Electronic Health Records

This article collection features popular FPM content on the subject of electronic health records -- from selecting an EHR system to optimizing an EHR in your practice. Note that FPM content published within the past 12 months is accessible to AAFP members and paid subscribers only.

Selecting an EHR Implementing an EHR

EHR Incentives & Meaningful Use Other Resources

Selecting an EHR

• The 2012 EHR User Satisfaction Survey: Responses From 3,088 Family Physicians [Feature] (12/01/2012)
• The 2011 EHR User Satisfaction Survey: Responses From 2,719 Family Physicians [Feature] (08/01/2011)
• The 2009 EHR User Satisfaction Survey: Responses From 2,012 Family Physicians [Feature] (12/01/2009)
• How to Select an Electronic Health Record System [Feature] (02/01/2005)
• Purchasing an Affordable Electronic Health Record [Feature] (02/01/2005)
• Toward a Modular EHR [Opinion] (08/01/2009)
• Why I Love My EMR [Feature] (10/01/2002)

Implementing an EHR

• How to Successfully Navigate Your EHR Implementation [Feature] (02/01/2007)
• Successful EHR Implementations: Attitude Is Everything [Feature] (12/01/2010)
• EHRs in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care [Feature] (03/01/2006)
• EHRs Fix Everything - and Nine Other Myths [Feature] (03/01/2007)
• How to Avoid Conflicts Between Your New EHR and Your Old Billing Company [Feature] (02/01/2012)
• Improving Care With an Automated Patient History [Feature] (08/01/2007)

EHR Incentives & Meaningful Use

• A Physician's Guide to the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs: The Basics [Feature] (10/01/2010)
• Should Doctors Reject the Government's EHR Incentive Plan? [Opinion] (04/01/2010)
• "Will the Feds Really Buy Me an EHR?" and Other Commonly Asked Questions About the HITECH Act [Feature] (08/01/2009)

Other Resources

• Four Steps to EHR Adoption [Center for Health IT] (07/19/2010)

Last Update: 02/10/2012