Perhaps no other field has been as grossly over-burdened by technology as the physician practice. “A big challenge for non-institutional providers is funding; they are struggling to fund their own IT investments like e-prescribing, and EMR systems and are getting more pressure from Washington all the time to invest in these technologies,” says Carl Doty, principal analyst at Forrester Research. Read more...

When it comes to practice management systems, the “writing is on the wall” says Dr. Thomas Handler, analyst at Gartner. “Every doctor is headed in that direction and it will eventually become the standard of care,” he predicts. Read more...

Accuracy and efficiency, long the cornerstones of delivering quality healthcare, are even more important today when the faltering economy squeezes budgets on one end and insurance providers push for costs cuts and limits on the other. One way to satisfy all these pressures and increase quality of care for the patient is to use electronic data management software to expedite, simplify and speed-check patient information on the fly. It’s particularly useful if it allows providers to see patient data from outside their own practice or institution. Read more...