Members of a federal health IT advisory group have proposed to relax the number of measures that would be required for healthcare providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health record systems.
Intermec Technologies has partnered with HealthWyse and Data Capture Solutions to provide healthcare professionals with mobile access to EMRs. Company officials say the durability of Intermec's CN3 ruggedized handheld computers—combined with the ease-of-use of Healthwyse's mobile clinical software and Data Capture Solutions' support—has saved customers, like Caritas Home Care, an average of 98 hours of total annual time per healthcare professional.
Enterprise mobility solutions provider InfoLogix has launched the InfoLogix ST7 Wall Mount Workstation as the latest advancement in the company's suite of healthcare mobility offerings.
A new report from KLAS states 85 percent of healthcare providers believe their ambulatory EMR software will enable them to meet the 2011 meaningful use deadlines being weighed by the federal government. However, many respondents say their technology lacks adequate reporting functionality.
A gap exists between policymakers' expectations that EMRs can improve coordination of patient care and clinicians' real-world experiences with the technology, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
A new contest being launched by CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW Corporation, and Cerner Corporation offers physician practices nationwide the opportunity to win a free electronic health record system.
The Denver Health and Hospital Authority is on its way to becoming an all-digital healthcare environment. The Denver-based 500-bed safety net facility has invested more than $350 million in IT over the past 12 years. Officials are saying that collecting and monitoring data has been key to pinpointing areas for improvement.
InterMed, P.A., a primary and specialty care medical group serving 65,000 patients in southern Maine, has implemented an electronic medical record system from Dimension Data, a $4.5 billion IT services and solutions provider.
Six months ago, VARs attempting to help their health care customers get up to speed with EMRs and take advantage of economic stimulus funds were mostly out of luck because few IT vendors offering EMRs were channel-friendly. But in June, Synnex unveiled a partnership with EMR vendor Allscripts, and now Ingram Micro is set to announce a partnership with an EMR vendor, too.
