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Tech-savvy clinicians take electronic health records to the next level
As the medical world transitioned to electronic health records, Stanford clinicians stepped up to trouble-shoot. Now they're innovating patient care.
Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information
ONC's Guide to Privacy and Security brings new, practical information about privacy and security to small & medium-sized provider practices, professionals.
How Lax Oversight of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients at Risk
Special interests and congressional inaction doomed efforts to regulate electronic medical records, putting patients at risk.
Why Doctors Don't Like Electronic Health Records
A physician argues that electronic patient records raise costs, decrease patient visits, and make poor communication tools.
Electronic Health Records: How to Make Successful Decisions
Consider this series of decisions that you may confront when implementing Electronic Health Records (EHR)—and learn how to improve your odds of success.
Guide to Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records
Read the Guide to Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records to learn about Electronic Health Records challenges and how to anticipate, avoid, and address.
Electronic Health Records: How They Connect to You and Your Doctors
How do electronic health records (EHRs) connect you and your doctor? In the past, medical data was only stored on paper, making it difficult for your
How Doctors are Providing Smarter Care with Electronic Health Records
More and more, the promise of EHRs transforming data into knowledge is beginning to bear fruit.
Why NIST thinks electronic health records are so important
Federal agency NIST helps create standards that will help the U.S. in its push to securely computerize EHR.
How Your Doctor Uses Electronic Health Records
During your next check up, you may notice your primary care or specialty physician using a computer, tablet or other electronic device. What are they using it for? What records are they accessing? …
Why Thousands of Doctors Still Don't Use Electronic Records
With federal incentives to go electronic expiring this year, many wonder what can be done to reach physicians who still rely on paper.
How to Make Electronic Health Records Easier to Use—and Safer for Patients
The transition from paper medical records to electronic health records (EHRs) has transformed health care<br>and improved safety and quality. Digitizing has also highlighted issues with usability—how clinicians interact<br>with EHR systems—that can contribute to patient harm. Varied EHR formats and a lack of consistent, intuitive<br>interfaces—combined with EHR customization by health care facilities and lack of post-implementation testing<br>and insufficient clinician training—can lead to errors…
How Safe Is Your Electronic Health Information?
What the switch from paper to electronic records means
How Apple's Health Records could reshape patient engagement
Dignity Health's chief digital officer explains why he thinks Apple can succeed for population health and precision medicine efforts where other PHR launches have not.
How to access your health records through third party applications
Do you need to review a health record before your next visit? Now, you can easily and quickly check your VA health records through third-party applications.
How is the doctor-patient relationship changing? It’s going electronic.
Online records, video visits and smartphone medicine transform the traditional office appointment.
Benefits of Electronic Health Records
By Brenda Hatfield, PhD When health care services are criticized because of rising costs, health records that follow patients across the health care system are one way to save money and add efficiency to patients’ care. The costs of health care services and insurance rise significantly when patients move, switch physicians and hospitals or seek sec...
Are Your Electronic Health Records Safe?
Your complete medical history is now online for doctors to access. Hackers, too?
Maximizing the Benefits of Electronic Health Records with Clinical Surveillance
How does your hospital use clinical surveillance to enhance EMR and improve care?
