Practice Technology

Here’s what features and functions vendors should add to improve their software for physicians.

Avoid repeating these common errors

What the Telehealth Innovation and Improvement Act would mean for PCPs

More than 80% of security breaches result from human errors

Experts predict an increasing number of patients will want, and need, to share data generated from devices, forcing health IT to find ways to keep up.

Studies show documentation remains a significant pain point for physicians, but technology developments on the horizon deliver hope for improvements.

The article “I was hacked” (February 10, 2017) by Dr. George Ellis was quite timely.

Good cybersecurity also means protecting patient data when it’s held by a business associate

Viewed as a small-practice savior for data reporting, CMS has yet to reveal how they can assist with quality metrics

Patients seek digital connections

Electronic heath records (EHRs) and other forms of health information technology have the potential to significantly improve care delivery and patient outcomes. But that can’t happen until the technology becomes more user-friendly and patient-focused than it is today.

Internists detail recommendations to reduce the burdens of EHRs, quality metrics and more

Medical note transparency can help patients and physicians communicate better, but many physicians remain tentantive

Most physicians have plans for responding to computer system failures, but many don’t revisit those disaster recovery/business continuity plans with any regularity.

While leaders in healthcare are pushing for an era of digital care, many providers on the frontlines have remained silent observers.

AI will be an increasingly important player in healthcare IT, with better medical care being an expected benefit.

Systems allow physicians and their patients to more easily identify relevant studies, although working such alerts into workflow can be challenging

Electronic health records (EHR) have the ability to transform the current healthcare system into a place of efficiently executed, high-quality, and patient-centered medicine, but only if physicians know how to use these systems to their maximum potential.

Health IT change is coming to nursing facilities and home health agencies, fixing a problem for physicians

Physicians should prepare for uncertainty coming out of Washington, D.C. because President Donald Trump is poised to shake up healthcare policy, says Robert Doherty, senior vice president for governmental affairs and public policy for the American College of Physicians (ACP).

While the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) among healthcare providers is here, the dramatic boost in efficiency across the healthcare system that was supposed to accompany this shift has yet to be fully realized.

Waves of predictions about the health IT industry roll in at the end of every year. But how accurate were they in 2016?

Physicians have mixed feelings about Donald Trump’s nominee.

Physicians can violate federal law simply by replying to a negative review

A look at apps that can help physicians in the transition to value-based Medicare reimbursement