Epic Systems is at the peak of the 20 best healthcare software vendors, as gauged by KLAS' annual survey of hospital CIOs and medical practice executives.
As an American taxpayer, I don't want my money spent on systems that can't interface and can't interoperate. That's not "meaningful use." It sounds more like blackmail by a vendor.
Health information exchange will ramp up significantly in 2012 because the necessary elements of interoperability will be in place, ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, told the Health IT Policy Committee at a meeting Feb. 1.
Epic Systems plans to add 900 new jobs to its campus in Verona, Wis., according to the newspaper of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Badger Herald.
Plans are underway to deploy an EHR system at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut by 2012. The deployment is part of a bigger project at Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) that aims at linking its hospitals, community physicians, patients and caregivers by 2014.
Mediware Information Systems, Inc. announced it is expanding the integration between Mediware's HCLL blood transfusion management software and Epic Systems' Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software for acute care hospitals.
An information technology overhaul planned for the University of Michigan Health System will affect care providers and administrators in every U-M hospital, clinic and office, according to officials.
Carl Dvorak, executive vice president of Epic Systems, has been elected chairman of the HIMSS Electronich Health Record Association, and Charles Jarvis, vice president of healthcare services and government relations for NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, has been elected to the vice chair.
Carl Dvorak, executive vice president of Epic Systems, has been elected chairman of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association, and Charles Jarvis, vice president of healthcare services and government relations for NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, has been elected to the vice chair.
Healthcare IT News asked readers to name a technology or platform that would grab the industry’s attention in 2010. The responses were a mixed bag, with Epic Systems and Microsoft’s Amalga receiving several mentions. Also nominated several times were Web-based applications and cloud computing.
The Kettering Health Network, a six-hospital system based in Dayton, Ohio, has committed more than $50 million to implement an electronic health record system, abandoning its best-of-breed strategy for a fully integrated, enterprise-wide system.
Electronic medical record sales for 2009 are expected to far exceed 2008 sales, which were at their lowest in seven years to hospitals with more than 200 beds, according to research firm KLAS.
Medical records at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago are now fully electronic, allowing real-time communication and coordination of patient care across departments.
For the second year in a row, I had a long, detailed chat with HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber before the start of his organization's annual conference. This time, I was able to meet him in his downtown Chicago office last week since the 2009 conference is a home game for both of us.
Healthcare IT vendors large and small received their Christmas presents early with the Dec. 15 announcement of KLAS' best-performing healthcare software and services vendors.
Epic Systems, a privately held software company based in Verona, Wis., will roll out clinical technology at the University Hospital at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Academic Medical Center of Dubai Healthcare City.
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