The hidden costs of cumbersome ordering was slowing down a Georgia clinic

Say goodbye to the server, the future of health technology lies in the cloud. Thanks to advances in security and reliability, affordable web-based technology is more popular with physicians than ever. A recent Black Book Rankings study found that 7 out 10 small medical practices...

The New York State Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing (I-STOP) Act established a real-time database which tracks controlled substance prescriptions issued by every doctor in the state of New York, with certain exceptions. This database allows doctors and pharmacists to have access and to keep...

CMS has amended Meaningful Use Stage 2 for the 2015 reporting period and beyond. Practices that are reporting for Stage 2 in 2015 will now report on the reduced Stage 2 objectives based on the new CMS requirements.

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?