EHR Vendor Selection News And Health IT Updates

Banner Churchill Community Hospital now uses all electronic patient records: Banner Churchill Community Hospital is now one of less than 100 hospitals in the nation providing the top level of electronic medical record (EMR) use. Just recently, Banner Churchill implemented its final EMR process; Positive Patient Identification. The hospital, along with 17 other facilities within the Banner Health system achieved Stage 7 status, the final stage in the adoption of EMR. To achieve this, the hospital also had to have the capability to share patient information electronically with other health care providers.

Munson Healthcare Transforms Patient Care with EMC: EMC Corporation today announced that Munson Healthcare, a 391-bed regional healthcare system comprised of eight hospitals and five clinical centers in northern Michigan, has implemented EMC technologies to transform its IT infrastructure and deliver new IT services. Munson has created a Health Information Exchange (HIE), enabling healthcare providers to facilitate a high level of patient care through a secure information exchange. With a private cloud, enabled by EMC and VMware technologies, Munson Healthcare has significantly increased availability of mission-critical medical applications, enabling improved patient care delivery, and reduced costs.

TCG Network Services assists Oriol Health Care with EMR implementation: After a long process of electronic medical record implementation, Oriol Health Care was seeking the final step: an enhanced data input system. TCG Network Services was able to provide, integrating touchscreen tablets into the existing EMR system. The tablets were a step forward for the company, which would now be able to immediately enter patient data into the EMR software with no need to transcribe.

4medica introduces cloud-based EHR/practice management system: 4medica today introduced OfficeSuite, a cloud-based, electronic health record (EHR) with a fully integrated practice management system. OfficeSuite is designed to reduce clinical error and enhance patient care, while improving claim collection and regulatory compliance. 4medica provides the industry’s leading cloud clinical integration platform and solutions.

Prognosis HIS offers new EHR applications: Prognosis Health Information Systems, the leading provider of enterprise solutions for integrated electronic health records (EHRs) and financial systems for rural and community hospitals, today announced the availability of two major enhancements to its ONC-ATCB 2011/2012-certified EHR. ChartNotes in Prognosis HIS’ EHR provides nurses, physicians and departments such as dietary, physical therapy and laboratory with easily configurable, intuitive templates that standardize documentation, improve productivity, increase the timeliness and accuracy of patient data, and enable instant enterprise-wide data sharing.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System awards contract to 3M: The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, one of the world’s premier academic medical centers, has selected the 3M 360 Encompass System to integrate and automate coding, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), and performance monitoring in a single workflow. The advanced technology from 3M Health Information Systems will help the organization capture complete documentation, improve coding accuracy, speed time to billing, and report outcomes data that truly reflects the care provided.

Health Fidelity releases REVEAL Version 2.0: Health Fidelity, a healthcare big data company and technology leader in clinical natural language processing (NLP), announced today the launch of REVEAL version 2.0. REVEAL v2.0 fulfills Health Fidelity’s promise of relentless innovation and increased efficiency through revolutionary advances in clinical NLP. REVEAL now offers support for ICD-9, ICD-10, SNOMED, RxNorm, LOINC, and CPT-4, all derived automatically from content already captured within clinical narrative notes. Powering applications in revenue cycle, ICD-10 conversion, meaningful use, accountable care, and analytics, REVEAL dramatically improves an HIT vendor’s operation by automatically populating content for review instead of requiring doctors and hospitals to manually enter extensive documentation.

SuccessEHS RCM services help clients increase revenue: SuccessEHS today announced that its revenue cycle management (RCM) services have helped clients increase revenue by as much as 10 percent. SuccessEHS’s RCM services help physicians increase revenue by promoting clean claims, fewer denials, faster payment and a more efficient billing process.

ATLAS completes CDC sponsored CDA public health pilot project: Atlas Public Health announced that it has successfully completed the high-profile Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Standards for Public Health Pilot Project. The Company, in partnership with the Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), and with support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), participated in a pilot project to demonstrate how public health reporting can be automated via an electronic data exchange between clinical Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems and the Company’s client, San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) using CDA standards.

Philips strengthens targeted Cancer Center services: Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it is joining forces with The Oncology Group and Revenue Cycle, Inc., affiliated companies that focus exclusively on strategic cancer service planning and operations support. Building upon recently announced partnerships with the Integrated Oncology Network (ION) and eHealth Global Technologies, a provider of medical record and image exchange services, these new alliances strengthen Philips’ growing coalition of solutions providers to support the business and practice of integrated, patient-centered cancer care.

Fluent Medical and Nightingale announce a partnership to provide anesthesiologists with new product: Nightingale Informatix Corporation , one of Canada’s leading Electronic Medical Records companies, partners with Fluent Medical to create iPatient Anesthesiology, a powerful anesthesiology-specific solution that captures charges more efficiently and helps eliminate lost or missing charges and increase revenue. In addition, anesthesiologists can easily document case details and procedure types, surgery information and anesthesia times.