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Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Cosponsor: HIMSS EHR Association
Despite the presence of heavy hitters such as IBM, 3M and Dell, no single company owns the EMR market, according to a report from Kalorama Information.
Written by Ken Terry
As hospitals start looking at how to break down the walls between acute and post-acute care, CMIOs would do well to consider the experience of Cleveland Clinic, a pioneer in building health IT bridges across the continuum of care.
Hartford Healthcare is implementing an health information exchange (HIE) platform that will connect providers in the Hartford, Conn.-based healthcare system and be deployed in a statewide demonstration project beginning next month. CMIO spoke with Steve O’Neill, vice president of information services at Hartford Healthcare, about building an HIE using open-source tools.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted that the healthcare industry will be positively transformed by technology during a recent Nashville Healthcare Council panel discussion on the future and current state of health IT.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has sent letters to 31 U.S. hospitals asking about their experiences in implementing health IT under the $19 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). He is seeking to ensure the “effective and efficient use of taxpayer money” in implementing health IT, such as computerized provider order entry systems and EHRs.
Written by Jeff Byers
Healthcare professionals are strongly urged to review and comment on the proposed meaningful use definitions and EHR interim final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), according to presenters of a Webinar, hosted by Washington D.C.-based eHealth Initiative on Jan. 8.
Ambulatory EMR software will enable approximately 85 percent of healthcare providers to meet the Health IT Policy Committee’s proposed 2011 meaningful use standards, according to a report issued by KLAS, a healthcare market research firm.
Health IT developer Allscripts' customer rapport has dwindled following its merger last year with Misys, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.
Technology support services company DecisionOne has forged a hardware maintenance agreement with the EHR provider Allscripts.
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Ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, has sent a letter to 10 health IT companies requesting consumer complaint information about their health IT products.
Iowa Health System and Allscripts have launched a new partnership this week called ePrescribe Iowa--an initiative attempting to convert a majority of the state’s physicians from paper prescriptions to e-prescribing.
Healthcare software and services provider Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions saw revenues surge to $164.9 million in its fiscal first quarter (ending Aug. 31), up from $92.8 million reported in the same period a year ago.
The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is subsidizing up to 85 percent of implementation and operation costs for an EHR system in the offices of its more than 7,000 affiliated physicians in New York City and Long Island—part of a $400 million investment to automate inpatient and outpatient records in all medical settings, including 13 hospitals.
Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL), a non-profit organization facilitating the expanded use of health IT in Vermont, and Chicago-based healthcare IT developer Allscripts intend to enter a strategic alliance.
Healthcare IT developer Allscripts has selected Merge Healthcare's Cedara WebAccess software application to "image enhance" Allscripts' EHR solutions.
Calgary Scientific has expanded its partnership with Edge Health Solutions to include Web-access through its PureWeb platform.
Synnex, a business process services company, has partnered with Allscripts to distribute Allscripts' MyWay EHR to authorized resellers via its Synnex Healthcare Solutions Division.
Allscripts, in conjunction with Nuance Communications, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel and Intuit Microsoft, is co-launching the EHR Stimulus Alliance, aimed at educating 500,000 U.S. physicians about opportunities aligned with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by delivering virtual and physical education programs.
Although the relaxation of the Stark Law and the passage of the economic stimulus package have motivated hospitals to subsidize ambulatory EMR adoption for affiliated physician practices, it is challenging for EMR vendors in the small physician group practice space to translate their success to hospitals or large physician groups, according to a new report from health IT research firm KLAS.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
The state of Maine currently has the largest operating statewide exchange in the country in relation to population. Although Devore Culver, Executive Director of Maine’s HealthInfoNet, expects that distinction to change in the months ahead, the state’s HIE is entering the final months of its demonstration phase, and is slated to move in to its full statewide implementation in the second half of 2010. Culver, who is former CIO of Eastern Maine Health Care, recently spoke with CMIO about the progress HealthInfoNet has made.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.
