Walgreens today announced that it will use Surescripts’ Clinical Interoperability services to electronically deliver patient data directly to primary care providers to improve the coordination of care. In the coming months, all of the 7,800 Walgreens and Duane Reade pharmacies and 350 Take Care Clinics nationwide will use the Surescripts network to deliver immunization records [...]
Walgreens to use Surescripts to Electronically Deliver Immunization and Patient Summary Records to Primary Care Providers
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Do I Need to Scan All of My Medical Records?
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This guest post was written by Andrew Szmuc from Desert River Solutions , an Arizona based document scanning company. The simple answer is no…. There are many levels to this question but we will start with what is absolutely necessary in what you should scan into your EMR software. I tell all my clients you [...]
IDC Health Insights Expects Ambulatory EHR Adoption to hit 80% by 2016
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
IDC Health Insights has announced the availability of a new IDC MarketScape report designed to guide firms evaluating electronic medical record/electronic health record vendors. The new report, IDC MarketScape: U.S. Ambulatory EMR/EHR for Midsize and Large Practices 2011 Vendor Assessment provides an assessment of ten EMR/EHR products that target midsize and large practices and qualify [...]
American Academy of Ophthalmology and Medflow EHR Partnership Helps Ophthalmologists Provide Better Patient Care
October 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
The American Academy of Ophthalmology, the world’s largest member association for ophthalmologists, and Medflow have partnered to deliver Academy patient education tools through Medflow’s electronic health records software. This initiative helps eye care practices meet the Meaningful Use criteria of the electronic health record incentive program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2010, [...]
QuadraMed Announces Five-Year Deal with DeVry University to Enhance Medical Coding Education
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
QuadraMed® Corporation has announced a five-year agreement with DeVry University to incorporate its Quantim® suite of Health Information Management Coding, Compliance and Record Management solutions into the school’s health sciences curriculum. DeVry, one of the largest, private sector universities in North America, will provide medical record, coding and billing students with access to Quantim Coding, [...]
Awarepoint Corporation And MEDITECH Collaborate Add Emergency Department Patient Location in EHR
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Awarepoint Corporation, a provider of real-time location system (RTLS) enabled solutions for health care, and MEDITECH, a supplier of Health Care Information Systems, recently announced a collaboration to integrate technologies to provide emergency departments with real-time patient location and critical milestone tracking within MEDITECH’s enterprise-wide electronic health record software. Western, PA-based Monongahela Valley Hospital, a [...]
Study Shows that 56 Million U.S. Consumers Access Medical Information from Electronic Health Records
October 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
56 million U.S. consumers have accessed their medical information on an electronic health record system maintained by their physician, and an additional 41 million are interested in doing so. These findings come from pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research’s new Cybercitizen Health® U.S. 2011 study of consumer digital health trends, which surveyed 8,745 [...]
No More Clipboard Launches Simple, Secure Medical Record Mail Service cc:.Me
September 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In support of a national consumer education effort on the value of health information technology announced today by the Department of Health and Human Services, personal health record (PHR) company NoMoreClipboard.com launched and demonstrated cc:Me, a simple and secure medical record mail service that helps physicians and patients share health information in a standard electronic [...]
HealthFusion’s MediTouch adds HTML5 Drawing Capabilities with MediDraw™
August 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
HealthFusion, Inc.® has just released a cool new feature to their medical software suite called MediDraw™. MediDraw leverages the power of modern browser technology and HTML5 and enables physicians to draw directly on a patient picture or anatomical outline image of a body part. MediTouch and MediDraw are compatible with most modern web browsers, and [...]
ONC interview with a Rural Wisconsin Physician
HealthITBuzz has posted a great Q&A with a local doctor practicing in rural Ellsworth, Wisconsin, affectionately known as the Cheese Curd Capital of Wisconsin. The article addresses the use of his Electronic Health Record, Meaningful Use and e-Prescribing. One of the gems of the article is his story of refilling a prescription while he [...]