Patient Portal Technologies has been awarded a contract extension from Crozer-Chester Medical Center to provide its Total Satisfaction Service Program.
The IntelliDOT Corporation has announced that its IntelliDOT Bedside Medication Administration is now being used in 55 U.S. hospitals, following the Jan. 20 go-live at Hiawatha Community Hospital in Hiawatha, Kan.
Meaningful use expert Jim Tate has written that the Medicaid EHR incentive program reminds him of "zero entry" swimming pools: very easy to get into, with almost no barriers. Given its less stringent requirements compared to the Medicare EHR incentive program, Tate writes, he's surprised that more eligible professionals are "not jumping into this incentive program with both feet."
Emdeon Business Services of Nashville, Tenn. has announced that it has processed its one billionth pharmacy claim for the U.S. Department of Defense through the Pharmacy Data Transaction Servic...
CareView Communications, Inc. of Plano, Texas has signed a contract with Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla. to install the CareView System in patient rooms and other areas of the hospital....
Oklahoma and Kentucky have become the first states under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program to make incentive payments to providers for the adoption of certified electronic health records, according to CMS.
GE Healthcare has launched Centricity Enterprise Orders and Pharmacy, the latest release of the integrated Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) and Pharmacy system. The product integrates C...
In a report that found states are showing the highest scores ever for health emergency preparedness, health IT is seen as a major indicator. Experts, however, caution that in order for states to close the gap on existing vulnerabilities an "ongoing investment to rebuild and modernize our public health system" is required.
Twenty-eight hospitals in Arkansas and Oklahoma have lowered wait times in their emergency departments by working with VHA, Inc., a nationwide healthcare network.
GE Healthcare has launched Centricity Enterprise Orders and Pharmacy, the latest release of the integrated Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) and Pharmacy system. The product integrates C...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced Wednesday that providers and public health agencies in Minnesota and Rhode Island have begun securely exchanging health information online as part of the Direct Project.
Eighty-five community health center programs, located in 15 of the 17 Beacon Communities nationwide, were awarded $8.5 million on Monday to aid with the adoption of health IT to support long-term improvements in quality of care, health outcomes and cost efficiencies.
Even as Oklahoma and Kansas recently said ‘no thanks’ to federal money aimed at helping them with the health information technology platform needed to create health insurance exchanges, the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury last week awarded $185M more to drive the creation of the exchanges across the country.
The federal Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model that was announced last May is asking too much of providers, too soon, according to Brian Yeaman, chief medical information officer of Oklahoma-based Normal Regional Health System.
The State of Maine and HealthInfoNet have received a $600,000 grant to help support electronic sharing of health records among behavioral health providers and general medical providers in Maine.
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a network of hospitals in Philadelphia, Tulsa, Okla., and suburban Chicago and Phoenix, has upgraded its technology infrastructure with servers designed to increase system performance, uptime and reliability.
HHS this week awarded contracts to 22 states and territories to examine state privacy laws and security practices as they relate to health information exchange. Thus far, A...
Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., of Tucson, Ariz., has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the newest edition of its Sunquest Blood Bank software application.
The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and IBM will build an information and technology-based primary-care practice model that will meet President Obama's vision for a connected healthcare system.
