athenahealth acquires Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's (BIDMC) inpatient EHR system to further penetrate the 100-bed-and-over hospital market.
Cloud based ambulatory EHR provider athenahealth announced today it has purchased webOMR, the web-based inpatient EHR system developed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) to accelerate the company's ability to penetrate the hospital and health system market. In addition to the purchase, the two organizations have entered a
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3 Winona Health Clinics Earn Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards
HIMSS Analytics awarded three Winona Health ambulatory clinics with Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards.
Developed in 2011, the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model provides a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for ambulatory facilities owned by hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics™ Database. Stage 7 represents the highest level of EHR adoption and indicates a health system’s advanced electronic patient record environment.
During the fourth quarter of
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Enterprise Imaging Leader DR Systems Appoints New CEO
Dr. Murray Reicher has been named CEO of DR Systems, Inc., where he succeeds Rick Porritt, who has retired after 20 years with the company. Dr. Reicher co-founded DR Systems in 1992 and has been instrumental in the company's growth to become an industry leader in PACS, RIS, EHR and medical image exchange.
As CEO, Dr. Reicher will continue to focus on partnering with healthcare organizations to improve their clinical and financial success.
"Every day we commit ourselves to
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Cerner Closes $1.3B Acquisition of Siemens Health Services
Cerner announced this morning the completion of its $1.3B acquisition of Siemens Health Services’ assets, client relationships and associates. Cerner expects revenue in 2015 to be approximately $4.8 billion to $5 billion, with a client base spanning more than 30 countries across more than 18,000 facilities.
The combined business unit now have a combined annual research and development investment of more than $650 million that will enable Cerner to speed delivery of the
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In-Depth: 2014 Best in KLAS Awards for Software and Professional Services
On Friday, KLAS released their annual Best in KLAS Awards for Software and Professional Services report, a high level overview of performance ratings for vendors offering software, professional services, and medical equipment to the healthcare industry. Each year, ratings are compiled from evaluations received during the 12-month period prior to its publication from healthcare professionals in North America. New segments in this report include:
- Population Health
- Urgent Care
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Is Universal Health Data Platforms the “Holy Grail” of Interoperability?
Health information exchange (the verb) has been the goal of health IT, now that we have moved into the “post-EHR adoption” era of healthcare. Published and private surveys have shown that about 80% of physician practices have implemented an EHR, and of those, about 90% have participated in meaningful use. The challenge before us now, then, is somehow connecting the fragmented places where health data resides, and bring them together into a unified health data layer that is current,
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Cerner Rakes in 6 Best in KLAS Awards
EMR leader leader Cerner Corp. announced this week it has won six Best in KLAS 2014: Software and Services awards including "Best in KLAS" Remote Hosting for the sixth consecutive year.
Cerner earned the following 2014 Best in KLAS rankings in the following categories:
Application Hosting CIS/ERP/HIS for Remote Hosting *Sixth Consecutive Year
Ambulatory EMR (1-10 Physicians) for PowerChart Ambulatory™
Global non-U.S. Patient Administration Systems for Millennium® PAS *New
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ONC Releases Health IT Interoperability Roadmap
ONC issues draft nationwide health IT Interoperability Roadmap; Implementation resources also released as first deliverable
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0. The draft Roadmap is a proposal to deliver better care and result in healthier people through the safe and secure exchange and use
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2013/2014 Comparison of HIE Providers Supporting Meaningful Use Stage 2 (Infographic)
Recently, the HIMSS HIE Committee conducted a follow-up survey to its 2013 Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Survey research providing a year-over-year snapshot of how health information organizations (HIOs) are facilitating providers’ progress in achieving meaningful use objectives – specifically around Stage 2. The 2014 Follow-up survey results infographic visualization shown below highlights progress and notable improvements during the last year, including critical Meaningful Use Stage 2 benchmarks
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ONC Appoints New Chief Medical Officer to Lead Clinical Oversight
In a note to ONC staff, the National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo announced that Dr. Thomas Mason will be joining ONC as the new Chief Medical Officer, effective February 23, 2015. In his new role, Dr. Mason will lead clinical oversight of ONC programs and clinical coordination within ONC, as well as regularly engage with physician organisations. He will report directly to Karen DeSalvo. Mason is a board certified internist with an emphasis on primary care and preventative medicine
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