St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) today announced it has successfully completed its second interoperability testing process for the company’s Merlin.net™ Patient Care Network, an Internet-based repository of patient and implantable device data. The company also announced today that the Merlin.net PCN is the first medical device network to be awarded ISO 27001 certification, a stringent [...]
St. Jude Medical Achieves Recognition for Security of Patient Data
January 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What Does it Take to Qualify for the EHR Stimulus Funds?
January 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The folks at Software Advice has posted an interesting video titled “What the Economic Stimulus Package Means for Physicians”. The following is taken directly from their blog: We talk with hundreds of physician practices each month. Their biggest question: “What does the economic stimulus package mean for me?” Practices understand that up to $45 billion [...]
Scantronix and ePaperlessSolutions Form Key Partnership
January 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Scantronix.net, an industry leader in electronic medical record (EMR) scanning, digitization and document scanning services, today announced their partnership with ePaperlessSolutions, a market leader in EMR system management. Through this partnership, Scantronix will become the exclusive provider of medical records scanning services for ePaperless Solutions’ East Coast clients. ePaperless Solutions is a Los Angeles California company dedicated [...]
2010: A Tough Year Ahead for Discharge Planners, but Help Is Available
January 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A new regulation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will make it harder for discharge planners to transition patients from acute-care settings to inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), according to Curaspan Health Group(TM), the industry leader in building secure electronic patient-transition networks for hospitals, post-acute providers and suppliers. At most hospitals, the traditional [...]
Cardiac Science and MEDENT Form EMR/EHR Connectivity Partnership
January 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in automated external defibrillator (AED) and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices that connect to electronic medical record (EMR) and hospital information systems, today announced a partnership with MEDENT, a leading provider of practice automation and EMR/EHR systems. This new partnership provides 12,000 MEDENT physician users with the ability to connect [...]
Healthport’s® Leading ROI Partner Program selected by Florida Hospital across eight locations
January 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
HealthPort, a top-25 company in the healthcare information technology industry, today announced that Florida Hospital, a 2,188 bed hospital system with eight locations across Central Florida, has begun deployment of their release of information (ROI) technology and service solution alongside the organization’s Cerner® Millennium electronic health record (EHR). Using HealthPort’s ROI Partner Program, Florida Hospital [...]
CVS Caremark Announces e-Prescribing Agreement with Allscripts
January 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
CVS Caremark today announced an agreement with Allscripts that will position both companies to help accelerate adoption of e-prescribing technology. This agreement between the nation’s largest pharmacy health care provider and the largest provider of e-prescribing and Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions will enhance the ability of CVS Caremark to support its payer and employer [...]
Meaningful Use criteria is finally released
December 31, 2009 By 4 Comments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) encourage public comment on two regulations issued today that lay a foundation for improving quality, efficiency and safety through meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. The regulations will help implement the EHR [...]
Greenway Medical Technologies Deploys Integrated EHR, Practice Management and Interoperability Solution Within Bethesda Healthcare System
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. today announced the deployment of its fully-integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution, PrimeSuite®, into Palm Beach County, Florida’s Bethesda Healthcare System (BHS) and its flagship hospital, Bethesda Memorial Hospital. BHS operates the 401-bed hospital as well as specialty practices that include family practice, internal medicine, cardiovascular surgery, [...]
Central Kentucky Radiology Partners with AMICAS for Radiology Billing and RIS Solutions
December 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
AMICAS, Inc., a leader in image and information management solutions, today announced a new contract with Central Kentucky Radiology (Lexington, KY). This agreement will allow Central Kentucky Radiology to use AMICAS Financials(TM) to streamline their radiology billing and AMICAS RIS(TM) to gain practice management efficiencies and to further improve service delivery effectiveness. Central Kentucky Radiology, [...]
