Despite the widely held assumption that having computer access to patients’ test results will reduce testing, a new study shows that physicians who have such access to tests in the ambulatory care ...

Objectives: To estimate the current uses level of ambulatorycomputerized physician order entry (A-CPOE) among physiciansand to examine the relationship of managed care penetration aswell as other ...

The article by Palen et al in this issue of theis an important contribution to the literatureon healthcare information technology(IT). 1 First, it is one of the few studies of a decision supportsystem ...

What”s up Doc? Of late that question has lost its cartoon-like charm for many physicians, particularly those who run a business. Demands from health maintenance organizations, Blue Cross/Blue Shield ...

If you think your clinic or surgery center is feeling productivity pressure now, what’s coming won’t bring much good news. There will be millions more patients, and relatively few more doctors.