NEW YORK-- eHealth Technologies, a leader in streamlining transitions of care including, securely delivering electronic diagnostic images to the users of health information exchange (HIE), and HealtheConnections, the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) of Central New York, have gone live with eHealth Connect® Image Exchange integrated with their new, Mirth HIE platform. HealtheConnections has been a customer of eHealth Connect® Image Exchange since 2010 and this service was deemed as an essential capability to retain, with their new HIE platform.

ATLANTA-- Clinigence, a next-generation clinical business intelligence technology provider, today announced it will offer Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) reporting capabilities to users of Spring Medical Systems’ SpringCharts electronic health record (EHR) system. This new capability is an extension of the current alliance between the vendors, which provides Clinigence’s clinical reports to SpringCharts EHR users.

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) data show that large and medium hospitals are doing better than average attesting to Meaningful Use (MU), while small urban hospitals are further behind. Meanwhile, small rural hospitals are keeping pace with MU attestations, Jennifer King, PhD, from ONC's Office of Economic Analysis, Evaluation and Modeling, reported to the Health IT Policy Committee on June 5.

The debate surrounding the Meaningful Use program wages on with several organizations responding to six Republican senators who called for a reboot of the program. Meanwhile, other providers continue to share their advice for successful implementation of an EHR system.

Two more health IT vendors recently received modular EHR certification for meeting some of the requirements of revised Stage 1 and Stage 2 EHRs Meaningful Use criteria—the 2014 Edition.

Evan as an increasing number of physicians report adopting a basic EHR system, a national survey shows only a small minority of physicians are able to meet Meaningful Use (MU) criteria or use EHRs to manage patient populations, according to research published in the June 4 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants eligible providers (EPs) to know it’s not too late to avoid the payment adjustment designed to penalize those who are not meaningful users of EHRs.

Ozark, MO, June 04, 2013 -- HealthMEDX, the leading provider of LTPAC EMR solutions, has announced the General Availability of the HealthMEDX Pharmacy Exchange, a bi-directional interface between HealthMEDX Vision and Omnicare, utilizing the NCPDP SCRIPT 10.6 standard.