Recent research on Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software usage in the US has revealed that approximately 62% of optical specialties comprising optometrists, ophthalmologists, and therapeutic optometrists currently use EHR Software in one or more areas of their medical practice. Out of this 62 %, a remarkable 83% were found to be using the top Electronic [...]
Medical practices specializing in cardiology always need to be very careful about their clinical procedures. Their work is complicated and very serious. This is why, in order to easy their documentation process and allow them to have more time with their patients, Health IT companies […]
Dental providers, unlike their colleagues in other areas of medicine, have heavily lagged in EHR adoption in the US. The major reason for this could be attributed to various complicated factors, but all those are beyond the focus of this post. This article focuses on the most popular Dentistry EMR Software in the USA [...]
Athenahealth EMR software CEO Jonathan Bush revealed that the goal of the new tech was to remove the tedious work that doctors had to do every day. According to reports, athenahealth is all set to demonstrate new offerings developed to address multiple pain points that physicians face today at the upcoming HIMSS18. [...]
According to a poll conducted by Morning Consult–Politico, most voters see President Trump’s foremost State of the Union address focusing on improving the healthcare system in the US. The poll revealed that 82 percent of the volunteers said it was important for President Trump to address improving the healthcare system of the US in his [...]
Earlier this summer, it was reported that CMS has released a proposed rule for the Quality Payment Program set for 2018. It can affect many medical practices in the US and we recommend that clinicians prepare for the new rules beforehand. So, here are a few key points from the CMS proposal that may help [...]
eClinicalWorks mishap is known by everyone in the US Healthcare industry. Interestingly, new things are unfolding related to the settlement and the latest are, thankfully, positive. So the U.S. Department of Justice settled a False Claims Act case with eClinicalWorks and the repercussion came in the form of worried eClinicalWorks clients who started asking whether [...]
In many hospitals, physicians sometimes have trouble keeping up with STAT orders as these orders are found somewhere within patient records in the EHR. Physicians often fail to access the EHR while being engaged with patients or travelling and this makes them to occasionally miss orders. This issue could be neutralized if notifications or automatic [...]
Patient health data usually travels a long distance before it finally gets to its destination. The data transferred by EHRs can be converted, merged, and mapped. Also, this data is used in numerous different ways. For example, healthcare providers use patient medical data at the point of care, […]
Many physicians tend to use the terms EHR and EMR interchangeably, but interestingly these two are not the same. An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is actually a digital version of a medical chart featuring patient information which could be stored in a computer. An Electronic Health Record (EHR), on the other hand, is a digital [...]