Scanners and document management systems are, or will soon be, a key technology in every practice. According to an Oct. 2006 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report, "Health Information Technology in the United States: The Information Base for Progress," only 25 percent of physicians have converted from paper files to EHRs, despite upcoming requirements for record digitization from insurers and the federal government. Read more...

From the Top is a Q&A with key executives in the medcal technology sectors. This interview is with Benjamin Heywood, Co-Founder, President and Director of PatientsLikeMe. Read more...

Dr. John R. Scibal, how has MediNotes affected your practice?

MediNotes has enabled us to be paperless since 1990. Our office had been heavily computerized prior to that with respect to patient accounts and billing, appointment scheduling, and eyeglass and contact lens tracking, but the final step was instituting electronic health records. At the time, there was very little formal training offered, but we still had a relatively easy time converting from paper to computer records, phased over a period of about 90 days. Read more...