A recent report in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the characteristics of prescriptions that are abandoned at the pharmacy raise the question of (1) how to ensure that people actually pick up their prescriptions, and (2) how to make sure that people actually take...

Health information exchange is a key piece in the national effort to build an interconnected health care delivery system. Their potential to improve health care quality, reduce medical errors, and lower costs by means of increased interoperability and information-sharing among patients, providers, payors and other...

Social networking is becoming a mainstay of modern life. Facebook alone, which has grown to 100,000,000 users in just 9 months, is the 4th largest “country” in the world. Many businesses use Facebook pages to build their marketing and visibility – in fact, a whole...

At Practice Fusion we feel really lucky. Lucky to have over 50,000 users who utilize our EHR to its fullest capacity and also truly believe in us as a company. As the social media specialist, I see firsthand the love and appreciation our users express....

Meaningful Use of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology is set to be in play in 2011. The bonus moneys that were funded by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act(ARRA), under its HITECH section, are to be distributed through the Centers for Medicare and...