Mike Miliard
Medical Informatics Engineering, which has carved out a healthy niche for itself as a regional EHR player in the Midwest, has about 68 employees. Cerner, by comparison, has nearly 8,000.
Precyse Solutions, which specializes in health information management, and M*Modal, which develops speech understanding and natural language processing technologies, have teamed up to help the Geisinger Health System improve clinical documentation and coding accuracy.
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Six healthcare systems have announced a first-of-its-kind partnership that will see them joining the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice to share data on outcomes, quality and costs across a range of common and expensive conditions and treatments.
Even as President Obama gave a State of the Union address this week in which he celebrated an emerging healthcare system where "patients will be able to have face-to-face video chats with their doctors" and "veterans can download their electronic medical records with a click of the mouse," many Republican lawmakers were rallying around a bill that imperils funding for meaningful use incentives.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has announced that EHR technology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston has been certified as a complete EHR under CCHIT's new EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH), an ONC-ATCB certification program for installed hospital EHR technology.
"So the kid might be in daycare. The parent is at work. The nurse connects to the system. Let's say the doctor is on the golf course. He gets a call. But he doesn't want to leave. So he pulls out a smartphone. Three different people in three different places can join the collaboration."
Seeking to expand its suite of clinical solutions for unified patient information management, NaviNet, the biggest healthcare communications network in the country, announced in December its acquisition of McLean, Va.-based Prematics, a provider of mobile care management solutions.
In a move it says will save money and headaches – and which will be especially useful in the healthcare industry – HP has introduced what it bills as the first unified system to accelerate the reliable, secure delivery of software applications and services across heterogeneous environments.
In an investment expected to pay dividends as health reform becomes "the law of the land" and healthcare IT use grows, Aetna announced in December that it would spend $500 million to acquire Medicity, a Salt Lake City-based developer of health information exchange (HIE) technology.