CCHIT’s Physician’s Guide to Certification for 08 EHRs includes a list of 10 questions you should ask your prospective vendor.  What are Sevocity’s answers? 1. Tell me about your company.  How …

What are the 10 most important things a practice can do to prepare for a successful EHR implementation once the decision has been made? Contract- review in detail and ask …

Names have been changed to protect the innocent. Over the next few months, I will be sharing some implementation stories (nightmares) to shed some light on how you can make …

HIT Policy Committee Finds Barriers with Technology and Cost The HIT Policy Committee reports among other things: “According to experts, labs are required to pay for the exchange of data, …

Practice Specific Considerations #1) Do I like my current practice management/billing system or company? Changing practice management systems is time consuming and will usually temporarily disrupt cash flow. If you …

Did you go to med school to practice medicine or learn how to maintain an EMR/EHR?  Will you generate more revenue seeing patients or maintaining your system’s hardware? I ran …

The best source for unbiased EHR/EMR Ratings and Reviews is free and comprehensive.  Every practice considering buying EHR/EMR should review it. KLAS (www.KLASresearch.com) is a great source for comprehensive customer reviews and …

Why are you interested in adopting EHR?  What scares you about adopting EHR?  Are you prepared to evaluate EHR products and vendors on this basis? Most surveys cite reasons such …

Yesterday, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 into law.  What does this mean for the top two barriers to wide-scale EHR adoption? With $19.2 billion …

That can become BIG and UGLY in your EHR I was playing around with Microsoft’s on-line personal health record, Health Vault, yesterday and it reminded me of just how BIG …