“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina When hospitals roll out an EMR, they go through...
Physician EHR Adoption
When I stumbled across a recent study naming the EHRs most widely used by physicians, I don’t know what I expected, but I did not think big-iron enterprise...
If you surveyed a large number of hospital IT leaders, I’d wager that most would claim that they take their clinicians’ EMR preferences seriously...
Rather than simply unveiling the system at go-live time, there should be an easy channel for clinicians to submit feedback and share what changes they think...
A new study by athenahealth concludes that while physicians do feel EMRs deliver benefits, the expense they have to take on outweigh the benefits EMRs deliver
According to Drummond, doctors often start out hating EMR technology and resisting the idea it could ever be helpful. "We treat the computer and the programs...
US doctors are far behind most of their counterparts in Europe and Australia when it comes to EMR adoption, according to a new study by The Commonwealth Fund.
Consumers are becoming eager to interact with both their doctors and their health data online, after years of fear and disinterest. In fact, it seems that...
I’ve written more posts than most about doctors and the EMRs they love to hate. But too often, observers like myself are forced to share stats from...
A new study has found that doctors who own a stake in their practice may find their EMR rollout to be tougher than physicians who didn't have a stake.