Clinical Innovation + Technology was on hand at HIMSS14 to cover healthcare IT trends. We stopped in the Vital Images booth to learn more about images and the EMR.

South San Francisco, CA – March 20, 2014 – First Databank (FDB), a leading provider of integrated drug knowledge, today announced the company’s medication reconciliation solution, FDB MedsTracker, has achieved 2014 Edition Ambulatory and Inpatient Modular EHR ONC Health IT Certification. The solution was certified on by ICSA Labs, an Office of the National Coordinator-Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) and is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ZyDoc, a New York-based medical informatics company, reported results from its Phase I SBIR research study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, with additional funding by NYSTAR, regarding alternative EHR data entry with dictation. James M. Maisel, M.D., Chairman of ZyDoc served as the Principal Investigator for the project, entitled “Applying NLP to Free Text as an EHR Data Capture Method to Improve EHR Usability.” The approved scientific study awarded to ZyDoc was performed with Columbia University physicians and compared the documentation quality, efficiency, and user satisfaction of conventional data entry in their Allscripts EHR to an alternative method allowing physicians to dictate representative admitting documents for three specialties. The alternative method (“NLP entry”) generated transcribed documents from dictations that were processed using natural language processing (NLP) to extract standard structured ICD-9, ICD-10, SNOMED®, RxNorm and LOINC® terms that are the basis of the next generation of EHR systems being implemented in October 2014.

Black Book Market Research, well known globally for accurate, impartial customer satisfaction surveys in the managed services and software industries, conducted a sweeping five month user poll to determine the highest ranked inpatient electronic health and medical record vendors for 2014. As part of a major research focus on the current replacement market, Black Book announced those vendors with the highest scores in recent client experience in the areas of certification-required EHR functionalities, administrative & documentation functionalities, clinical workflow functionalities, add-on modules, accountable care data requirements, and connectivity capabilities.

MinuteClinic, a division of CVS Caremark Corporation and the largest and fastest growing retail clinic provider in the United States, announced today that it will switch to the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) called EpicCare. MinuteClinic currently uses its own proprietary EMR.

A survey conducted by research company Black Book Rankings has named Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) dbMotion population health management software as the top healthcare information exchange solution for 2013 in the ambulatory and provider-centric segment.

February 17, 2014 -- Black Book Rankings, well known globally for accurate, impartial customer satisfaction surveys in the services and software industries, conducted a sweeping four month user poll to determine the highest ranked electronic health and medical record vendors. As part of a major research focus on current e-Health initiatives, Black Book announced those vendors with the highest scores in client experience in the areas of Certification-Required EHR Functionalities, Administrative & Documentation Functionalities, Clinical Workflow Functionalities, e-Prescribing modules, Accountable Care Organization data needs and Health Information Exchange enterprises were also examined in the sweeping study.

The market for electronic health and medical records (EMRs) is set to experience rapid growth over the coming years, with EMR peer group value estimated to climb from approximately $10.6 billion in 2012 to $17 billion by 2017, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.8%, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.