As the Obama Administration provides incentives to push doctors and hospitals to upgrade their healthcare IT solutions, there will be a greater need to replace antiquated computer hardware with newer, more powerful systems that can support the vast amounts of information created by EMR, wireless, RFID, electronic physician order entry (CPOE) and other advanced software [...]
New Report Says that Hardware Sales Could Be Side Effect of Stimulus Bill’s EMR Incentives
August 4, 2009 By 1 Comment
MedMatica Consulting Associates Announces HISAssist Service Line
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MedMatica Consulting Associates, a leading healthcare information technology consulting firm based in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, today announced the availability of its HISAssist service line. HISAssist is a family of services focused on providing healthcare organizations the Right level of Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) application implementation assistance at the Right time of the implementation lifecycle at [...]
ASG Software Solutions’ ASG-MEDAPPZ ISUITE™ Recieves 08 CCHIT Certification
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The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) today announced that ASG Software Solutions’ product ASG-MedAppz iSuite, version 4 is a CCHIT Certified® 08 Ambulatory EHR and meets the Certification Commission’s electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHRs are designed for physician offices and clinics where most Americans get their healthcare. The [...]
LSU Health Chooses Integrated GE Centricity RIS/PACS
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GE Healthcare announced today that Louisiana State University (LSU) Health System will deploy a new integrated Radiology Information System (RIS), Diagnostic Reporting system and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), designed to create a network of coordinated health care that will save money and improve the quality of patient care. The $12.5 million contract awarded [...]
Excellent new guide for Practitioners migrating to EMR – the HIPAA Survival Guide
August 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Deborah Leyva emailed me last week with information about a new HIPAA Survival Guide for Practitioners (the download link is on the left side of the page) that she and her attorney husband Carlos have produced. They published the guide specifically for Practitioners to help them better understand the implications of the migration to [...]
TherapyCharts™ Announces the Release of its Electronic Health Record System at the APA Annual Convention
August 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
TherapyCharts™ is the first affordable electronic health record (EHR) system tailored to the specific needs of individual and small clinic psychologists, clinical social workers, and mental health counselors. TherapyCharts was designed, from the ground up, with the needs of these specific individuals in mind: security, ease of use, convenience, and affordability. Dr. Lisa Farmer, founder [...]
Allscripts Selects Merge Healthcare to “Image-Enhance” Its Electronic Health Record Solutions
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Merge Healthcare today announced that Allscripts, the leader in software, services, information, and connectivity solutions for physicians, has selected its Cedara WebAccess™ software application to “image enhance” Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions. The Cedara WebAccess portal will provide a zero-footprint method of distributing medical images and reports to clinicians using Allscripts EHR solutions. “Providing [...]
New InfoLogix M24 Mobile Clinical Assistant Will Enable Hospitals to Access EMRs Directly at the Point of Care
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InfoLogix, Inc. announced today the introduction of a new mobility offering for healthcare providers, the InfoLogix M24 mobile clinical assistant: a powerful mobile computing solution that enables medical professionals to access critical patient information at the point-of-care. The innovative InfoLogix M24 mobile clinical assistant is the missing link between busy clinicians who are always on [...]
New KLAS report profiles the EMR vendor solutions tailored to hospitals with 50 or fewer beds
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Facing the same meaningful use deadlines as larger organizations but with only a few viable vendor options, critical access hospitals are eager for more IT power, according to a report from KLAS. The new report, “Closing the IT Gap: Critical Access to 50 Bed Hospitals”, highlights the experiences of more than 300 healthcare professionals at [...]
