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Merge Healthcare Propels Meaningful Use Adoption
CHICAGO, May 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Inc. (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, announced the addition of twelve practices to its growing list of clients who have selected its complete and fully-certified EHR solution to achieve Meaningful Use (MU). More than 89 clients, representing more than 850 physicians, [...]
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Best EMR Features: Customization Is Key
When electronic medical records first came on the scene, even the best EMR software was based on a template approach to charting. Since then, doctors have had a love-hate relationship with templates, which both restrict them to a pre-defined set of words that isn’t their own, but also help provide a quicker, more efficient charting [...]
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HIM Plays a Central Role in Safety, Quality Issues
HIM professionals are well positioned to make significant contributions to hospital performance. Whether it’s captured via pen, pencil, touchpad, or keyboard, accurate patient information is central to reducing medical errors and improving patient safety. As the keeper of the master patient index (MPI), HIM is uniquely positioned to advance quality initiatives by ensuring the data [...]
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Meeting the Need for EMR Project Management Training
As the nation slowly recovers from economic recession, many hard-hit industries have had to cut jobs or impose hiring freezes. Meanwhile, the healthcare industry has continued to see steady growth; and the demand for health IT and EMR project management positions isn’t being met quickly enough, as skilled workers in this field are hard to come by.
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Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
Computerized patient records are unlikely to cut health care costs and may actually encourage doctors to order expensive tests more often, a study published on Monday concludes. Industry experts have said that electronic health records could generate huge savings — as much as $80 billion a year, according to a RAND Corporation estimate.
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ICA Signs Chesapeake Regional Medical Center
Posted on 17 May 2012
CHESAPEAKE, Va. & NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — ICA ( www.icainformatics.com ), a leading provider of interoperability technology that enables health information exchange (HIE), announced today it has contracted with Chesapeake Regional Medical Center ( www.chesapeakeregional.com ) in Chesapeake, VA to develop interoperability and data exchange for this regional integrated delivery network [...] Continue Reading
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Conmed Healthcare Management, Inc. Signs New 10-Year Agreement
Posted on 16 May 2012
HANOVER, Md., May 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Conmed Healthcare Management, Inc. CONM 0.00% , a leading full service provider of correctional facility healthcare services to county detention centers, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Howard County, Maryland for an initial one-year term with options for nine one-year extensions, which are at [...] Continue Reading
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Advocate Health Care Selects Merge Healthcare for End-to-End, Enterprise-Wide Cardiac Imaging and Informatics Solution
Posted on 15 May 2012
CHICAGO, May 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, today announced that Advocate Health Care, one of the nation’s top 10 health care systems,* will implement Merge’s complete cardiology solution suite to capture, manage and display cardiac images, and hemodynamics and ECG data across [...] Continue Reading
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Lutheran HealthCare Selects Merge Healthcare for Enterprise-Wide Imaging Platform
Posted on 09 May 2012
CHICAGO, May 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, today announced that Lutheran HealthCare, Brooklyn’s premier health care network, has selected its iConnect® portfolio to create an enterprise-wide imaging platform across its hospital system. “In the U.S. alone, more than 480 million radiology exams [...] Continue Reading
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Merge Healthcare Releases Image Archiving in the Cloud Via Merge Honeycomb(TM)
Posted on 04 May 2012
Cloud Storage Expected to Account for 35% of Future VNA Image Study Storage by 2015* CHICAGO, May 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare (Nasdaq:<MRGE), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, announced today the release of <Merge Honeycomb Archive, a new image archiving application available within its cloud-based platform. “With imaging accounting [...] Continue Reading
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Practice Fusion Launches API to Democratize Lab Integrations
Posted on 02 May 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Practice Fusion, the free Electronic Medical Record (EMR) company, today announced the launch of its new lab API, which allows any laboratory in the country to connect directly to the EMR. The lab API – first of its kind in the health sector – enables rapid [...] Continue Reading
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MMRGlobal Readies to Exploit Consolidation in Health IT
Posted on 01 May 2012
LOS ANGELES, CA, Apr 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — MMRGlobal, Inc. MMRF +6.95% (“MMR”), a leading provider of Personal Health Records (PHRs), MyEsafeDepositBox storage solutions and electronic document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals, today announced that on Friday, April 27, 2012, the Company filed a Preliminary Proxy Statement in advance of the [...] Continue Reading
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Mount Sinai Medical Center Deploys Perminova EP
Posted on 26 April 2012
La Jolla, CA (PRWEB) April 24, 2012 Perminova, developer of a new breed of web-based information systems for the nation’s leading cardiology centers, announced that Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, one of the nation’s leading heart hospitals, has installed Perminova EP at the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Center for [...] Continue Reading
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Cuyuna Regional Medical Center Selects PatientKeeper CPOE
Posted on 25 April 2012
Waltham, MA (PRWEB) April 23, 2012 PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading provider of physician healthcare information systems, today announced that Cuyuna Regional Medical Center(CRMC), a critical access hospital in Crosby, Minnesota, has purchased PatientKeeper’s suite of advanced clinical applications to automate physician workflow and drive physician adoption of healthcare information technology. CRMC’s PatientKeeper implementation will create [...] Continue Reading
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Merge Healthcare Sets First Quarter 2012 Earnings Call
Posted on 24 April 2012
CHICAGO, April 24, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare (Nasdaq:<MRGE), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, announced today the scheduling of its first quarter 2012 earnings call, which will be held at 8:30 AM ET on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. The call will address the first quarter results, followed by a business [...] Continue Reading
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