Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International, a leader in developing interoperability standards for healthcare IT, today announced a pilot membership program and webpage to encourage clinician caregivers to participate in the process of developing standards for electronic health records. “We have always valued the contributions of caregivers—the physicians, nurses, pharmacist, and others in the healthcare continuum. [...]
Wolters Kluwer Health Announces Integration with MEDITECH
May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Wolters Kluwer Health, a provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that it has signed an agreement with MEDITECH to offer integration between MEDITECH version 5.64 (Client/Server and MAGIC) and ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support. This integration enables hospitals to author order sets via the ProVation software, then make finished order sets available [...]
athenahealth Announces Winners of Health 2.0 Code-a-thon and Kicks-off More Disruption Please Program
May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
athenahealth, Inc. has announced the winners of Health 2.0′s Boston Big Data Code-a-thon event, which was hosted at athenahealth’s headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Saturday, May 12. More than 100 participants attended the event conducted in partnership with Health 2.0 and in conjunction with AT&T and MIT’s H@cking Medicine. The Code-a-thon was the first of [...]
RazorInsights Adds Stewart-Webster Hospital to Growing List of ONE-EHR Clients
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RazorInsights, a provider of healthcare information technology solutions for Rural, Critical Access and Community hospitals, today announced its partnership with Stewart-Webster Hospital in Richland, Georgia. Stewart-Webster will deploy ONE-Electronic Health Record to provide cutting-edge technology and improved patient care to its rural Georgia community, while also achieving the Meaningful Use objectives outlined in the American [...]
ActiveRx Selects WebPT to Support Nationwide Franchise Rollout; WebPT Vital to Innovative New Care Model
May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WebPT, a developer of Web-based solutions for Physical Therapists, has teamed with ActiveRx to support their nationwide rollout. ActiveRx provides a proactive, wellness-oriented health care model centered on strength, time and care for the aging population. The company uses physical therapists as “gatekeepers” within their patient-centric system. They needed a software solution that would enable their PTs to [...]
Pacific Cataract And Laser Institute Uses Digital Pen And Paper Technology to Capture Patient Registration Info
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Anoto and NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, have announced that Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute is capturing new patient registration information with their joint solution, resulting in more efficient operations and the added benefit of immediate access to patient health history. Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute is a referral center that specializes in cataract surgery and [...]
NextGen Healthcare Selected by Norton Sound Health Corporation to Enhance Rural Patient Care
May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC has announced a new agreement with Norton Sound Health Corporation (NSHC) to deploy NextGen® Ambulatory EHR, NextGen® Practice Management, NextGen® Inpatient Solutions, and other NextGen® solutions throughout the organization. Headquartered in Nome, Alaska, NSHC serves the Bering Strait region in the northwestern part of the state. The network has a [...]
Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center Uses OpenVista EHR to Improve Patient Care, Earn Federal Stimulus Funds
May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Medsphere Systems Corporation and Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center (MHMC) today announced that MHMC has met Stage One Meaningful Use requirements using Medsphere’s OpenVista electronic health record. The Secaucus, New Jersey, hospital has received an initial reimbursement from the federal government that covers the five-year total cost of ownership for OpenVista. For MHMC, a 230-bed facility [...]
Kansas’ College Park Family Care Center Switches to eClinicalWorks EHR eClinicalWorks
May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
eClinicalWorks has announced that College Park Family Care Center, the largest non-hospital owned multi-specialty group in the Kansas City-area, has chosen eClinicalWorks comprehensive electronic health records solution for its 91 providers across 12 locations. Designed to improve communication with access to real-time information, this initiative will aid the group in pursuing quality of care initiatives, [...]
NextGen Healthcare Enters into Agreement with Barrington Orthopedic for Deployment of Multiple Products
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NextGen Healthcare Information Systems has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Barrington Orthopedic Specialists to deploy NextGen® Ambulatory EHR, NextGen® Practice Management, NextGen® Patient Portal, NextPen® and other NextGen® product offerings across its four locations throughout the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Barrington Orthopedic Specialists is a multi-specialty orthopedic group with 15 physicians [...]
