Implementing an EMR in an ASC may become increasingly important as healthcare moves toward electronic health information exchanges, but the financial commitment necessary for implementation can be ...

Out of control healthcare spending in the U.S. is no secret. Annually, healthcare expenditures currently stand at a whopping $2.7 trillion, a number that has industry leaders rushing to take new ...

The following column is written by Patrick Doyle, vice president of sales for SourceMedical. One of the many benefits associated with implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) system is the ...

KLAS, a research firm, has published a report that assesses the true cost of electronic medical record systems — including unanticipated costs — after 146 healthcare organizations bought the systems, ...

The total cost of implementing electronic health record systems could amount to approximately $120,000 per physician in the first year of deployment, according to a report published by CDW. CDW ...

A little over a month ago, I asked our Healthcare IT News social media followers if they believed a nation-wide transition to EHRs for doctors would lower healthcare costs. From Twitter to Facebook, ...

Here’s what you actually need to know before choosing one. An EHR, or electronic health record, is a digital system that stores and manages patient information across a practice. That includes ...

Since 2008, President Barack Obama has made it a goal to cut healthcare costs in the U.S. He has offered almost $27 billion in government funds for practitioners to make the switch to electronic ...

EHR vendor Cerner, which was later acquired by technology giant Oracle, first scored the contract to replace the VA’s aging medical record system in 2018. About two years later, the new EHR went live ...

The Government Accountability Office said VA is making “incremental improvements” to its new electronic health record system during an operational pause on additional deployments but added that “much ...