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February 4, 2012

Misys Open Source Solutions Demonstrates Leadership at IHE North America Connectathon 2012 for the Fourth Year

Misys Open Source Solutions (“MOSS”), a division of Misys plc, the world’s first fully open source, standards based health information exchange solutions provider, has succeeded in passing the stringent IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) testing protocols at the Chicago Connectathon. This extends MOSS success in passing all the IHE tests for the last 4 years. [...]

dbMotion chosen by Unity Health System to enhance patient-centered medical home

dbMotion has announced that its interoperability platform has been selected by the Unity Health System in New York to facilitate far-reaching health information exchange efforts. The dbMotion™ Solution will connect disparate technologies across the enterprise, extend Unity Health’s advanced patient-centered medical home (PCMH) capability, and advance the organization’s robust care management and population health initiatives [...]

iMedicor to provide CMS Certified Gateway for Secure and Private Exchange of Health Information over the Internet

iMedicor has announced it is adding esMD (Electronic Submission of Medical Data) and HIH (Health Information Handler) technology and certifications to iMedicor’s flagship service, the HIPAA-compliant Social Health Information Exchange. With this latest enhancement, iMedicor puts doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers well ahead of the CMS adoption deadline for the computer-to-computer exchange of protected [...]

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Rejects HIE Funding

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has announced he will not pursue the implementation of a health insurance exchange and has turned down Early Innovator Grant funding of $37 million dollars from the federal government. “I have directed the Department of Health Services to notify the federal government that we will discontinue any development on a health [...]

ChartSwap, a cloud-based medical record exchange solution, set to go-live January 23, 2012

ChartSwap, a Houston-based SalesForce ISV Partner, will go-live with an interesting new online record ordering and exchange solution. ChartSwap, which is built on a Force.com platform, offers healthcare providers free access to a HIPAA-compliant electronic chart exchange network that they claim will drastically reduce the administrative burden associated with responding to third-party requests for medical [...]

State of Illinois Selects InterSystems HealthShare For Statewide Electronic Health Records

InterSystems Corporation has announced that InterSystems HealthShare™ has been selected as the technology platform for the Illinois Health Information Exchange.  The estimated value of the contract is $7.25 million. “Building our electronic health information exchange is a major step in transforming health care and helping patients,” Governor Quinn said. “Statewide access to electronic records means that vital patient [...]

Sequel Systems Launches Practice Referral Program

Sequel Systems, Inc., a dynamic, service-oriented healthcare technology company has just announced their physician practice referral program. The program offers a $500 AMEX gift card as a reward to our patrons who refer physician practices looking to adopt an EMR/EHR/EPM system. “This reward is simply a token of our appreciation for the referring physician practices [...]

Statewide Health Information Exchange Announced for Florida

Florida healthcare patients soon will receive more collaborative and streamlined care with improved safety, outcomes, privacy and efficiency thanks to the launch of a new, secure, cloud-based, statewide health information exchange (HIE) network. Leaders from a new Florida company, HIE Networks, the Florida Hospital Association and the Florida Medical Association joined forces at a news [...]

HealthBridge Expands Health Information Exchange Capabilities

HealthBridge announced today its selection of Clinical Architecture’s Symedical Server for its new advanced health information exchange (HIE) infrastructure. The selection of this new technology is part of a series of HIE infrastructure enhancements at HealthBridge aimed at improving information flow for patient care and prepare for new meaningful use and payment reform requirements. The [...]

Multiple States and Vendors Agree on Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications for EHR Connectivity

A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records today issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other data-sharing partners. The specifications are now available for the public to view at www.interopwg.org. The objective of the EHR/HIE Interoperability [...]