Conway Medical Center has purchased PatientKeeper’s clinical applications to automate physician workflow and make use of its healthcare information technology. PatientKeeper’s clinical applications provides a physician-friendly interface and allows voluntary physician adoption of healthcare IT required for meaningful use compliance. Conway will install PatientKeeper’s CPOE (Computerised Physician Order Entry) solution, Physician Portal, which allows physicians
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To protect Americans from potential medical errors associated with the use of information technology in patient care, a new report by the Institute of Medicine calls for greater oversight by the public and private sectors.  The report examines a broad range of health information technologies, including electronic health records, secure patient portals, and health information
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MethodCare, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare predictive analytics software and services, announces today that Tucson Medical Center has selected MethodCare’s Charge Recovery Solution to maximize revenue, improve coding compliance, and increase staff productivity in charge capture. MethodCare’s Charge Recovery software application uses proprietary data mining algorithms to analyze Tucson Medical Center’s clinical, billing and
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Sanford USD Medical Center, the largest hospital in South Dakota, has installed McKesson’s industry-leading pharmacy automation solutions to help optimize productivity and improve point-of-care medication safety at its facility. By incorporating bar-code scanning technology, the solutions are uniquely designed to help reduce medication errors and enable more efficient care delivery, starting in the pharmacy and
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McKesson and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®), a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the world’s leading cancer centers, are joining forces to streamline access to the NCCN Drugs & Biologics Compendium (NCCN Compendium®). The NCCN Compendium® is authoritative, scientifically derived information designed to support decision-making about the appropriate use of drugs and biologics in
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Community Health Alliance, Inc. (CHA) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by the Virginia Department of Health for the Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE). Specific services to be provided by CHA include establishing a Statewide HIE governance structure, creating and staffing the Statewide HIE organization, implementing the technical infrastructure, and
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SilverTree Health, a premier provider of physician billing and practice management resources, announced today the completion of a merger with Essential Health Care Solutions, Inc. SilverTree Health, LLC is the only physician-designed and run provider of practice management resources for physicians, managed-care facilities and hospitals. The company provides full scale medical billing as well as
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NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today it recently signed an agreement with NVISION Laser Eye Centers to deploy NextGen(R) Ambulatory EHR and NextGen(R) Practice Management across 10 eye centers in Southern California. NVISION is one
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NCR Corporation, a provider of self-service hospital check-in, today announced that Froedtert Hospital has rolled out NCR Wayfinding to improve the overall patient experience by helping patients and visitors more easily locate their destination within the hospital. The evolution of quality program requirements, such as the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected advanced ICD-10 code translation technology from 3M Health Information Systems to assist the federal agency in converting systems, applications, and reports based on ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes into the language of ICD-10. The 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool will be used to streamline the
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