Electronic health records, commonly used in hospitals, fail to detect potentially harmful medication problems up to one-third of time. Photo credit: Getty Images Despite improvements in their ...

Doctors often must make critical decisions in minutes, relying on incomplete information. While electronic health records contain vast amounts of patient data, much of it remains difficult to ...

This study examines trends in hospitals’ access to and use of data from electronic health record (EHR) developers that quantify clinicians’ time spent documenting clinical care in EHRs. Objectives: To ...

Pennington Biomedical Research Center researchers have recently published a piece in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, or JMIR. The study titled "Twenty-Five Years of Evolution and Hurdles in ...

A recent survey found that more than 90% of accountable care organizations (ACOs) have multiple EHRs. This could present issues as ACOs adopt electronic quality measures. Objectives: To assess the ...

Physicians East is asking patients for patience as the healthcare provider transitions to a new electronic health record system.In a message to patients, Physic ...

Maine DHHS plans to invest around 30 million dollars to help eligible health care providers upgrade electronic medical record ...

Medical records of hundreds of patients at a Sydney hospital’s cancer genetics service have been reviewed following irregularities related to care by a single specialist. According to St Vincent’s ...

In the last decade, the dark side of electronic health records (EHR) systems has received the most attention: how their complexity and time-consuming demands have added to physicians’ and nurses’ ...