HIMSS and the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA) have announced that they will collaborate to advance health IT workforce initiatives expected to grow in the next several years. The collaboration will involve HIMSS and ASHHRA sharing links, resources and white papers on the website of each organization. HIMSS Senior Director, Career Services [...]
HIMSS and ASHHRA Announce Collaboration to Advance Health IT Training
November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Regional Extension Centers Partner with Welch Allyn to Smooth the EHR Adoption Process
November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Welch Allyn has announced it has signed agreements to provide its EHR Prep-Select services to the New Jersey Health Information Technology Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) and Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (CHITREC). The program will be used to provide members of these organizations with a unique service designed to ease the process of preparing [...]
Hamilton Health Center Honored as Meaningful Use Vanguard
November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hamilton Health Center was selected for the Meaningful Use Vanguard (MUVer) Program in light of their successful transition to an electronic health record (EHR). This recognition was developed by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology, and is presented by the Pennsylvania Regional Extension and Assistance Center for Health Information Technology [...]
HIMSS Analytics Report Confirms Increase in Hospitals Expected to Achieve Meaningful Use
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When it comes to meeting Stage 1 of meaningful use, new research from HIMSS Analytics reported a 16 percent increase, from 25 to 41 percent in the seven months from February to September 2011, in hospitals being well positioned to meet Stage 1 of meaningful use. The data collected for this new HIMSS Analytics report, [...]
dbMotion to provide connected healthcare solution for Ascension Health’s Seton Healthcare Family
October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
dbMotion has announced an agreement with the Seton Healthcare Family in Central Texas to implement its interoperability platform across the organization, which delivers care to patients in 11 counties. According to CIO Gerry Lewis, the decision will advance Seton’s commitment to fostering greater collaboration across its geographically dispersed health care enterprise. Key to the organization’s [...]
Frost & Sullivan Report Finds that U.S. Hospitals Significantly Ramp up Use of Electronic Health Records
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
According to Harvard researchers, as of 2009, it was estimated that approximately 90 percent of U.S. hospitals had implemented many of the various clinical IT systems that underlie the core functionality that comprise electronic health records (EHRs). However, only around 12 percent of hospitals were using what could be considered either a basic or advanced [...]
Eastern Connecticut Health Network Selects MobileMD for Health Information Exchange
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
MobileMD, Inc., announced today a five-year agreement with Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Inc. (ECHN) of Manchester, Conn., that will enable the health system to provide state-of-the-art health information exchange (HIE) connectivity to community physicians as well as ECHN’s five outreach sites, two hospitals, and surrounding medical community including Visiting Nurse and Health Services Corporation, skilled [...]
CapitalCare Medical Group Chooses OptimizeHIT Software for Physician and Clinician EHR Training
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ImplementHIT announced today an agreement to provide OptimizeHIT, their patent-pending physician and clinician electronic health records software training platform, to CapitalCare Medical Group. All 110 providers and hundreds of clinical and support staff at CapitalCare’s 27 sites will use the online learning software platform to enable EHR clinical adoption and meaningful use. OptimizeHIT is used [...]
Eastern Connecticut Health Network Selects MobileMD for HIE; Hospital System Offers Capabilities to Manchester-Area Medical Community
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
MobileMD, Inc., announced today a five-year agreement with Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Inc. (ECHN) of Manchester, Conn., that will enable the health system to provide state-of-the-art health information exchange (HIE) connectivity to community physicians as well as ECHN’s five outreach sites, two hospitals, and surrounding medical community including Visiting Nurse and Health Services Corporation, skilled [...]
ONC Extends the Temporary EHR Certification Program Through Mid 2012
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has issued a statement delaying the start of the permanent program for certification of electronic health records until mid-2012. The plan is for the new program to start at the same time as the anticipated final rule for stage 2 of meaningful use. In the statement, [...]