Category: EHR

Personnel who can develop, implement, support, use and sell electronic health records are in a buyer’s job market, according to William Hersh, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University. read more Source: Health IT job market ‘robust,’ informatics professor says

When I first started writing about EMR and EHR, I regularly discussed the idea of a paperless office. What I didn’t realize at the time and what has become incredibly clear to me now is that paper will play a part in every office Forever (which I translate to my lifetime). While paper will still…

San Francisco-based electronic health record vendor Practice Fusion is financially backing a promise that doctors who use its system will be 2014 Meaningful use-ready by the end of this year. read more Source: Practice Fusion guarantees Meaningful Use readiness to docs

San Francisco-based electronic health record vendor Practice Fusion is financially backing a promise that doctors who use its system will be 2014 Meaningful use-ready by the end of this year. read more Source: Practice Fusion: We’ll meet MU deadline–or pay for switch

Today’s EHR and HIT News includes news of a ‘guarantee’ of sorts that’s being offered by Practice Fusion if they fail to achieve 2014 Meaningful Use readiness by the end of 2013. There is also news of a technology partnership between Aprima Medical Software and Technology Solutions Provider. Practice Fusion Guarantees 2014 Meaningful Use Practice…

HIMSS Analytics recognized Novant Health, a four-state integrated network of physician clinics, outpatient facilities and medical centers, with its Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. As just the sixth system in the country to receive this honor, the award represents Novant Health’s attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model? (EMRAM), which is…

Novant Health, a four-state integrated network of physician clinics, outpatient facilities and medical centers headquartered Winston-Salem, N.C., has been recognized by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) with its with its Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. The award represents Novant Health’s attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM),…

The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) has announced that its Quality Data Center (QDC) v. 3.0 electronic health record (EHR) is certified to support meaningful use Stages 1 and 2 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and is compliant with the 2014 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology HIT criteria.…

VisionWeb has announced that Uprise, its cloud-based practice management and EHR solution, has received Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification as a Complete EHR for the ambulatory setting by Drummond Group, an Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body. Eyecare providers using Uprise are qualified to receive federal stimulus monies upon demonstrating meaningful use of…

Today’s EHR and HIT news includes customer acquisition news from Sandlot Solutions as well as partnership news between WorkForce Software and Avantas. There is also news of a $2 Million award from the National Institutes of Health to Sutter Health, IBM and Geisinger Health System to Study Heart Failure Prediction. Augusta Health Chooses Sandlot Solutions…