CARROLLTON, Ga.--Greenway Health™, a leading information solutions partner to healthcare providers nationwide, has received top recognition from Black Book’s 2014 Rankings – Ambulatory/Alternate Site EHR survey results. Greenway solutions have been acknowledged in the following categories: patient health data management and administrative processing, orthopedic/hand/spine surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, and community health center/federally qualified health center/rural health clinic. In addition to a number of other Black Book rankings through the years, this marks the fourth straight year Greenway has received this award for thoracic surgery.

NOQUALMIE, Wash.--CareAware(R), Cerner’s connectivity platform, and Spacelabs established a new benchmark in open system architecture, to streamline the clinical workflow for monitored patients. CareAware solutions provide a comprehensive strategy for robust medical device integration, alarm management and mobile-enabled care team communication. Spacelabs XprezzNet is a highly efficient network interface that allows Spacelabs monitoring products to communicate with CareAware.

COSTA MESA, Calif.--Mirth, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a global leader in health information technology, announced today that Mirth® Connect version 3.0.1 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) Module on May 1, 2014 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable Eligible Providers (Ambulatory) 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).

New Providence, NJ, May 06, 2014--athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, and Summit Health Management (“Summit”), a provider of innovative management services for Summit Medical Group (SMG) and mid- to large-sized physician practices across the U.S., today announced that Summit will leverage athenahealth’s EHR, patient portal, and population health services for use across its growing team of more than 350 health care practitioners.

Bangalore, April 29, 2014 -- iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a Healthcare IT Solutions Company with a focus on Medical Billing, Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for the US healthcare market, announced a partnership with MD-Reports.

Springfield, MO, April 09, 2014--TrustHCS and Greenway Health have solidified a partnership to assist users of the Greenway PrimeSUITE integrated electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution with ICD-10 preparation and transition. ICD-10 preparation, education, documentation improvement and coding compliance services from TrustHCS are the main focus of the partnership.

Patients weigh in on the good, bad and ugly of EMRs, tackling whether they are mostly instruments to maximize patient billings, whether they interfere with physician-patient interactions and how they improve care coordination.

The reason why the medical profession has been slow to adopt technology at the point of care is that there is an asymmetry of benefits, David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, former national coordinator of health IT, said in an interview published in The Atlantic.