No matter how you feel about the treatment of the Illinois physician who contends he was removed from his job because he couldn't get the hang of the hospital's new electronic health record system, he ...

Lacey Jense, RN, the health system's director of informatics education, previews a HIMSS26 session where she'll focus on the ...

Electronic medical record (EMR) implementations are expensive endeavors, and cost overruns can cripple the hospitals that experience them and cause havoc for the people who work there. In the case of ...

As part of an ongoing ambulatory electronic medical record deployment, the Lehigh Valley Health Network in eastern Pennsylvania is refining its EMR training processes. Greencastle Consulting, a ...

Ross Koppel, PhD, a sociologist and health IT scholar at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, told Bloomberg Law that although training medical students to use the EHR is a commendable way ...

Good news for HIT staff; bad news for their bosses: Employers posted more than 15,000 online job ads for healthcare professionals to manage EHR systems, up 31 percent from last year and up 88 percent ...

Making the transition to an electronic medical records system — whether from a paper-based system or an existing EMR — is an exciting development for an ASC. A good system brings about improvement in ...

Healthcare providers with poor medical software training often rely on EHR workarounds, which can pose a threat to patient safety. Better training could reduce their occurrence. Electronic health ...

I used to believe that proper training sessions are not too important in order to get accustomed to the functions and usability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). According to me, watching a hand ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A new training program that allows officers with the New Orleans Police Department to become certified as emergency medical responders will save countless lives, officials say.

Clarksville Fire Rescue is raising its minimum training standards, requiring most firefighters to be certified as emergency ...