To further improve both patient safety and operational efficiency, Nyack Hospital has chosen McKesson’s award-winning Paragon ® technology for community hospitals. The hospital plans to implement the Paragon community hospital information system, enabling the use of comprehensive electronic health records and financial management systems throughout its 375-bed facility in Rockland County, “The combination of business [...]
Healthcare IT Consulting Firm Introduces Milestone-Based Contracts for Hospitals
June 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
SynaptiCore, a Houston-based healthcare IT consulting firm, announced today that it is offering hospitals new milestone-based consulting agreements that link payments for services during an engagement directly to the completion of specific outcomes. In a departure from traditional “time and material” contracts often used in healthcare IT consulting, SynaptiCore’s initiative recognizes that hospitals face an [...]
Bridges to Excellence Announces 5 New Physician Recognition Programs
June 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Bridges to Excellence (BTE), the nation’s most extensive effort to recognize and reward high-performing physicians, announced five new programs to assess the improvement in the diagnosis, treatment and management of chronic conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), coronary artery disease and hypertension. The new programs cover the majority of [...]
Why do physicians embrace the iPhone and avoid EHR?
June 24, 2009 By 3 Comments
Why does it seem like so many physicians have embraced the iPhone, but only 15 percent of them are using some form of electronic health record EHR technology? That’s one of the questions that Dr. David Kibbe posed to the audience at Healthcare Unbound here in Seattle, Washington. Kibbe suggested a number of reasons for [...]
