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 …

Today is GoLive for Sevocity EHR in a medium size multi-speciality, multi-clinic, medical organization. What Fun!  No really, this is a blast… Here it is Monday morning.  The clinic is …

Most of us know what it means to find a new product that is easy to use.  We have a need, we see a product/service, we buy it, we don’t …

We’re hearing more and more aconyms when reading about Health Information Technology (HIT – there’s another one!) – what are they and what do they do? (updated Aug 2011) People …

In addition to the Medicare and Medicaid funding provided by the ARRA/Stimulus bill, funding was made available for the development of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs).  How will EHRs connect? The …

Researchers find a way to link de-identified data to individuals.  Is your EHR data safe? A recent New York Times article describes how researchers were able to track de-identified Netflix …

The rage is “Cloud Computing” and its spreading to Health IT, including EHR.  What is it really and what does it mean to the EHR/EMR purchaser and customer? What is …

What is Client Server?  What is Hosting?  Is all ASP (Application Service Provider) or Internet-based the same? Client-Sever – The server that runs the EMR software is physically located in …