Demonstrating benefits to patients and clinicians will greatly drive interoperability, health information exchange and medical record digitalisation in Asia-Pacific. Dr Mahesh Appannan, Ministry of ...

Applying traditional project management methodologies to an ambulatory EHR implementation often yields unexpected and often unpleasant results. Why? Lessons learned in Project Management Professional ...

Despite over 96% of hospitals having an electronic health record (EHR), a recent study showed alarming levels of dissatisfaction among physicians with their current EHR systems and an increased ...

Overall, healthcare providers rated the electronic health record adoption process as being as challenging as they had expected, according to “4th Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities,” a ...

No one said implementing an electronic medical record was going to be easy. Patrick Murfee, director of information technology at Hemphill County Hospital, a small, rural hospital in Canadian, Texas, ...

The findings of this pilot study were preliminary and could not be generalized to the nursing staff as a whole. However, the preliminary data offered key indicators to the project team and reinforced ...

These findings provided directional goalposts for EMR project leaders. The data from this pilot survey influenced the design process in several ways. Nursing staff from each unit were invited to ...

Chief information officers, chief medical information officers, and other clinical and IT leaders are well familiar by now with the many challenges of implementing and optimizing new electronic health ...