Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions, today unveiled Mobile OpenVista® Enterprise (MOVE). MOVE liberates OpenVista EHR data from the desktop and enables physicians and clinical staff to work more effectively and efficiently. Derived from the proven VistA system developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service, OpenVista is a comprehensive EHR platform combining both clinical
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Health Partners New England Selects OpenVista EHR
Health Partners New England (HPNE) has chosen the Medsphere's OpenVista® EHR system for implementation in the organization’s new behavioral health treatment center in Devens, Massachusetts. HPNE also contracted with Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere, for additional support services related to OpenVista implementation.
Headquartered in the Boston area, HPNE enables hospitals to improve the quality and financial performance of psychiatric and substance abuse services for children,
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5 Hospital Considerations for Implementing an E-Prescribing Solution
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Gue is one of the co-founders of Phoenix Health Systems, a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing firm. In April 2015, Phoenix welcomed a merger with Medsphere Systems Corporation and now serves as the vice president of industry relations for Phoenix Health Systems, the health IT services division of Medsphere.
On the face of it, the use of computers to order prescriptions seems like a no-brainer. Who, after all, is capable of reading a physician’s handwriting?
But
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Medsphere Unveils OpenVista NoteAssist to Transform Clinical Documentation Process
Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of "open" EHR solutions, introduced OpenVista NoteAssist, a new clinical documentation tool. To give clinicians greater flexibility and control, NoteAssist streamlines the process of compiling patient data and incorporating it into various types of documentation such as progress notes and discharge summaries by remembering user preferences and text input between both user sessions and individual notes.
OpenVista NoteAssist Overview
Using NoteAssist,
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Medsphere, Silver Hill Hospital Endorse Legislative Efforts to Improve Mental Health Care System
Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and flexible health IT platform solutions for mental health providers, and nationally recognized Silver Hill Hospital today voiced support for current efforts in Congress to overhaul America’s fractured mental health care system. Medsphere and Silver Hill see both the Mental Health Reform Act of 2015, recently introduced by Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and the companion Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act,
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Why Behavioral Health Acutely Needs EHRs
Exclusion from federal funding makes no clinical, economic or policy sense
A show of hands: Who believes depression or bipolar disorder have no impact on the severity and treatment of a patient’s diabetes and COPD?
It’s an idea no practicing physician would support. Yet time and again, we act as though mental illness and care can be kept separate from physical ailments.
Take Meaningful Use (MU), for example. The federal government believes healthcare must move into the digital age and is
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BT to Promote Medsphere’s Open EHR System
Medsphere Systems Corporation and BT have reached an agreement in which they will jointly promote Medsphere’s OpenVista® EHR under a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, relieving hospitals of many costly and burdensome IT responsibilities.
Medsphere, the most experienced developer and implementer of VistA-derived electronic health record (EHR) solutions outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will work with BT to promote the affordability of Medsphere’s business model and the proven
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EHR Survival of the Fittest: Only Well Designed EHRs Will Survive
This is EHR survival of the fittest and only well designed EHRs will survive. Did you choose a survivor or, better yet, a thriver?
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Department of Defense EHR System Goes Commercial, Not Necessarily Proprietary
Department of Defense EHR system goes commercial as the DoD moves forward with the intent to acquire a commercial EHR solution.
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What Is The Opposite Of Health IT Return On Investment?
A question: What is the opposite of health IT return on investment?
The answer: Unintended financial consequences, or UFCs, for short.
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