Medsphere Systems Corporation and Cooper Green Mercy Hospital have announced that Cooper Green has gone live on Medsphere’s OpenVista open source electronic health record. With OpenVista now up and running, and enhancing the patient care provided by Cooper Green clinicians and staff, the hospital can devote full attention to meeting Stage One Meaningful Use requirements [...]
Cooper Green Mercy Hospital Implements OpenVista Electronic Health Record
May 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
eCareSoft Adds New Channel Partner in Mexico
May 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
eCareSoft, Inc. has announced Alestra as its new channel partner for Mexico. Alestra will represent eCareSoft’s integrated clinical, financial and EHR technology for hospitals. This agreement enables Alestra to launch Cloud Based Health Care Clinical, Revenue Cycle & Financial Solutions in Mexico utilizing eCareSoft, Inc.’s Cirrus™ Hospital Inpatient and Nimbo™ Physician Ambulatory Platforms. Cirrus is [...]
New KLAS Report Shows that Software as a Service EMR Model Garners Greater Appeal
May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Lower initial pricing combined with hands-off maintenance and increasing confidence in cloud data storage has many healthcare providers looking seriously at Software as a Service EMR systems As providers continue to seek ways to do more with fewer resources, the limited hardware expenses, ease of use, and growing confidence in cloud storage continue to make [...]
MTBC Launches Electronic Health Record for OB/GYN Providers
May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
MTBC, a leading national provider of electronic health records and practice and revenue cycle management solutions, today announced the launch of its OB/GYN EHR. “Our specialized EHR templates and modules change the face of caregiving for OB/GYN providers by empowering them with an EHR that is, according to published usage statistics, among the most usable [...]
Surescripts Report: Majority Of Physicians Meeting Stage 1 Meaningful Use E-Prescribing Measure Today, Many Already Meeting Proposed Stage 2 Measure
May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Surescripts has announced the release of “The National Progress Report on E-Prescribing and Interoperable Healthcare, Year 2011.” The National Progress Report features an analysis of data that tracks the status of e-prescribing adoption and use in the United States from 2008 – before the advent of federal incentives – through 2011. The report provides a measure [...]
RazorInsights Adds Stewart-Webster Hospital to Growing List of ONE-EHR Clients
May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RazorInsights, a provider of healthcare information technology solutions for Rural, Critical Access and Community hospitals, today announced its partnership with Stewart-Webster Hospital in Richland, Georgia. Stewart-Webster will deploy ONE-Electronic Health Record to provide cutting-edge technology and improved patient care to its rural Georgia community, while also achieving the Meaningful Use objectives outlined in the American [...]
Merge Healthcare Propels Meaningful Use Adoption
May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Merge Healthcare Inc. has announced the addition of twelve practices to its growing list of clients who have selected its complete and fully-certified EHR solution to achieve Meaningful Use (MU). More than 89 clients, representing more than 850 physicians, now utilize Merge MU solutions. “Meaningful Use is the basis for health information exchange in the U.S. and [...]
Four Important Considerations When Negotiating a Contract with an EMR Vendor
May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The following is a guest post by William O’Toole, the founder of the O’Toole Law Group, PC, a practice specializing exclusively in healthcare information technology. You may think the difficult work is done after you’ve selected an EMR system for your hospital or medical practice, but the decisions don’t end with product selection. An EMR [...]
MTBC WebEHR 1.0 Achieves ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 EHR Certification From ICSA Labs
May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
MTBC has achieved 2011/2012 complete Electronic Health Record ONC-ATCB Certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting providers with Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. MTBC WebEHR was certified on May 2, 2012 under ICSA Labs’ ONC-ATCB Electronic Health Record program and [...]
Users of MOSAIQ Oncology Information System Among First Oncologists to Achieve Meaningful Use
May 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Users of Elekta’s MOSAIQ® Oncology Information System (OIS) have begun completing the “attestation” process to prove meaningful use. Fulfilling attestation requirements qualifies users of MOSAIQ and other systems to receive payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of up to $44,000 over five years under Medicare rules. Two Elekta customer sites became the [...]
