Electronic health records have a multitude of benefits for health systems, such as interoperability, improving physician efficiency and easy access to patients’ medical history, but the cost of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began issuing Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments to eligible providers. For physicians who were able to attest ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article by Greg Bruno was originally published in Rutgers Today. Denied insurance claims are among the biggest challenges facing the U.S. health care system – driving up costs and leaving ...