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February 4, 2012

Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics & Spine Specialists, P.C. Selects the SRS EHR for Its 33 Providers

SRS, the leading provider of productivity-enhancing EHR technology and services for high-performance specialty practices today announced that Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics & Spine Specialists, P.C. (NOSS) has selected the SRS EHR for its 33-provider practice. Located in Waterbury, Connecticut, NOSS delivers comprehensive orthopaedic, neurosurgical, pain management and spine care to patients in their area. “The SRS EHR’s ability [...]

digiChart Releases PracticeSmart EHR Solution for OB-GYNs

digiChart, Inc., a Nashville-based provider of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management system (PMS) solutions for OB-GYN practices, has announced the release of its new PracticeSmart product. PracticeSmart is the first EHR and PMS solution engineered and built by one company specifically for OB-GYN offices. The new product combines digiChart OB-GYN, an EHR for clinical charting, with the company’s proprietary [...]

GE Centricity Perinatal Software Helps Hospitals Go Paperless and Exchange Information at the Center of Care

Touro Infirmary (New Orleans, La.) implemented Centricity Perinatal in the NICU in December 2010, completing its roll out to all perinatal units, with the goal of providing the most up-to-date and innovative care available. The site chose the scalable system as a key to further customization and to enhance the ability to implement changes quickly [...]

Finally – Someone has written an EHR for Dummies Book!

If you’re anything like me, and you’ve been in the technology business for any length of time you probably have a small library of “dummies” books as reference material.    The publishers do a wonderful job of selecting expert authors and getting them to write in a style that is easy to read and to understand.   [...]

Cardinal Health Foundation Awards $1 Million in Grants to Improve Health Care Efficiency, Quality

The Cardinal Health Foundation today announced that, for the third consecutive year, it has awarded more than $1 million in grant funding to help U.S. hospitals, health systems and community health clinics improve the efficiency and quality of care. Forty organizations in 25 states have been awarded grants ranging from $7,500 up to $37,500 as part of the 2010 Cardinal Health [...]

Evaluating Finalists for Electronic Health Record Implementation

With health information technology in place as a beneficial tool to improve patient care,  and impact population health, six organizations have been selected as finalists for the 2010 HIMSS Davies Ambulatory Care and HIMSS Davies Public Health Awards of Excellence. As finalists, four independent physician practices and two public health organizations will receive a site [...]

MedLink Introduces Podiatry to MedLink TotalOffice EHR

MedLink, a leading provider of Electronic Health Records and practice management solutions, announced today the introduction of the newest member of its medical specialty family with the introduction of Podiatry specific modules and functionality. MedLink will begin to exhibit the Podiatry features at the New Jersey Podiatric Medical Society-Region III conference being held at the Trump [...]

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Selects Allscripts EHR and Practice Management for More Than 100 Providers

Allscripts announced today that Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solution to automate and connect clinical and business functions for their 106 employed providers.  The hospital’s 33 Family Medicine residents also will utilize Allscripts in treating patients in the outpatient setting. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) is a [...]

Greenway Medical Technologies Advances Patient-Provider Benefits

Greenway Medical Technologies, provider of the fully-integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®, is demonstrating a seamless data transfer solution from its flagship EHR into Microsoft HealthVault, an online personal health management platform. The demonstration, titled “Greenway and HealthVault: Secure, Centralized and Accessible Health,” is scheduled for Wednesday, March 3 at [...]

AMA: Physicians Outraged at Today’s Steep Medicare Cut

The U.S. Senate’s failure to act before today’s 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut has put seniors at grave risk of reduced access to health care and choice of physician. “The Senate had over a year to repeal the flawed formula that causes the annual payment cut and instead they abandoned America’s seniors, making them [...]