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 [...]
Four Important Considerations When Negotiating a Contract with an EMR Vendor
May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kainos Evolve EMR Solution Strives to Transform Community-Based Patient Information Access in Mental Health Services
March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Healthcare technology specialist Kainos has highlighted the direct relevance of its Evolve® next-generation electronic medical record solution to the mental health sector, particularly as it moves towards closer integration across its diverse services. Based on optimised electronic document capture and intelligent content linking, and supporting real-time remote and mobile data access and input, Kainos Evolve [...]
Alexander Orthopaedic Associates Chooses White Plume Technologies to Fill the EMR Gap
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Alexander Orthopaedic Associates (AOA) in Largo, FL, has chosen to fill the EMR Gap in their practice with White Plume Technologies between Exscribe electronic health record (EHR) and Advanced Data Systems’(ADSC) practice management system (PM system). EMRs can be powerful clinical tools but often leave gaps in the billing process unfilled. White Plume Technologies bridges [...]
Wayne Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center selects Waiting Room Solutions Web-Based Physical Medicine EMR
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Waiting Room Solutions® (WRS) has announced that Wayne Physical Medicine in Wayne, NJ has chosen the its Web-Based Physical Medicine Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management System to improve the quality of patient care and practice productivity. Philippe Chemaly, MD offers a wide array of patient care services. Previously, the practice used paper charts to [...]
Statewide Health Information Exchange Announced for Florida
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Florida healthcare patients soon will receive more collaborative and streamlined care with improved safety, outcomes, privacy and efficiency thanks to the launch of a new, secure, cloud-based, statewide health information exchange (HIE) network. Leaders from a new Florida company, HIE Networks, the Florida Hospital Association and the Florida Medical Association joined forces at a news [...]
47 Providers with Rhode Island’s Coastal Medical Receive Medicare Incentives for Meaningful Use
October 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
eClinicalWork® today announced that 47 providers from Rhode Island’s Coastal Medical have successfully attested for meaningful use and each have received an $18,000 check from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the maximum amount allowed for 2011. These incentives were established by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) to reward medical providers [...]
San Juan Regional Medical Center Bridges Clinical Reports into MEDITECH Scanning and Archiving With Access Universal Document Portal
October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
San Juan Regional Medical Center is using the Access Universal Document Portal, a paperless, electronic data bridge, to get perinatal documents from GE Centricity into MEDITECH without generating paper output. This summer, administrators started looking for other clinical output that was difficult to capture, standardize and port into SJRMC’s MEDITECH Scanning and Archiving system. They [...]
WebPT Adds an Integrated Home Exercise Program to its EMR to Help Physical Therapists Improve Patient Compliance
WebPT, the leading Electronic Medical Record system (EMR) for physical therapists, has announced the release of the WebPT Home Exercise Program, or what they’re calling HEP. The newest feature of the EMR system includes a library of videos, photos, line drawings and text descriptions to help patients comply with home exercise therapy programs. Managed and administered directly [...]