eClinicalWorks, maker of ambulatory clinical systems, has announced eClinicalWorks Version 9.0. This single product version provides on-demand access to all eClinicalWorks complimentary solutions, thereby creating a comprehensive EHR for enhancing and improving the quality of care for patients. As part of this announcement, the company is also launching 100millionpatients.com as the new eClinicalWorks Patient Portal to provide universal PHR access to millions of patients.
eClinicalWorks has also announced that the San Francisco Department of Public Health, has chosen its unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) system for the full suite of Ambulatory Care Electronic Medical Records products. The selection of eClinicalWorks is the result of an extensive Request for Proposal (RFP) process which compared products offered by a wide variety of clinical information systems vendors.
REACH3, which enables robust provider and payer marketing initiatives through secure, cloud-based technology, announced that HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley has chosen to implement its CRM Custom solution to strengthen its consumer and patient marketing campaigns, as well as enhance the unified brand identity of its newly formed health system.
WorkflowOne, a provider of print management, marketing and distribution services, has announced that the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (AEHN), a private, not-for-profit organization, has awarded WorkflowOne with a contract for document management services for the healthcare organization’s nine major facilities and numerous outpatient centers. WorkflowOne will be the sole provider for the duration of the contract, which includes complete document management solutions required by a staff of approximately 6,000 AEHN employees.
athenahealth has announced that Holy Cross Hospital, a regional care delivery organization serving Northern New Mexico, has selected its web-based EHR service, athenaClinicals, and medical billing service, athenaCollector, for their owned physician group of 40 providers. Holy Cross Hospital is also offering athenahealth’s services to its affiliated community physician group of 30 providers through a financial assistance program as part of a larger effort to better connect doctors and patients across their network.
Dialog Medical, a provider of informed consent and patient education systems for hospitals and physician practices, has announced that Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) has installed the iMedConsent application and fully interfaced that software tool with the institution’s electronic health record (EHR).
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems announced that its NextGen Inpatient Clinicals version 2.4 has earned designation as a premarket conditionally CCHIT Certified 2011 Inpatient EHR. NextGen has also announced an agreement with ACT Health Management Services (HMS) to deploy NextGen Ambulatory EHR and NextGen Practice Management. Through the agreement, HMS – a managed services organization – will provide ACT Medical Group members with access to the integrated NextGen platform.
Anvita Health has generated another point-of-care innovation with a method for using electronic medical record data combined with comparative effectiveness and formulary plan data to generate a highly personalized drug therapy regimen. The patent, issued earlier this month, uses a computerized indexing system integrating several databases to rank and sort available drugs to treat a given diagnosis.
ikaSystems has announced that Independent Health of Buffalo, N.Y., has gone live with ikaMedicareGateway, Web-based member enrollment and reconciliation software for Medicare Advantage health plans.ikaMedicareGateway automates the complexity of data exchanges with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), allowing health plans to act with greater speed and accuracy while improving compliance conformance.
Novation, a supply contracting company for the healthcare industry, announced that it has awarded agreements to Cardinal Health (McGaw Park, IL), Kimberly-Clark (Roswell, GA), Medline Industries (Mundelein, IL), and Tronex International (Parsippany, NJ) for exam gloves.
Georgia Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (GA-HITREC) announced it will leverage the relationship of five electronic health record (EHR) companies to ensure enhanced purchasing power for the state’s primary care providers. They include: Greenway; NextGen; eClinicalWorks; e-MDs; and MIE.
Pegasystems, maker of business process management (BPM) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, has released a new offering for the Life Sciences market. The Adverse Event Case Processing solution revolutionizes how organizations collect, manage and analyze adverse events both during and after clinical trials, thereby shortening the timeline for conducting successful clinical trials and improving the post-approval management of safety information.
SuperLumin Networks announced the release of its next generation, 64-Bit caching and application acceleration technology, Nemesis. The release recognizes the need to meet the ever-growing requirements of today's bandwidth deficient corporate and University enterprises, utilizing heavy media on the Internet/Intranet.
GE Healthcare announced that its GE Centricity Enterprise version 6.6.3.2 is officially 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a Complete EHR by Drummond Group Inc. in its capacity as an Office of the National Coordinator – Authorized Temporary Certification Body. GE has also announced FDA clearance of the CARESCAPE Monitor B650, a flexible patient monitoring solution that supports efficient clinical decision-making.
InSite One has announced that Saint Barnabas Health Care System, New Jersey’s largest integrated health care delivery system providing treatment and services for more than two million patients each year, has selected the managed service, InDex Vendor Neutral Enterprise Archive (VNA), for connecting its six hospital system into a single, enterprise-wide, long-term data storage solution.
Callidus Software, maker of Sales Performance Management (SPM) technology, announced that Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, has selected ActekSoft, a Callidus Software company, for its ACom3 Commission and Incentive Compensation System. The agreement was signed in the third quarter of 2010.
TCS Healthcare Technologies, maker of medical management software applications, has announced that is has selected Connectria Hosting, a global provider of cloud, managed and complex hosting services, to help expand the hosting options that TCS customers can use to access its care management software applications, including its flagship solution Acuity Advanced Care (ACUITY).
MxSecure, the provider of medical transcription services and clinical documentation software, has announced the release of MxTranscribe version 4.0. The latest version of MxSecure’s medical transcription software offers physicians greater flexibility in managing office workflow and helps ensure complete care by allowing them to concentrate on patient care, rather than managing medical transcription.
