Image via Wikipedia MD-IT, a national provider of medical documentation services and software for physician offices and ambulatory clinics, announced today that it has acquired Transcription Prescription, Inc. of Dallas Texas. The company was acquired for a combination of cash and stock, and will become part of MD-IT’s existing Dallas office. Transcription Prescription owner William [...]
Initiate Systems Launches Initiate® Catalyst Patient Registry for Independent Software Vendors
July 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Initiate Systems, Inc. announced today the launch of Initiate ® Catalyst Patient Registry, a self-contained virtual software appliance to accelerate data interoperability for electronic medical records, portals, radiology information systems, picture archival communications systems and other healthcare information exchange solutions. The new software appliance provides independent software vendors and solution providers in healthcare with entity [...]
Canada Falling Behind on EHR Goal According to a Recent Report
July 30, 2009 By 1 Comment
Image by Robbie’s Photo Art via Flickr According to a recently released annual report from Canada Health Infoway, the organization in charge of the national EHR program since its inception in 2001, only 17 percent of residents had a core Electronic Health Record in place on March 31, 2009. This remains well short of their [...]
IBM Helps St. Elizabeth Healthcare Provide a Unified Foundation for EHR
July 29, 2009 By 2 Comments
Image via Wikipedia IBM announced today that St. Elizabeth Healthcare is connecting hospitals, clinics and physicians offices in Northern Kentucky in the state’s largest roll-out of electronic medical records to improve patient care and lower costs. Today, only 1.5 percent of U.S. hospital systems have a comprehensive electronic records system putting St. Elizabeth Healthcare at [...]
McKesson Recognizes Five Hospitals for Healthcare IT Excellence with 2009 VIP Award
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Five healthcare organizations are recipients of McKesson’s 2009 VIP Award for their accomplishments in using healthcare information technology (IT) to improve quality, safety and efficiency. The winning organizations achieved significant results in a variety of areas, including medication and laboratory safety, use of electronic health records (EHRs), care team connectivity across facilities and states, and [...]
Holy Family Memorial Health Achieves Stage 6 on HIMSS Scale
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Holy Family Memorial Health Network (HFM) has achieved Stage 6 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Adoption Model scale. The achievement is the latest in a series of accomplishments underscoring HFM’s focus on improving patient-care safety and quality. This honor is the result of years of planning, says Ed Bauknecht, director of HFM’s [...]
Stamford Hospital Selects eClinicalWorks EMR for Community Interoperability
July 28, 2009 By 2 Comments
eClinicalWorks® today announced that Stamford Hospital, serving Connecticut’s lower Fairfield County and a major teaching affiliate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, has selected eClinicalWorks’s unified electronic medical records and practice management solution for its employed and affiliated physicians. In addition to the EMR/PM system, Stamford will use eClinicalWorks’s Patient Portal, Electronic [...]
Alegent Health Turns to ThinIdentity to Improve Caregiver Productivity
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ThinIdentity Corporation, whose focus is improving caregiver workflow in healthcare environments, today announced that Alegent Health is moving forward with plans to implement the ThinIdentity solution throughout its healthcare system. The first installation is located at its Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. A 278-bed facility, Mercy Hospital has over 1,000 caregivers using the ThinIdentity [...]
Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group Selects e-Medsys EHR From PracticeOne
July 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
PracticeOne has announced that Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group (CCMG) of Los Angeles, California, has adopted its e-Medsys Electronic Health Records solution. CCMG has utilized PracticeOne solutions for more than 30 years, having implemented a Practice Management solution from Westland Medical Systems (a PracticeOne predecessor company) in 1978. With a staff of 13 full time physicians [...]
St. Barnabas Hospital Selects Eclipsys CPOE Solution as Foundation for EHR
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The Outcomes Company, today announced that St. Barnabas Hospital, located in Bronx, NY, has selected Eclipsys’ computerized physician order entry (CPOE) solution as a foundation to establishing an electronic health record (EHR) in its acute care environments. The technology initiative builds on St. Barnabas’ highly successful use of Eclipsys’ clinical technology at all three of [...]
