EHR Resources 

MPS has gathered information to assist your assesssment of the promise and perils in the move to electronic health records.  What opportunities are presented by new federal incentives?  How will future penalites for not adopting EHR affect your reimbursement?  What are the implications for your practice and your patients?

•  Health Affairs recently published a Health Policy Brief: Electronic Health Record Standards, an excellent introduction and background to issues surrounding EHR, the recent law and rules, and their implications for the practice of medicine. The article includes links to federal documents.
  
  
• American Psychiatric Association has gathered a wide array of informational links EHR Educational Materials and Tools
  
  
• The Journal of Medical Informatics covers the EHR field in depth.  Of interest is the November 2010 article Health Information Technology: Fallacies and Sober Realities (some content requires a subscription or one-month free trial).
  
  

• Health Data Management Magazine published Danger: EHRs can replace one set of medical errors with another

See also the Health Information Privacy page by clicking on the left hand navigation menu