Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston currently provides electronic health records to every owned and affiliated physician. “Since Stark [Law] safe harbors now enable hospitals to fund up to ...

As waves of hospitals move from older methods of record keeping to new digital electronic health record (EHR) systems, many medical professionals express fears that implementing an EHR system in their ...

Implementing an electronic health record can be a daunting task for an ambulatory surgery center, considering the capital needed to purchase hardware and software, train employees and account for ...

The Eye Care Center of Northern Colorado needed to implement a new EHR because its previous EHR implementation, one year prior, left staff and clinicians underwhelmed. The old EHR and practice ...

Hospitals’ electronic health records barely earn a passing grade for implementing clinical best practices in treating heart failure and pneumonia, according to an audit by Zynx Health in Los Angeles, ...

Applying traditional project management methodologies to an ambulatory EHR implementation often yields unexpected and often unpleasant results. Why? Lessons learned in Project Management Professional ...

Sarah Sterling, business administrator at Post Street Surgery Center in San Francisco, shares insights and tips for surgery centers working to implement electronic medical records. Sarah Sterling: The ...

Even though health IT efforts are worthwhile despite the costs, two anecdotal newspaper stories illustrate the serious roadblocks to implementation. Under the 2009 economic stimulus package, providers ...

Like many healthcare operations, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston has been grappling with how best to handle the federal electronic health record (EHR) mandate. Three years ago, ...

As hospitalizations due to chronic conditions increase across the United States, attention is focusing on using data collected in electronic health records (EHRs) by healthcare systems to enable ...

Thanks to government incentives, more healthcare organizations in the United States are implementing Electronic Health Record systems than ever before. But EHR implementation isn’t the same as EHR ...

New, Canada-wide evidence from a late-2025 pulse survey of 648 acute care stakeholders-plus a 2026-2030 buyer roadmap on ...