Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 31st, 2008 Local Health Agency Gets Grant (KAAL Austin)
(ABC 6 NEWS) — A local health agency is getting a $50,000 check to help manage their records. The Zumbro Valley Mental Health Center is one of several facilities to receive a grant that will help create electronic health records.
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 30th, 2008 Healthscreen Partners With British Columbia’s Carestation Health Centres to Implement CallerMD and HealthAlert in … (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Healthscreen Solutions Inc., the leading Canadian provider of physician practice enhancement services and electronic medical record software, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Carestation Health Centres Ltd to implement its practice enhancing services in Carestation’s seven clinics in British Columbia.
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 29th, 2008 B-N switch to electronic health record system (Daily Vidette)
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain disagree on many key issues, but one thing they see eye to eye on is the importance of electronic health records. During the summer, ISU’s Student Health Services began transitioning from paper health records to an electronic system.
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 27th, 2008 Kaiser Permanente Has Most Hospitals in Nation With Inpatient Electronic Health Record (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Kaiser Permanente announced today another milestone achievement in health information technology, bringing the convenient and potentially life-saving technology of electronic health records to 22 hospitals serving 4.8 million members, the most hospitals using electronic medical records of any civilian hospital system in the nation.
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 24th, 2008 CompuMed Previews CompuBRIDGE Solution for Electronic Medical Records (Centre Daily Times)
CompuMed, Inc. (OTCBB:CMPD) — a medical informatics company serving the healthcare community with diagnostic software solutions — today announced that it will preview its new CompuBRIDGE(TM) telecardiology electronic medical records (EMR) solution at the National Conference on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), taking place through Wednesday in Chicago.
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 23rd, 2008 Kaiser Permanente Has Most Hospitals in Nation With Inpatient Electronic Health Record (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Kaiser Permanente announced today another milestone achievement in health information technology, bringing the convenient and potentially life-saving technology of electronic health records to 22 hospitals serving 4.8 million members, the most hospitals using electronic medical records of any civilian hospital system in the nation.
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 22nd, 2008 Aetna to offer records in Microsoft HealthVault (Boston Globe)
Aetna Inc. is becoming the first health insurer to team with Microsoft Corp. to give its customers an Internet-based vault for storing medical records they can access even if they change jobs or leave their health plan.
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 20th, 2008 Study finds creating unique health ID numbers would improve health care quality, efficiency (PhysOrg)
Creating a unique patient identification number for every person in the United States would facilitate a reduction in medical errors, simplify the use of electronic medical records, increase overall efficiency and help protect patient privacy, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 17th, 2008 MEDecision Webinar Will Examine Benefits of Combining Payer and Provider Data in Electronic Medical Records (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WAYNE, Pa.—-MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, will conduct a Webinar to discuss the advantages of combining clinical information from health care providers and health plans into an integrated electronic medical record .
Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on October 16th, 2008 MEDecision Webinar Will Examine Benefits of Combining Payer and Provider Data in Electronic Medical Records (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WAYNE, Pa.—-MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, will conduct a Webinar to discuss the advantages of combining clinical information from health care providers and health plans into an integrated electronic medical record .
