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.

Three Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System hospitals — Memorial Hermann Katy, Sugar Land and Southeast — have reached Stage 6 of seven stages of the HIMSS Analytics EMR adoption model, ...

The RAND Corporation published research regarding health information system implementation in 2005 entitled, “The State and Pattern of HEALTH Information Technology Adoption”. RAND started the study ...

Wilmington, Del.-based American Surgery Center’s Kemal Erkan, board chairman, spoke to Becker’s ASC Review about the importance of EHR adoption in ASCs and how his center approached it. Kemal Erkan: ...

Three Community Healthcare System hospitals in Indiana have achieved Stage 7, the highest level on HIMSS Analytics' Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. Three Community Healthcare System ...

A new study led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst health economist dispels the notion that hospitals' adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) is driving up health care spending by helping ...

Since the initial setup cost is the biggest hurdle in EMR adoption, most vendors tend to market their product accordingly. There has been an increasing trend amongst EMR vendors to provide contractual ...

In a study that is unlikely to find favor among privacy advocates, researchers from two academic institutions warned that increased efforts to protect the privacy of health data will hamper the ...