Hyland Software Acquires eWebHealth

March 2, 2010

Hyland Software has purchased privately held eWebHealth, a leading provider of hosted medical records workflow solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“We’ve significantly reinforced our already strong healthcare presence over the past several months,” said A.J. Hyland, president and CEO of Hyland Software. “Acquisitions are accelerating our entry into key markets. They’ve also allowed [...]

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AMA: Physicians Outraged at Today’s Steep Medicare Cut

March 2, 2010

The U.S. Senate’s failure to act before today’s 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut has put seniors at grave risk of reduced access to health care and choice of physician.
“The Senate had over a year to repeal the flawed formula that causes the annual payment cut and instead they abandoned America’s seniors, making them collateral [...]

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Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation

March 2, 2010

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s leading health care provider and not-for-profit health plan, received 12 Stage 7 Awards from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The Stage 7 Award honors hospitals that have achieved the highest level electronic health record implementation. The 12 awards were presented at the HIMSS 2010 annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Kaiser [...]

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Philips Convenes ‘Meaningful’ Dialogue on How Healthcare IT Solutions can Contribute to Improved Patient Outcomes

March 1, 2010

At the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Atlanta, Royal Philips Electronics will showcase how healthcare informatics solutions can help improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. This strategic focus underscores a commitment to providing advanced clinical informatics and patient monitoring solutions that complement electronic health records (EHRs) by [...]

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Greenway Medical Technologies Partners with Take Care Health Employer Solutions to Deploy PrimeSuite EHR Solution

March 1, 2010

Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. is today announcing a partnership to supply the company’s integrated electronic health record (EHR) and interoperability solution PrimeSuite® to Take Care Health Employer Solutions, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive provider of worksite health and wellness services and pharmacy.
Take Care Health Employer Solutions builds and operates workplace-based health centers which offer [...]

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Allscripts Introduces ‘Go’

March 1, 2010

Allscripts  today introduced ‘Go,’ the Company’s HIMSS in-booth education program and new website designed for physicians and other providers who are considering deploying Electronic Health Records and other healthcare information technologies.
‘Go’ will provide easy access to best practices and success stories from the Allscripts client community of more than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals, and 8,000 [...]

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MedQuist Launches EHR Integration for Dictations Associated with Template-based Clinical Documentation

February 26, 2010

MedQuist Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDQ), a leading provider of technology-enabled clinical documentation services, is integrating with Epic Systems Corporation within its Hyperspace environment to offer a solution that integrates “partial dictations” with the template-based clinical documentation process, enabling physicians to complete the Electronic Health Record (EHR) without changing their documentation workflow.
Partial dictation combines structured and narrative [...]

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Vangent White Paper Highlights Key Components to Comply With “Meaningful Use” Provisions for EHR

February 26, 2010

Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process services, published a white paper to help organizations understand “meaningful use” and its impact on electronic health records (EHRs) and healthcare interoperability. Meaningful Use. Not Meaningless Waste(SM): Learn How to Protect Your Investment provides an overview of the current health IT landscape [...]

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AT&T Expands Healthcare Community Online to Improve Patient Care

February 25, 2010

Demonstrating its commitment to helping healthcare organizations improve operational efficiencies and enhance patient care, AT&T today announced that it is expanding its AT&T Healthcare Community Online (HCO) solution to include a dynamic portal with pre-integrated applications.
AT&T HCO is a highly secure, cloud-based health information exchange (HIE) and collaboration portal. The solution integrates patient data from [...]

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Mid-Michigan Physicians Selects Allscripts EHR to Connect and Automate 70 Physicians and Providers

February 25, 2010

Allscripts announced today that Mid-Michigan Physicians, a multi-specialty group headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) to provide 70 of their physicians and mid-level providers, located across seven locations, with the latest tools required to deliver high quality care.
Six physicians formed the Mid-Michigan Physicians group practice in 1996 and the practice [...]

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