The hot topic for many physician practices is the creation of electronic medical records and charts. While these are great for making medical practices more efficient, one overlooked reason for using medical records and charts is for digital storage. One costly part of a physician’s practice is the storage of records. There are laws that vary [...]

The use of electronic medical records has been touted as an enormous economic benefit in terms of cost savings as well as a boon to increasing patient safety. So why aren’t more doctors using them?
Although many doctors employed by larger medical entities are making use of EMRs because the costs of implementing the system [...]

If you haven’t read Alvin Toffler’s book, Powershift, you probably have no idea what has happened to us in the last decade with regards to the information era. In this historic book, Toffler talks about the “Powershift” which is the information era and how knowledge and information will be the most valuable currency in the [...]

The cost of healthcare is always a major concern in the U.S. With approximately 47 million uninsured people and soaring costs, the already-beleaguered healthcare system has been a major topic of debate in this, an election year.
In “Options for Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs” from the April 2008 issue of the New England [...]