Connecting physicians and EMR companies with an EMR vendor list and robust content has become a business for this Boston health IT startup.

Ty Thaiyananthan, MD, founder and head neurosurgeon of BASIC Spine in Orange, Calif., and practice manager Casey Crawford discuss the challenges and opportunities for integrating electronic medical ...

Ty Thaiyananthan, MD, founder and head neurosurgeon of BASIC Spine in Orange, Calif., and practice manager Casey Crawford discuss the challenges and opportunities for integrating electronic medical ...

However, the rate of EMR adoption among long-term care and post-acute care facilities has been described as “dismally low.” In fact, a study by Health Affairs in 2012 1 found that only six ...

The study concluded that only about 8 percent of the 3,000 hospitals studied by researchers used even a basic EMR in a single unit, which included nurse or physician notes.

The adoption of electronic medical records was likely to provide savings for urban hospitals after three years of their use, while rural hospitals faced increased costs for at least six years, a ...