EHR

Survey shows many in high-tech healthcare prefer paper to PCs (and are fools)

Posted March 20, 2012 - 4:03 pm

A survey of decisionmakers in the healthcare industry (doctors and people who work for them) shows many still resist the long-overdue, forced upgrade to electronic health records and would return, if they could, to recording complex medical data on paper in med-school chickenscratch.
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Hospitals kill the fax and exchange health data over the Internet

Posted February 3, 2011 - 3:49 pm

Replacing faxes and snail mail, health-care facilities and state agencies have implemented a federal pilot program that shares patient information over the Internet in order to improve patient care and track public health trends.
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If they save money and don't kill you, digital records could save healthcare

Posted January 25, 2011 - 3:42 pm

If they cut costs and don't actually make care worse, electronic health records will take the first big step in healing a chronically ill system.
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Only 10% of doctors using complete eHealth records systems, surveys find

Posted January 18, 2011 - 9:06 am

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported preliminary data from two surveys conducted in 2009 and 2010 that show electronic health records are sill not being used by the vast majority of the country's physicians.
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Why is healthcare IT so bad?

Posted December 3, 2010 - 7:29 pm

Surveys show progress toward electronic records is 'uneven;' CSC list of success factors read like 'Fail' tags, despite straightforward challenges, well-mapped process.
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How Wi-Fi and Wireless Data-Sharing Cures Patients' Ills

Posted November 3, 2010 - 12:42 pm

For Chad A. Eckes, CIO of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), determining the benefit of a technology investment starts with one simple question: Would you want it for your mom?
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Hospital CIOs confused over e-health records rollout standards

Posted June 30, 2010 - 2:49 pm

Most top hospital CIOs fear they won't meet "meaningful use" standards for deploying e-health records and say the government has made its criteria too ambiguous, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Deadline for e-health rollout may do more harm than help

Posted March 2, 2010 - 4:54 pm

Rush to qualify for federal money could yield chaos.
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What I've Learned About Implementing EHR as a Service

Posted February 28, 2010 - 8:44 pm

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, it set out to get 200 outlying physician offices and the roughly 350 doctors working at them onto a centralized EHR system.
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