Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced the winners of the 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge, a month-long event that called upon healthcare developers to voice-enable mobile or web-based healthcare applications. According to market research from RNCOS, physician adoption of mobile devices in healthcare is expected to reach 81-85 percent this year, heightening the need for intuitive, user-friendly healthcare [...]
Nuance Healthcare Announces Winners of the 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Honeywell HomMed Announces the New Genesis Touch for Telehealth Patients
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Honeywell HomMed, a provider of telehealth and remote patient care, today announced the newest addition to its Genesis™ product line – the Genesis Touch™– a personal health device running on a 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab that is designed to address the current and future needs of patients who use telehealth to better manage their healthcare. [...]
HIMSS12 Keynote for Tomorrow is National Coordinator for HIT Dr. Farzad Mostashari
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Keynote address for Thursday should be a good one as Dr. Farzad Mostashari will provide his thoughts on where we are and where we’re going with health information technology in the United States. Prior to joining the ONC in 2009 Dr. Mostashari served at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [...]
Quest Diagnostics Offers Industry-First 30-Day Ambulatory EHR Implementation Guarantee for Hospitals and IDNs
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is using HIMSS to launch what they’re calling the industry’s first 30-day electronic health record implementation guarantee for hospitals looking to quickly enable bi-directional data exchange with their ambulatory physicians through its award winning Care360® EHR web-based solution. This offer provides hospitals with an opportunity to accelerate the development of virtual provider [...]
Concentra Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record for 310 Urgent Care Concentra Medical Centers
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Concentra, a subsidiary of Humana Inc., announced today it intends to implement a new Electronic Health Record system from Allscripts for more than 310 Concentra Urgent Care locations across the country. Through the rollout of the new EHR system from Allscripts, all patient and client data will be connected throughout Concentra’s national footprint of medical [...]
Great Video on the Extremely Early Days of Electronic Medical Records
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
While wandering through the exhibit halls at HIMSS today it will be easy to get caught up in the technological frenzy generated by today’s EMR systems. It’s easy to imagine that all of this has started within the past few years, but as this video shows that’s not the case at all. It’s a little known [...]
Westbrook’s Fortis Receives ONC-ATCB Certification by Drummond Group
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Westbrook’s Fortis content management software has received the federal government’s “meaningful use” stamp of approval by earning Modular EHR Certification. The designation officially deems the electronic health record software capable of enabling providers to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Tested and certified under the Drummond Group’s Electronic Health Records Office [...]
BayScribe Announces Partnership With SOAP Transcription
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
BayScribe has announced the successful deployment of the BayScribe Clinical Documentation System (CDS) with SOAP Transcription in Wayland, MI to service Hospitals and clinics with superior clinical documentation tools, including creating Structured Data for Meaningful Use. SOAP Transcription is a leading U.S. medical transcription services provider and BayScribe, the industry’s first comprehensive Clinical Documentation Solution [...]
Rody Chiropractic Leverages MedInformatix Paperless Solution To Achieve Efficiencies in Charting, Billing, and Referrals
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Rody Chiropractic, an established practice in Puyallup, Washington, utilizes the MedInformatix electronic records management solution for electronic records management, including the billing cycle and referrals. Rody Chiropractic is a three-physician facility that utilizes the Atlas Orthogonal method of chiropractic treatment for its more than 50,000 annual patient visits. The practice began exploring a paperless solution [...]
HIMSS Report Results – Healthcare Technology Leaders Identify Staffing Resources as Top Barrier to IT
February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For the first time in years, information technology (IT) leaders at healthcare organizations did not identify a lack of financial support for IT as an obstacle to implementation; instead, concerns about staffing resources was cited as the key barrier to IT. According to the 23rd Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, released today, one-quarter of respondents said adequate [...]
