A new Penn Medicine study stated that purely educating doctors about the importance of prescribing certain therapies may not be enough to make a meaningful impact. Using acid suppression therapy--an ...

A majority of medical staff share their EMR passwords, according to a study published in Health Informatics Research. For the study, researchers — from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva ...

Physicians at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., have successfully used data from an electronic medical record system to make real-time decisions for patient care, according ...

A new study by the CDC suggests that while physician EMR adoption continues to grow, the rate at which doctors adopt comprehensive systems remains flat. The CDC report, which looked at 2006 EMR usage, ...

States with tough privacy laws that restrict disclosure of patient data tend to have lower rates of EMR adoption, and the relationship may not be a coincidence, a new study suggests. Writing in the ...