February 22, 2012 | Richard Pizzi
While there has been much talk in healthcare about using information technology on the clinical end to build an interoperable industry, the financial side of healthcare has been given short shrift.

February 22, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Stage 1 meaningful use will be extended to 2014, and Stage 2 proposed rules -- soon to be published on the ONC site and in the Federal Register -- get bullish on interoperability.

February 21, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
In a session so crowded that conference officials closed the doors and effectively locked attendees out, Military Health System acting CIO Karen Guice, MD, offered a glimpse of the future of MHS health IT.

February 21, 2012 | Diana Manos
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have introduced a free online tool, the ICD-10 Critical Pathway for Getting Started -- 2012 and Beyond for use by providers who have not yet begun preparing for ICD-10.

February 20, 2012 | Patty Enrado
Usability is one of the major barriers for health IT adoption, particularly for electronic health records. It was no surprise then that a capacity number of attendees took on the challenge of working through various usability research methods in the workshop Usability 101: Applied Methods.

February 1, 2012 | White Papers
Key questions to ask your vendor to help avoid the hidden costs of achieving Meaningful Use

October 24, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
The Christ Hospital is a 555-bed not-for-profit acute care facility located in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more than 120 years, it has been consistently recognized as one of the top 50 hospitals in the U.S. and has been Greater Cincinnati's preferred hospital for the last 15 years. The Christ Hospital network has one main hospital facility, in addition to more than 20 primary care physician offices, more than 15 testing centers and over 20 cardiovascular physician offices. During this one-hour session, you'll learn how all these facilities connect and how they transfer knowledge and information to ensure the best possible patient care.

February 14, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Studies show that more than 60% of key clinical patient information resides within narrative text or scanned documents, effectively hidden from care providers and mission-critical care or payment systems. Frequently, health care records are widely dispersed and duplicated across many data silos in multiple forms and structures. Therefore, it is becoming more difficult for healthcare systems to efficiently leverage patient data to meet specific patient and quality care objectives. With physician revenues increasingly tied to achieving quality or cost goals, it is critical to apply insights derived from analysis of clinical information. View this webinar to learn how using Apixio’s intelligent information mining and retrieval within clinical workflow tools, such as electronic health records, can effectively use the entire patient record to optimize care coordination, quality and safety, as well as provider revenue.

February 1, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Healthcare organizations today are under constant pressure to make strategic IT decisions based upon urgent needs. The challenge is to make decisions that satisfy those urgent needs – as well as plans for future growth. Discover how Kettering Health Systems, a large IDN comprised of more than 60 facilities and over 1,200 physicians, undertook an enterprise-wide interface software migration in just 4 months that not only helped them solve critical legacy interface issues but developed a technology platform to build on for the future.

February 1, 2012 | White Papers
If we are at or approaching a technological tipping point in the history of healthcare, then it has never been more important for physician practices to select the right electronic health record (EHR) – and there are tangible reasons to believe so.  This whitepaper comments on recent customer surveys, and discusses foundational criteria for selecting the right EHR solution, determining your “game plan” and the process for assessment and selection. Justin Barnes is chairman emeritus of the national Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association), and is vice president of marketing, industry affairs and government affairs for Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.

February 15, 2012 | John Halamka
The bottom line from every product I've used and everyone I've spoken with is that there is no current "perfect" EHR. We're still very early in the EHR maturity lifecycle.

February 1, 2012 | Chad Johnson
With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.

January 23, 2012 | Katie Matlack
To find out what is it that separates the health care providers who truly reap the benefits of switching to EMR, from those who don’t, I interviewed representatives of three health providers who use EMRs now.

January 12, 2012 | John Moore
Admittedly, our predictions for 2011 were modest. So for 2012, we’ll go out on a limb with many of our predictions. Hopefully that limb won’t crack sending us crashing to the ground.

January 10, 2012 | Farzad Mostashari, MD
I would like to highlight ten of this year's most notable developments in the world of health information technology and ONC.

January 18, 2012 | Industry News Release
For an unprecedented third time in a single year, Amazing Charts has been honored as the best Electronic Health Record (EHR) system for small practices. Most recently, Amazing Charts was ranked number one in the category of Ambulatory EMR (1-10 Physicians) in the 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Services.

January 12, 2012 | Industry News Release
e-MDs, the provider of the nation's most highly rated EHR, congratulates Christopher Wenner, MD, for being recognized on Monday, December 5, 2011, by Minnesota's Regional Extension Center for Health Information Technology (REC) for his leadership in the nationwide transition toward electronic health records. Dr. Wenner is one of the first providers in Minnesota to attest to Meaningful Use for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. He worked with REACH, the REC designated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to assist clinicians in Minnesota and North Dakota in becoming meaningful users of electronic health records. e-MDs is pleased to congratulate Dr. Wenner on becoming a member of an exclusive group of leaders – the Meaningful Use Vanguard (MUV). MUV is an initiative of ONC, designed to honor, thank, and bring together clinicians like Dr. Wenner, who have successfully implemented EHRs. MUVers (members of the MUV program) serve as local leaders and advisors in the nation's transition toward an electronically-enabled health care system. Dr. Wenner is one of many e-MDs clients in every region of the country who have become MUVers.

January 3, 2012 | Industry News Release
eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that Albany Area Primary Health Care (AAPHC), the largest primary physician practice in Southwest Georgia and a Community Health Center (CHC), has chosen eClinicalWorks comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) solution across its 14 locations. According to figures by the NACHC, eClinicalWorks customers represent 33% of CHCs in the country.

December 29, 2011 | Industry News Release
eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that 21 providers from Rockford Orthopedic have successfully attested for meaningful use and the practice has received a $378,000 check from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the maximum amount allowed for 2011. These incentives were established by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) to reward medical providers who successfully demonstrate meaningful use of an electronic health records (EHR) system in ways that improve the quality, safety and effectiveness of patient-centered care.

December 22, 2011 | Industry News Release
eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that a recent report published by AmericanEHR Partners, an online community dedicated to supporting adoption, use, and optimization of EHRs, titled Market Share and Top 10 Rated Ambulatory EHR Products by Practice Report, places the company highly in regard to market share for small physician practices and functionality with mid-to-larger size practices.