The recent announcement that small and rural physician practices continue to lag behind in EHR adoption serves as a reminder that these providers still hold on to their foundation as independent thinkers and as such may be looking for tools that they can use to help themselves. “Cost of EHRs can be mitigated,” says Carolyn [...]
EHR Project Management Software Designed for Do-It-Yourself Physicians
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Mercy Health System Launches System-Wide Electronic Health Records
May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Today, Mercy Health System (MHS) flipped the final switch on its system-wide electronic health record (EHR) system, encompassing its four hospitals: Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Mercy Philadelphia Hospital in West Philadelphia, Mercy Suburban Hospital in East Norriton and Nazareth Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia; 44 physician practices, Mercy Home Health and Mercy LIFE Centers. Focusing [...]
SRS EHR’s Efficiency in Discrete-Data Capture Leads to Purchase Decision by West Tennessee Bone & Joint Clinic
May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
SRS has announced that West Tennessee Bone & Joint Clinic has selected the SRS EHR for its 11 providers, 9 office locations, and surgery center. West Tennessee Bone & Joint Clinic offers comprehensive orthopaedic care and services throughout western Tennessee. “The SRS EHR enables our physicians and staff to collect the clinical data for the [...]
Perry County General Hospital Selects ONE-Electronic Health Record from RazorInsights
May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RazorInsights has announced that Perry County General Hospital in Richton, Mississippi will deploy ONE-Electronic Health Record to drive patient safety and achieve the Meaningful Use objectives outlined in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. “We’re very excited to have Perry County General Hospital choose ONE-Electronic Health Record to better the overall quality of care for [...]
VA to launch iPhone EHR app this summer in Washington, DC
May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mobihealthnews is reporting that the Veterans Administration is planning to launch an electronic health record app for the iPhone later this year. The initial roll out will take place beginning this summer at the veteran’s medical center in Washington DC and will include up to 1,000 mobile devices, including iPhones and iPads at the DC-based [...]
gMed Reinforces E-learning with gBUS Training Program
April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
gMed has expanded its gBUS training program, their system allowing practices to learn gMed Electronic Health Record applications remotely and at their own pace. gBUS, gMed’s e-learning system launched only a few months ago and it is already an useful tool for new clients working towards their EHR go-live dates. gBUS provides pre-implementation and continuing [...]
Nuance Closes on Acquisition of Transcend
April 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced that they have closed their previously announced acquisition of Transcend Services, Inc., a provider of medical transcription and speech editing services. The companies claim the combination of Nuance and Transcend will significantly improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used across the small- to mid-size hospital market, which [...]
iChartsMD Announces a Partnership with University of Southern California
April 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
iChartsMD announced today that it has partnered with the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Malibu based iChartsMD will be providing its cloud based electronic health record software for the school and its medical students. This will provide USC the ability to integrate a Drummond ONC- ATCB certified solution into its curriculum while [...]
Allscripts Quarterly Financial Results – OUCH
April 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Allscripts (MDRX) announced their quarterly earnings last night and they were a disaster. Forecast numbers are down across the board and expected earnings have been reduced by over 35%. The company also announced that both the Chief Financial Officer and the Chairman of the board are resigning. The stock closed yesterday, before the announcement, at [...]
Health Fidelity REVEAL Improves Information Exchange by Extracting Value from Unstructured Clinical Data
April 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Health Fidelity, Inc., today announced the launch of REVEAL™, a commercial-grade, cloud-based natural language processing service for healthcare IT application companies and healthcare organizations. REVEAL creates value for HIT application companies seeking to improve patient outcomes and leverage workflow efficiencies by extracting and codifying the unstructured clinical data that healthcare organizations capture but do not [...]
