Informaticists offer EHR safety recommendations
Date: Jan 31, 2013
As EHRs and other forms of health IT work their way into the nation’s healthcare system, an increasing number of stakeholders are offering their opinion concerning how the health IT transition should proceed.   Read »

Survey looks at health indicator tracking
Date: Jan 29, 2013
Americans are keeping track of a range of health indicators.  But they’re not necessarily making optimal use of IT to do it.   Read »

Should you hire a consultant?
Date: Jan 28, 2013
Hardware, software, guidelines and rules.  And then more rules.   Read »

HHS updates and strengthens HIPAA
Date: Jan 25, 2013
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released the updated HIPAA rules with the goal of strengthening the privacy and security protections for health information.   Read »

Beware the chart eating virus
Date: Jan 24, 2013
IT is great, except when it isn’t.   Read »

Hospital taps Merge for cardiac records
Date: Jan 22, 2013
A recent study published in the Annals of Family Medicine notes that family physicians are moving right along when it comes to implementing EHRs.   Read »

Hospital taps Merge for cardiac records
Date: Jan 22, 2013
A recent study published in the Annals of Family Medicine notes that family physicians are moving right along when it comes to i  Read »

Information overload may be downside of health IT
Date: Jan 21, 2013
Are doctors getting too much information?   Read »

Free the health IT imagination!
Date: Jan 18, 2013
One great upside to government intervention in a project as massive as the health IT transition is that, assuming there are adequate financial resources involved, government action can pave the way forward and provide the means to get there.   Read »

Physicians want workplace data included in EHRs
Date: Jan 17, 2013
As ONC takes recommendations for proposed MU Stage 3 criteria, it is, not surprisingly, hearing from a broad range of stakeholders.    Read »