As we wait for the federal government to finalize important sections of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), there is a lot of talk about the financial incentives for implementing electronic health records (EHR). And understandably so. Practices that implement an EHR under the government’s guidelines stand to gain ~$50,000 in incentives over the next five years. More …

On December 30, 2009, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released documents shedding light on what physicians and hospitals must do to qualify for electronic health records (EHR) incentive payments under the HITECH Act. To qualify for incentives, physicians and hospitals must be using “certified EHR technology” in a “meaningful More …

Physician practices around the country are asking us: “Should I wait for the government to finalize its definitions of ‘meaningful use’ and ‘certified EHR technology’ before I purchase electronic health record (EHR) software?”

Our answer: More …

(AUSTIN, Texas – July 31, 2009) Software Advice, a free online resource for software buyers, has moved its headquarters from San Francisco, CA, to Austin, TX.

Founded in 2005, Software Advice matches technology buyers with the right software for their organization. The company serves a range of vertical markets, including the construction, medical, property More …

Last week, Software Advice set out to try to answer the question: Which smartphone will own the healthcare market?

Doctors, nurses, students and many others in the healthcare industry responded to our survey and provided results that are bound to be conversation starters.

Which smartphone won out? Read through our results to see. More …

The smartphone industry is on fire. iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre and Google are all in the hunt for dominance. We want to know one thing: Which phone will become the device of choice for healthcare providers?

Please take our short survey and forward it on to your friends and colleagues. If you’d like to be notified by e-mail about our survey results, please enter your e-mail address in the form More …

The Wal-Mart / eClinicalWorks (eCW) partnership to sell electronic medical records (EMR) software in Sam’s Club strikes us as an odd couple. While we think eCW will benefit from this marketing coup, we don’t see the relationship lasting over the long term.

Certainly, the intent is good: simplify a traditionally complex and expensive purchase by distributing More …

With the Economic Stimulus Bill signed and available to subsidize EHR purchases (for more information see “The Stimulus Bill and Meaningful Use of Qualified EHRs/EMRs“), we are seeing a dramatic increase in electronic health records (EHR) buyer interest. Assuming these buyers make use of the stimulus subsidy to buy an EHR, we expect to see a lot of EHR failures over the next couple More …

Antek HealthWare is taking a step toward niche offerings by releasing a practice management system designed for concierge medical practices.

The software, DAQoffice, scales back billing so that physicians can bill patients directly rather than through insurance companies. While the system still allows providers to document diagnosis codes, it won’t More …