Nearly half a million patients in New York’s Hudson Valley can now call their primary care physician offices patient-centered medical homes, thanks to a Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) project that garnered participation from six health plans to improve the quality of care in the region. The health plans–Aetna, CDPHP, Hudson Health Plan, [...]
Six health plans pay $1.5M in incentives to create medical homes for nearly half a million Hudson Valley residents
March 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Kansas Regional Extension Center selects McKesson Practice Partner EHR for final list of EMR vendors
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Kansas Regional Extension Center announced Wednesday the final list of certified Meaningful Use vendors of electronic health records. McKesson, a Fortune 14 company and developer of Practice Partner EHR, was selected as one of the top vendors. Professional Data Services (PDS), McKesson’s largest value-added-reseller and six time recipient of McKesson’s Top Value-Added Reseller of [...]
CompuGroup Medical’s HealthPort EHR v.10 Receives 2011 CCHIT Certification
March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) today announced that CompuGroup Medical’s HealthPort EHR v.10 is a pre-market conditionally CCHIT Certified 2011 Ambulatory EHR. HealthPort EHR v.10 achieved the highest usability rating by the Commission, demonstrated compliance with the advanced ePrescribing module requirements and passed all required criteria in the CCHIT 2011 Ambulatory and [...]
Harris Corporation Awarded Contract to Provide Engineering and Enterprise Support to Veteran Affairs’s VistA Imaging System
March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to continue providing advanced software engineering and enterprise support to the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Imaging System. This multi-year contract was originally awarded to Harris in August 2008. The VistA [...]
Axolotl EHR, Version 7 and Elysium EMR Lite Receive ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification
March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Axolotl Corp. announced that two of its electronic health record (EHR) systems – Axolotl EHR, version 7 and Elysium EMR Lite – have received Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB) 2011/2012 certifications in accordance with Eligible Provider certification criteria adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and [...]
Initial Registration Activities Reveal Strong Interest in Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
More than 21,000 providers initiated registration for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs in January and four states reported initial Medicaid incentive payments totaling $20,425,550, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today. In addition, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced that as of Feb. 11, 2011, [...]
Sunquest’s Laboratory Information System Earns ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification as an EHR Module
February 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
Sunquest Information Systems announced today that Sunquest Laboratory™ version 6.3 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as an EHR Module on February 16, 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The 2011/2012 criteria support [...]
Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation
February 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Big thanks to Kaiser Permanente for sponsoring the press room at HIMSS11. The food and drink are much appreciated. Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s leading health care provider and not-for-profit health plan, continues to lead the nation in the number of Stage 7 Awards from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The Stage 7 Award [...]
Recap of my first day at HIMSS11
February 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
First comment is Wow – this place is enormous. I’ve been to some of the largest trade shows in the world and HIMSS is right up there with the largest of them. Second comment is wow – people really dress well here. I’m more used to technology conferences where jeans and cleverly worded t-shirts are [...]
Allscripts Demonstrates Native Integration of Acute and Ambulatory Electronic Health Records at HIMSS
February 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) has demonstrated native integration between its Sunrise Clinical Manager acute care Electronic Health Record (EHR) and the Allscripts Enterprise and Professional EHRs for large and mid-sized physician groups. The demonstration of integration between the company’s ARRA-certified acute care and ambulatory Electronic Health Records is a prelude to the scheduled availability of this [...]
