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NewsInsurers leery of EMRs as a liability in the near term
EMRs may not be the magic liability bullet insurers once thought. In fact, a recent study found that EMRs may actually increase the number of liability claims brought against insurers, according to a Read more...
Physician EMR use tops 50 percent for first time
For the first time, more than half of office-based U.S. physicians are using some form of EMR in their practices, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual National Read more...
EHR adoption jumps for hospital-owned practices
Proving once again that there is no single, reliable way to determine true EHR adoption rates, research firm SK&A reports that 38.7 percent of medical offices in the U.S. have EHRs, up from 36.1 Read more...
EHR audits show shortcuts lead to shortcomings
Audits of electronic charts have revealed three "classic EHR physician documentation shortcuts" (as if EHRs could ever be called "classic"), according to AIS Health, which reported on a compliance Read more...
'Hidden requirements' of quality reporting may hinder meaningful use, CSC says
Calling many of the quality reporting measures "hidden requirements" of Stage 1 meaningful use of EMRs, consulting firm Computer Sciences Corp. says hospitals that meet the data-capture standards for Read more...
Canadian doc embraces flexible EMR after shunning template-based system in U.S.
Is the design of the American health system to blame for low EMR adoption? That seems to be the implication in a Technology for Doctors story headlined, "How I learned to stop worrying and love my Read more...
Doc-developed EMR in Canada boosts workflow with heavy templating
It's time to re-open the debate over templating vs. free text in EMR documentation. For this, we turn to Canada. Dr. Ravi Murthy, a family physician in the Toronto area, wanted to improve Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Why some departments demand specialty EMRs
The debate over best-of-breed vs. single-source implementations just never ends. Firmly in the latter camp is Geoff Brown, senior VP and CIO at Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va., (and an Read more...
VA wants patient kiosks to fill in gaps in mental health records
Another week, another plan to expand the capabilities of VistA at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is soliciting bids to develop a kiosk-based system for patients at mental health Read more...
EHR implementations open 'cans of compliance worms'
In case hospitals didn't have enough to do while implementing EHRs in time to earn federal stimulus money, EHRs can open up "brand-new cans of compliance worms," reports AIS' Health Business Daily. Read more...
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