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� Brief: Medical practice managers seek EHR penalty moratorium in 2015 - Sept. 2, 2013
� Brief: Survey: EHRs boost quality but don’t cut costs - Aug. 26, 2013
� Nationwide health information exchange network is expanding - Aug. 26, 2013
� Study details how primary care diagnoses get delayed - Aug. 26, 2013
� Patient access to physician EHRs helps build loyalty - Aug. 20, 2013
� Brief: Health IT identifies high-risk patients to cut readmissions - Aug. 19, 2013
� Brief: HHS health IT chief to step down - Aug. 19, 2013
� Column: How physicians can ensure context in the medical record - Aug. 19, 2013
� Brief: More hospitals sharing electronic health data than in 2008 - Aug. 19, 2013
� Defense, VA hit by health IT cost overruns - Aug. 19, 2013
� Brief: Electronic health tool aims to improve personalized care - Aug. 12, 2013
� EHR transition causes its own headaches - Aug. 5, 2013
� Doctors, hospitals unite to improve meaningful use stage 2 - Aug. 5, 2013
� States align to make it easier for doctors to communicate after disasters - July 30, 2013
� Column: Doctors should consider nurse, staff workflow when picking EHR - July 29, 2013
� Health IT projects stalled by staffing shortages - July 29, 2013
� Better patient safety is goal of confidential EHR error reports - July 24, 2013
� Column: Portals give patients a handy window to their health information - July 22, 2013
� Brief: Program studies ways to see who accesses EHR data - July 22, 2013
� Is health IT reaching a plateau? - July 22, 2013
� Health information exchanges gain newfound doctor interest - July 1, 2013
� News Guidance offered on effective EHR use - July 1, 2013
� Electronic prescription monitoring struggles to gain traction - June 25, 2013
� Doctor safe harbor on free hospital EHRs nears expiration - June 24, 2013
� Brief: Health information exchanges not producing expected savings - June 24, 2013
� Project tallies lifetime radiation from health scans - June 24, 2013
� Physician EHRs: Make patient data work for you - June 24, 2013
� House bill would stop EHR penalties for more medical practices - June 17, 2013
� Column: How a doctor perceives uncertainty guides attitude to EHR - June 17, 2013
� Physician demand driving more EHRs to go mobile - June 17, 2013
� Letter: Fatal EHR flaw — little thought given to physician users - June 10, 2013
� Brief: EHRs seen as vital to strategy for medication compliance - June 10, 2013
� Brief: EHR adoption rate exceeds HHS expectations - June 3, 2013
� Doctors find gift of health IT comes with a dose of reality - June 3, 2013
� Brief: North America expected to lead health IT market growth - May 27, 2013
� Column: Backup plans for EHR failures need regular testing - May 27, 2013
� Physicians see potential of EHRs despite early dissatisfaction - May 27, 2013
� Physicians sound an urgent call to retool stage 2 EHR program - May 27, 2013
� Paper-only prescribers become a vanishing breed - May 21, 2013
� Connected Coverage: Medicare's payment carrots turn to sticks - May 20, 2013
� Column: Mobile a likely key to more patient portal use - May 20, 2013
� Letter: Factor in downtime to ensure safer health IT - May 13, 2013
� Brief: EHR meaningful use success rate reaches nearly 50% - May 13, 2013
� 2 EHRs decertified for meaningful use eligibility - May 13, 2013
� CMS: Do EHRs lead to upcoding? - May 13, 2013
� Column: Health data sharing needs an overhaul - May 13, 2013
� IT safety risk protocols to guide physicians - May 6, 2013
� Doctors strike back at EHR vendor with class-action suit - May 6, 2013
� Medical practice action plan: Overcome regulation overload - May 6, 2013
� Medicare incentives seen as crucial to coordinated EHRs - May 6, 2013
� Letter: EHR vendors must find solutions to physicians’ usability concerns - April 29, 2013
� Brief: EHRs lead venture capital health IT funding - April 29, 2013
� Column: Work flow analysis critical after EHR purchase - April 29, 2013
� CMS, in a switch, starts prepayment meaningful use audits - April 15, 2013
� Brief: ONC launches state meaningful use challenge - April 15, 2013
� Long-term-care facilities lagging in health IT adoption - April 9, 2013
� Shopping for an EHR (the second time around) - April 8, 2013
� EHR design flaws causing doctors to revert to paper - April 8, 2013
� Brief: ONC seeks comments on health IT strategic plan - April 8, 2013
� Brief: Billions in savings forecast for EHR-medical device interoperability - April 1, 2013
� Is your EHR ready for the ADA? - April 1, 2013
� Column: Vendor misconceptions hamper EHR usability - April 1, 2013
� Shortage of health IT workers hits home with physicians - March 25, 2013
� Health IT: Physicians are the easy part (HIMSS meeting) - March 25, 2013
� Column: To meet EHR meaningful use, look to practice managers - March 25, 2013
� Health IT’s economic benefits difficult for many doctors to see - March 19, 2013
� Familiarity breeds doctor contempt with EHRs - March 18, 2013
� Doctors willing to go only so far on patient EHR access - March 18, 2013
