While the cost of adopting and implementing an electronic health record remains the most pressing health IT concern for physicians, a recent survey suggests costs are less of a concern than in ...

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 ...

Late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began issuing Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments to eligible providers. For physicians who were able to attest ...

Use of electronic health records helped reduce ambulatory health care costs by about 3% over the 18 months following implementation, according to a study published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is buying electronic health records for more than 750 physicians in a bid to better manage costs and help doctors participate in the N.C. Health Information ...

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 ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will now have to submit regular reports to Congress about the performance of its new $16 billion medical records system, including incidents that risk patient ...

A new study reports on the development and implementation of digital survey methods that could replace a form of paper-based surveys, known as card studies, in clinic-based research. While card ...