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

EHRs are a considerable investment in time and money, and hospitals are finding several hidden costs associated with implementation. Several health systems this year report purchasing an EHR system ...

Electronic health records have a multitude of benefits for health systems, such as interoperability, improving physician efficiency and easy access to patients’ medical history, but the cost of ...

Since 2008, President Barack Obama has made it a goal to cut healthcare costs in the U.S. He has offered almost $27 billion in government funds for practitioners to make the switch to electronic ...

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 ...

As meaningful use Stage 2 comes to a close, most hospitals have already implemented EHRs. However, hospitals are questioning if the systems they’ve implemented are actually working to improve patient ...

Joncé Smith, senior executive strategic advisory consultant at Stoltenberg Consulting, has more than 35 years of healthcare experience. She has a long track record of working with many healthcare ...

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

MILWAUKEE, WI, November 19, 2024 (EZ Newswire) -- As biopharmaceutical sponsors face increasing challenges in securing investigative sites for their clinical trials, the ability to reduce ...

Fusion, a provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions, announced the implementation of its EHR system for the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS). Fusion is now the only EHR provider for ...

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 ...