Located in the heart of Microsoft’s home turf, Washington Imaging Services (WIS) of Bellevue, Washington interacts with technologically savvy patients, employees, and referring offices daily. This required that they implement a Radiology Information System that provided the ability to communicate across multiple facilities as well as to referring physician offices and associated Electronic Medical Records [...]
Washington Imaging Services Achieves Goal of Paperless Environment With MedInformatix RIS
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US Oncology To Demonstrate iKnowMed In The EHR Lab At The 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting
May 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
iKnowMed the US Oncology electronic health record (EHR) system, is one of eleven EHR vendors selected to participate in the fourth American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) EHR Lab to be held June 5-7 at the 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago. US Oncology, the leading integrated oncology company uniting the nation’s largest network of [...]
Nortec EHR Earns Both CCHIT Certified® 2011 And Preliminary ARRA Certification And Receives 5 Star Usability Rating
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nortec Software Inc, a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions, announced today that Nortec EHR 7.0 has earned the designation as a fully CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory EHR, a Preliminary ARRA IFR Stage 1 certified EHR and a recipient of a five star usability rating, the commission’s highest ranking. Nortec’s EHR is one [...]
Guadalupe County Hospital Selects Phoenix Health Systems’ Total IT Solution and Medsphere’s OpenVista
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Medsphere Systems Corporation, Phoenix Health Systems and Guadalupe County Hospital today announced Guadalupe’s selection of Phoenix’s Total IT Solution featuring Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record. Phoenix IT expertise paired with Medsphere’s open-source EHR solution will enable this 10-bed Santa Rosa, N.M., acute-care hospital to secure federal stimulus support for health IT implementation while improving patient [...]
Sevocity Announces Free Electronic Health Records (EHR) System for Educators and Regional Extension Centers
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sevocity, a division of Conceptual MindWorks, Inc. (CMI), today announced Sevocity U, its Internet-based Ambulatory Electronic Health Records (EHR) program for Regional Extension Centers (RECs), Local Extension Centers (LECs), Management Service Organizations (MSOs), Technical Colleges, Universities, Medical Schools, and other organizations needing a turn-key EHR for training. Under the program, educational organizations will receive free [...]
Physician Revenue Services Offers FREE EMR Interface to Its Clients
May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Physician Revenue Services simplifies physician practices and makes them as profitable as possible by providing winning solutions for its clients. The Company provides the right tools to providers’ offices that become indispensable to their workflow in addition to guaranteeing less billing and coding errors, which results in faster reimbursement. In addition, the Company offers its [...]
Caregivers Enhance Patient Care In Hospitals, Physician Offices with McKesson Solutions
May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
McKesson today announced that three more community hospitals have chosen the company’s Practice Partner® Patient Records electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution for their employed/affiliated physicians. The hospitals, which also selected the Paragon® hospital information system (HIS) to automate care processes in their inpatient settings, aim to enhance communication and care coordination among [...]
Tech Data And gloStream To Help Resellers Build Healthcare IT Practices
May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Tech Data Corporation, a leading distributor of IT products, today announced a distribution agreement with gloStream, a leading developer of electronic medical records (EMR) and practice-management (PM) software applications. gloStream’s Microsoft® Office-based EMR and PM applications are designed for efficient deployment and easy use by small and medium-sized doctors’ offices and clinics. They help medical [...]
2010 PayerView Rankings Show Private Health Insurers Innovating Through Automation and Transparency; Humana Retains Top Ranking
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athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, and Physicians Practice(R), America’s leading practice management journal for physicians, today released the fifth annual PayerView(SM)Rankings, which indicate that health insurers are paying physicians on average seven days faster and denying 12–18% fewer claims than revealed in last year. For the second consecutive [...]
Issues with Electronic Medical Records
May 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
In 2011, doctors and hospitals will be able to tap $1.5 billion in financial incentives from the federal government to share records electronically. The purpose of this ARRA funding is to speed the computerization of medical records, permitting doctors near instant access to all the medical records, test results and drug prescriptions for their patients. [...]
