Kaiser Permanente is donating its Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT) for open access to help facilitate the nation’s transition from paper-based medical records to Electronic Health Records (EHR). CMT was designed by clinicians to facilitate the use of EHRs by clinicians and patients. Kaiser Permanente has the world’s largest private sector electronic health record. A media [...]
maxIT Healthcare Selected as One of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare
September 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
maxIT Healthcare, a leading professional consulting services company for healthcare providers, has been recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine in its third annual list of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare. Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work program recognizes outstanding employers in the healthcare industry on a national level. maxIT provides critical information technology (IT) [...]
Vertical Med Solutions Announces Web Based Electronic Medical Records Platform
September 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Vertical Med Solutions is proud to announce their new low cost solution to (EMR) electronic medical record solutions. The new EMRx web based EMR software solution provides feature rich options, customizable features and an implementation plan that is second to none. Vertical Med Solutions new web based electronic medical record solution, EMRx is affordable, easy [...]
BayScribe Releases Enhancements to Mobile Dictation Application for iPhone OS
September 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
BayScribe announced availability of BayScribe Mobile 2.2 for iPhone OS 4 today with a couple of key enhancements aimed at improving the Clinical Documentation workflow and ultimately EHR adoption and Meaningful Use adherence. Physicians are mobile, with the vast majority practicing at at least three different physical locations. BayScribe (www.bayscribe.com) believes that their documentation platform [...]
Office Ally Announces New Billing Service for Providers
September 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Office Ally announced today the introduction of a new revenue cycle management service for providers, making it easier for physicians, hospitals and clinics to receive prompt and accurate reimbursement from insurance companies and patients. For providers currently doing their billing in house, this new service is expected to recognize increases in revenues of 10-20 percent. [...]
OmniMD signs Co-Branding Partnership Agreement with Ace Medical Software
September 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
OmniMD™, one of the leading healthcare information technology companies, which provides Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PMS) and other Healthcare IT products and services to their providers and clinics across the nation, has signed a co-branding partnership agreement with Ace Medical software. The partnership with Ace Medical Software will provide OmniMD access to broad [...]
ONC Launches a Detailed FAQ on EHR Regulations.
September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has published an incredibly detailed “Frequently Asked Questions” document about the regulations surrounding Electronic Health Records. When I say incredibly detailed, I really mean painfully detailed. For example here is question 12 and the associated answer: Question [9-10-012-1]: How many clinical quality measures must [...]
Hyland Software Acquires CSC Group in EMR Paper to Cloud Effort
September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hyland Software has purchased privately held Computer Systems Company, Inc., a provider of business and clinical healthcare software and document conversion services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Our goal is to have the dominant enterprise content management (ECM) solution across the entire healthcare network,” said A.J. Hyland, president and CEO of Hyland Software. “Currently, [...]
HIMSS Introduces Free, Publicly Available State HIT Dashboard
September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The HIMSS State HIT Dashboard gives healthcare professionals, policy makers and stakeholders a snapshot of major health information technology initiatives underway across the Nation. HIMSS designed the dashboard as an easy and comprehensive online tool for timely access to credible and comprehensive information about relevant health IT programs and initiatives across the United States and its [...]
Interesting Survey on the Value of Regional Extension Centers in the EHR Process
September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Houston Neal of Software Advice has written a thought provoking post on whether or not Regional Extension Centers (RECs) will deliver on their mandate of helping 100,000 priority primary care providers become “meaningful users” of Electronic Health Record systems within 24 months. Eight of the twenty-four months have already passed and Houston expresses skepticism that [...]
