Amerinet selects 4medica as connectivity supplier

Healthcare group purchasing organization Amerinet has selected  4medica as a healthcare IT connectivity supplier to the organization's 2,729 hospital members.

The agreement enables hospitals and health systems to receive preferred pricing for 4medica's inpatient and ambulatory modular EHR tools, according to the Culver City, Calif., cloud software platform provider.

4medica's Integrated Health Record (IHR) clinical integration tools for hospitals and health systems integrate laboratory, imaging, pathology, e-prescribing and inpatient data from multiple sources into a single, patient-centric record, the company added.

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