You’ve heard the statistics before: health care in the United States costs $2 trillion annually; that’s more than $6,600 for every person. These are staggering numbers at best. But one way to streamline the healthcare industry and save billions of dollars annually involves making the switch from paper records to digital records. Unfortunately, it’s a [...]

Wall Street Journal article addresses some growing concerns over EMR outsourcing.

A Wall Street Journal article dated November 1, 2010, reported on the growing concerns associated with electronic medical records (EMR) outsourcing. Beginning next year, doctors face a federal mandate to upgrade software as the country adopts a new system of insurance billing [...]

It seems there is yet another benefit associated with the impending switch to electronic health records. An article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on October 15, 2010, reported that computerized patient records could be used to improve the reporting of serious drug side effects. The article explained that a [...]