Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

Nightingale and HealthFusion Partner to Deliver Electronic Health Record (EHR) Benefits to Customers in Kmart

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y., April 22-- Nightingale Preventive Care and HealthFusion® have entered into an agreement where Nightingale medical providers will use HealthFusion’s products while treating patients in Kmart, in locations that Nightingale has leased space to provide primary preventive care. The use of a Certified EHR Software System advances quality of care and allows medical providers to qualify for Medicare and EHR incentive stimulus funds.

April 23, 2013

Availity and Greenway Apply Interoperability to Improve Health Care Delivery

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-- Health information network Availity and ambulatory information solutions company Greenway Medical Technologies have joined in a project with Florida’s largest health insurer, Florida Blue, to enable physicians to exchange clinical and patient care summaries with the health plan through electronic health records (EHR) software, which then makes patient-specific clinical information accessible at the point of care. The companies are working together to foster collaborative coordinated care for all Florida residents.

April 18, 2013

iPatientCare Announces Clinically-driven Revenue Cycle Management Service

Woodbridge, NJ, April 18, 2013 -- iPatientCare announced today to take its commitment to provide Meaningful Use certified EHR and integrated Billing System for ZERO Dollar to those physicians’ offices that find in-office billing burdensome, straining their time, money, and resources, and hence, prefer to utilize the services of billing experts for handling complete Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) services as back-office operations directly through the iPatientCare application.

April 18, 2013

HealthPlan Services Launches MyConsumerLink

TAMPA, Fla., April 17, 2013 -- HealthPlan Services (HPS), the nation's leading technology, sales, retention and administrative services provider for the insurance and managed care markets, announced today the launch of MyConsumerLink(SM), a comprehensive, turn-key private exchange marketplace designed to help agents and affinity groups retain and grow business. As consumers begin to take ownership of health plan purchases, industry estimates suggest that as many as 45 million people will use public and private exchanges by 2020.

April 17, 2013

The Most Often Selected EHR Menu Meaningful Use Objectives

SAN ANTONIO, April 17, 2013 -- Sevocity, a division of Conceptual MindWorks, Inc. (CMI), has analyzed the December 2012 CMS report EP Recipients of Medicare EHR Incentive Program Payments to determine which Menu Objectives were most often selected by providers attesting to Meaningful Use under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program.  To qualify for an EHR incentive payment under the program, eligible providers must attest to 15 Core Objectives and select 5 of 10 possible Menu Objectives.  Sevocity analyzed the results of the 117,285 eligible providers on the December 2012 report to determine which Menu objectives were most often selected by attesting providers.

April 17, 2013

ICS Software Ltd.'s SammyEHR to Now Offer PECOS Lookup for Referring Doctors

Oceanside, NY April 14, 2013 -- ICS Software of New York now offers the ability to automatically check PECOS eligibility of referring doctors through their EHR program, SammyEHR.

April 15, 2013

iMedicor Selected By iHealth Trust To Provide Secure Communications Services To Houston And Gulf Coast Region

NANUET, N.Y., April 11, 2013 -- iMedicor (OTC: VMCI) today announced that it had been chosen by iHealthTrust, a Houston-based Federally funded Health Information Exchange (HIE) serving a market of some 12,000 physicians and hospitals in the Houston and Gulf coast regions, to provide them with secure communications services via the iMedicor SocialHIE platform.iMedicor's marketing partner, Galaxy Health Network, a managed care provider organization comprising 400,000 physicians, 2,700 medical centers and 47,000 ancillary care facilities nationwide, will support the iMedicor program via outreach services to Galaxy members in the Houston/Gulf Coast region.

April 11, 2013

With MedInformatix Patient Portal, Indiana Eye Practice Sees Increased Traffic Ahead

Indianapolis, Ind., April 2, 2013 -- With the addition of the MedInformatix Patient Portal Module to its Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) platform, Price Vision Group anticipates its patient capacity to increase by more than 15 percent in 2013. Using the secure portal, patients can answer questions about their medical history well before the visit, eliminating the need to fill out responses on a clipboard upon arrival and reducing the overall time they spend in the office.

April 2, 2013

Around the web

The recall includes specific lots of five different medical devices used to treat stroke and other neurovascular diseases.

The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, one of the leading voices behind efforts to create a new Board of Cardiovascular Medicine, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about where things stand today.

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