Butler Health System Selects Alpha Systems for Enterprise Electronic Document Management (EDM) (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on March 9th, 2010

Butler Health System Selects Alpha Systems for Enterprise Electronic Document Management (EDM) (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa.—-Alpha Systems, a premier provider of electronic data and document management solutions, today announced that Butler Health System , an innovative healthcare provider located in Pennsylvania, has named Alpha Systems their vendor of choice for enterprise electronic document management software.

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St. Croix Regional Medical Center Secures Access to Electronic Medical Records With Imprivata (Marketwire)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on March 8th, 2010

St. Croix Regional Medical Center Secures Access to Electronic Medical Records With Imprivata (Marketwire)
Imprivata OneSign Integrated With Fingerprint Biometrics Provides Fast and Secure Access to Patient Health Information

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Incentives push hospitals toward electronic records (The Tennessean)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on March 5th, 2010

Incentives push hospitals toward electronic records (The Tennessean)
Expect the nation’s biggest hospital chains to pour more money into electronic health records over the next two years.

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Local CHW hospitals first to implement electronic health records (KSBY San Luis Obispo)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on March 4th, 2010

Local CHW hospitals first to implement electronic health records (KSBY San Luis Obispo)
KSBY News has learned that three local hospitals will be the first in Catholic Healthcare West’s 41 hospital system to use electronic health records. The paper world of medical files is about to enter cyber space at French Hospital Medical Center, Arroyo Grande Community Hospital and Marian Medical Center. A patient’s medical record will be accessible instantaneously to physicians and nurses at …

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Verizon Launches IT Platform to Help Accelerate Adoption of Electronic Health Care Records (redOrbit)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on March 3rd, 2010

Verizon Launches IT Platform to Help Accelerate Adoption of Electronic Health Care Records (redOrbit)
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., March 3 /PRNewswire/ — In a significant step toward accelerating the adoption of electronic health records, Verizon Business has launched an information technology platform that enables the digital sharing of physician-dictated patient notes.

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Patients Are Not Being Adequately Informed About Electronic Patient Records, Says British Medical Association (Medical News Today)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on March 2nd, 2010

Patients Are Not Being Adequately Informed About Electronic Patient Records, Says British Medical Association (Medical News Today)
Patients don’t have enough information about electronic patient records and it is too hard for them to opt-out if they want to, the BMA said today. Following limited local piloting, patients’ summary care records1 are now going to be uploaded to a central database across England. Five Strategic Health Authorities recently announced they were speeding up their plans2. Anyone who does not want to …

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Patients Are Not Being Adequately Informed About Electronic Patient Records, Says British Medical Association (Medical News Today)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on March 1st, 2010

Patients Are Not Being Adequately Informed About Electronic Patient Records, Says British Medical Association (Medical News Today)
Patients don’t have enough information about electronic patient records and it is too hard for them to opt-out if they want to, the BMA said today. Following limited local piloting, patients’ summary care records1 are now going to be uploaded to a central database across England. Five Strategic Health Authorities recently announced they were speeding up their plans2. Anyone who does not want to …

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AL gets $10.5 million for e-health records system (WTVM 9 Columbus)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on February 26th, 2010

AL gets $10.5 million for e-health records system (WTVM 9 Columbus)
Governor Bob Riley announced Thursday that Alabama has received $10.5 million in federal funds to build an electronic health information system that can be used by public and private health care providers.

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Catholic Healthcare West Increases Investment in Electronic Health Records to $1 Billion (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on February 25th, 2010

Catholic Healthcare West Increases Investment in Electronic Health Records to $1 Billion (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – 02/24/10) – Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) will increase funding to $1 billion for the system wide implementation of electronic health records (EHR). The decision comes after a successful introduction in eight of the system’s 41 hospitals that exceeded national best practices for EHR. In a January 2010 decision by its Board of Directors, CHW approved an …

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Catholic Healthcare West Increases Investment in Electronic Health Records to $1 Billion (Marketwire)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on February 24th, 2010

Catholic Healthcare West Increases Investment in Electronic Health Records to $1 Billion (Marketwire)
Effort Will Expand Successful Eight-Hospital Pilot to 41 Hospitals System Wide

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