One of the simplest Meaningful Use menu criteria to achieve is providing patient-specific education resources to more than 10% of patients who visit your office during your reporting period. As you near the end of your reporting period, now is the time to evaluate how...

Recently, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), chartered by the National Academy of Sciences to advise the federal government on issues of medical care, research and education, delivered a publication on Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care.

The 2nd annual Practice Fusion user conference is just two days away and we couldn’t be more excited. We’re expecting over 1,300 attendees from all over the globe and what better way to prepare you for Health IT madness than to give you a quick...

Is my health data safe on the Internet? That is a question we hear frequently when describing web-based Electronic Health Record(EHR) systems, as well as the newly evolving field of mobile health (mHealth) applications. Privacy and security of health information is a central plank in...

Now that we have accumulated some experience with the criteria for the EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use), we can see where some of the pain points are. When the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) set up the criteria for demonstrating Meaningful Use, it was...