Have you been to the doctor’s office lately? If so there’s a good chance your visit started with an over-worked staff person handing you “the clipboard” containing several forms that you’d need to complete before you could actually see a physician. You are handed the clipboard despite the fact that you were just at that [...]
Lutheran Medical Center Goes Live with OpenVista
December 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Lutheran Medical Center and Medsphere Systems Corporation today announced the successful implementation of Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR) solution throughout the hospital. The full service 476-bed teaching hospital is now on track to achieve meaningful use and qualify for millions of dollars made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Since implementing OpenVista only a [...]
eLINCx Chooses GE Healthcare for Health Information Exchange
December 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
eLINCx, founded earlier this year to provide quality healthcare services to central Ohio communities, and GE Healthcare announced today that eLINCx will implement GE Healthcare’s eHealth Information Exchange across Wooster Community Hospital, Dunlap Community Hospital and more than a dozen physician practices. “GE worked closely with us from the start to understand our current and [...]
Midwest-based Medical Facility Selects Streamline Health for Hosted Document Workflow Solutions
October 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. a provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, today announced that a medical facility located in the Midwestern region of the U.S. has entered into a seven year contract for Streamline Health’s accessANYware hosted document workflow solutions integrated with the enterprise electronic medical record (EMR) system of Streamline Health’s largest remarketing [...]
Cardiac Device Data Integrated With EHRs by BIOTRONIK DataSync
October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
BIOTRONIK SE Co. & KG, a leading manufacturer of implantable cardiac devices, has announced the European release of BIOTRONIK EHR DataSync. The software supports physicians, hospitals and clinics by integrating routine follow-up details, BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring remote follow-up information and data from the company’s cardiac device programmers – ICS 3000 and the new programmer, Renamic, [...]
CHIME Releases CIO-Specific Guidebook on EHR Implementation
August 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) released today a detailed guide intended to support healthcare CIOs in the implementation of electronic health records to meet the meaningful use requirements issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The publication, entitled “The CIO’s Guide to Implementing EHRs in the HITECH Era”, tackles the [...]
Maryland approves bill requiring health plans to offer EMR incentives
May 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image by ExperienceLA via Flickr Maryland has approved a bill making it the first state to require commercial health plans to offer doctors incentives for adopting electronic medical records. Starting in 2011, when physicians adopt EMRs, health plans will have to pay them higher reimbursements, pay out a lump sum incentive or offer in-kind services [...]
The slow process of transfering health records to the digital world
May 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Walk though a typical Kaiser Permanente doctor’s office or hospital, and you won’t find a paper chart lying around. Kaiser, with 450 hospitals and offices around the country, is almost entirely paperless. But as the rest of the health care industry rushes to follow in Kaiser’s digital footsteps, Kaiser’s paperless success story–a [...]
PWC study outlines the “carrot and stick” aspect of stimulus based EMR adoption
May 14, 2009 By 5 Comments
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr A report recently issued by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Health Research Institute concludes that government incentives intended to spur the use of health information technology are a “small carrot” when compared with the amount of money it will cost hospitals and physician practices to implement and maintain electronic health [...]
Top technologies impacting hospital c-suite executives
May 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image by Getty Images via Daylife PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA – The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit research firm based in Plymouth Meeting, Penn., has released its top 10 list of health technologies for hospital c-suite executives for 2009. ECRI compiled the list taking into account the convergence of critical economic, patient safety, reimbursement, and regulatory pressures [...]
