American Medical News Articles on Health Information Technology

Solo practices and physicians approaching retirement age could become exempt from Medicare pay reductions if expanded hardship exemptions for EHR adoption are enacted.

Understanding a doctor's decision-making process can help devise strategies to get the most benefit out of an electronic health record system.

Since initial rollouts, vendors are scrambling to develop smartphone and tablet applications that go beyond replicating the desktop record on smaller screens.

New technology can create inflated expectations about what can be accomplished, but setting realistic goals can help alleviate feelings of being let down.

Regardless of whether the system is local or cloud-based, physician practices should have a plan that includes off-site storage of data.

Fifty-nine percent of physicians believe there will be clinical benefits to having data immediately available, but they are less confident EHRs can reduce costs.

Usability of electronic health records remains a top concern for physicians as other goals of interoperability and information sharing appear to be far off.

Federal incentives have helped push electronic prescribing, which the vast majority of physicians are now doing.

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Some hospitals have been successful by launching apps that give patients access to their medical records. Physician practices might find similar interest.

Health IT systems were retested after complaints and found ineligible to meet requirements despite previous approval. What’s a medical practice to do?

The Medicare agency is probing whether physicians are using paperless systems to bill costlier services, but doctors say EHR complexity is the real problem.

To create a truly interoperable health care network, physicians need the incentives and flexibility to receive, use and share information.