The Holy Grail of EHRs is a completely paperless physician workflow. Most community hospitals still have a long way to go to achieve this goal, but significant progress is being made.

Community Memorial Health System (CMHS) in Ventura,…

One of physicians’ long-standing frustrations with healthcare IT is the time required to learn to use it. Many hospital EMRs call for days of classroom training, which takes physicians away from their patients and costs them money in lost revenue. Then,…

Sometimes a high-performing engine gets sluggish. It can be a sign of a serious problem, requiring a complete re-build; or it can simply mean it’s time for a tune-up.

In the world of healthcare IT, the engines that keep hospitals running are hospital information systems (HIS) like McKesson Horizon. When they sputter, frequently it’s related to physician adoption of (and dissatisfaction with) a physician-facing application –…