This is a short article crediting another author for creating the criteria with which to select an EHR. There are so many vendors and so many sales people out there telling you their wares are the best but little assistance for the medical practitioners who need to choose these tools in the time that they [...]
While trolling the web, I found this great article written by a physician about why doctors hate EMRs. Electronic Medical Records, or its cousin EHR and even PHR, are supposed to help physicians provide better quality care to patients, ideally at lower costs to the society. However, as you can see in this article, http://www.dillingerkovach.com/accusourcecareers/?p=10501, [...]
For years, healthcare IT has been dominated by big players and arcane system architecture that resembled the ERP market in the 1990s. Playing into this is the vendor dominated CCHIT certification process, which required everything under the sky to pass, but did little to ensure the software support a better care delivery or even integration [...]