Hospitals understand the importance of health information technology (IT) and the benefits of its widespread adoption, yet as a field still face significant barriers to implementation according to a newly released survey of America’s Most Wired hospitals and health systems. This year’s survey reveals continued progress for hospitals in patient safety initiatives: Fifty-one percent of [...]
Progress Continues with Adoption of Health Information Technology but Significant Barriers Still Exist
July 7, 2010 By 3 Comments
Quammen Healthcare Consultants Empowers Faith Regional Health to Quickly ‘Go Live’ on EHR System
June 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
With healthcare leaders across the country fretting about electronic health records (EHRs) and the rush to qualify for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act incentives, Quammen Healthcare Consultants worked with Faith Regional Health Services to prove that the goal is well within reach. After just six months, Quammen enabled the 166-bed acute care facility to “go [...]
Hilo Medical Center Goes Live with One of Nation’s First MEDITECH 6.0 EMR Implementations with Help from Healthcare Informatics Associates, an InfoLogix Company
June 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Healthcare Informatics Associates (HIA), an InfoLogix, Inc.company, announced today that it has successfully assisted Hilo Medical Center in Hilo, Hawaii in going live with Phase 1 of one of the nation’s first MEDITECH 6.0 electronic medical record (EMR) implementations and becoming the first hospital on the ‘big island’ of Hawaii to bring the EMR to [...]
Order Optimizer and Prognosis Health Information Systems Form Strategic Alliance
May 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Order Optimizer, a leading provider of evidence based protocols for CPOE, and Prognosis Health Information Systems, an inpatient CCHIT-certified, web-based enterprise EHR provider, announce their successful closed loop CPOE integration. Unique integration architecture allows the Prognosis ChartAccess platform to receive continuously updated evidence based content from Order Optimizer. Secure internet communication keeps the platforms synchronized [...]
IntelliDose Nurses Share EHR Best-Practices at Oncology Nursing Congress
May 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Two IntelliDose® clinical oncology nurse specialists from IntrinsiQ, LLC will share a practical roadmap for successfully implementing electronic health records (EHRs) at the 35th Annual Oncology Nursing Society Congress in San Diego later this week. Drawing upon hundreds of real-world implementations, Jackie D’Auteuil and Sabrina Ceviker will discuss how to facilitate a smooth transition to [...]
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital Selects Eclipsys to Meet Expected ARRA “Meaningful Use” Requirements
May 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Eclipsys Corporation, The Outcomes Company ®, today announced that John T. Mather Memorial Hospital (Mather), a 248-bed community hospital located in Port Jefferson, NY, has selected multiple components of the company’s Sunrise Enterpriseâ„¢ integrated suite of solutions. The new applications will serve to create a single electronic health record (EHR) across venues to improve quality, [...]
New Meaningful Use Best-Practices Library Helps Hospitals Effectively Implement EHR to Improve the Health of Their Communities
April 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
To help hospitals effectively implement electronic health records (EHR) to improve the health of their communities, experts from leading not-for-profit hospitals have created an electronic health record (EHR) Meaningful Use (MU) Implementation best-practices library. Featured in the April edition of Health Affairs, the library offers actionable guidance that will help providers meet the MU objectives [...]
Silver Hill Psychiatric Hospital Implements OpenVista EHR to Promote Patient Safety
March 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Goes Live with Enhanced EDIMS Emergency Department EHR
March 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of comprehensive emergency department (ED) information management systems, today announced that Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBI) has successfully launched the newly enhanced EDIMS electronic health record (EHR). This significant EHR upgrade at the 673-bed facility includes a revenue cycle management (RCM) module to improve billing and charge capture; an [...]
Sound Shore Health Selects Eclipsys to Build an Integrated EHR on Industry-Leading Technology Platform
February 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Eclipsys Corporation ® , The Outcomes Company ®, today announced that Sound Shore Health System (SSHS) will undergo an accelerated activation of Eclipsys’ Sunrise Enterpriseâ„¢ integrated suite of solutions at both its Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester (New Rochelle, NY) and Mount Vernon Hospital (Mount Vernon, NY) facilities. The goal behind the comprehensive information [...]
