Medsphere Systems Corporation and Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center (MHMC) today announced that MHMC has met Stage One Meaningful Use requirements using Medsphere’s OpenVista electronic health record. The Secaucus, New Jersey, hospital has received an initial reimbursement from the federal government that covers the five-year total cost of ownership for OpenVista. For MHMC, a 230-bed facility [...]
Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center Uses OpenVista EHR to Improve Patient Care, Earn Federal Stimulus Funds
May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Stilwell Memorial Hospital Goes Open Source for their Electronic Health Records with OpenVista
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Medsphere Systems Corporation has announced that Oklahoma’s Stilwell Memorial Hospital has selected the OpenVista EHR system for implementation. The community medical center will utilize OpenVista’s flexibility and comprehensive clinical support, as well as Medsphere’s implementation process and clinical transformation services, to affordably improve care and secure the maximum federal stimulus reimbursement. “For community hospitals like [...]
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 [...]
ZH Healthcare Touts 2012 Contributions to Free, Open Source OpenEMR Software
March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Healthcare regulations and cost are often the subject of negative news and headlines. That doesn’t mean there are no positive areas of news within today’s healthcare environment. One of these positive areas is the move towards electronic health and medical records (EHR / EMR), which are, computerized medical records created by healthcare providers and managed [...]
Medsphere, Silver Hill Hospital Collaboration Yields Behavioral Health Enhancements to OpenVista® EHR
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The development partnership between Medsphere Systems Corporation and Silver Hill Hospital this week produced the first built-from-the-ground-up innovation of Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record specifically for behavioral health hospitals. Designed in close collaboration with clinicians at Silver Hill, the OpenVista Multidisciplinary Treatment Plan (MDTP) coordinates mental health care across members of the care team and [...]
Misys Open Source Solutions Demonstrates Leadership at IHE North America Connectathon 2012 for the Fourth Year
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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. [...]
Kern Medical Center Awarded Federal Funds for Meaningful Use of OpenVista EHR
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Medsphere Systems Corporation and Kern Medical Center have announced that Kern has met the requirements for Stage One Meaningful Use with Medsphere’s OpenVista system, the enabling electronic health record (EHR), and has received more than $5 million in initial reimbursement from the federal government. Affiliated with both the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA [...]
University Behavioral Healthcare Announces Go-live of the DSS Mental Health EHR System
November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
DSS, Inc., the leading provider of software development and support of VistA, today announced that its vxVistA and vxMental Health Suite (MHS) have gone into production at University Behavioral Healthcare (UBHC), a division of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), with more than 800 users at 13 locations. UBHC is one [...]
PHYAURA Releases Open Source EHR Download and Provides an Online Community for Healthcare Providers
September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
PHYAURA, LLC has announced the launch of the community edition of PHYAURA EHR, a free and open source EHR product. The community edition allows all healthcare practitioners in the United States to document clinical notes, schedule office visits, and bill for medical services, all without any vendor lock in. PHYAURA has also established a new [...]
VA Launches Open Source Custodian with new Website
August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the completion of an important milestone on its joint path with the Department of Defense to create a single electronic health record system for service members and Veterans. OSEHRA (pronounced “oh- sarah”), the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, has begun operations and will serve as the central [...]
