Mike Miliard
“We're the largest clinical health information exchange, they're the largest financial administration network, and we're joining,” said Medicity chairman and CEO Kipp Lassetter, MD, in a meeting with Healthcare IT News at the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference and exhibition in Atlanta.
Advocate Physician Partners (APP), the largest network of independent physicians in the Midwest, has partnered with Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks for one of the biggest electronic medical record (EMR) implementations in the country.
For all the excited talk about the potential for IT to transform the healthcare industry for the better, many doctors are skeptical about the future, according to a recent survey conducted by athenahealth, the provider of online practice management and EMR tools, and Sermo, the largest online community for physicians.
Executives are touting the Dell Medical Archiving Solution as a "new storage model for healthcare" that will help meet the data archiving challenges posed by the profusion of EMRs and sophisticated medical imaging.
athenahealth, Inc., the provider of Web-based billing software and services for physician practices, has announced the launch of its athenaCommunicator, a patient communication program that's fully integrated with athenahealth’s physician practice management and electronic health record (EHR) services.
The TriZetto Group and 3M Health Information Systems announced an agreement Friday that gives TriZetto certain exclusivity to include 3M's ICD-10 Code Translation Tool with several new services for payers under its TriZetto Advantage 10 Services.
JAOtech Ltd., the London-based manufacturer of embedded Smart Terminals, has announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Trumbull, Conn. The facility serves as JAOtech's sales, marketing and technical support center for the United States and Canada.
Emota, a technology startup company based in Menlo Park, Calif. that develops software and services for care of elderly patients, has announced its new "emotional networking" product, which it says will help clinicians, caregivers and families support wellness for the aged, enabling connectedness over long distances.
A simple genetic test can reduce hospitalization rates by almost a third for heart patients taking warfarin, the world's most-prescribed blood thinner, according to a study released Tuesday by researchers from Medco Health Solutions, Inc. and the Mayo Clinic.
GE Healthcare launched its MARS Virtual Sleep Lab (VSL), the first device that allows physicians to view quantitative cardiac and sleep apnea analysis from any GE-monitored inpatient bed, at the American College of Cardiology's 59th Annual Scientific Session in Atlanta on Monday.