While a majority of business administrators at hospitals and health systems say they are well along in completing electronic health record system adoption, many are expressing various levels of doubt about their ability to meet new EHR standards, according to the results of a poll conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory [...]
KPMG Poll Shows Meaningful Use Requirements are Seen As Compliance Challenge, Despite High Hospital EHR Adoption Rates
April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Electronic Audit Solutions from IVANS Now Offered at Reduced Rates to Amerinet Members
April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Amerinet Inc., a leading national healthcare solutions organization, announces a new Executive Resources agreement with IVANS, Inc. for health information exchange and electronic audit documentation solutions. IVANS AuditDocs™, is a software solution for fast, secure, electronic submission of Medicare audit documentation requests. Reduce risk and ensure audit deadlines are met by uploading and sending medical [...]
Medsphere Joins OSEHRA, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Open Source EHR Development Project
April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Medsphere Systems Corporation has announced that the company has accepted an invitation to join the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) community, adding the company’s experience with code convergence and implementation of VistA-based EHR solutions to the ongoing efforts of OSEHRA participants. Established by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in August 2011, OSEHRA [...]
SRS EHR Chosen by Lakeside Orthopedics
April 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
SRS, has announced that Lakeside Orthopedics has selected the SRS EHR. Lakeside Orthopedics is located in Omaha, Nebraska, and has been providing quality orthopaedic care to patients in that area since 2004. “The hospital where our practice is located offered us a grant to cover the cost of the EHR system they were using, but [...]
DoctorCom® Launches Free HIPAA-Compliant Apps for Android and iPhone
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
DoctorCom, Inc. has announced the launch of its free HIPAA-compliant healthcare practice management smartphone app for both the Android and iPhone platforms. The app provides doctors, dentists and all healthcare professionals with click-to-call, secure messaging and file-sharing with colleagues. The privacy features enable communications with colleagues and patients without compromising the privacy of your personal [...]
Nebraska’s Regional Extension Center Surpasses Goal of Enrolling 1,000 Primary Care Providers
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Wide River Technology Extension Center (TEC), Nebraska’s Regional Extension Center for Healthcare IT, has surpassed their goal of working with 1,000 Nebraska primary care providers to implement and meaningfully use electronic health records. Primary care practices and critical access hospitals (CAH) that meaningfully use a certified electronic health record not only improve care for their [...]
Electronic Medical Records are Helping Small Hospitals to Gain More Acceptance According to SMBTA
April 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
The American Hospital Association reports there are 941,995 staffed beds in all U.S. hospitals. The biggest and best known often have 900 or more of those beds and, without a doubt, offer excellent training for medical students, specialized care in many fields and the most expensive technology in the world. Yet, the American Heart Association [...]
New Electronic Medical Record System At Group Health Centre
April 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Canada Health Infoway Inc. and the Group Health Centre have launched a new$3.3-million initiative, the Group Health Centre Ambulatory EMR and Hospital Information System Connect Project. This project will revitalize GHC’s I.T. infrastructure and integrate it with local hospital and provincial electronic health record systems to enhance quality of care and share information between healthcare [...]
eMerge Health Integrates EMR Solution at Heritage Surgical Center
April 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
eMerge Health Solutions today announced substantial workflow improvements for Heritage Surgical Center – citing integration with Electronic Medical Records and Patient Management systems as the keys to this tremendous success. Powered by a proprietary HL7 engine, this integration enables real-time, bi-directional information sharing to increase efficiency and eliminate redundancy throughout the patient life cycle. As [...]
Providence Medical Group Becomes Dayton, Ohio’s First Large-Scale Patient-Centered Medical Home
April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Providence Medical Group (PMG) sped up their planned move toward becoming Dayton’s first large-scale patient-centered medical home (PCMH), due in part to a request by a large local employer, GE Aviation. GE Aviation recently brought a number of jobs to the Dayton area and will soon require employees’ primary care provider to be a certified [...]
