The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council (MCHC) is pleased to announce its decision to develop the MetroChicago Health Information Exchange (HIE), which is expected to be the largest metropolitan HIE in the nation, serving more than 9.4 million people. The new exchange will use Microsoft Corp., CSC and HealthUnity Corp. technologies to drive quality care improvements and cost efficiencies for Chicago healthcare consumers. The MCHC recognizes the potential for HIEs to improve individual care
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Harvard, Boston Children’s open $5,000 app challenge to free EHR data
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School this week opened a previously announced competition to develop “iPhone-like” applications to help unlock data stored in electronic health records. While the focus is on Web apps, the federally funded contest is encouraging submissions for mobile tablets, with a promise of “further optimization for smaller screens” such as smartphones by summer.
Children’s and Harvard will award $5,000 for the best application in June and
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HIMSS Launches Meaningful Use OneSource
Providing current and vital resources for implementation of health information technology to improve patient care, HIMSS continues to add new information to Meaningful Use OneSource, an online repository of hundreds of documents, tools and links to other knowledge available on the Internet. Users can go to www.himss.org/meaningfuluseto find this meaningful use compendium vetted by content experts before its inclusion on the website.
HIMSS developed and introduced Meaningful Use OneSource in
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Nuesoft to Offer Nuetopia™ Billing Services for Medical Practices
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - January 10, 2011) - Nuesoft Technologies Inc. today announced the availability of Nuetopia, a new service combining the company's NueMD® electronic health records and medical billing software with the revenue cycle management expertise of a credentialed team of medical billers and coders. "Nuetopia is a natural extension of our software offering," said Nuesoft CEO Massoud Alibakhsh. "After nearly 20 years of providing medical practice management software solutions,
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Breaking News: Norwest Equity Partners Acquires Surgical Information Systems
Surgical Information Systems ("SIS" or the "Company"),a leader in perioperative information systems, announced today that Norwest Equity Partners ("NEP"), a leading middle-market equity investment firm, has acquired the Company from Vista Equity Partners ("Vista"). The current SIS executive team, led by Ed Daihl, Chief Executive Officer,will remain in place following this investment. Clients and associates will benefit from the resulting accelerated delivery of new, innovative software
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ONC Issues Final Rule for Permanent Certification Program Highlights
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a final rule to establish the permanent certification program for health information technology on Monday. The final rule will be published in the Federal Register on Jan 7th and the National Coordinator will use the permanent certification program to authorize organizations to certify EHR technologies beginning on January 1, 2012. Highlights of the permanent certification program
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