Carson Health, a recognized leader of information technology in a rural hospital setting, has connected with the Great Lakes Health Information Exchange (GLHIE) enabling providers and their healthcare team to share medical information both within and outside the Carson City community.

With healthcare providers under continuing pressure to provide better care at lower costs, remote cardiac monitoring devices are becoming popular and valuable patient care tools, fueling U.S. market growth expected to top more than 25 percent between 2011 and 2016.[1]  The devices enable cardiologists to monitor patients for extended periods of time outside the costly hospital environment, improving their ability to identify problems and provide early intervention that can support better outcomes and reduce the need for expensive future care.

With a shared vision to improve quality and make healthcare costs sustainable, Intermountain Healthcare and Cerner Corporation are announcing a multi-year strategic partnership. Drawing on Intermountain’s pioneering leadership in quality improvement and data analytics and Cerner’s expertise in information technologies, the multi-year partnership will implement the Cerner electronic medical record and revenue cycle solutions across all of Intermountain’s hospitals and clinics.

Healthcare Synergy Inc. has signed an agreement with Great Lakes Health Information Exchange (GLHIE) forging the first partnership of a home health electronic medical record (EMR) vendor with the Michigan based health information exchange.

Tampa, Florida – Sept. 17, 2013 – Vitera Healthcare Solutions, the nation’s premier provider of ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software and services, announced today that it has earned the 2013 Customer Value Enhancement Award from Frost & Sullivan for providing outstanding customer value and helping physicians’ practices thrive in a complex, changing healthcare environment.

SOMERSET, NJ — September 12, 2013 — Wellsoft Corporation announced today that Wellsoft’s Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) v.11 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as an EHR Module on August 21, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The ONC 2014 Edition criteria support both Stage 1 and 2 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-- MRO Corp., a leading provider of technology-driven disclosure management services and applications for healthcare organizations, has acquired the assets of MTT Enterprises, LLC (Metairie, La.), a provider of release-of-information (ROI) services. Mariela Twiggs, CEO of MTT, will assume the role of MRO’s executive director of training and education, client relations. The transaction took effect September 6.

With the Sept. 23 compliance deadline for the HIPAA Omnibus Rule inching closer, new revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) ability to circumvent or crack much of the encryption that guards IT systems, including those for medical records, may stir more questions about the ability to protect and secure personal health information.