Activ Doctors Online US Medical Director, Howard Zahalsky MD, featured in Health Management Technology.
Integration, analytics key to next generation EMRs. Industry experts discuss the year ahead in EMRs/EHRs.
By Phil Colpas, Editor, Despite the myriad and often complex ways of attempting to achieve it, the goal of healthcare reform is to improve care while decreasing cost. Incentives put in place as part of the HITECH Act give reimbursements to physicians who convert from paper-based records to electronic medical records (EMRs) although the ultimate cost savings of EMRs is still being disputed.