Stat Health Services, of Scottsdale, Ariz., has announced the launch of STAT DOCTORS, an eHealth service that brings patients a modern day virtual house call. Developed by emergency physicians, STAT DOCTORS leverages state-of-the-art technologies – including secure single sign-on, electronic health records (EHRs), ePrescribing and video conferencing – to equip patients with 24/7 access to emergency physicians to address common, minor medical issues. The service is currently being offered to employers, third party administrators and insurance carriers as a supplemental health benefit.
athenahealth, the provider of web-based practice management, EHR, and patient communication services to medical groups, has announced that the Tri-State Regional Extension Center, operated by HealthBridge, has selected athenahealth as a supported EHR solution partner to enable more than 1,700 physicians across the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana to take advantage of the benefits that athenahealth’s technology can bring to their practices. athenahealth has also launched a guarantee program that assures its services will help doctors across the Tri-State region meet EHR certification requirements for Meaningful Use and qualify for reimbursement funds authorized by the HITECH Act.
SourceMedical has announced a partnership with mTuitive Corporation to help ASCs and surgeons improve post-operative reporting and streamline medical coding processes. Built upon mTuitive’s electronic post-operative reporting solution and fully integrated with the AdvantX, Vision, and SurgiSource applications, SourcePlus OpNote will provide ASCs and specialty hospitals with immediate access to surgeons’ post-operative reports and coding data leading to more rapid and accurate revenue cycle processes.
Summit Healthcare, a maker of system integration and task automation technology, has entered into an agreement with Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill. to be its integration partner as it migrates to the MEDITECH 6.0 platform. Memorial Hospital, a 316-bed full-service medical center, will invest in the Summit Apex product suite to maximize integration, automation and dictionary management needs as it prepares for its migration.
GHX has announced that SwedishAmerican Health System, an integrated delivery network headquartered in Rockford, Ill., has chosen a combination of GHX's software solutions and business consulting services to help it automate and optimize its procure-to-pay process. SwedishAmerican has a goal of expediting the delivery of medical-surgical products and reducing costs while continuing to deliver high-quality patient care.
SeeMyRadiology.com has announced that Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City has selected the SeeMyRadiology.com cloud-based medical imaging platform for the sharing of all medical images beyond the enterprise. SeeMyRadiology.com was the only solution that provided the 11 hospital integrated delivery network with the versatile, proven technology to support its full range of needs, from image communications for trauma transfers and tertiary referrals to sharing files with referring physicians and patients. The solution will complement Saint Luke’s existing PACS.
Integrated Document Solutions, which delivers healthcare information and applications via cloud computing, has released its enhanced Referring Physician Portal featuring the IDS Image Viewer, a web-based DICOM Image Viewer that lets doctors immediately access their patients’ diagnostic images and final reports using any browser. The IDS Image Viewer, which works with any PACS solution, eliminates the need for radiologists and imaging centers to install and maintain mini-PACS and VPNs at referring physicians’ offices.
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems has executed an agreement with Baptist Health Care, a community-owned, not-for-profit health care organization that serves communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama, to deploy NextGen Ambulatory EHR and NextGen Practice Management. Through this agreement, all Baptist-employed physicians will have access to the integrated NextGen platform. In addition, Baptist Health Care will offer access to community physicians who choose to purchase the solution.
eClinicalWorks, a maker ambulatory clinical systems, has announced that the Ohio Regional Health Information Partnership (OHIP), Ohio’s Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center, has selected eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) system as a preferred ambulatory vendor for its primary care providers state-wide.
Cambridge Consultants, a technology product design and development firm, has announced a new product concept based on its low-cost Continua-compliant Vena platform. The Minder, powered by Vena, enables continuous, real-time medical data collection and transmission via cellular networks. Increasing the accuracy and frequency of patient data reporting, the Minder demonstrates a new technology solution that can lower the cost of healthcare by improving the quality of patient care. Doubling as a pocket-sized digital patient checklist, Minder is a sophisticated gateway that captures wireless medical data and transmits it to a patient’s online health record, creating higher volume and higher quality data for electronic medical records.
