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Health Care: Is There a Safety Issue with EHRs?

By Dick Weisinger

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are touted as being more efficient than paper record keeping systems.  They should be more capable of reducing errors due to illegible handwriting, avoiding misfiled documents, and in spotting problems like identifying possible dangerous drug interactions

Health Care: The Rush to Achieve "Meaningful Use" (and Payout)

By Dick Weisinger

Short term there are big incentives for health care providers to implement electronic health records.  But after the initial burst of stimulus money is gone, will these new systems really be sustainable and at least as cost effective as existing

Health Care: Electronic Health Records Bring Efficiency and Savings

By Dick Weisinger

Doctors and small medical practices are rushing to sign up for Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in order to collect government stimulus incentive money for adopting electronic records systems.  The incentives are pretty sizable, but even without that money, EHR

Health Care: EHR Certifications Help Answer the $64,000 question

By Dick Weisinger

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently announced the names of two companies that are now authorized to test and certify electronic health record (EHR) systems.   The first of these companies is the Certification

Health Records: Security Data Management Top Priority for Health IT

By Dick Weisinger

Security Data Management is a top concern of global Hospitals.  In a survey taken by UK-based Bridgehead Software, hospitals selected their top three priorities as follows: 44 percent – Disaster Recovery 38 percent – Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)