Technology continues to change the way we run a medical office. From e-mail to wireless tablets to the fax machine, the press of a few buttons or icons can transmit medical information to any location in the world.

A study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicated that 60 percent of reported errors in the office setting associated with harm involved prescription errors. The following are recommendations to improve the medication prescription process in the office setting.

If you dispense medication samples to patients, here are a few suggestions that will help minimize the risk of problems.

What should you do when a laptop computer with patient information or a patient medical record is stolen from your office or your provider's car?

If you are contemplating the purchase of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, it is important that you and/or your physicians take time to review each system's medical record templates.