The hospital EHR environment The ambulatory healthcare environment Differences in Certification Conclusions

The notion that Electronic Health Record (EHR) data is somehow “safer” when it is backed up locally is something raised in conversation from time to time. Is this really true? What kinds of assumptions lie behind such a question?

The upcoming transition to the new set of ICD-10 billing codes threatens to disrupt the finances of healthcare providers across the United States. However, hospital networks and health systems may have more financial wiggle room compared to offices that employ only a handful of physicians....

Traditionally, a patient’s medical information has been segmented into charts that exist in various places – the offices of the doctors involved, hospitals, etc. Each doctor’s chart is a medico-legal record of the advice given to the patient by the doctor, resides in the doctor’s...

Years ago, doctors and other healthcare practitioners had no choice but to put pen to paper for health records. They had to keep records by hand and then employ staff to deal with the mountains of paperwork and filing. Accessing these records proved time-consuming, and...