The Obama-era mandate requiring health providers to adopt electronic health records has proved to be a resounding failure. EHRs have led to unnecessary deaths, contributed to a steep drop in ...

Love them or hate them, electronic medical records (EMR) are here to stay. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. They need not be painful but in some instances they have become so. I installed ...

Supporters say electronic medical records will boost the quality of medical care, reduce duplication of services, and limit errors, all of which could save money and lives.

Electronic medical records have long been ignored as a source for this kind of data, Gombar said, because they are messy, with coding aimed at obtaining insurance reimbursement rather than ...

Well over half the nation%27s medical records are computerized%2C the Obama administration says; Administration has spent %2415.5B to help health care providers develop electronic systems ...

Electronic medical records. EMRs are essentially digital equivalents of paper medical records. They help create a paperless office for medical practices by storing and granting authorized personnel ...

But the savings from electronic records are much harder to prove. The system cost Dr. Habib's partners a half million dollars. For Dr. Sarita Gopal, whose practice has just three doctors, the ...

Four doctors offer their views. To the Editor: “Our Health Record Mess,” by Theresa Brown and Stephen Bergman (Op-Ed, Jan. 1), hits the nail on the head about electronic health records. We ...

The real world implications of electronic medical records extend beyond the conceptual panacea, for better or worse. And then there's a rarely-addressed adverse effect. Let's take a look. Aside from ...

Few in the medical industry dispute the transformational promise of electronic medical records. They could spare you from a lethal dose of an allergy-triggering drug.

Berenson said that the current crop of electronic medical records encourage too much medical documentation “for the purposes of billing” and not better patient care. The software helps doctors submit ...

Electronic-medical-records systems may soon start speaking the same language. Thanks in part to $27 billion in federal funds approved in 2009 to incentivize their use, electronic records have been ...