While electronic health records improve communication and access to patient data, researchers found that stress from using EHRs is associated with burnout, particularly for primary care doctors such as pediatricians, family medicine physicians and general internists. Common causes of EHR-related stress include too little time for documentation, time spent at home managing records and EHR… Read More »
Poor handling of paper medical records at San Mateo (Calif.) Medical Center led to a data breach for 5,000 patients. While frequent breaches affecting electronic protected health information have become the norm, there remains a lot of paper-based medical records that can be just as vulnerable and the following of HIPAA rules for mitigation of… Read More »
Free Website Content » Health » Health Care Industry Articles When buying Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Software which is better ASP or Client/Server? Unfortunately there is no right answer. You’ll need to decide what’s important to your practice and what’s not. In this article we’ll explore the advantages and disadvantages of each model so you’ll… Read More »