The week of May 20th through May 26th is Medical Transcription Week, which was established by President Ronald Regan. According to the American Transcription Association President Regan recognized the value and importance of medical transcriptionists and thus established National Medical Transcriptionist Week on May 21, 1985. President Regan realized how common it was becoming for [...]
It’s Medical Transcription Week – What’s the Future for the Industry?
May 22, 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 [...]
ClearDATA EMR Cloud Hosting Service Saves Advanced Arthritis Care Practice Over $30k in Server & Support Costs
May 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ClearDATA Networks, Inc. has announced that Advanced Arthritis Care and Research (AACR), a Medical Group Practice located in Scottsdale, AZ is hosting its EMR software on the ClearDATA Private Cloud at the company’s datacenter. AACR needed to upgrade its EMR software to be compatible with a new billing system, but the upgrade would have taken [...]
Banner Health Awarded HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award
May 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
HIMSS Analytics announced that Banner Health, headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., has received its Stage 7 Award for 17 of its 23 hospitals, which are located in seven western states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. The Stage 7 award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model, which is used to track [...]
BCS and HIMSS Analytics Europe to collaborate on EMR Adoption Model project
May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and HIMSS have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see them collaborating on a project to introduce HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM)SM to the UK. The announcement was made today by Matthew Swindells, Chair of BCS Health, during the opening plenary at HC2012, the annual [...]
Survey Says: Over 60% Percent of Patients Report Primary Care Providers Deliver Better Care
April 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Over sixty percent of Americans say they receive the best medical care from their primary care physician (PCP), according to a survey conducted by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion, the free, web-based Electronic Medical Record company. The survey shows a strong preference for primary care above specialists, hospitals and urgent care facilities, and also indicated [...]
New Report Shows Fastest EHR Sales Growth Opportunity in Targeting Physicians With Web-Based Products
April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The fastest sales growth and heaviest competition in the EMR market is in products sold to physicians, particularly solutions sold over the internet, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information. Sales of electronic medical record systems to physicians grew at an estimate 22% in 2011 versus 2010, higher than the growth of EMR sales [...]
Electronic Audit Solutions from IVANS Now Offered at Reduced Rates to Amerinet Members
April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Amerinet Inc., a leading national healthcare solutions organization, announces a new Executive Resources agreement with IVANS, Inc. for health information exchange and electronic audit documentation solutions. IVANS AuditDocs™, is a software solution for fast, secure, electronic submission of Medicare audit documentation requests. Reduce risk and ensure audit deadlines are met by uploading and sending medical [...]
Are Physicians the Key to the Acceptance of Personal Health Records?
April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Information Week has just posted an interesting article by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee that links the future success of personal health records to physicians more fully using electronic health records. That leads me to another key point: Without doctors using EHRs, you’re not going to get buy-in from patients to use personal health records to manage [...]
DoctorCom® Launches Free HIPAA-Compliant Apps for Android and iPhone
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
DoctorCom, Inc. has announced the launch of its free HIPAA-compliant healthcare practice management smartphone app for both the Android and iPhone platforms. The app provides doctors, dentists and all healthcare professionals with click-to-call, secure messaging and file-sharing with colleagues. The privacy features enable communications with colleagues and patients without compromising the privacy of your personal [...]
