Some of the problems that hospitals and practices are running into with electronic health record adoption stem from the ways that staff are trained on the systems, Andres Jimenez, CEO of EHR training ...

No matter how you feel about the treatment of the Illinois physician who contends he was removed from his job because he couldn't get the hang of the hospital's new electronic health record system, he ...

Despite widespread market adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, provider frustration with the technology has been well documented. Many healthcare organizations have struggled to ...

Electronic medical record (EMR) implementations are expensive endeavors, and cost overruns can cripple the hospitals that experience them and cause havoc for the people who work there. In the case of ...

As part of an ongoing ambulatory electronic medical record deployment, the Lehigh Valley Health Network in eastern Pennsylvania is refining its EMR training processes. Greencastle Consulting, a ...

I used to believe that proper training sessions are not too important in order to get accustomed to the functions and usability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). According to me, watching a hand ...

Making the transition to an electronic medical records system — whether from a paper-based system or an existing EMR — is an exciting development for an ASC. A good system brings about improvement in ...

Healthcare providers with poor medical software training often rely on EHR workarounds, which can pose a threat to patient safety. Better training could reduce their occurrence. Electronic health ...

As the need for certified electronic health record specialists (CEHRS) grows, it is important that healthcare organizations are able to recognize whether potential candidates are EHR-ready, says one ...

ORLANDO, Fla--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ImplementHIT will roll out OptimizeHIT, (www.OptimizeHIT.com) physician electronic health record (EHR) elearning solutions, at HIMSS 2011 in Orlando, FL, February 20-24 ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has created a training program to educate medical providers who will be the first users of its forthcoming electronic health record modernization program. Called ...