Demonstrating benefits to patients and clinicians will greatly drive interoperability, health information exchange and medical record digitalisation in Asia-Pacific. Dr Mahesh Appannan, Ministry of ...

There is no worse feeling than arriving at your go-live date and realizing your hospital is inadequately prepared to use your EMR to care for patients, many administrators say. Here Kevin Burchill, ...

The Eye Care Center of Northern Colorado needed to implement a new EHR because its previous EHR implementation, one year prior, left staff and clinicians underwhelmed. The old EHR and practice ...

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

Although many entities in the healthcare industry believe in the benefit of electronic medical records, it does not mean that EMR implementations will have no concerns or complaints. On the contrary, ...

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 ...

The findings of this pilot study were preliminary and could not be generalized to the nursing staff as a whole. However, the preliminary data offered key indicators to the project team and reinforced ...

Revenue cycle leaders must review, update, and optimize their EHR systems regularly to ensure their efficiency over time. Revenue cycle leaders are on the hook for ensuring their organization can ...

These findings provided directional goalposts for EMR project leaders. The data from this pilot survey influenced the design process in several ways. Nursing staff from each unit were invited to ...