Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that University of California, San Diego Medical Center (UCSD Medical Center) selected Dragon Medical for use at multiple facilities to expand physicians’ options for documenting electronic health records (EHRs) to include real-time speech recognition. With Dragon Medical, physicians can document patient encounters via their voice for editing in real-time, without [...]
Detroit Medical Center selects my1HIE for Health Info Exchange
July 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Detroit Medical Center (DMC), with eight hospitals and more than 3,000 physicians, has announced an agreement today with my1HIE (My One Health Information Exchange). The DMC commitment and affiliation with my1HIE is further proof that technology adoption is the future of healthcare, a future that is better, safer and more efficient for every patient. [...]
Spectrum Health and Medicity Deploy Health Information Exchange Solution
July 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Spectrum Health and Medicity, Inc. today announced that they have deployed a platform that enables secure health information exchange between hospitals and physicians for enhanced clinical decision-making, care coordination and patient safety. Step by step, the health care industry is transitioning to the electronic medical record (EMR). However, connectivity between hospitals and physician offices can [...]
Transcript of the HIT Policy Meeting on June 16, 2009
June 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The official transcript HIT Policy Committee Meeting that took place on June 16, 2009 is available here.
Nyack Hospital selects McKesson’s Paragon for EHR Technology
June 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
To further improve both patient safety and operational efficiency, Nyack Hospital has chosen McKesson’s award-winning Paragon ® technology for community hospitals. The hospital plans to implement the Paragon community hospital information system, enabling the use of comprehensive electronic health records and financial management systems throughout its 375-bed facility in Rockland County, “The combination of business [...]
IVANS’ Study Shows that 56% of Home Health Care & Nursing Home Organizations Plan to Begin EMR Within Next Year
June 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
While more than one-third of home health care and nursing home organizations said they expect the government’s economic stimulus package to increase use of healthcare information technology, another 52% said the stimulus package will have little or no impact on their businesses, according to a recent survey by IVANS, Inc. “Home health and nursing home [...]
Remote Scan Provides Scanning Software to Scan Directly into Many EMR Systems
June 18, 2009 By 4 Comments
RemoteScan Corporation today announced the release of RemoteScan Thin Scan, a software solution for using USB scanners directly with thin client devices. RemoteScan(TM) products lets end users scan directly into any hosted application, such as EMR, EHR (Electronic Medical Record and Electronic Health Record) and any document management software, from any scanner plugged into their [...]
Cost saving example from Citizens Memorial Healthcare by going paperless
June 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Lower revenues, reduced headcount and tighter IT budgets have placed increased pressure on CIOs and IT executives to find new ways to create greater efficiencies and increase productivity enterprise-wide. Denni McColm, CIO at Citizens Memorial Healthcare (CMH), said that when it comes to efficiency-creating IT, the search is on. Citizens Memorial Healthcare is among 42 [...]
Athenahealth achieves conditional CCHIT certification for athenaClinicalsSM
June 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Athenahealth, Inc. a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices, today announced the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has approved the software component of athenahealth’s service-based electronic health record (EHR), athenaClinicalsSM Version 9.15.1, as a conditionally CCHIT Certified 08 Ambulatory EHR pending advanced electronic prescribing verification, additionally certified for Child Health. [...]
EMR in the world of Medical Tourism
June 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Global healthcare (also called medical tourism) is a rapidly growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain quality medical treatment, often at significant savings, even after accounting for airfare and a short vacation. To date more than 50 countries have identified medical tourism as a national industry. While reliable statistics are [...]
