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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

As our industry moves toward an era of interconnectivity, hospitals and healthcare systems continue to expand their health information capabilities. Those that have not yet installed an electronic ...

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 ...

Electronic health record (EHR) systems centralize and streamline patient data, much like customer relationship management (CRM) systems organize customer data for small businesses. EHR platforms ...

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 ...

Development of a Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Deficit-Accumulation Frailty Index and Its Application to Older Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma In 2012, under the direction of the ...