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0 Greenway Selected by Health Information Exchanges and Regional Physician Groups
Aug 31, 2010. News, Press Releases.PrimeSuite Endorsements Driven by Superior Data Exchange, Interoperability Features
August 31, 2010, Carrollton, Ga. – Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. today announced that four additional Health Information Exchange (HIE) programs, Independent Physician Associations (IPA) and regional medical centers have selected PrimeSuite®, the company’s integrated electronic health record (EHR) practice management and interoperability solution, to connect group practices and streamline clinical, financial and administrative functions.
“Greenway is very gratified to be selected by this wide variety of healthcare organizations that recognize PrimeSuite‘s ability to meet their data exchange and interoperability needs,” said Greenway President and CEO Tee Green. “Healthcare leaders are realizing the requirements of interconnected patient care, quality data exchange and data liquidity, and Greenway has built its platform from the ground up based on these critical functionality and interoperability goals.”
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0 ONC Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies
Aug 31, 2010. News.Yesterday, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) announced two organizations that will be the authorized testing and certification bodies. These bodies will determine if electronic health record (EHR) solutions have the specific capabilities to meet the meaningful use objectives. This helps eligible professionals, hospitals and CAHs determine the most suitable EHR solution to meet meaningful use criteria and receive financial reimbursements.
The certification bodies are:
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Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
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0 athenaHealth’s Electronic Health Record Stand-Alone Option
Aug 19, 2010. Companies in Action, News.For years, athenaHealth required a physician to purchase its electronic health record (EHR) in conjunction with its billing software, athenaCollector. Today, athenaHealth announced that they will be offering the EHR, athenaClinicals available individually. This means that a physician who only wants to purchase the EHR now has the ability to do so.
The EHR will include all of the core EHR functionality. There will be some adjustments made to the EHR that will only be available when purchasing the integrated suite.
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0 HITECH First Payment May 2011
Aug 19, 2010. Today.In case you are not familiar with the HITECH Act, congress passed it as part of the larger ARRA stimulus legislation early in 2009. HITECH will reimburse eligible providers (EPs) for implementing a certified EHR system and using in a “meaningful” way. HITECH will reimburse EPs up to $44,000 under Medicare and up to $64,000 under Medicaid. However, state participation is voluntary, so check with your state government if you are interested in the Medicaid program.
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0 Are You Ready For An EHR?
Aug 18, 2010. News.EHR Scope, LLC has just released its EHR Readiness Assessment (beta version).
If you are a physician and not quite sure if you are ready to go paperless, complete our EHR assessment. You will complete a series of questions and based upon your answers we will provide you a score determining if you are ready to move to the next step, purchasing an EHR.
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0 Just How Secure Is Your Data?
Aug 11, 2010. Insight.The HITECH Act states that physicians need to go paperless and implement an electronic health record (EHR) within the next few years. This is a great way to reduce medical errors; however, what about the security?
Everyone’s biggest fear about a paperless environment is the security. And you know what; security IS the biggest issue right now.
No one wants their health records compromised, and unfortunately in many cases they have been. One medical center compromised over 130,000 of its patients’ information when a FedEx shipper lost a bundle full of CDs containing UNENCRYPTED data.
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0 EHR Scope LLC announces Ready4EHR
Aug 10, 2010. Today.EHR Scope has announced its new EHR preparedness program for physicians – Ready4EHR. Ready4EHR is a bundled solution of services and software including speech recognition, forms management, revenue cycle management, outsourced billing, and more. The solution is designed to prepare physicians for the transition to EHR, and to take full advantage of all of their EHR’s features. More information will be released shortly.
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1 CEGEDIM BECOMES A GLOBAL PLAYER IN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS BY ACQUIRING PULSE SYSTEMS, INC., A LEADING US HEALTHCARE SOFTWARE PROVIDER
Jul 28, 2010. Press Releases, Spotlight.Paris, July 28, 2010 – Cegedim, a global technology and services company specializing in the healthcare field, today announced the acquisition of Pulse Systems, Inc., a leading US healthcare software and services supplier. The move gives Cegedim access to the US market for the computerization of healthcare professionals in a very critical time for Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) software market. The Group’s Cegedim Healthcare Software (CHS) division is already one of the leading European publishers of medical, paramedical and pharmacy management software, with a market share of 119,000 healthcare professionals and over 16,000 pharmacies using its solutions in seven countries. It will now be a global player.
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0 CCHIT Launches New Certification Programs
Jul 27, 2010. Health Information Technology.The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) just announced three new certification programs on its website today, Tuesday July 27, 2010. The new programs will certify electronic health record (EHR) software targeted towards behavioral health, dermatology, and long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC). The LTPAC program includes add-on certifications for EHRs used in skilled nursing and home health facilities.
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0 Thoughts about Meaningful Use Regulations
Jul 27, 2010. Insight.The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) throughout the healthcare system received another boost last week when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its final criteria for the meaningful use of EHRs within the incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. After releasing preliminary meaningful use regulations back in January, the agency spent the past several months collecting the thoughts and opinions of anyone and everyone in healthcare who took the time to submit one. CMS has said these factored into the finished product quite heavily, so score one for transparency.
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