Electronic medical record (EMR) implementations are expensive endeavors, and cost overruns can cripple the hospitals that experience them and cause havoc for the people who work there. In the case of ...

Electronic health record "backlash"--the opposition to EHR adoption and Meaningful Use by clinicians and other staff--can be avoided by better planning and implementation, according to a recently ...

If there’s one thing athenahealth Cofounder and CEO Jonathan Bush values, it’s productivity — both in his personal life and when it comes to his company’s EHR. Mr. Bush, deemed a LinkedIn influencer, ...

Applying traditional project management methodologies to an ambulatory EHR implementation often yields unexpected and often unpleasant results. Why? Lessons learned in Project Management Professional ...

Patrick Takahashi, MD, Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at St. Vincent Medical Center, discusses his role in spearheading the electronic health record implementation process at the medical center ...

Despite these touted—and well-documented—benefits of electronic health records, many facilities have yet to experience them firsthand. They’re either paralyzed by the fear of change or have attempted ...

After opening his own practice, Rajiv Sharma, MD, of Indiana-based Digestive Health Associates, was looking for an EHR; what he found was family. Dr. Sharma recently launched his own GI practice in ...

Chief information officers, chief medical information officers, and other clinical and IT leaders are well familiar by now with the many challenges of implementing and optimizing new electronic health ...

Ineffective handoffs contribute to gaps in patient care and medication errors, which jeopardize patient safety and lead to poor-quality care. The project aims are to develop and implement a ...

Three years ago this week, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs chose Cerner to modernize its aging VistA electronic health record. The agency has been working with halting progress toward that ...