eClinicalWorks has announced that College Park Family Care Center, the largest non-hospital owned multi-specialty group in the Kansas City-area, has chosen eClinicalWorks comprehensive electronic health records solution for its 91 providers across 12 locations. Designed to improve communication with access to real-time information, this initiative will aid the group in pursuing quality of care initiatives, [...]
Kansas’ College Park Family Care Center Switches to eClinicalWorks EHR eClinicalWorks
May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Four Important Considerations When Negotiating a Contract with an EMR Vendor
May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The following is a guest post by William O’Toole, the founder of the O’Toole Law Group, PC, a practice specializing exclusively in healthcare information technology. You may think the difficult work is done after you’ve selected an EMR system for your hospital or medical practice, but the decisions don’t end with product selection. An EMR [...]
ONC Releases New Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information
May 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The ONC has released a 47 page Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information. The guide is a collaboration effort between the ONC’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation. The Guide includes sections on Meaningful Use, security risk analysis, working with health IT vendors and [...]
AMA Provides Comments on Meaningful Use Stage 2 EHR Proposal
May 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
The American Medical Association (AMA) and 98 state and specialty medical societies today submitted formal comments on the proposed rule outlining the measures that physicians have to meet to qualify for financial incentives in Stage 2 of the Medicare/Medicaid meaningful use electronic health record (EHR) program. “The AMA is supportive of widespread adoption and meaningful use of [...]
KPMG Poll Shows Meaningful Use Requirements are Seen As Compliance Challenge, Despite High Hospital EHR Adoption Rates
April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
While a majority of business administrators at hospitals and health systems say they are well along in completing electronic health record system adoption, many are expressing various levels of doubt about their ability to meet new EHR standards, according to the results of a poll conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory [...]
New Electronic Medical Record System At Group Health Centre
April 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Canada Health Infoway Inc. and the Group Health Centre have launched a new$3.3-million initiative, the Group Health Centre Ambulatory EMR and Hospital Information System Connect Project. This project will revitalize GHC’s I.T. infrastructure and integrate it with local hospital and provincial electronic health record systems to enhance quality of care and share information between healthcare [...]
CalOptima Regional Extension Center Achieves Goal of Enrolling 1,000 Primary Care Providers
March 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
One thousand primary care providers have joined the CalOptima Regional Extension Center (COREC) to access services that will help them transition from paper to electronic medical records (EHRs). COREC achieved the 1,000-member goal ahead of the project timeline. COREC’s membership includes primary care providers in solo and small practices, as well as providers affiliated with [...]
Houston Orthopedics & Spine Hospital Achieves Stage 1 Meaning Use with Healthcare Management Systems EHR
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Houston Orthopedic & Spine Hospital has met Stage 1 meaningful use criteria using the certified electronic health record from Healthcare Management Systems Inc.® (HMS). The 64-bed specialty orthopedic and neuro-spine facility achieved meaningful use less than a year after implementing the HMS EHR, which rapidly delivered clinical and financial improvements while serving as the facility’s [...]
Anoto Survey Finds Healthcare Industry Buried in Paperwork; Problem Predicted to Increase with Implementation of National Healthcare Reform
March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Anoto, the world leader in digital pen and paper technology, has announced the results of a survey focusing on the state of paperwork in the healthcare industry. Survey results confirm that despite the growing numbers of organizations implementing electronic health records systems, many are not decreasing their reliance on paper-based processes. As an example, well over half of [...]
Aprima and Visiting Physicians Association Bring Home Health Care into the Twenty-First Century
March 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Aprima Medical Software today announced the rollout of its electronic health record by the Visiting Physicians Association (VPA). Using the Aprima system, with its unique “replication” technology, VPA is able to give its traveling physicians access to patient data and connection to network resources no matter where they are. With immediate remote access to all [...]
