Tag Archives: Electronic Health Records

CareCloud Reports Record Growth in 2012; Drives Adoption of Cloud-Based Solutions by Physicians Nationwide

Posted on February 22, 2013 by John

Company Accelerates Market Momentum with Launch of New Clinical and Patient Applications, Enterprise Customer Wins, and Leadership Expansion MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CareCloud, a leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records (EHR), and medical billing software and services, today announced that … Continue reading →

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IHE North American Connectathon and Conference 2013 Introduces New Features to Advance Health Information Exchange

Posted on February 11, 2013 by John

CHICAGO – (February 6, 2013) – A significant new step was taken toward the interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) with the introduction of a pilot Certification Program at the IHE North American (NA) Connectathon and Conference, which concluded last … Continue reading →

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The Children’s Care AllianceTM Announces Launch of “Virtual Health VillageTM”

Posted on February 9, 2013 by John

The New Pediatric Health Information Exchange is Designed to Improve the Healthcare of Children in the Lehigh Valley Lehigh Valley, Pa. (January 28, 2013)….The Children’s Care AllianceTM announces creation of its Virtual Health VillageTM that will allow seamless exchange of … Continue reading →

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Leading Healthcare IT Solutions Firm Sees Dramatic Increase in Outsourced Helpdesk Utilization

Posted on February 8, 2013 by John

CareTech Solutions reports 75% spike in use of Service Desk™ in 2012; cites EHR learning curve and diversion of IT resources to strategic initiatives as likely causes (TROY, Mich., Jan. 31, 2013) CareTech Solutions, an information technology (IT) and Web … Continue reading →

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Vitera Healthcare Solutions Partners With DiagnosisOne

Posted on February 7, 2013 by John

Ambulatory EHR/PM Provider Adds Clinical Decision Support Tools and Patient Education to Bolster Continued Success of Customer Practices  Tampa, Florida – January 25, 2013 – Vitera Healthcare Solutions, the nation’s premier provider of best-in-class ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) and … Continue reading →

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Solution to Help Providers Navigate Shifting Risk Models

Posted on February 5, 2013 by John

First Combination of Population Health Management Tools with Claims-Based Analytics to Help Providers Manage Costs under Value-Based Reimbursement Waltham, MA, Jan. 17, 2013 – Phytel, the leader in automated, provider-led population health improvement, and Verisk Health, a leader in data-driven … Continue reading →

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Can We Talk? Challenges of SaaS Type EMR User Interfaces

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Dr. Michael West

Forget about EMR interoperability between doctors’ offices and hospitals for a moment. One of the recent developments in the ever-expanding SaaS (software as a service) world of electronic medical records must be the challenge of making all the individual software … Continue reading →

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CMS Now Auditing Meaningful Use Documentation

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Anne Zieger

It’s been a while since our beloved Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) were on the front page of the trades every day, but they’re far from gone.  In fact, CMS has started to get aggressive in a few new ways, according … Continue reading →

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Does Meaningful Use Destroy Doctors’ Skills?

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Dr. Michael West

About two weeks ago, I saw a patient who was referred for a new diagnosis of hypocalcemia (low blood calcium levels).  I ran a few additional appropriate lab tests and will be seeing him back this week or next.  This weekend, … Continue reading →

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How an EMR gets in the way of doctor-patient relationships

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Dr. Michael West

For all of the glorification of EMRs and EHRs and pushing into the new age of digital healthcare, I thought I would throw in my 2 cents from the dark side of electronic health record keeping.  To be honest, there … Continue reading →

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