The Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform has issued a draft strategic plan for the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange, or PHIX, for a 30-day public comment period. The plan outlines how to best transition to an electronic system of health records to improve efficiency, cut costs, and provide better quality care. “Health care providers across [...]
Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform Releases Draft Strategic Plan for Health Information Exchange
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Three Denver Area Health Care Organizations Link Patient Electronic Health Records to Improve Care and Safety
November 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Three of the largest Front Range health care organizations are taking an unprecedented leap forward in health care reform by improving care for more than a million Coloradans with an interconnected electronic patient record exchange system. The Children’s Hospital, Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Exempla Healthcare are now live with an electronic health record (EHR) “health [...]
VA and Kaiser Permanente Invite Veterans to Participate in Health Record Pilot Program
November 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente today announced an exciting program designed to improve care and services to our Nation’s heroes. VA and Kaiser Permanente are launching a pilot program to exchange electronic health record (EHR) information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human [...]
InSite One Announces the First Health Information Exchange Within a Unified Enterprise Archive
November 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
InSite One, Inc, the industry’s leading provider of medical data archiving and disaster recovery managed services, announces the creation of the first nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) spanning over 600 healthcare institutions across the United States. InSite One currently manages more than three-billion medical documents comprising over thirty-nine million medical imaging procedures and other medical [...]
Golden Valley Medical Selects InteGreat EHR
November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
InteGreat, a MED3OOO Company, recently entered into an agreement to implement and deploy InteGreat EHR(TM), a browser-based electronic health record (EHR) application, for the Golden Valley Medical Clinics in Clinton, Missouri. Golden Valley Medical Clinics are affiliated with Golden Valley Memorial Hospital and have the mission of serving patients in the rural Golden Valley area [...]
ISCR Becomes Instant Player in the EMR Cost Savings Sweepstakes
November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
nstacare Corporation announced today that its proprietary brands of MD@Hand and Practice Probe EMR and other e-health technologies have been successfully engineered to seamlessly function on popular smart cell phones. The adaptation of our desktop and hand-held interactive medical software to the Apple iPhone, the Palm Pre, the Verizon Windows phones and several RIM Blackberry [...]
Horizon MedCorp Kicks Off Sales in North Carolina for the SuiteMed Electronic Health Record System
November 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Horizon MedCorp announces they are launching marketing and sales activities across North Carolina for the SuiteMed Electronic Health Record System. SuiteMed is the only EHR that effectively addresses the need to better manage healthcare costs, the quality of patient care, the increasing difficulty of Physicians meeting the rapidly growing paperwork requirements of an expanding medical [...]
MedAptus Announces Professional Intelligent Charge Capture Now Available on BlackBerry Smartphones
November 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
MedAptus(R), market leader for charge capture technologies, today announced the extension of its Professional Intelligent Charge Capture software suite – Practice Plus Edition, Inpatient Edition and Enterprise Edition – to BlackBerry(R) smartphone devices. MedAptus support for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform gives healthcare customers even greater choice and flexibility when selecting appropriate hardware for coding [...]
Our Lady of the Lake Connects Infusion Pumps to the EHR to Help Decrease Errors and Improve Care
November 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Helping set the standard for interoperability between medical devices and electronic health records (EHRs), Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (OLOL) has successfully tested and implemented auto programming between infusion pumps and a bar-code point-of-care system throughout its facility. Through a three-way partnership with Cerner and Hospira, Inc., OLOL, one of the largest [...]
Patient Access Solutions Moves Toward Product Integration Under Hosted Electronics Medical Records Platform Offering
November 18, 2009 By 1 Comment
Patient Access Solutions, Inc., an emerging provider of technologies that provide the healthcare industry a graceful migration to Electronic Medical Records (EMR), today announced the integration of its products via a new Electronic Medical Records (EMR) platform that will soon be announced. This enhanced product offering will allow smaller sized healthcare practices to acquire a [...]
