Kaiser Permanente announced today that every medical facility within the health system is now equipped with Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect®, the largest private sector electronic health record in the world. Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo in Northern California are the most recent facilities to complete the final phase of electronic health record implementation, [...]
Kaiser Permanente Completes Electronic Health Record Implementation
March 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Time Is Right for Doctors to ‘Go Digital’
March 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The prospect of the U.S. healthcare system moving from paper to electronic medical records (EMR) has given rise to a host of thorny questions on matters of privacy, security, logistics and more. But according to EMR attorneys at the national law firm of LeClairRyan, the time to start making the switch is now-in part because [...]
Greenway Medical Technologies Advances Patient-Provider Benefits
March 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Greenway Medical Technologies, provider of the fully-integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®, is demonstrating a seamless data transfer solution from its flagship EHR into Microsoft HealthVault, an online personal health management platform. The demonstration, titled “Greenway and HealthVault: Secure, Centralized and Accessible Health,” is scheduled for Wednesday, March 3 at [...]
Hyland Software Acquires eWebHealth
March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hyland Software has purchased privately held eWebHealth, a leading provider of hosted medical records workflow solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “We’ve significantly reinforced our already strong healthcare presence over the past several months,” said A.J. Hyland, president and CEO of Hyland Software. “Acquisitions are accelerating our entry into key markets. They’ve also [...]
AMA: Physicians Outraged at Today’s Steep Medicare Cut
March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The U.S. Senate’s failure to act before today’s 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut has put seniors at grave risk of reduced access to health care and choice of physician. “The Senate had over a year to repeal the flawed formula that causes the annual payment cut and instead they abandoned America’s seniors, making them [...]
Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation
March 2, 2010 By 2 Comments
Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s leading health care provider and not-for-profit health plan, received 12 Stage 7 Awards from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The Stage 7 Award honors hospitals that have achieved the highest level electronic health record implementation. The 12 awards were presented at the HIMSS 2010 annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. [...]
Philips Convenes ‘Meaningful’ Dialogue on How Healthcare IT Solutions can Contribute to Improved Patient Outcomes
March 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
At the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Atlanta, Royal Philips Electronics will showcase how healthcare informatics solutions can help improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. This strategic focus underscores a commitment to providing advanced clinical informatics and patient monitoring solutions that complement electronic health records (EHRs) by [...]
Greenway Medical Technologies Partners with Take Care Health Employer Solutions to Deploy PrimeSuite EHR Solution
March 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. is today announcing a partnership to supply the company’s integrated electronic health record (EHR) and interoperability solution PrimeSuite® to Take Care Health Employer Solutions, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive provider of worksite health and wellness services and pharmacy. Take Care Health Employer Solutions builds and operates workplace-based health centers which [...]
Allscripts Introduces ‘Go’
March 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Allscripts today introduced ‘Go,’ the Company’s HIMSS in-booth education program and new website designed for physicians and other providers who are considering deploying Electronic Health Records and other healthcare information technologies. ‘Go’ will provide easy access to best practices and success stories from the Allscripts client community of more than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals, and [...]
