels of dissatisfaction among physicians with their current EHR systems and an increased ...

Electronic health record "backlash"--the opposition to EHR adoption and Meaningful Use by clinicians and other staff--can be avoided by better planning and implementation, according to a recently ...

Electronic medical record (EMR) implementations are expensive endeavors, and cost overruns can cripple the hospitals that experience them and cause havoc for the people who work there. In the case of ...

Changing over to an electronic health record system in your office has numerous and varied benefits, ranging from greater efficiency and elimination of lost charts to government payouts for compliance ...

While one intention of electronic health record implementation is to improve provider workflow, that was hardly the case for pair of southern California hospitals, Medscape Medical News reported. In ...

In December 2011, Martin Health System in Stuart, Fla., began implementation of a new electronic medical record system throughout the entire organization. The implementation followed more than a year ...

The Eye Care Center of Northern Colorado needed to implement a new EHR because its previous EHR implementation, one year prior, left staff and clinicians underwhelmed. The old EHR and practice ...