The Health IT Certification Program is a certification program by the Office of National Coordinator (ONC). Back in 2010, a total of 6 companies were chosen to test and provide certification for Electronic Health Records (EHR) software, also known as Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software. The ONC-ATCBs (ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies) determine if the EHR [...]
There are hundreds of EMR Software companies in the US today and most of them offer their services to a wide range of specialties such as Cardiology, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology and General Surgery. However, in the field of healthcare, “one size fits all” does not apply […]
Many factors may make an Electronic Medical Records software company perform better than the competition, but the most significant factor is unsurprisingly a company’s sales and marketing strategy. Reports by independent industry and media outlets feature several articles about “Top EMR Systems” to be published and marketed across digital and print media. They usually highlight a [...]
If you are a small practice and thinking of buying an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software for your practice, you might think that the huge tech-giants in the healthcare industry are the best choice for you. But this judgment could be very wrong. The larger Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software are usually expensive and their functionality [...]
Work in healthcare practices can get really intense and complicated at times. Activities in these medical practices are always packed with important and stressful tasks. Sometimes, it becomes really difficult to manage resources and time to identify changes to save labor. […]
Prominent EHR vendor eClinicalWorks is now facing a class-action lawsuit that revolves around the inaccuracy of their medical record software. The lawsuit alleges that patients cannot trust eClinicalWorks medical record’s accuracy due to several flaws. The mentioned class action lawsuit was filed by the estate of a cancer patient (Stjepan Tot estate). The estate claimed that [...]
Most people are well aware of the difference between an EHR and EMR, but now there is a new extension for EHR in the market and it is being called a CHR. Community Health Record (CHR) is a bit like an EHR and a personal health record. It has a few components of an EMR as [...]
Most people are well aware of the difference between an Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR), but now there is a new extension for EHR in the market and it is being called a CHR. Community Health Records (CHR) is a bit like an EHR and personal health records software. It has a [...]
The US Health IT market for EHR/EMR systems is generally dominated by a group of large EHR companies such as Cerner and Epic Systems. These companies are producing excellent EHR solutions for all sorts of medical practices and large hospitals, but there are other vendors in the market who are offering quality EHR/EMR systems at far [...]
The company says doctors will be able to use the software to access best practices. Hospitals can use this new tool to access analytics and to understand and manage test ordering trends. Mayo Clinic in collaboration with National Decision Support Company has announced a new clinical decision support tool that enables clinicians to access clinical guidance [...]
