September 4th 2024
In the future, will physicians use 3D printers to create new tissues for patients? Here’s how bioprinting could affect primary care through treatment of chronic conditions, wounds, organ transplantation, and more.
September 3rd 2024
Legislation: Stark launches competing health IT bill
September 26th 2008Health-care IT seems to be the new issue du jour for Congress. On Sept. 15, Rep. Pete Stark (D-California), the namesake of the anti-kickback medical referral law, unveiled a bill to establish a nationwide health-care IT infrastructure, but the measure faces competition from two other similar bills already under consideration.
EHRs: Top EHR vendors evaluated by IT research firm
September 26th 2008Overwhelmed by the number of electronic health record vendors out there? A research and consulting firm offers an in-depth look at 10 of the major vendors for the ambulatory care market and highlights the top performers for features, flexibility and physician satisfaction.
EHRs: Mock vendor Web sites illustrate why some doctors distrust EHRs
June 27th 2008If you want to better understand why less than 20 percent of doctors have implemented EHRs, visit the website of a vendor called Extormity, dedicated to offering "highly proprietary, difficult to customize and prohibitively expensive" software.
National Provider Identifier: Many providers are dazed and confused in the NPI era
May 23rd 2008Two recent studies suggest that many healthcare providers weren't ready when the May 23 deadline came to submit insurance claims with only the new National Provider Identifier. What's at stake is millions if not billions of dollars in rejected claims.
EHRs: Does anyone have $105 billion to spare?
May 9th 2008Cue the drum roll-every last one of the 8.7 million enrollees of Kaiser Permanente finally has an outpatient EHR. It’s the latest milestone of a $4 billion IT project that suggests how much it might cost to digitize the entire nation’s healthcare system.
EHRs: More prosperous practices tend to be paperless
April 25th 2008If you want to copy the habits of financially successful doctors who don't have to borrow money to meet payroll, consider implementing an EHR. That's one conclusion you could draw from survey data from the Medical Group Management Association.
Data Mining: European nations will scour EHRs to detect drug side-effects faster
April 11th 2008The US healthcare system could save lives if it possessed an early warning system for new drugs with unexpected side effects instead of waiting for complaints to roll into the FDA. Our friends across the Atlantic are developing such a system using EHRs.
EHRs: Certification doesn't mean much to most small practices
March 28th 2008Certifying EHRs is supposed to help doctors pick the best products. But small medical practices generally don't put much stock in this stamp of approval, according to KLAS, a firm that researches healthcare information technology.
EHR selection: These programs get the most looks
March 14th 2008Provider organizations looking to buy an ambulatory electronic health record give the most consideration to products from eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, and Allscripts, according to IT research firm KLAS Enterprises.