The country’s shift to a system of electronic health records (EHRs) is showing mixed results, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. On the positive side, physicians reporting the use of any kind of EHR system was 57 percent in 2011, a big jump from the 17 percent reported in 2002. [...]

The days of carrying a scribbled prescription to your pharmacist may be numbered. As the U.S. builds a national health information infrastructure based on electronic medical records, the market for e-prescription systems is forecast to reach $205 million by 2017, according to a new report from Global Industry Analysts. E-prescribing—electronically sending a prescription directly to [...]

We all know the healthcare industry is suffocating under mountains of paperwork. Providers spend millions of dollars in staff salaries and hardware and software solutions to bring their document management under control. Despite this, it seems like paperwork headaches are here to stay. But wait—how about attacking the paperwork issue from a different angle, using [...]

The adoption of electronic health records (EHR) systems still hasn’t pulled the healthcare industry out from a mountain of paperwork, according to a new survey of health professionals. Despite digitization efforts, paper remains a primary means for tracking information within the organization for “well over half” of the respondents to the online survey conducted by [...]