Bill Siwicki

Providers there also don't have to wait 28 days for access to Epic and other systems, and now receive full rights within two days.

Four experts from Cerner, DrChrono, CTG and Chilmark Research offer healthcare CIOs and other executives and health IT workers crucial advice for successfully getting electronic health records up and running.

Application programming interfaces enable information systems to communicate and transfer data among each other.

The upgrade to network infrastructure meant big changes for the rural health system in the Nebraska panhandle, where great connectivity for small towns is uncommon.

Advanced Behavioral Health's practice management, billing, scheduling and clinical data collection system has reaped the practice many rewards, including reducing time spent on billing from three hours to 30 minutes per week.

Since deploying speech recognition and integrating it with its athenahealth EHR, the group practice has seen the average note completion time drop from 4.8 minutes to 1.6 minutes per note.

Three experts discuss how application programming interfaces help enable system interoperability, and describe what the role of APIs will be in the future.

Three high-profile physician IT leaders offer their takes and advice on the usability of data brought together by interoperability technologies and standards.

Among other improvements, the EHR and other systems in the suite enabled Yucaipa Urgent Care to cut patient throughput time from two hours to 30-45 minutes.

Further, in part thanks to the software and savvy use of search engine optimization, the five-location group practice grew gross revenue by 32 percent.