Allscripts has announced that Brown & Toland Physicians, one of the largest independent physician associations in California, selected the Allscripts Community Record powered by dbMotion to deliver end-to-end information connectivity for its 1,500 physicians serving 335,000 Bay Area patients. The Allscripts Community Record provides Brown & Toland’s physicians and other caregivers with access to a single, comprehensive patient record. The [...]
Brown & Toland Physicians Selects Allscripts Community Record to Connect 1,500 Bay Area Physicians
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Oakland Physician Network Services to Participate With Michigan Health Connect
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Michigan Health Connect (MHC) has announce that Oakland Physician Network Services (OPNS) based in Waterford, Michigan has decided to extend MHC’s health information exchange (HIE) solutions to its physician membership. This participation will further enhance care quality and coordination that OPNS physicians provide to their patients, and meet core requirements associated with Patient Centered Medical [...]
HIXNY Connects with athenahealth to Provide Access To Community Health Record on InterSystems HealthShare Platform
October 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
InterSystems Corporation has announced that Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY) has connected its health information exchange (HIE) with the cloud-based electronic health record from athenahealth, Inc. This connection will enable physicians using athenahealth’s EHR service, athenaClinicals®, to access their patients’ community health records supplied by HIXNY’s HIE, which is built on InterSystems HealthShare™. “Physician practices [...]
Eastern Connecticut Health Network Selects MobileMD for Health Information Exchange
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
MobileMD, Inc., announced today a five-year agreement with Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Inc. (ECHN) of Manchester, Conn., that will enable the health system to provide state-of-the-art health information exchange (HIE) connectivity to community physicians as well as ECHN’s five outreach sites, two hospitals, and surrounding medical community including Visiting Nurse and Health Services Corporation, skilled [...]
Eastern Connecticut Health Network Selects MobileMD for HIE; Hospital System Offers Capabilities to Manchester-Area Medical Community
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
MobileMD, Inc., announced today a five-year agreement with Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Inc. (ECHN) of Manchester, Conn., that will enable the health system to provide state-of-the-art health information exchange (HIE) connectivity to community physicians as well as ECHN’s five outreach sites, two hospitals, and surrounding medical community including Visiting Nurse and Health Services Corporation, skilled [...]
Brown & Toland Physicians Receives $1.7 Million Grant for Accountable Care Initiatives
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Brown & Toland Physicians announced today that it has received a grant of $1.7 million from Blue Shield of California to implement a local electronic health information exchange (HIE) that would connect to other health information exchanges. Blue Shield announced that a total of 18 California hospitals, health systems, clinics and physician groups – including [...]
Orion Health Announces Asia Pacific Acquisition and International Collaboration with Microsoft
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In two complementary agreements, Orion Health and Microsoft Corp. have joined efforts to address the eHealth needs of care delivery systems worldwide. In Asia Pacific, wholly owned subsidiary Orion Health Asia Pacific has signed an agreement to purchase Microsoft’s Hospital Information System (HIS) software assets, including RIS/PACS, previously known as Amalga HIS. In addition, the [...]
CapSite Partners With Peer Consulting to Combine IT Strategic Consulting Services With CapSite’s Hospital Purchasing Database
October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
CapSite announced this morning that Peer Consulting has entered into a Provider Consulting Organization (PCO) agreement with CapSite. The agreement enables Peer Consulting to offer the CapSite service to healthcare providers as part of consulting engagements. “We believe the CapSite Hospital Purchasing Database, when combined with other services offered by select consultants for their provider [...]
The Role of HIE in Building and Realizing the Potential of ACOs Discussed at Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Meeting
October 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium hosted a symposium last month on the effective use of technology in the development of risk bearing organizations, or accountable care organizations (ACOs). The main speaker was John Tempesco, chief marketing officer at ICA, a health information exchange company based in Nashville, TN. ICA’s initial technology was developed at Vanderbilt [...]
Central Illinois Health Information Exchange Finalizes Contract with ICA to Cover 1.3 Million People South of Chicago
October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ICA, a company providing comprehensive Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions to integrated delivery networks (IDNs), communities and states, announced today that it has signed a contract with the Central Illinois Health Information Exchange (CIHIE). The new health information exchange (HIE) will serve approximately 1.3 million people in 20 counties in the Peoria, Bloomington, Champaign, and [...]
