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 ...

Mount Nittany Health has completed its Epic go-live after choosing an uncommon path for a smaller health system: implementing the EHR independently rather than through a larger health system’s ...

Epic Emeritus CMIO physicians can play a valuable role when it's go-live time for health systems transitioning from legacy systems to the Epic EHR. But while a successful go-live is an important and ...

The purpose of the joint VA and DOD audit was to see how well implementing the common EHR is helping data exchange between the departments and healthcare providers. The DOD and VA acquired Cerner's ...

1. Alliance, Neb.-based Box Butte General Hospital went live with its new Meditech EHR system on May 1. 2. Weirton (W.Va.) Medical Center is spending $65 million to upgrade its EHR system to a Cerner ...

As waves of hospitals move from older methods of record keeping to new digital electronic health record (EHR) systems, many medical professionals express fears that implementing an EHR system in their ...

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 ...

As hospitalizations due to chronic conditions increase across the United States, attention is focusing on using data collected in electronic health records (EHRs) by healthcare systems to enable ...

Like many healthcare operations, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston has been grappling with how best to handle the federal electronic health record (EHR) mandate. Three years ago, ...

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

There are many acronyms used in the healthcare industry. EHR and EMR, for instance, are two terms that are often used interchangeably. Though they're similar, they have different meanings. EHR stands ...