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June 26, 2015 - M*Modal and Preferred Solutions today announced a partnership for increasing physician adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems. The companies will offer onsite training at hospitals for using M*Modal’s front-end speech technology platform to improve clinical documentation quality and patient outcomes.
July 9, 2015 - Carilion Clinic, headquartered in Roanoke, VA, consists of seven hospitals and provides health care services for one million people in western Virginia. “Every decision we make at Carilion comes down to how it will positively impact our patients and their care,” says Evelyn Garcia, MD, chair of Carilion’s radiology department. “With the Sectra solution, we are looking forward to increased efficiency, better access to clinical tools and better integration across our system. And that’s just the beginning.”
July 9, 2015 - Merge Healthcare Incorporated (NASDAQ: MRGE), a leading provider of innovative enterprise imaging, interoperability, and clinical systems that seek to advance healthcare, today announced Summa Health, one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in Ohio, will integrate Merge’s cardiology solutions to support population health initiatives. The solutions will support Summa’s overarching coordinated care goals, as well as provide better access to images and data to enhance workflows and reporting.
MEDITECH is pleased to see over 50 of its customers receive a five-star rating from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). A total of 3,553 hospitals received HCAHPS Star Ratings; only 251 hospitals were acknowledged with five stars.
June 29, 2015 – CareerBuilder and Republic Media announced today that Orion Health has earned a spot on the list of 2015 Careerbuilder Top Companies to work for in Arizona.
June 29, 2015 - CynergisTek today announced it has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Adam Hawkins as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Effective July 1, 2015, Adam will be responsible for the sales and marketing operations at CynergisTek, as well as the strategic planning, development and implementation of the company’s Managed Services and Vendor Security Management offerings.
June, 29 2015 - Merge Healthcare Incorporated today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. Under this new agreement, Toshiba will be able to offer its customers a full turnkey solution, combining Merge’s cardiology PACS and hemodynamic monitoring solutions with the Toshiba portfolio of vascular x-ray systems.
May 20, 2015 - HOSTING, the leading provider of managed cloud services, today announced that it is an official partner of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Cooperative Member Services Program. This unique collaboration leverages the HOSTING suite of compliant, managed cloud services and best practices derived from the CHIME professional community of healthcare CIOs and service providers, enabling member healthcare organizations to achieve and maintain compliance, decrease their cost of data services and accelerate healthcare performance improvements.
June 22, 2015 - This past April, thirteen leading healthcare CIOs convened at the annual Scottsdale Institute CIO Summit to discuss the optimization challenges their health systems are facing and the strategies needed to maximize the success of optimization projects. The Summit was hosted by Scottsdale Institute, a not-for-profit membership organization of health systems advanced in IT, supported by Impact Advisors, a healthcare IT consultancy and moderated by Dr. Tonya Edwards, Physician Advisor at Impact Advisors. The group identified and focused the conversation on organizational drivers for optimization which include eliminating waste, improving efficiency, improving user and customer satisfaction, and improving the operational bottom line.
April 7, 2015 – HOSTING announced today that it is ranked #14 in Penton Technology’s eighth annual MSPmentor 501 Global Edition, a report identifying the world’s top 501 managed service providers (MSPs). The annual rankings are based on information collected from managed service providers and IT service providers including rates of growth, annual recurring revenues and devices managed.
June 22, 2015 - Zynx Health™announced today the release of an exclusive integration between ZynxOrder® and Paragon® Hospital Information System release 13 from McKesson that makes order set management easy through automated content synchronization. This intuitive solution eliminates common integration challenges including time-consuming file-based uploads.
June 18th, 2015 - MMY Consulting has released a new white paper about how clinical imaging integration brings the power to connect and streamline, and ways to keep your business current and profitable.
June 18, 2015 - The Huntzinger Management Group, Inc. recently announced their launch of a new service offering, V6 Data Analytics. This new service will encompass advisory services, strategic planning, implementation and managed services for an organization's data analytics functions.
June 18, 2015 -- Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care coordination solutions, has released a position statement on the Medicare Shared Savings Plan (MSSP) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Final Rule which adds a new eligibility requirement for the use of enabling technologies to improve care coordination.
June 15, 2015 - MMY Consulting has launched a new custom report writing service that will allow clients to turn mountains of EHR data into meaningful information.
June 11, 2015 - Health Catalyst, along with the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED), announced today that the company will expand at its headquarters location in Salt Lake City. The expansion is expected to create 291 jobs.
June 12, 2015 - Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX) client Atlantic General Hospital, located in Berlin, MD, achieved Stage 6 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM) using the Allscripts Sunrise acute electronic health record (EHR).
May 26, 2015 - Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX) is pleased to announce East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have each signed an agreement to deploy Allscripts PASTM. The Allscripts PAS will replace the Trusts' existing system and will empower the organsations to use a highly flexible and configurable solution to manage patient data. Allscripts PAS is used across the National Health Service (NHS) in more than a dozen trusts and hospitals.
May 21, 2015 - The Autism Center at Hospital for Special Care (HSC), an Allscripts client in New Britain, CT, USA, is the first organization to receive the Patient Centered Specialty Practice (PCSP) recognition for Autism from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). This recognition highlights specialty practices that successfully coordinate patient care and communicate with their primary care colleagues, other specialists and patients.
May 8, 2015 - Grand Lake Health System of St. Marys, OH, selected the Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX) SunriseTM platform as the core electronic health record (EHR) for its community of medical centers.
