meridianMobile for iPhone brings the Urology EHR to the Palm of Your Hand
meridianEMR®, a market-leader in EHR for Urology, announced today the launch of a native iPhone® app to complement the meridianEMR system. meridianMobile® for iPhone combines the rich functionality of the meridianEMR system with the mobility and fluid interactivity of the iPhone.It gives Urologistssecure access to their real-time EHR data – right in the palm of their hands.
meridianMobile for iPhone was designed to help Urologists streamline workflow and improve patient care. The app enables them to move seamlessly between the hospital or clinic, office, home, and beyond while maintaining comprehensive, convenient, and HIPAA-compliant access to their most current EHR data. Urologists can retrieve and modify up-to-the-minute patient information, office visits, and appointments. They can also access patient pharmacy information, medication refill alerts, patient photos, billing information, and more.
“Thank you, meridianEMR. This is very good…It is very intuitive and easy to use,” commented meridianMobile for iPhone user, Charles M. Lash, MD, Advance Urology and Continence Center of Wauseon, OH.
Since meridianMobile for iPhone is a native app, it has been exclusively optimized for use on the familiar iPhone device Urologists rely on, making the app fast, user-friendly, and powerful. Plus, there is no need to sync the iPhone to the EHR system. With meridianMobile for iPhone, data is kept up-to-date automatically. All data is stored on the Urologist’s office EHR, and meridianMobile for iPhone efficiently exchanges current information with it as required. [Read More...]
42 Hospitals Attest to Stage 1 Meaningful Use With T-System
Forty-two hospitals have successfully attested to Stage 1 Meaningful Use using T-System’s certified emergency department information system, The T SystemEV®, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A third-party comparative analysis by blogger Brian Ahier posted to the Government Health IT website illustrates that T-System ranks eighth on a list of the top 10 electronic health records vendors in terms of facility attestations. The company further distinguished itself by being the only departmental vendor named to the list.
“We are pleased that T-System enabled 42 organizations to qualify for Meaningful Use incentives,” said Robert Hitchcock, M.D., FACEP, T-System vice president and chief medical informatics officer. “More importantly, the information we’ve received from our clients indicates that Meaningful Use attainment with T-System did not negatively impact hospitals’ operations or revenue. We’re anticipating that several more clients will attest in the very near future, and we’re actively supporting their progress along the way.” [Read More...]
NorthCrest Medical Center Selects Allscripts Sunrise Electronic Health Record
NorthCrest Medical Center will deploy AllscriptsSunrise Clinical Manager™ acute care Electronic Health Record to support its mission of becoming one of the nation's best hospitals. "Our goal at NorthCrest is to be the best hospital across every measure of patient care, and Allscripts will help us get there," said Scott Raynes, Chief Executive Officer of NorthCrest, a 109-bed … [Read More...]
WebCare3D now links to EMR products through newly released API
Webcare Developments Inc. has introduced an application programming interface (API) that will allow WebCare3D to link to EMR products, providing practitioners a program linking patient management at both the treatment and administrative levels. This integration can provide EMR companies another feature to strengthen their brand in this competitive market. WebCare 3D is the innovative Physical … [Read More...]
Illinois Rural HealthNet building a high-speed network to connect rural hospitals and health care clinics in Illinois
The Illinois Rural HealthNet (IRHN) has signed a construction contract with G4S Technology LLC that will facilitate the deployment of a new $21M fiber optic medical network, and allow residents of Illinois access to advanced medical care. The IRHN is a not-for profit corporation of health care providers who have come together to deploy and maintain a high-speed network to connect rural … [Read More...]
Greenway Medical Technologies Set to Go Public Tomorrow
Greenway Medical Technologies is set to go public tomorrow with an $80 million initial public offering set for Thursday, February, 3rd. In what is rapidly becoming a hot IPO market Greenway is set to join eight other new stock offerings this week. Greenway intends to issue roughly 6.7 million shares, priced between $11 and $13, to raise $80 million in capital. At $12.00 per share Greenway … [Read More...]
ADP AdvancedMD Enters RCM Market with Acquisition of PhyLogic Healthcare
ADP® has announced the acquisition of privately-held PhyLogic Healthcare, a Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) company that has served small- and mid-size U.S. medical practices since 2001. The ADP medical office software division, ADP AdvancedMD®, a provider of leading cloud practice management, electronic health record, medical scheduling, and billing applications, now offers outsourced medical … [Read More...]
Advanced Data Systems Integrates MedicsDocAssistant EHR and Midmark
Advanced Data Systems Corporation (ADS) has announced the integration of their MedicsDocAssistant™ certified EHR with Midmark's IQecg™, IQspiro™ and IQholter™ devices. The integration allows for the seamless embedding of clean, clear images, charts, graphs, and reports directly from the Midmark devices into the patient's MedicsDocAssistant record. MedicsDocAssistant then allows physicians … [Read More...]
Macadamian Will Present New Electronic Health Record Usability Assessment Tool at HIMSS
Macadamian, a leader in user experience design and software development, will be presenting at HIMSS 2012, the largest worldwide annual healthcare IT conference, taking place February 20-24 in Las Vegas. Melanie Rodney PhD, Director of Usability Research at Macadamian and Nancy Staggers PhD, RN, FAAN from the University of Maryland, in conjunction with HIMSS, will be outlining their unique online … [Read More...]
Louisiana Health Care Practitioners Selects ChartLogic EHR for 4 Rural Health Clinics
ChartLogic has announced today that Louisiana Health Care Practitioners has selected the ChartLogic EHR Suite. Louisiana Health Care Practitioners operates four stand-alone facilities in Alexandria, Cottonport, Mansura and Simmesport, Louisiana. Three of the clinics are designated as federal rural health clinics. The medical group employs four nurse practitioners under the guidance of one … [Read More...]
AHIMA Encourages the Health Care Community to “Keep Moving on ICD-10 Transition”
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is urging the healthcare community to continue preparing for the transition to the ICD-10 classification system, warning that the U.S. Congress may not act on requests to stop ICD-10 implementation and let stakeholders design and adopt a new classification system to replace ICD-9-CM. “If healthcare providers stop their ICD-10 … [Read More...]
Fox Valley Practice Successfully Attests to Meaningful Use of EHRs
The Illinois Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (IL-HITREC), along with its service partner SA Ignite, Inc., celebrated the successful attestation milestone reached Jan. 23, by Fox Valley Women and Children’s Health Partners, in St. Charles. The Fox Valley practice successfully attested to receive Medicare’s Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records Stage 1 incentive … [Read More...]
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meridianMobile for iPhone brings the Urology EHR to the Palm of Your Hand
meridianEMR®, a market-leader in EHR for Urology, announced today the launch of a native iPhone® app to complement the meridianEMR system. meridianMobile® for iPhone combines the rich functionality … [Read More...]
New Books Sees Cost Savings of Widespread Adoption of EHR in the US to be over $720 Billion Per Year
Several recent studies have shown the vast majority of doctors in the U.S. have not adopted the standardized use of … [Read More...]