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Covisint, a Compuware company, announced that it had accelerated successful provider payments for physician offices and large health systems from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the 2009Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). Leveraging Covisint DocSite PQRI, payments ranged from hundreds of dollars for small offices to hundreds of thousands for larger health systems, even topping more than $450,000 for one organization.
EDIMS, a provider of interoperable emergency department information systems (EDIS) for hospitals, announced that its emergency department electronic health record (EHR), EDIMS 2.6, received pre-market conditional certification as a CCHIT Certified 2011 Emergency Department EHR by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT).
Zynx Health, maker of evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions, has announced the successful implementation of ZynxOrder at North York General Hospital in Toronto. Leading the way in improving patient care, North York General Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to successfully implement evidence-based clinical decision support integrated into their computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system, available at the point of care.
Intelerad announced that Integrated Medical Partners has chosen its InteleOne Distributed Radiology Solution to form the core of its new managed teleradiology services solution, called Plexus Teleradiology. Built to support radiology practices that want to offer effective teleradiology services, Plexus Teleradiology provides the complete solution and manpower to facilitate the delivery of healthcare from radiologist to patient, including ongoing IT support and follow-up to ensure uninterrupted connectivity, maximized radiologist productivity, automated peer review, and correct back-end billing and administration.
Voltage Security, which makes enterprise data protection inside and outside the cloud, and PwC US, a professional services firm, announced they have entered into a non-exclusive, joint business relationship designed to serve the data protection needs of companies with large, complex payment supply chains and large merchants with legacy infrastructure resources.The two organizations will team together to provide information risk protection and overarching compliance management for these customers
Raxco Software, the maker of disk defragmentation software for virtual environments, announced that Infrasys has chosen the PerfectDisk vSphere Bundle and PerfectDisk Server to improve server virtualization performance of its clients’ IT environments. With offices in England and Northern Ireland, Infrasys acts as an IT and business consultant to some of the United Kingdom’s largest companies, with responsibility for maintaining and enhancing companies’ infrastructures and virtualization environments.
INFINITT, a developer of image and information management solutions for healthcare, announced that it will introduce the INFINITT Mobile PACS at this year's Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) convention to be held later this month in Chicago. INFINITT's web-based PACS includes a broad range of applications, including RIS, Cardiology PACS, radiology PACS, and reporting applications; all can now be accessed on mobile devices.
Novation, the supply contracting company for the healthcare industry, announced that it has awarded an agreement to J.T. Posey Co. in Arcadia, Calif. for fall management products (fall alarms, bed safety, restraints, etc.). This agreement is part of the General Medical Standardization Program, which offers qualifying members an additional rebate on purchases. The agreement is effective January 1, 2011 — December 31, 2013 with up to two one-year extension options that may be exercised at Novation’s discretion.
Layered Technologies, a provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, has announced the acquisition of GSI Hosting (GSI) as part of Layered Tech’s accelerating growth within the enterprise managed services sector. GSI’s compliance-oriented products complement Layered Tech’s on-demand and cloud computing infrastructure, creating a powerful technology platform and portfolio of services.
Carestream Health has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its computed radiography system for mammography. The company has begun commercial distribution of this mammography CR system in the U.S. The CARESTREAM DIRECTVIEW CR Mammography Feature captures mammography images digitally and can be used in the same clinical applications as traditional screen-film mammography systems. The company has been selling its CR mammography system in Europe, Greater Asia, Japan, Latin America and Canada for several years, and has installed thousands of systems in clinics, breast imaging centers and hospitals of all sizes.
VHA announced that Decatur Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Ill., has selected its benchmarking service, VHA PriceLYNX, to support the organization's plans to cut its supply expenses by more than $1 million over the next 12 to 18 months. By leveraging VHA PriceLYNX benchmarking data, DMH expects to improve its ability to negotiate with vendors, enhance purchasing coordination across the system, engage physicians in cost-reduction efforts and introduce new technologies.
