Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
MEDS-ED Link, a project of the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIOsm) in conjunction with Inova Health System and GE Healthcare, recently launched to provide emergency docs at the hospital with access to patient medication histories.
California's critical-access, rural hospitals got a big boost when UnitedHealth Group announced it would provide $10 million in loans to help them adopt electronic health records and improve their health IT systems, and $1 million in grants to jumpstart the process.
Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine has reduced the need for patient emergency room usage by more than 10 percent over the past year. The Rhode Island practice used McKesson's Practice Partner electronic health record solution to improve the health of chronically ill patients.
The sale of hospital HER systems nearly doubled in 2009 over 2008, driven by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, according to a new report buy research firm KLAS. Epic and Cerner captured nearly 70 percent of the new large hospital sales.
Coming out of the dog days of summer, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is gathering steam to roll out the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs).
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, a 431-bed facility in Syracuse, N.Y., is poised to roll out digital vital signs technology to the bedside. The system moves data directly to the patient’s electronic health record.
Maine Medical Center, a 606-bed tertiary care and teaching hospital, part of the seven-hospital MaineHealth System, has begun a 20-month roll out of a new $90 million electronic health record system.
Establishing 60 health Regional Extension Centers across the country to help solo and small physician practices get on board with electronic health records is the right prescription for a system that remains mired in paper. A recent report from eHealth Initiative shows that the centers - called RECs - are off to a slow start.
With the publication of the meaningful use guidelines on July 13, it is now clear what hospitals and doctors must demonstrate in their adoption of electronic medical records to grab a share of the billions of dollars available in federal incentives.
Nimble, a new comprehensive EMR application designed and developed specifically for the iPad, hit the market Tuesday with the aim of allowing docs to provide meaningful care - at the point of care.