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Health IT evangelists often dismiss physicians as technophobes, claiming their aversion to EHRs results from a fear of adopting technology among doctors. However, the use of robots during surgeries, MRI technology and even the surge in popularity of higher-level technological devices for personal use among physicians suggests otherwise.

Health care’s prognosticated transitions in recent months and years have spurred a series of questions that healthcare providers and practice managers would’ve never dreamed of asking just a decade ago. The cloud versus server question is a behemoth among EHR-related questions.

In some practices, EHR is a four-letter word. Practices are struggling with adoption for a number of reasons, and physicians are making their opinions heard. Until EHR development is perfected, these issues will repeatedly come to light, which is useful. This allows vendors to take note and incorporate valuable feedback into the development phase.

It only takes a bad batch of apples to ruin the reputation of salespersons across the healthcare technology board. In reality, not all salespersons are shifty, but a bad experience can make a physician or practice manager skeptical. Can you blame them? No one likes being deceived, especially when you’re at a disadvantage in terms [...]

As a healthcare provider, you’ve heard the term ‘electronic health record’ so much it’s likely to pop up in dreams. Whether or not this is pleasant is a matter of personality, but the truth is transitioning to EHRs is stressful, and settling on the best software option for your practice is only half the battle. [...]

Despite the arguments of paper purists, switching over to an EHR is not only more efficient for your practice, but it assuages age-old conflicts associated with ill-famed physician penmanship. Even the federal government agrees the quill-and-scroll age is nearly over. With the 2015 EHR conversion deadline looming, practices need to keep Meaningful Use compliance and [...]