Electronic Health Records News

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 …

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

CarePartners gets $300K for electronic records (Asheville Citizen-Times)
ASHEVILLE CarePartners Health Services will get $300,000 in federal appropriations that will go toward integrating all home-based services with a mobile electronic record.

Planning came late to the initiative for electronic health records (Vancouver Sun)
-One doesn’t need to read too far into the latest report from auditor-general John Doyle to discover why electronic health records should be a good thing for patients and medical professionals alike.

Electronic Health Record Assistance for Central Illinois Medical Practices (PRWeb)
Quality Quest for Health of Illinois has been designated as a Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (REC) satellite office for 38 counties in central Illinois in order to assist smaller primary care practices, federally qualified health centers, and critical access hospitals with the selection and implementation of certified electronic health record (EHR) systems. (PRWeb Feb …

Electronic health record takes first tiny step (Brisbane Times)
THE promise that patients will control their medical records in the federal government’s proposed electronic health system remains uncertain despite the introduction of ”foundation” e-health legislation.

Grant helping Missouri switch health records from paper to electronic (Columbia Missourian)
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri has received a nearly $14 million federal grant to help medical providers share electronic health records. The Department of Social Services said Wednesday that the money will be used for the planning and development of a statewide health information exchange. The goal is to allow a doctor in one part of the state to share with or retrieve patient medical information …

Alegent Health Turns to Imprivata for Secure Access to Electronic Medical Records in a Virtual Desktop Environment (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
LEXINGTON, MA–(Marketwire – 02/16/10) – Imprivata , Inc., the employee access management company, today announced that Alegent Health, the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska, has successfully migrated its metro area hospitals to full electronic medical records (EMR) and secured its virtual desktop environment using Imprivata’s OneSign healthcare access management …

Ohio group gets $43M federal grant to promote electronic health records adoption (MedCity News)
The grant to the Ohio Health Information Partnership comes from last year s federal stimulus act and is part of $1 billion in recently announced federal funding for health information technology.

Obama Awards Money for Electronic Medical Records (ABC News)
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