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Information management systems provider DR Systems has added to its list of medical facilities taking part in beta trials of its Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), a cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and radiology reports.
ATLANTA–At the HIMSS10 conference this week, McKesson displayed a variety of EHR software ranging from systems for large hospitals and networks to products for small physician practices.
Written by Mary Stevens
The potential advantages offered by health information exchanges (HIEs) are well-known. They’ll be vital spokes of the proposed Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) architecture initiative, streamlining patient care and records and providing accurate, nearly immediate test results to practitioners anywhere. The potential is promising, but the reality is no Field of Dreams scenario: If you build an HIE, subscribers will not necessarily come.
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Survey: Social media is here, but it’s not part of the plan As many as 90 percent of hospitals and health systems use social media, but just one in three has a formal social media plan in place, according to a recent survey conducted by Greystone.Net, a provider of web-related services for hospitals and health care organizations.
McKesson will be providing Somerset Hospital in Somerset, Pa., with its pharmacy automating system, PROmanager-Rx.
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.
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.
Spectra Laboratories East, a lab division of Fresenius Medical Care North America in Rockleigh, N.J., has installed McKesson’s Horizon Lab laboratory information system (LIS) to improve workflow associated with more than 30 million tests Spectra performs annually.
Akron General Health System in Akron, Ohio, has purchased Practice Partner EHR/practice management system from McKesson, offering it to its physician hospital organization and additional affiliated physicians.
Health IT company McKesson has released the new Lytec 2010 practice management software and its latest version of Lytec MD.
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Medical Imaging Northwest, based in Puyallup, Wash., has initiated a digital imaging and data management integration project with interoperability provider Compressus.
Citrus Memorial Health System has chosen to upgrade its hospital information system (HIS) with health IT company McKesson’s Paragon community HIS. As part of the agreement, McKesson will remotely host the HIS.
Health IT company McKesson has unveiled Practice Partner Connect, a health information exchange (HIE) interoperability platform, as a part of version 9.3.3. of Practice Partner.
McKesson is offering the option to reduce the cost barriers associated with independent physician adoption of EHRs for a limited time.
Mankato Clinic, a multi-specialty group practice in Mankato, Minn., with eight additional locations, has installed health IT company McKesson’s practice management system, Horizon Practice Plus 12.0.
McKesson has reported that revenues for the 2010 third quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2009, were $28.3 billion compared with $27.1 billion a year ago. The company also posted a net income of $326 million in this quarter, compared with a net loss of $20 million in the third quarter of 2009.
A collaboration between McKesson and HP was formed to offer physicians McKesson’s EHR/practice management systems bundled with HP office hardware.
Healthcare providers are finding greater success and satisfaction for application hosting working with software vendors but are able to host a wider selection of applications by partnering with services firms, according to a report from KLAS, a healthcare 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.
Twin County Regional Hospital, a 141-bed hospital with several affiliated physician practices in Galax, Va., is planning to expand its McKesson Paragon hospital information system to include inpatient and outpatient EHRs in the facilitatation of information sharing between the sites.
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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.
