April 30, 2009 — Editor’s note: Electronic health record (EHR) systems have become part of the national dialogue on improving healthcare in the United States. The American Recovery and Reinvestment ...

As the role of clinical ethics consultation in health care advances, there are calls to standardize the process of consultation. The Ethics Committee at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) ...

Since its creation in 2010, the Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust has provided financial support to rural hospitals to defray the costs of implementing electronic health records and ...

To address shortcomings of human scribes (eg, turnover), clinicians are considering digital scribes (DSs). To our knowledge, to date, no study has assessed DS implementation or clinician user ...

Electronic Health Records, those over-hyped, energy and time-sucking billing algorithms sold to the American public and healthcare professionals as THE answer continues to search for some valuable ...

In a Dec. 1 webinar titled “Electronic Health Records: Understanding the Opportunities for Your ASC,” Todd Logan, MBA, regional vice president of sales, SourceMedical; Kathy Witham, RN, BSN, clinical ...

Amid privacy, security and technological concerns, healthcare IT professionals got a progress report on the status of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) which seeks to improve patient ...

Hospitals across the country are implementing electronic health records as they work towards meeting meaningful use requirements and receiving incentive payments. Physicians and other healthcare ...

In today’s digital age, the management of electronic records has become a cornerstone of effective mental health care delivery. Understanding Electronic Records Management (ERM) The Importance of ERM ...

Joe Chenelly, national executive director of AMVETS, calls on the VA to swiftly implement its new electronic health records system in this op-ed. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images) When service members ...

In this week's PLoS Medicine Magazine, Gerry Douglas and colleagues describe their experience scaling up electronic medical records (EMRs) in six antiretroviral treatment (ART) sites in Malawi. The ...