Technology

Social media efforts can help your practice, but they also can land you in hot water if you're not careful. Find out how to keep your social media efforts HIPAA-compliant.

George Ellis Jr., MD, shares three medical apps that he finds particularly useful.

See what you'll need to know about upgrading your billing system to ICD-10.

Do you want to adopt EHR, but your practice colleagues don't? Find out the reasons to fully adopt a system.

Nearly one-fourth of physicians use social media on a daily basis to scan or explore medical information, according to a recently published study.

American consumers' desire to access their health information online far exceeds medical providers' ability to share that information with them.

Mobile health applications can help disadvantaged patients overcome obstacles that prevent them from managing diabetes. Learn why your patients should use them.

New revisions have been made to meaningful use. See what you need to know before the January effective date.

Physicians tell Medical Economics their favorite tips for EHR use.

Worried about how much time you'll need to spend with EHR? Discover how templates can save you time.

In addition to learning how to use your EHR, you will also need to work on connectivity and remote access. Here's what you need to know.

A new online tool aims to help patients understand their electronic health information and improve their relationships with physicians.

Want to know whether you and the other healthcare professionals and pharmacies in your area are at the forefront or lagging when it comes to adoption of electronic health records and e-prescribing? Now you can, thanks to a new tool from the federal government’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

The second stage of the government's program to incentivize physicians for implementing electronic health records systems will not begin until 2014, according to final rules recently released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

ACA wants to build health information exchanges to connect Medicaid providers. Learn what you need to know about them.

George G. Ellis Jr., MD, FACP, recommends two reference apps and a medical calculator.

You already like your current software, but imminent electronic health record system implementation requires a different program. Here's how to avoid entering information more than once.

You have no choice but to trust your patients when they say that they are taking their medications as prescribed. But they could be about to change with new technology that remotely keeps track of whether patients really do stick to their healthcare regimens.

EHRs can pose a security risk to your patients. Discover what you can do to protect the data.

Using an electronic health record (EHR) system can help keep your patients loyal to your practice, especially if the EHR lets patients access their personal health information online, according to a new study.

Here's what to focus on when you're switching to 5010.

E-prescribing has caught on big in Minnesota. Doctors there had the highest rate of e-prescribing use in 2011, according to the seventh annual "Safe-Rx Awards" survey from the e-prescribing service Surescripts.

Recently published research may shed light on why you hate your EHR but your staff doesn't.

Primary care physicians, for a number of reasons, are reaching out to consultants to help them implement meaningful use stage 1 requirements, according to a new study from KLAS.

If you are focusing on updating your electronic health records during patient visits, you may be missing out on cues needed to treat depression, according to a new study out of the University of Florida.

Happtique, an online mobile application (app) store for healthcare, has a new e-prescribing solution dubbed “mRx†that enables physicians to prescribe medical, health, and fitness-related apps for their patients.

A new HIPAA standard for national unique health plan identifiers will save primary care physicians money and time, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

What are the keys to an easy EHR adoption?

You don't have to handle EHR implementation on your own. Learn how one doctor depended on others to achieve meaningful use.

Change is the one constant in health information technology. What does the future hold?