Electronic Health Records News

Saint Vincent Health System to Connect Caregivers with McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals Solution (Centre Daily Times)
Saint Vincent Health System in Erie, Pa., has chosen to upgrade and extend its current clinical systems with McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals(R) Care Team Release. With its “one patient, one care team, one plan” approach to support care delivery and care planning, the Care Team Release is the first solution to unify the medical and interdisciplinary care plans, driving evidence-based practice across …

Health Care Costs Bill (WBUR Boston)
The House and Senate ignored a midnight deadline to adjourn as they moved to finish bills they had pledged to send to the governor’s desk.

Democrats Draft Health Elements Of Party Platform (Medical News Today)
The Democratic platform is “heavy on Obama’s message of change, a theme that helped him win his party’s nomination,” AP/Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The drafting platform committee of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday also agreed to changes in its health care language, which include some recommendations by former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.

AnMed Health System Continues Drive to Push Out Paper, Improve Financial Performance (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ATLANTA—-Building on its previous success with an electronic document imaging solution, AnMed Health System has selected McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Content Manager solution to further automate previously paper-based processes.