Understanding end users' perspectives towards health information exchange (HIE) technology is crucial to the long-term success of HIE, according to researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., who developed an in-depth understanding of HIE usage by applying qualitative methods.
As providers continue to seek ways to do more with fewer resources, the limited hardware expenses, ease of use and growing confidence in cloud storage continue to make software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools more enticing, according to a May report from market researcher KLAS.
BOSTON—It is critical to document workflows and develop a feasible adoption timeline when attempting to use EMRs to assist with pain points, stated Fred M. Kusumoto, MD, of the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Electrophysiology and Pacing Services in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 9 during the 33rd
annual scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society.
The Marina Salud Hospital de Dénia in Denia, Spain, has achieved Stage 7 of the EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics Europe announced.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Analytics EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) is seeking to get the European treatment. Healthcare organizations BCS and HIMSS have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a project to introduce the adoption model to the U.K.
NexJ Systems, a developer of enterprise customer relationship management tools, has entered into an agreement with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Boston, to digitize the Passport to Trust program.
The fastest sales growth and heaviest competition in the EMR market is in products sold to physicians, particularly tools sold over the internet, according to healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information.
Thirty-three percent of providers interviewed were planning to purchase an inpatient computer-assisted coding (CAC) technology within the next two years, based on a report from market research firm KLAS.
Researchers from Children’s Health Services Research at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, found automating the process of screening and alerting the physician to those who screened positive significantly decreased the burden of identifying relevant guidelines and screening of patient families in our clinics, according to an article published online April 16 in
Pediatrics.
Of the more than 9,000 estimated urgent care centers, many reported plans to increase in size or location in the next 12 months. Of those, many need an EMR and are finding that their options include ambulatory EMRs, ED systems and best-of-breed urgent care EMRs, according to a report published by market researcher KLAS.
Dell, to assist implementing an EMR system, is providing Dell Clinical Service Desk–one continual point of contact for support.
Having access to patients' laboratory test results influences the decision-making process regarding the ordering of further tests, which supports the predictions of financial savings made in the health information exchange (HIE) cost-benefit models, according to an article published in the March 26 edition of Archives of Internal Medicine.
The drive for paperless medicine creates a lot of opportunities for innovative companies, but only six companies earn over half of the revenue in the EMR market, according to market researcher Kalorama Information. Still, the healthcare market research publisher indicates there are opportunities for smaller EMR products to grow; leadership of the $17.9 billion market for EMR is more fluid than it might appear from those results, according to the New York City-based organization.
Propelled by government incentives, a desire to improve patient outcomes and the bottom line, sales of EMRs grew 14.2 percent in 2011, according to medical market research company Kalorama Information.
Radiation therapy departments nationwide are increasingly interfacing their oncology information systems with an EMR with nearly two-thirds of radiation therapy sites having an EMR or complete patient record available in their oncology information systems, according to IMV Medical Information Division.
TeraRecon released version 4.4.7 of its iNtuition enterprise image management system with enhanced support for interoperability and quantitative imaging at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting, held in Vienna, March 2-5.
A number of factors, including a hospital's size, budget and functionality needs, determine the degree to which McKesson's Paragon, a comprehensive EHR and health information system, is a fit for any given hospital, according to a new report from healthcare market researcher KLAS.
Hospitals with advanced EMRs have noticed promising results in multiple areas since implementation, according to research conducted by HIMSS Analytics, the research arm of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and the Advisory Group, a research and consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Seventy-three percent of respondents to National eHealth Collaborative’s 2012 Stakeholder Survey stated that better care coordination is one of the most important benefits of health information exchange (HIE).
Peake Healthcare Innovations and Vital Images, a Toshiba Medical Systems Group company, have partnered to provide the VitreaView universal viewer in a software as a service (SaaS) model hosted from Peake’s cloud-based PACS vendor neutral archive.