� Brief: EHR vendor alliance seeks to advance health data exchange - March 18, 2013
� Many dissatisfied physicians to switch EHR vendors - March 12, 2013
� Some fear EHR meaningful use is too much, too soon for doctors - March 11, 2013
� Column: Upgrading physician websites for a post-ACA world - March 4, 2013
� IBM’s Watson supercomputer finally ready for health care debut - Feb. 25, 2013
� Connected Coverage: As EHR use grows, new patient safety risks identified - Feb. 25, 2013
� Column: Health IT lags as facilitator in shared decision-making - Feb. 25, 2013
� Brief: More staffing help sought for health information exchanges - Feb. 25, 2013
� Ways EHRs can lead to unintended safety problems - Feb. 25, 2013
� Column: Fast could lead to furious over EHR meaningful use - Feb. 18, 2013
� Brief: EHRs not ready for quality reporting, hospital groups say - Feb. 18, 2013
� Column: Focus required to manage patient populations for bonuses - Feb. 18, 2013
� Patient respect drops when doctors diagnose with computer - Feb. 12, 2013
� Do missing mental health notes undermine EHRs? - Feb. 11, 2013
� EHRs: Where will your meaningful use bonus go? - Feb. 11, 2013
� EHRs: “Sloppy and paste” endures despite patient safety risk - Feb. 4, 2013
� Graphic designers re-imagine the patient portal - Feb. 4, 2013
� Health plans signal willingness to alter doctor pay - Feb. 4, 2013
� States using health IT to boost Medicaid sign-ups - Feb. 1, 2013
� Column: Make sure patient portals go beyond meaningful use - Jan. 28, 2013
� Proposed meaningful use stage 3 criticized as hasty and too strict - Jan. 28, 2013
� RAND points fingers after health IT predictions fizzle - Jan. 22, 2013
� Physician EHRs emerge as hot advertising venue for drugs - Jan. 21, 2013
� Economists outline strategy to counter primary care shortage - Jan. 18, 2013
� EHR-related errors soar but few harm patients - Jan. 14, 2013
� Apps latest bid by health insurers to manage wellness - Jan. 14, 2013
� Cloud-based EHRs create medical privacy risks - Jan. 14, 2013
� Brief: Emails prompt doctors to note patients’ end-of-life choices - Jan. 14, 2013
� Letter: An app is the wrong prescription for struggling patients - Jan. 7, 2013
� Online patient portals: Unveiling the doctor's note - Dec. 31, 2012
� Brief: CMS awards grant for cloud-based decision support system - Dec. 31, 2012
� Physician practices step up data security budgets - Dec. 31, 2012
� Universal EHR to streamline care for active military and vets - Dec. 28, 2012
� Doctors lean local in joining health information exchanges - Dec. 24, 2012
� Column: Employed doctors don't have to lose social media voice - Dec. 24, 2012
� Brief: Mobile tools can help shed pounds - Dec. 24, 2012
� Meaningful use drives physician EHR boom - Dec. 24, 2012
� E-prescribing soars among doctors with EHRs - Dec. 18, 2012
� Online portal leads patients back to doctors’ offices - Dec. 17, 2012
� Brief: Text messages get expectant mothers ready for parenthood - Dec. 17, 2012
� Letter: To make EHR use more effective, give patients their own screen - Dec. 17, 2012
� Watchdog call for EHR bonus audits meets resistance - Dec. 10, 2012
� EHR loan program targets practices in underserved areas - Dec. 4, 2012
� Pediatricians: EHRs lacking in 5 main functions - Dec. 3, 2012
� Some EHRs in danger of missing data connections - Nov. 28, 2012
� U.S. primary care doctors making sizeable strides on health IT - Nov. 26, 2012
� Programs preview mainstreaming of personalized medicine - Nov. 26, 2012
� Column: 3-point plan protects medical practice technology in disasters - Nov. 26, 2012
� EHR confidentiality tests teen trust - Nov. 20, 2012
� Column: Frustrated doctor bloggers can consult a specialist: a ghostwriter - Nov. 19, 2012
� Where growth is coming in telemedicine - Nov. 13, 2012
� Study identifies patients most willing to use personal health records - Nov. 12, 2012
� Decisions doctors must make to avoid Medicare penalties - Nov. 12, 2012
� Medicare finalizes physician pay for new care coordination benefit - Nov. 12, 2012
� Passwords make doctors vulnerable, but solutions are easy - Nov. 12, 2012
� Patients online drill deep for information on doctors, procedures - Nov. 5, 2012
� When the Rx is an app - Nov. 5, 2012
� Biggest obstacles to stage 2 EHR bonuses revealed - Nov. 5, 2012
� AMA wants to know if physicians are satisfied with their EHRs - Oct. 29, 2012
� Column: Some early signs that your EHR is working as hoped - Oct. 29, 2012
� Doctors tell how they use social media as professional watercooler - Oct. 22, 2012
� Older patients join crowd consulting Dr. Internet - Oct. 22, 2012
� Column: Stage 2 meaningful use success rests on 3 elements - Oct. 22, 2012
� EHR standards sought to cut tech-induced errors - Oct. 15, 2012
� User feedback is key to improving EHR systems - Oct. 10, 2012
� Patients who read doctor notes feel more in control of their health - Oct. 9, 2012
� Patients seek strong say in how their data are used - Oct. 3, 2012
