For office-based physicians, attitudes regarding EHR adoption and perceived ease of use tended to be generally positive, according to a study in the American Journal of Managed Care. Researchers used ...

Nearly one in five clinicians associate EHR design and use with workplace stress and burnout, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open. For the ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) set aside nearly $20 billion in federal incentive payments to healthcare providers and organizations who adopt electronic health record (EHR) ...

Healthcare providers excel at providing care to their patients, not designing IT strategies. Even so, with the trend toward value-based payments increasing, more healthcare providers have turned to ...

While the benefits of electronic health records have been widely touted, and EHRs are now ubiquitous across hospitals in the United States, a study of a major teaching hospital in New England ...

The lack of measurement goes against the trend toward accountability in healthcare. Studies show there are savings to be found in post-acute settings. HHS needs to measure efforts to promote the use ...

A CMS proposal could extend the deadline for providers to transition to Stage 2 meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). Agency officials said they have received extensive feedback from ...

Researchers report the results of a survey to assess the impact of electronic health record use during face-to-face visits in the primary care setting. Fifty-nine clinicians (including physicians, ...