Michael McBride

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

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.

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).

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

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

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

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.

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

Find out how well-designed EHR workflows can help productivity.

The days of big paychecks have disappeared. Discover what you'll need to survive.

You've spent a lot of time and money trying to attain meaningful use with your electronic health record system, but you still have to phone or fax over records. Find out the reason why.

The Bay State has received $16.9 million to improve communication between providers, payers, and the government. Its efforts could serve as a model for other states.

A new center will focus on improving and expanding EHR use, e-health, and health information technology. The tools it develops may help you manage your patient population.

Discover the various price tags associated with EHR implementation. EHR implementation plan.

Discover how you can benefit from electronically communicating with practices that use different technology--and how it could help you attain meaningful use through a new government ruling.

When you implement an electronic health record system in your practice, you first must sign an end-user license agreement, or EULA. Written to protect vendors, EULAs can vary widely in wording and structure. Here's what you can do to protect your interests.