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Officials of HIMSS Analytics, the not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and management System Society (HIMSS), announced will add new questions to their annual study on meaningful use to gauge hospitals' readiness.
Leadership and execution are key to the success of the Allscripts-Eclipsys merger, according to the Allscripts customers, who say the merger presents both challenges and opportunities.
Chicago-based Allscripts, a company focused on selling electronic health record systems to physician practices and community clinics, announced on June 9 it would enter the hospital market by merging with Eclipsys Corp.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has a shiny, new $504 million dollar, 12-story research center where scientists can discover treatments to save the lives of countless children with cancer, brain tumors, mitochondria and a host of other diseases. But this type of life-saving work would be impossible without information technology, says Thomas Curran.
Healthcare system takes on $1.5 billion project in 18 states
The potential benefits of electronic health records (EHR) are far from a new idea. Their promise is both welcome and familiar to administrators and practitioners alike: a healthcare system where patient care information is freed from a paperwork prison so that caregiver productivity is improved and medical errors are greatly reduced or even eliminated. But that promise remained elusive without a broadband investment to support it.
Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman talks with Bernie Monegain about the Chicago EHR vendor's merger with Eclipsys, announced June 9.
It’s one week into summer, and healthcare professionals across the country are anxiously awaiting the final definition of meaningful use. To say they are eagerly waiting would also apply, but anxiously seems more precise because there is plenty of anxiety in the waiting.
Kroll Fraud Solutions, a provider of data protection and identity theft response services, has launched a new HITECH Hotline to help ease the burden of data breach notification for healthcare organizations nationwide.
A new survey has found that nearly half of healthcare professionals are dissatisfied with their clinical information systems, frustrated by response times that can last a full minute, or even longer.