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The Catholic Independent Practice Association of Western New York is poised to automate its medical records and business practices.CIPA, based in Buffalo, selected electronic medical record and practice management software from Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks for its network of ambulatory care offices and select com (Read More)
News from healthcareitnews.com:
A reported dip in customer satisfaction and service after last year's merger between Chicago-based Allscripts and British-based Misys is unlikely to dampen future sales of the company's electronic medical record solutions, according to research firm KLAS.The KLAS report reflects the opinions of 200 Allscripts customers who (Read More)
Latest News from Healthcare Informatics:
One year after its merger with Misys, Chicago-based Allscripts is at a crossroads, facing declining customer satisfaction in key areas while still maintaining its position as the most-considered vendor in outpatient EMR purchases, according to a new report from KLAS (Orem, Utah). The report, Allscripts: The Merger, the Upgr (Read More)
american medical informatics association:
Until HHS officially publishes proposed regulations near the end of this year, Dr. David Blumenthal can't talk publicly yet about what "meaningful use" EMRs will look like, but the national coordinator for health information technology continues to discuss his vision for various components of federal health IT policy. His l (Read More)
american medical informatics association:
Lest anyone doubt that healthcare is in dire need of connected information systems, Dr. Mark Smith offers this reminder: "You can walk into the hospital where you were born and the first thing they will ask you is, 'Are you on any medications? Do you have any conditions.'"That was but one of several memorable lines Smith, p (Read More)
EHR Watch blogs:
The biggest barrier to electronic health record (EHR) adoption has always been the upfront cost of implementing the system and the productivity lost during the learning curve. The rapidly changing healthcare landscape, however, may make cost the reason why physicians adopt health IT. Come again?
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News from healthcareitnews.com:
eClinicalWorks, based in Westborough, Mass., has announced that the Catholic Independent Practice Association of Buffalo, N.Y., has selected the company’s electronic medical record and practice management software for the Catholic Health System’s network of ambulatory care offices as well as select community physicians. The (Read More)
Latest News from Healthcare Informatics:
Trinity Health , a 44-hospital system based in Novi, Mich., will install seven of Amsterdam-headquartered Elsevier ’s online clinical decision support (CDS) solutions to provide evidence-based clinical content for physicians and other healthcare professionals. According to the company, Trinity will implement Clinical Pharma (Read More)
Latest News from Healthcare Informatics:
Pittsburgh-based Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC is now a “Stage 6” hospital, according to Chicago-based HIMSS Analytics , a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). HIMSS Analytics scores hospitals based on their progress in completing eight stages — from zero to seven — (Read More)
News from healthcareitnews.com:
HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente's electronic health record system, is at the core of a new osteoporosis prevention program that officials say could drop the nation's hip fracture rate by 25 percent.The Kaiser initiative will use HealthConnect – dubbed the world's largest civilian electronic health record database – to coll (Read More)
Australian Health Information Technology:
Here are a few I have come across this week. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,26303442-15306,00.html Health misses key goals Karen Dearne | November 04, 2009 THE federal Health Department did not meet its e-health implementation targets for 2008-09, failing to progress the electronic sharing of clinica (Read More)
www.healthcareitnews.com:
Fresenius Medical Care North America, operator of a network of dialysis facilities, today announced it has purchased Nashville-based Health IT Services Group (HITSG) and its portfolio of products including Acumen nEHR, a nephrology-specific electronic health record. (Read More)
HealthcareITNews.com NewsDay:
Health Level Seven, which sets standards for healthcare information technology, has published a standard for clinical research in an electronic health record system.The standard, which specifies the functional requirements for regulated clinical research in an EHR, has been approved by the American National Standards Instit (Read More)
Latest News from Healthcare Informatics:
New Jersey’s Hoboken University Medical Center (UMC) will implement Medsphere ’s (Carlsbad, Calif.) OpenVista EHR solution to digitize patient records and improve clinical outcomes. According to the company, Hoboken UMC will fully and meaningfully deploy OpenVista by summer 2010 and become eligible for financial incentives (Read More)
News from healthcareitnews.com:
If you think electronic medical record usability means user satisfaction, guess again. Or better yet, listen to the closing HIMSS Virtual Conference keynote this afternoon at 1:30pm CT.While meaningful use criteria don’t address measures of usability, usability affects adoption rates, efficiency, training and support costs, (Read More)