Technology

By Michael Calahan I was recently addressing a group of health care providers to overview the impending transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 from an operational ...

By Lucia Francesca Bruno, J.D., LL.M., M.B.A. For the past century, information technology has reinvented the familiar and revolutionized the art of medicine.  As health care ...

The Wall Street Journal today features a discussion about whether docs should use email to communicate with patients.  There are many issues to consider including ...

By Katie Matlack Over on the Software Advice blog, we discussed ways doctors can use social media for a variety of purposes. A recent study ...

By Dr. Michael West Two classes of physicians are slowly forming, those who use electronic medical records and digital mobile technology and those who stick ...

By Houston Neal Although unexpected by some, it appears the iPad is not only leading the tablet charge, but in computing, in general. One of ...

By Howard Larkin Got kidney stones? There’s an app for that—and for just about every other clinical and administrative function. As mobile applications reshape health ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced its first-ever app designed specifically for physicians that allows them to quickly find CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) billing ...

A new mobile radiology app cleared yesterday by the FDA will allow physicians to view medical images on the iPhone and iPad. The app — Mobile MIM ...

By Martin Perrotta Adoption and use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) nationally and globally is becoming a reality.  There can be little doubt that EHRs ...