Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Open an electronic healthcare record and click on a field. What happens? Underneath the covers of your EHR application, a lot is going on.

Deborah Jeffries, MD, director of healthcare for Polycom, talks about emerging telemedicine trends, including the growing power of the peer-to-peer aspects of personal health management.

Farzad Mostashari, Dick Foster and Uwe Reinhardt lead a panel discussion at Health Datapalooza IV to discuss whether or not the current surge in public and private sector spending on health IT programs is going to reduce healthcare costs.

In the Boston marketplace, Partners Healthcare is is replacing 30 years of self developed software with Epic. Boston Medical Center is replacing Eclipsys (Allscripts) with Epic.

There has been some buzz lately about how interoperability is a non-issue. I beg to differ. With increasing pressure from federal initiatives like Meaningful Use Stage 2, there is growing need for information exchange across the industry.

I wanted to learn more about the hurdles smaller, clinic-based physicians are encountering when trying to switch EHR vendors.

Denver Health and Hospital Authority CIO Gregg Veltri discusses the biggest achievements made in health IT in the past decade with Healthcare IT News Associate Editor Erin McCann.

GOP strategist Karl Rove recalls a personal encounter with the power of healthcare IT. Mike Miliard asks Rove what role the government should play in reform, and whether the Bush administration could have infused $27B in stimulus funds.

Franco Rizzolo of the Suburban Orthopaedic Medical Center explains how integrating an EMR with a patient payments system has reduced front-end work and increased accuracy.

Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital was the third hospital in North Carolina to receive payments in return for demonstrating the meaningful use of health IT. CFO Don Trippel explains how the hospital reformed its finances through IT.