Sarah Sterling, business administrator at Post Street Surgery Center in San Francisco, shares insights and tips for surgery centers working to implement electronic medical records. Q: In your ...

Consultant Becky Quammen of Quammen Health Care Consultants works with hospitals to implement electronic medical records systems, most recently taking Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, Neb., ...

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 ...

Following the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services release of finalized “meaningful use” requirements that providers must meet to quality for ...

"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 ...

The purpose of the joint VA and DOD audit was to see how well implementing the common EHR is helping data exchange between the departments and healthcare providers. The DOD and VA acquired Cerner's ...

Malaysian Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said that it would cost up to RM1.5B to implement an EMR system for the 145 hospitals nationwide in Malaysia over the next five years, according ...

Revenue cycle leaders must review, update, and optimize their EHR systems regularly to ensure their efficiency over time. Revenue cycle leaders are on the hook for ensuring their organization can ...

As waves of hospitals move from older methods of record keeping to new digital electronic health record (EHR) systems, many medical professionals express fears that implementing an EHR system in their ...

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 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 ...