Forty-two hospitals have successfully attested to Stage 1 Meaningful Use using T-System’s certified emergency department information system, The T SystemEV®, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A third-party comparative analysis by blogger Brian Ahier posted to the Government Health IT website illustrates that T-System ranks eighth on a list of [...]

  NorthCrest Medical Center will deploy AllscriptsSunrise Clinical Manager™ acute care Electronic Health Record to support its mission of becoming one of the nation’s best hospitals. “Our goal at NorthCrest is to be the best hospital across every measure of patient care, and Allscripts will help us get there,” said Scott Raynes, Chief Executive Officer [...]

ADP® has announced the acquisition of privately-held PhyLogic Healthcare, a Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) company that has served small- and mid-size U.S. medical practices since 2001. The ADP medical office software division, ADP AdvancedMD®, a provider of leading cloud practice management, electronic health record, medical scheduling, and billing applications, now offers outsourced medical billing services to [...]

Advanced Data Systems Corporation (ADS) has announced the integration of their MedicsDocAssistant™ certified EHR with Midmark’s IQecg™, IQspiro™ and IQholter™ devices. The integration allows for the seamless embedding of clean, clear images, charts, graphs, and reports directly from the Midmark devices into the patient’s MedicsDocAssistant record. MedicsDocAssistant then allows physicians to view side-by-side comparisons of [...]

Macadamian, a leader in user experience design and software development, will be presenting at HIMSS 2012, the largest worldwide annual healthcare IT conference, taking place February 20-24 in Las Vegas. Melanie Rodney PhD, Director of Usability Research at Macadamian and Nancy Staggers PhD, RN, FAAN from the University of Maryland, in conjunction with HIMSS, will [...]

ChartLogic has announced today that Louisiana Health Care Practitioners has selected the ChartLogic EHR Suite. Louisiana Health Care Practitioners operates four stand-alone facilities in Alexandria, Cottonport, Mansura and Simmesport, Louisiana. Three of the clinics are designated as federal rural health clinics. The medical group employs four nurse practitioners under the guidance of one physician.“ According [...]

The Illinois Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (IL-HITREC), along with its service partner SA Ignite, Inc., celebrated the successful attestation milestone reached Jan. 23, by Fox Valley Women and Children’s Health Partners, in St. Charles. The Fox Valley practice successfully attested to receive Medicare’s Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records Stage 1 incentive payment. [...]