Silver Hill Hospital and Medsphere Systems Corporation today announced the successful implementation of Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record solution at the nationally recognized psychiatric hospital. Silver Hill selected OpenVista — a comprehensive, open-source EHR proven to significantly improve clinical effectiveness — as an affordable and fully integrated enabler of real-time clinical information in a paperless [...]
Silver Hill Psychiatric Hospital Implements OpenVista EHR to Promote Patient Safety
March 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
Columbia Basin Hospital to Implement Phoenix’s Total IT Solution Service
March 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Medsphere Systems Corporation today joined partner Phoenix Health Systems and Columbia Basin Hospital (CBH) in announcing the hospital’s agreement to implement Phoenix’s new Total IT (Information Technology) Solution service line, which includes Medsphere’s OpenVista electronic health record solution. Medsphere is the leading provider of open-source healthcare enterprise solutions, Phoenix is a national provider of healthcare [...]
Medsphere Guarantees Meaningful Use for Hospitals That Implement OpenVista Electronic Health Record in 2009
October 7, 2009 By 2 Comments
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, today announced that hospitals that sign a contract before December 31, 2009 to implement the OpenVista open source electronic health record (EHR) are guaranteed to achieve full implementation and meet federal meaningful use standards by January 31, 2011. Meeting this deadline for EHR [...]
Great ZDNet article on Open Standards vs. Plug and Play for EMR
June 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image by Patrick Q via Flickr One of the great pleasures in covering health IT is I get to watch a fast-forward recapitulation of the last 30 years in technology. While the mainstream tech world is focused on open source and open standards, transparently arrived at, the health IT realm is hoping it can just [...]
Listing of Current Open Source Health Care Projects Including EMR/EHR
June 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Open source projects created for use in health care and medical applications promise to significantly reduce costs and contribute efficiencies to health care organizations, according to Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software. Using a well-known cost estimation model [...]
Panel discussion on open source solutions for health care IT scheduled for Fort Lauderdale in June
June 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image by nenortas photography via Flickr The Collaborative Communications Summit announces that Misys Open Source Solutions and other healthcare leaders will present a panel on how open source technology is gaining traction as an effective and viable health IT solution for care providers at the upcoming Spring CCS Health IT Summit taking place this June [...]
