Why did the healthcare industry invest so heavily in EHRs in recent years? Obviously, one major reason is the payoffs that became available under HITECH, but...
EHR Errors
A new study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has concluded that a sample group of physicians made more data entry...
An intriguing blog title, I know. I saw it on Bill Crounse, MD’s blog post and couldn’t resist extending the discussion. This is a really...
EMR and practice management vendor athenahealth has partnered with Patient Safety Organization Quantros to examine the impact that EMRs are having on patient...
In theory, default values are there to make medication dosing more standardized and efficient in hospitals. But there are situations in which presets can...
I’ve just turned in a story for InformationWeek Healthcare about the new “Essentials of the U.S. Hospital IT Market, 6th Edition” report from...
I’m sure that many of my readers have experienced the awkwardness of an error happening during the demo or training of an EMR system. I’ve been on...