Most healthcare CIOs and other hospital and health system IT leaders greet implementing a new electronic health record system with a degree of dread. It's far from a simple task. But while most of ...

Mayo Clinic officially hit a milestone in its $1.5 billion system-wide Epic implementation over the weekend: The first 24 sites went live on July 8. The organizations said on Monday that by 2018 Epic ...

In today’s information age, as our lives are getting increasingly digitized, health data is valuable. Health data is required for maintaining our health records, for helping physicians and health care ...

Numbers are meaningless without context, but those in health IT can often get trapped in a numbers game. When dollar signs related to EHR implementations are ablaze in headlines, it’s easy to take ...

Anyone in the biz knows that you don't just put in an EMR and expect success. The federal subsidies, which require "meaningful use" of EMRs, up the ante. Still, implementations continue to fail, or at ...

"EHRs by their nature are designed to protect and keep patient data private and confidential," says Doug Cusick, CEO of TransformativeMed. Editor’s note: The following Q&A resulted from a conversation ...

Sevocity EHR has successfully implemented over 200 Providers in the last year under its historic Electronic Health Records money back guarantee. "We began this initiative because we knew that ...

Despite over 96% of hospitals having an electronic health record (EHR), a recent study showed alarming levels of dissatisfaction among physicians with their current EHR systems and an increased ...

Following the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services release of finalized “meaningful use” requirements that providers must meet to quality for ...

The purpose of the joint VA and DOD audit was to see how well implementing the common EHR is helping data exchange between the departments and healthcare providers. The DOD and VA acquired Cerner's ...

This excerpt fromThe CIO's Guide to Implementing EHRs in the HITECH Era covers the senior executive's role in implementing an electronic health records system. Those in the C-suite who must lead this ...

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