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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Becker’s caught up with Robert Hartmann, the new vice president of EHR transformation at the three-hospital system, about his plans and hopes for the Epic switch. The conversation has been lightly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston currently provides electronic health records to every owned and affiliated physician. “Since Stark [Law] safe harbors now enable hospitals to fund up to ...

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 ...

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 VA, the nation's largest healthcare provider, remains committed to the project, Wilkie said. But it's the second major delay in the project in 2020 so far, and follows other snags since May 2018, ...