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Greenway Health Taps AWS to Develop Cloud-Based, Data Services Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 07/30/2020 Leave a Comment

Deloitte, Amazon Web Services Partner to Create New Health Ecosystems Through Data

What You Should Know: - To help meet the needs of ambulatory care practitioners in a post-COVID environment, Greenway Health, a leading health information technology, and services provider, today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). - Leveraging AWS cloud services, Greenway is developing a new cloud-based, data services platform, Greenway Insights, that creates new data insights and healthcare interventions to advance the breadth of Greenway’s products and
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Augmedics Secures FDA 510(k) Clearance for Augmented Reality Guidance System for Surgery

by Fred Pennic 12/23/2019 Leave a Comment

Augmedics Secures FDA 510(k) Clearance for Augmented Reality Guidance System for Surgery

- Augmedics announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and the U.S. launch of its groundbreaking xvision Spine system (XVS), the first AR guidance system to be used in surgery. - xvision Spine allows surgeons to visualize the 3D spinal anatomy of a patient during surgery as if they had “x-ray vision,” and to accurately navigate instruments and implants while looking directly at the patient, rather than a remote screen. Today, Augmedics announced U.S. Food and Drug
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VA Transfers 23.5 Million Patient Health Records to Cerner’s Data Center

by Fred Pennic 08/01/2019 Leave a Comment

1Vision and AMC Health Lands VA Contract to Provide Telehealth Solutions to Veterans

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently transferred the health records of 23.5 million Veterans to a Cerner's data center, setting the stage for the records to be processed this summer in support of VA’s and Department of Defense’s (DoD) common electronic health record (EHR) solution.Data Migration PhaseThis initial data migration phase of VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM), which began in late spring, is an important milestone reflecting the decision to replace
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Can A Peace Treaty Between Doctors & EHRs Tackle Physician Burnout?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 12/19/2018 Leave a Comment

Can a Peace Treaty Between Doctors & EHRs Tackle Physician Burnout?

 It may be difficult to recall now, what with the ongoing Cerner deployment and recent challenges that had little to do with technology, but there was a time when the Department of Veterans Affairs was considered the gold standard for healthcare IT.VA was out front with the initial development in the 1970s of the VistA system, which would come to be widely recognized and frequently honored. Indeed, when VA was overhauled in the 1990s, VistA was the primary tool that enabled the success of new
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VA Finally Signs Off On $10B Cerner EHR Contract, Replacing VistA EHR

by Fred Pennic 05/18/2018 Leave a Comment

VA VisaA EHR

On Thursday evening, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced an agreement with Cerner for the VA to use off-the-shelf Cerner solutions, replacing the legacy VistA EHR. The migration to Cerner will provide veterans, transitioning service members and their care providers access to their medical history through a single electronic health record (EHR) system. The deal is expected to cost $10 billion dollars over 10 years years.Using technology that has been deployed successfully at
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Why The VA Should Stick with VistA EHR

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 04/18/2018 Leave a Comment

VA Selects Accenture Division for $162M VistA EHR Contract

At the end of last month, President Trump dismissed VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, following weeks of speculation that he would do just that. In Shulkin’s place, Trump nominated his personal White House physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, a physician who’s never managed a large healthcare organization.Shulkin’s dismissal left unsigned the contract with Cerner to replace the VA’s venerable VistA healthcare IT platform. It’s not that the Cerner deal is really threatened without Shulkin—VA
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Department of Defense EHR System Goes Commercial, Not Necessarily Proprietary

by Edmund Billings MD 06/05/2013 1 Comment

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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