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 ...

Demonstrating benefits to patients and clinicians will greatly drive interoperability, health information exchange and medical record digitalisation in Asia-Pacific. Dr Mahesh Appannan, Ministry of ...

Overall, healthcare providers rated the electronic health record adoption process as being as challenging as they had expected, according to “4th Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities,” a ...

If there’s one thing athenahealth Cofounder and CEO Jonathan Bush values, it’s productivity — both in his personal life and when it comes to his company’s EHR. Mr. Bush, deemed a LinkedIn influencer, ...

Applying traditional project management methodologies to an ambulatory EHR implementation often yields unexpected and often unpleasant results. Why? Lessons learned in Project Management Professional ...

The following column is written by Patrick Doyle, vice president of sales for SourceMedical. One of the many benefits associated with implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) system is the ...

In a Medpage Today article, Rosemarie Nelson lays out tips for the successful implementation and optimal use of an electronic health record system. 1. Include the nursing staff. 2. Schedule more ...

The findings of this pilot study were preliminary and could not be generalized to the nursing staff as a whole. However, the preliminary data offered key indicators to the project team and reinforced ...

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 ...

These findings provided directional goalposts for EMR project leaders. The data from this pilot survey influenced the design process in several ways. Nursing staff from each unit were invited to ...