� Wireless health monitoring technology expected to expand - Oct. 2, 2012
� Column: Can a computer game help practices keep data secure? - Oct. 1, 2012
� Discussion: Getting ready for ICD-10 - Oct. 1, 2012
� Large settlement for data breach sends message to lock up laptops and smartphones - Sept. 28, 2012
� Guide aims to generate patient interest in electronic access to records - Sept. 25, 2012
� EHR implementation: How common blunders can alienate your patients - Sept. 24, 2012
� CDC health safety network promises more updated information - Sept. 24, 2012
� Study quantifies drug monitoring database�s effect on opioid prescriptions - Sept. 20, 2012
� Device theft poses greatest risk for health data breaches - Sept. 18, 2012
� Column: Knowing e-discovery rules saves doctors time and money - Sept. 17, 2012
� Will meaningful use spur growth of patient portals? - Sept. 17, 2012
� Column: Electronic audits can prevent, catch data breaches - Sept. 17, 2012
� �Blue button� medical records program logs its millionth user - Sept. 13, 2012
� Pilot programs look to increase use of prescription drug monitoring databases - Sept. 12, 2012
� Doctors shift focus to compliance as ICD-10 deadline set - Sept. 10, 2012
� EHR cost savings might depend on proximity to IT firms and talent - Sept. 5, 2012
� More complex EHRs can result in declines of quality measures - Sept. 4, 2012
� EHR standards get tougher under finalized meaningful use stage 2 - Sept. 3, 2012
� Hospitals get revenue boost from meaningful use money - Aug. 29, 2012
� Column: Managing lab tests when patients view results online - Aug. 27, 2012
� Will smart pills, cash boost drug compliance? - Aug. 20, 2012
� Patients worried about medical records going digital - Aug. 20, 2012
� Column: How physician practices can stir up Pinterest - Aug. 20, 2012
� Medical student training in EHRs found lacking - Aug. 13, 2012
� Baby boomers trust physicians� recommendations on medical apps - Aug. 13, 2012
� E-prescribing up, but progress by states is uneven - Aug. 13, 2012
� CMS starts auditing recipients of meaningful use bonuses - Aug. 13, 2012
� Humanlike features in automated decision tools build trust - Aug. 7, 2012
� Hospital websites don't tell whole story on robot-assisted surgery - Aug. 6, 2012
� Half of medical practice EHR shoppers not first-time buyers - Aug. 6, 2012
� Do EHRs result in better care? Many physicians say yes - July 30, 2012
� Column: New technology coming to boost preventive care - July 30, 2012
� Cloud computing expected to grow rapidly in health care - July 23, 2012
� Column: How to communicate well with a patient while working on an EHR - July 23, 2012
� Regional center helps 1,100 health professionals achieve meaningful use - July 18, 2012
� EHR use linked to fewer medical liability claims - July 16, 2012
� Desktops still dominate at physician offices - July 16, 2012
� Patients want technology to manage their health � but with a personal touch - July 11, 2012
� Column: Rules, technology leave drug reps out of luck - July 9, 2012
� Fear of EHRs being wrong leads doctors to code E&M services manually - July 9, 2012
� Health technology and patient-centered principles shown to improve care - July 9, 2012
� Column: How physicians should choose a health information exchange - July 2, 2012
� More states make doctors consult databases before prescribing - June 28, 2012
� 4 ways social media can improve your medical practice - June 25, 2012
� Physicians at 2,600 hospitals linked in new health care database - June 25, 2012
� Physicians aren�t connecting much to one another�s EHRs - June 19, 2012
� Column: How some physicians use YouTube for networking - June 18, 2012
� Physicians could see more medical devices going mobile - June 14, 2012
� Doctors� EHR note-taking method affects quality of care - June 12, 2012
� Lifestyle action plan plus mobile monitoring can help patients - June 11, 2012
� Discussion: Meaningful use�s stage 2: A recipe for failure - June 11, 2012
� Demographics, not practice setting, predict doctor tech use - June 11, 2012
� EHR certification lacking usability factor, doctors say - June 4, 2012
� Connected Coverage: Getting the most out of EHRs - June 4, 2012
� Health information from different search engines can vary widely - June 4, 2012
� Doctors quick to adopt tablets into practice - June 4, 2012
� VA launches iPad pilot program - May 29, 2012
� Transplant experts question impact of Facebook�s organ-donor registration push - May 28, 2012
� E-prescribing sign-up highest among small practices - May 28, 2012
� Column: 3 ways to set up online payment systems for patients - May 28, 2012
� Study links lower education levels to higher obesity rates - May 25, 2012
� AMA calls for 2-year delay of ICD-10 enforcement - May 21, 2012
� Column: Should doctors stop patients from taking smartphone pictures? - May 21, 2012
� Physicians receive federal innovation grants - May 17, 2012
� GAO: Doctors should submit more data to get meaningful use money - May 17, 2012

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