An eye is a complex organ in the human body. The physicians who deal with the diseases and disorders of the eye are called Ophthalmologists and this field of medicine is called Ophthalmology. Due to many different complexities, the ophthalmologists need to keep track of many different things. They need to take care of individual [...]
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed by Congress in 1996. The purpose of this act was to secure personal health information of the patients. At that point in time, the medical records and prescriptions were either printed or they were written on a piece of paper and then kept in the filing [...]
More than half of the medical practices in the U.S have adopted Electronic Health Record (EHR) Software, and they’ve had a huge variety of EHR service providers to choose from. Adopting the right EMR vendor is one of the most important, confusing and difficult tasks physicians do. This is because of the fragmentation in the [...]
Cardiology is a complicated specialty and practices which offer cardiology require constant checks and balances. Cardiology practices need to track patient’s information through multiple sources including images, clinical notes, lab test results etc. This information should be reliable and easily accessible to physicians so that it can be shared with other labs and hospitals. Paper [...]
Many providers today are confused about the basic distinction between the term Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software and Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software. Most providers simply do not know which is right and if there is even any difference between these terms. This confusion on the part of medical providers also extends to EMR software [...]
All EMR software companies offering free Electronic Medical Records systems (EMR systems) seem to have disappeared with the most prominent vendor Practice Fusion EHR getting acquired by AllScripts earlier this year. This has meant that healthcare providers with a low budget and very basic requirements must now choose […]
Recent research on Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software usage in the US has revealed that approximately 62% of optical specialties comprising optometrists, ophthalmologists, and therapeutic optometrists currently use EHR Software in one or more areas of their medical practice. Out of this 62 %, a remarkable 83% were found to be using the top Electronic [...]
Physicians have been using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software for quite some time but one question most of them can't get over is, whether a Cloud-based EMR Software is worth the investment or not. Comparatively speaking, cloud-based software are relatively newer to the market, but they are economical and more reliable. Most practices still wonder [...]
Many physicians tend to use the terms EHR and EMR interchangeably, but interestingly these two are not the same. An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is actually a digital version of a medical chart featuring patient information which could be stored in a computer. An Electronic Health Record (EHR), on the other hand, is a digital [...]