Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Diabetes clinic opened by a nurse practitioner after Katrina wins Davies Award.
Clinic is one of 10 groups in Medicare demo project.
The Gastorf Family Clinic, a small, family-owned clinic in Durant, Okla., was the first in the country to receive a physician-paid incentive check under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive programs.
Neurological Services of Orlando is poised to roll out a Web-based neurology-specific electronic health record and practice management system developed by Waiting Room Solutions of Goshen, N.Y.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey that indicates more than half of physicians use electronic health records represents a significant IT milestone, but the news doesn’t come as a surprise to those in the medical community.
A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data breach and governance have identified the top seven trends in healthcare information privacy for 2011.
New research from the National Quality Forum supports the use of effective IT tools and promotes clinical decision support.
Many hospitals and doctors already plan to adopt electronic health records and qualify for federal incentive payments, according to survey data released last month by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has announced the launch of its new EHR certification program for hospitals.
IBM and Premier healthcare alliance executives say they will integrate health information from hospitals and other healthcare sites to create a model that could benefit more than 2,400 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare organizations across the country.