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The use of at-home medical devices to connect doctors and patients via the internet can help patients and their physicians work more efficiently together to manage chronic conditions, according to research at Cleveland Clinic.
A three-year, $67 million project to deploy Epic's EMRs across all clinical areas, and will integrate clinical systems and generate more than 150 jobs at the University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, Colo.
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.
New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center launched the first phase of its EHR system this month at Trinity Center in lower Manhattan.
Digisonics has enhanced its DigiView customer roster with facilities in Florida and Texas.
Unlike past purchase decisions where cost and resource requirements dominated, community hospital executives now consider physician adoption the foremost criterion when purchasing a hospital information system (HIS), according to a report released Tuesday from KLAS.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare is connecting hospitals, clinics and physicians offices in Northern Kentucky via an Epic Systems' EMR roll out using IBM technologies.
CareFusion has expanded its Pyxis perioperative offerings that integrate with operating room information systems by incorporating radio-frequency identification technology and new services.
As healthcare providers throughout the nation evaluate the impact of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provisions in the package that call for the "meaningful use" of EMRs are prompting much debate. In light of this, a new report from healthcare research firm KLAS suggests that the level of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) solution adoption could signify which vendor will have the best chance of stimulating physician EMR adoption and achieving meaningful use.
Despite years of vendor announcements and market rhetoric about the virtues of a solution that combines PACS and RIS technology, few vendors have delivered an integrated, full-featured RIS/PACS, according to a report from KLAS. The market research firm also ranked current RIS vendors based on surveys collected from providers.
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The market for electronic medical record systems will exceed $5.4 billion in North America and $1.4 billion in Europe by 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, a San Jose, Calif., market research firm.
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.
Many enterprise emergency department information systems (EDIS) are being employed by hospitals to replace standalone, best-of-breed solutions, but are resulting in disappointed ED clinicians, according to a recently published KLAS report.
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.
HealthPartners of St. Paul, Minn., said it has achieved cost savings by integrating its digital medical images and radiology reports into patients' EMRs.
Healthcare IT research firm KLAS has released its annual clinical market share report, which details the wins and losses of acute-care EMR vendors at large hospitals with more than 200 beds. The report found that in 2008, EMR vendors sold the fewest number of new contracts in the United States and Canada in the last seven years.
Kettering Health Network, a Dayton, Ohio-based six-hospital system, has launched a $50 million electronic health information system (eHIS) project with Epic Systems.
As the health IT industry awaits a formal definition of "meaningful use" as it pertains to EMRs, healthcare research firm KLAS has released a report outlining which EMR products are best positioned to achieve whatever meaningful use standard is adopted. The report examined the EMR market, assessing how well clinical vendors are delivering solutions for computerized provider order entry, nursing automation, medication administration and other areas.
Monroe Clinic of Monroe, Wis., is the first customer of Amicas to implement a standards-based framework that allows Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems' Radiant RIS to integrate with Amicas PACS.
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has certified inpatient and emergency department (ED) EHR products, as well as a special enterprise EHR certification for vendors that provide ambulatory, inpatient, and ED EHRs that are interoperable.
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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.
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.
When officials at Howard Memorial Hospital in Nashville, Ark., started drawing up plans for a new facility that opened in July 2009, Cindy York, the hospital’s director of radiology, had to make some decisions.