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 ...

1. Alliance, Neb.-based Box Butte General Hospital went live with its new Meditech EHR system on May 1. 2. Weirton (W.Va.) Medical Center is spending $65 million to upgrade its EHR system to a Cerner ...

Jennifer Brown, RN, endoscopy nurse manager of Gastroenterology Associates of Central Virginia in Lynchburg, Va., shares five tips on successfully implementing an EHR system in a practice or ...

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 ...

However, paper-based records aren’t quite a thing of the past. The most recent published figures show that only 78 percent of ...

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 ...

The use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has revolutionized how healthcare is provided by allowing access to data and improving the coordination of care among medical professionals. But, the ...

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 ...

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

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 hospitalizations due to chronic conditions increase across the United States, attention is focusing on using data collected in electronic health records (EHRs) by healthcare systems to enable ...