eCareSoft, Inc. has received the federal government’s “meaningful use” stamp of approval by earning Complete EHR Ambulatory Certification for its eCS Nimbo solution. The designation officially deems the electronic health record (EHR) software capable of enabling providers to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Tested and certified under the Drummond [...]
eCareSoft’s Ambulatory EHR Receives ONC-ATCB Certification by Drummond Group
February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Amrita Hospital Information System Announces its First Hospital Meaningful Use Attestation
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On Friday January 6, 2012 Rio Grande Hospital (“RGH”) in Del Norte Colorado successfully submitted Medicare attestation for an inpatient EHR using the Amrita Hospital Information System. RGH is a small critical access hospital operating in rural and frontier Southern Colorado. Attestation was a proud accomplishment considering the scope of implementing an inpatient EHR as [...]
Upper Chesapeake Health Selects Forerun FlexChart Physician Charting Software For Emergency Departments
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Forerun, Inc., an electronic charting solutions for the emergency department (ED), recently announced that Upper Chesapeake Health (UCH), an affiliate of the University of Maryland Medical System, has chosen Forerun’s FlexChart advanced physician documentation software for the EDs of Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and Harford Memorial Hospital. UCH is a not-for-profit, two-hospital system that delivers [...]
Southern Illinois Healthcare Selects Merge Healthcare for Enterprise-Wide Cardiology Imaging and Informatics Strategy
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Merge Healthcare has announced that Southern Illinois Healthcare, will implement Merge’s entire cardiology solution suite across its system of six hospitals and healthcare clinics to create an integrated and enterprise-wide imaging platform. “Southern Illinois Healthcare represents the type of organization we like to partner with,” said Jeff Surges, CEO, Merge Healthcare. “One of their main [...]
42 Hospitals Attest to Stage 1 Meaningful Use With T-System
February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Forty-two hospitals have successfully attested to Stage 1 Meaningful Use using T-System’s certified emergency department information system, The T SystemEV®, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A third-party comparative analysis by blogger Brian Ahier posted to the Government Health IT website illustrates that T-System ranks eighth on a list of [...]
NorthCrest Medical Center Selects Allscripts Sunrise Electronic Health Record
February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
NorthCrest Medical Center will deploy AllscriptsSunrise Clinical Manager™ acute care Electronic Health Record to support its mission of becoming one of the nation’s best hospitals. “Our goal at NorthCrest is to be the best hospital across every measure of patient care, and Allscripts will help us get there,” said Scott Raynes, Chief Executive Officer [...]
ADP AdvancedMD Enters RCM Market with Acquisition of PhyLogic Healthcare
February 1, 2012 By 1 Comment
ADP® has announced the acquisition of privately-held PhyLogic Healthcare, a Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) company that has served small- and mid-size U.S. medical practices since 2001. The ADP medical office software division, ADP AdvancedMD®, a provider of leading cloud practice management, electronic health record, medical scheduling, and billing applications, now offers outsourced medical billing services to [...]
Advanced Data Systems Integrates MedicsDocAssistant EHR and Midmark
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Advanced Data Systems Corporation (ADS) has announced the integration of their MedicsDocAssistant™ certified EHR with Midmark’s IQecg™, IQspiro™ and IQholter™ devices. The integration allows for the seamless embedding of clean, clear images, charts, graphs, and reports directly from the Midmark devices into the patient’s MedicsDocAssistant record. MedicsDocAssistant then allows physicians to view side-by-side comparisons of [...]
Macadamian Will Present New Electronic Health Record Usability Assessment Tool at HIMSS
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Macadamian, a leader in user experience design and software development, will be presenting at HIMSS 2012, the largest worldwide annual healthcare IT conference, taking place February 20-24 in Las Vegas. Melanie Rodney PhD, Director of Usability Research at Macadamian and Nancy Staggers PhD, RN, FAAN from the University of Maryland, in conjunction with HIMSS, will [...]
Louisiana Health Care Practitioners Selects ChartLogic EHR for 4 Rural Health Clinics
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ChartLogic has announced today that Louisiana Health Care Practitioners has selected the ChartLogic EHR Suite. Louisiana Health Care Practitioners operates four stand-alone facilities in Alexandria, Cottonport, Mansura and Simmesport, Louisiana. Three of the clinics are designated as federal rural health clinics. The medical group employs four nurse practitioners under the guidance of one physician.“ According [...]
