Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center Achieves Stage 7 Award
HIMSS Analytics announced that Moanalua Medical Center, a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, has received its Stage 7 Award. The award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems.
HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics™ Database. There are eight stages (0-7) that measure a hospital’s implementation and utilization of information technology applications. The final stage, Stage 7, represents an advanced patient record environment. The validation process to confirm a hospital has reached Stage 7 includes a site visit by an executive from HIMSS Analytics and former or current chief information officers to ensure an unbiased evaluation of the Stage 7 environments. [Read More...]
Allscripts Adds M*Modal’s Speech Understanding™ to EHR Platforms and Mobility Solutions
MModal Inc., a provider of clinical narrative capture services, Speech Understanding™ technology and clinical documentation workflow, today announced that it has entered into a strategic reseller and development relationship with Allscripts for its speech and language understanding technology, which will be available in key solutions for Allscripts clients across all ambulatory and acute-care platforms. The relationship will provide capabilities to create content-rich, voice-driven narrative patient documentation within Allscripts electronic health record systems.
M*Modal’s technology, based on its Speech Understanding™ and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) platform, will empower Allscripts market-leading EHRs, providing Allscripts clients with innovative new technology focused on making electronic health records easier to learn and use. The integration supports Allscripts commitment to offer flexible note-creation options. [Read More...]
Misys Open Source Solutions Demonstrates Leadership at IHE North America Connectathon 2012 for the Fourth Year
Misys Open Source Solutions (“MOSS”), a division of Misys plc, the world’s first fully open source, standards based health information exchange solutions provider, has succeeded in passing the stringent IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) testing protocols at the Chicago Connectathon. This extends MOSS success in passing all the IHE tests for the last 4 years. The MOSS HIE is … [Read More...]
Virtua Adopts Nuvon’s VEGA System for its Enterprise-wide Device Connectivity Needs
Nuvon, Inc. a leader in next generation medical device connectivity and interoperability solutions, today announced that Virtua has gone live with the first phase of its enterprise-wide device connectivity infrastructure starting with connectivity to the Picis Peri-Operative System utilizing Nuvon’s standards-based, open architecture VEGA™ System. Virtua is a comprehensive healthcare system … [Read More...]
drchrono Lands an Additional $2.8 Million in Funding for its iPad based EHR
drchrono has announced an additional round of funding, this one at $2.8 million led by Yuri Milner and featuring new investors that share a legacy of innovation and business transformation. Mr. Milner, an extremely influential Internet investor, who previously invested in drchrono as part of his pledge of support to Y Combinator startups, led this round of funding. Other investors also joined … [Read More...]
ScottCare Proves Successful Connections From Its EHRPipe™ to EHR Systems
ScottCare, a manufacturer of devices and software for cardiology diagnosis, therapy and monitoring, demonstrated the interoperability of its EHRPipe™ with various Electronic Health Records systems and Cardiac Rhythm Management device manufacturers at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise North American Connectathon 2012 in Chicago. "EHRPipe is a universal connectivity tool that we have … [Read More...]
DrFirst Introduces the “HIMSS Hero” as part of a contest for HIMSS12
DrFirst is running an interesting HIMSS promotion that is based around what they're calling the "HIMSS Hero". They have created a video and are running a contest with the winner receiving a classic Las Vegas night on the town complete with a limo, dinner and a show. To enter the contest all you need to do is to comment on their YouTube video titled "Healthcare Hero SAVES HIMSS12." You can … [Read More...]
SOAPware Forms Digital Image Capture Partnership With Ambir Technology
Ambir Technology, a provider of digital image capture solutions, has announced a hardware and software partnership with SOAPware, Inc., a market leader in electronic medical record software. The two are confident the union of their product lines brings comprehensive digital document management solutions to customers in the healthcare industry. "Our customers are looking for an easy, secure way … [Read More...]
CHRISTUS Health Selects Compuware to Improve Performance and Availability of Clinical EHR Systems
Compuware Corporation has announced that CHRISTUS Health, one of the nation's largest Catholic health systems based in Irving, TX, has selected the Compuware Gomez(R) Platform to optimize the performance and availability of its clinical electronic health records (EHR) systems. With visibility into clinician end-user experience, CHRISTUS Health can now proactively identify and resolve performance … [Read More...]
Six Hospitals in Rural Texas Improve Patient Care and Achieve Stage 1 Meaningful Use with Healthland EHR Solution
Healthland, a company that specializes in providing healthcare information technology solutions for rural hospitals, has announced that six more rural hospitals across Texas have achieved Stage 1 Meaningful Use. After a successful 90-day reporting period of their comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) capabilities, the healthcare providers will now receive funding under the Medicare EHR … [Read More...]
Simplee Adds Support for New Insurers and now Covers 80% of US Health Insurance Market
I don't normally cover insurance related items at EMR Daily News but Simplee is a service that I use and and really like. The Simplee service connects directly with insurers to categorize and explain medical expenses in an easily understood format, significantly simplifying the monitoring your health insurance claims. Simplee has just announced that they have added 23 new insurance payers … [Read More...]
dbMotion chosen by Unity Health System to enhance patient-centered medical home
dbMotion has announced that its interoperability platform has been selected by the Unity Health System in New York to facilitate far-reaching health information exchange efforts. The dbMotion™ Solution will connect disparate technologies across the enterprise, extend Unity Health’s advanced patient-centered medical home (PCMH) capability, and advance the organization’s robust care management … [Read More...]
App Store Fridays
Kaiser Permanente releases mobile app for Android Devices providing secure access to health records
Kaiser Permanente has launched an Android mobile app that will allow 9 million Kaiser Permanente patients to access their own medical information anywhere in the world on mobile devices through … [Read More...]
New Books Sees Cost Savings of Widespread Adoption of EHR in the US to be over $720 Billion Per Year
Several recent studies have shown the vast majority of doctors in the U.S. have not adopted the standardized use of … [Read More...]