Family physicians are adopting electronic health records (EHRs) at a much faster rate than previous data suggested, reaching a nearly 70 percent adoption rate nationwide, new study findings reveal.

EHR adoption has lagged significantly for healthcare facilities that don’t qualify for subsidies through the HITECH Act’s Incentive Programs, such as rehabilitation hospitals, long-term care and ...

Electronic health record adoption varies by several factors including physician practice size and location. Here are the top five states leading in EHR adoption, according to a Medscape report.

Physician use of electronic health records, or EHRs, to document patient health data and treatment outcomes and share that information with other clinicians varies significantly by medical specialty.

Although on average hospital or health system-owned medical practices tend to have higher EHR adoption rates, in the second half of 2011, the EHR adoption rate for larger practices lagged behind ...

In practical terms, most modern systems are EHRs. The distinction matters most when patients receive care from ...

Just because more hospitals are implementing electronic health record systems, it doesn't mean they are doing it right. With changes in technology and in the medical industry itself, it is getting ...

Why are we continuing to exclude behavioral health facilities from the information technology funding support that has been so transformational for medical-surgical hospitals and patients? We can all ...

Healthcare technology leaders are rapidly integrating AI into electronic health record (EHR) systems to reduce clinician burnout, improve care quality, and ensure regulatory compliance. New offerings ...

Strategic Fit Assessment Finds Leadership Concentrated in Enterprise-Scale Clinical Performance and Resilience While Cloud Agility, Partnership Value, and Patient Engagement Create New "Wedge" ...

A federal commission late last month called for a national patient authentication system to enable faster adoption of electronic health records (EHR). The Commission on Systemic Interoperability, ...