Implementing strategies to optimize electronic health record (EHR) use can save time, improve the doctor-patient relationship, and reduce burnout, a new practice management article suggests. Michelle ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT shared the results of a new study that sheds new insight on a number of EHR uses from 2015 through 2017. Hospitals are continuing to surge in their ...

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente uses EHR data to track the quality and safety of medical devices, aiming to provide better, more personalized patient care. Becker’s interviewed Dr. Paxton ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) set aside nearly $20 billion in federal incentive payments to healthcare providers and organizations who adopt electronic health record (EHR) ...

Role-based access control (RBAC) restricts access to patient data based on job responsibilities, reducing risk. Encryption methods like symmetric and asymmetric key schemes safeguard sensitive health ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. For more than two decades, the electronic health record (EHR) has been a foundational tool ...

The number of times a patient’s address changes in the electronic health record is associated with homelessness and diagnoses, a Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine study found. The study, published ...

A significant percentage of primary care physicians are working in the EHR during their vacations, according to new research. Many physicians are working in the EHR during their time off, according to ...

As AI tools are validated and show worth, they will be incorporated into the EHR and many other information technology ...

Reducing the cost of health care in the U.S. will require a basket of solutions; technology is only part of the answer. And yet, as the researchers found, EHR coordination has the potential to reduce ...

Dr. Neil Evans, who is currently overseeing VA’s deployment of a new EHR system, said one benefit of rolling out the Oracle ...