Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente uses EHR data to track the quality and safety of medical devices, aiming to provide better, more personalized patient care. Becker’s interviewed Dr. Paxton ...

Intentional governance, process redesign, change management and data strategy all must be addressed to achieve optimal ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT shared the results of a new study that sheds new insight on a number of EHR uses from 2015 through 2017. Hospitals are continuing to surge in their ...

Electronic health records, once viewed largely as digital filing cabinets, are now being reimagined as strategic tools to improve care delivery, reduce clinician burden and enable AI. Hospitals and ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) set aside nearly $20 billion in federal incentive payments to healthcare providers and organizations who adopt electronic health record (EHR) ...

Role-based access control (RBAC) restricts access to patient data based on job responsibilities, reducing risk. Encryption methods like symmetric and asymmetric key schemes safeguard sensitive health ...

The lack of measurement goes against the trend toward accountability in healthcare. Studies show there are savings to be found in post-acute settings. HHS needs to measure efforts to promote the use ...

How would you reinvent part of the software industry? Back in March, I suggested that Medicare — the 800-pound gorilla of health care – could break the logjam in electronic health records by requiring ...

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to ...