Misys Open Source Solutions (“MOSS”), a division of Misys plc, the world’s first fully open source, standards based health information exchange solutions provider, has succeeded in passing the stringent IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) testing protocols at the Chicago Connectathon. This extends MOSS success in passing all the IHE tests for the last 4 years. [...]
Misys Open Source Solutions Demonstrates Leadership at IHE North America Connectathon 2012 for the Fourth Year
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
dbMotion chosen by Unity Health System to enhance patient-centered medical home
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
dbMotion has announced that its interoperability platform has been selected by the Unity Health System in New York to facilitate far-reaching health information exchange efforts. The dbMotion™ Solution will connect disparate technologies across the enterprise, extend Unity Health’s advanced patient-centered medical home (PCMH) capability, and advance the organization’s robust care management and population health initiatives [...]
ChartSwap, a cloud-based medical record exchange solution, set to go-live January 23, 2012
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ChartSwap, a Houston-based SalesForce ISV Partner, will go-live with an interesting new online record ordering and exchange solution. ChartSwap, which is built on a Force.com platform, offers healthcare providers free access to a HIPAA-compliant electronic chart exchange network that they claim will drastically reduce the administrative burden associated with responding to third-party requests for medical [...]
Vermont Information Technology Leaders Partnering with CapSite to Assist Healthcare Providers in Adopting EHRs
December 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
CapSite™ announced today that Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL), a non-profit organization assisting Vermont healthcare providers to adopt and use health information technology to improve patient care, has subscribed to the CapSite service to assist Vermont physician practices in improving their processes for purchasing healthcare technology. CapSite’s online, subscription-based service provides extraordinarily detailed transparency [...]
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 [...]
Maine Regional Extension Center Achieves Enrollment Target
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Maine Regional Extension Center (MEREC), operated by HealthInfoNet, is helping 1,000 of Maine’s primary care providers become meaningful users of electronic health records. Collectively, these providers average over 4.4 million patient visits a year. The MEREC is among the first RECs in the country to reach its enrollment target, made even more impressive by [...]
CompTIA Research Shows Healthcare Practices Embracing Mobile Technologies
November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
According to a study by a non-profit IT group, mobile health (mHealth) is becoming more of a reality as medical practices increasingly embrace mobile technologies. The new study is by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry. While laptop and notebook PCs are commonplace in the medical community, the next wave of [...]
Multiple States and Vendors Agree on Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications for EHR Connectivity
November 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records today issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other data-sharing partners. The specifications are now available for the public to view at www.interopwg.org. The objective of the EHR/HIE Interoperability [...]
Acquisition Alert: Siemens Healthcare Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire HIE Developer MobileMD
November 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Siemens Healthcare has announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding equity of MobileMD, Inc., of Yardley, Pa., a provider of health information exchange (HIE) solutions. Since the transaction is not subject to any regulatory clearances, it is expected that the closing will occur as promptly as practicable. [...]
Brown & Toland Physicians Selects Allscripts Community Record to Connect 1,500 Bay Area Physicians
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Allscripts has announced that Brown & Toland Physicians, one of the largest independent physician associations in California, selected the Allscripts Community Record powered by dbMotion to deliver end-to-end information connectivity for its 1,500 physicians serving 335,000 Bay Area patients. The Allscripts Community Record provides Brown & Toland’s physicians and other caregivers with access to a single, comprehensive patient record. The [...]
