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 [...]
Globaltel Media and Scribe-Well Unveil Industry First SMS-Based Medical Transcription Solution with Embedded Imagery
June 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In response to the need for the secure and efficient sharing of digital healthcare information, Globaltel Media and Scribe-Well today announced the Scribe-Well Medical Transcription Solution, a first of its kind innovation enabling medical transcriptionists to share digitized patient records and clinical notes along with embedded images such as X-rays, MRIs and CT scans, via [...]
Kaiser Permanente Completes Electronic Health Record Implementation
March 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Kaiser Permanente announced today that every medical facility within the health system is now equipped with Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect®, the largest private sector electronic health record in the world. Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo in Northern California are the most recent facilities to complete the final phase of electronic health record implementation, [...]
The Time Is Right for Doctors to ‘Go Digital’
March 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The prospect of the U.S. healthcare system moving from paper to electronic medical records (EMR) has given rise to a host of thorny questions on matters of privacy, security, logistics and more. But according to EMR attorneys at the national law firm of LeClairRyan, the time to start making the switch is now-in part because [...]
AMA: Physicians Outraged at Today’s Steep Medicare Cut
March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Survey: Patients Report Their Doctors are Increasing Use of Electronic Health Records on the One-Year Anniversary of ARRA
February 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The health IT landscape has changed fundamentally in the first year since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law. American patients are seeing their doctors make the switch to Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, according to a survey conducted by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion, the fastest growing EHR community in the [...]
Concord Hospital Selects Orion Health to Streamline Data Integration for New EMR
February 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Concord Hospital, a regional medical center, and one of the busiest acute care hospitals in the State of New Hampshire, has selected the Orion Health™ Rhapsody® Integration Engine to supplement and eventually replace their current solution, Sun Microsystems eGate. Rhapsody will serve as the hospital’s new and advanced platform to migrate, manage, and streamline message [...]
Elekta Expands Consultative Services Program to Help MOSAIQ Customers Demonstrate Meaningful Use Guidelines
February 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Given the intricacies surrounding the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, Elekta has expanded its STRATEGIQ(TM) Services program to help cancer care centers take advantage of the financial incentives available from the federal government. These incentives will be issued to current users and new adopters of certified EMR systems who are [...]
Christiana Care Health System Rolls Out Electronic Computerized Provider Order Entry
January 28, 2010 By 2 Comments
Christiana Care Health System is taking a giant leap forward toward a comprehensive Electronic Health Record with the launch of Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), technology that makes it easier, more efficient and safer for doctors to order tests and medications. The system goes live on Jan. 28 at Christiana Care’s Wilmington Hospital and soon [...]
Greenway Medical Technologies’ National Enterprise Initiative Selected for More Than 30 Preferred Partnerships in 2009
January 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., provider of the fully-integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution, PrimeSuite®, is furthering the advancement of EHR-based health information networks through preferred solution partnerships in the enterprise market segment. Within Greenway’s enterprise initiative, owned and affiliated hospital systems, physician hospital organizations (PHO) and independent physician associations (IPA) have [...]
