Local lab venture inks IT deal
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 7:20 amAmerican Pathology Partners, the two-year-old laboratory company co-founded and led by Marty Rash and Bob Yeager, has chosen a Pennsylvania company’s IT platform to connect its facilities with the EMRs of the physician practices it works with.
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The latest hurdle to health IT investments
Posted on September 9, 2009 at 7:18 amParts of the Recovery Act has been touted by many — including local player Healthcare Management Systems — as a nice kick in pants for spending on electronic health records and other health IT projects. But the attorneys at Baker Donelson say providers may want to wait for a little while before committing serious cash. The criteria, you see, are still a little fuzzy.
Obviously, this is wreaking havoc in a number of ways - it is nearly impossible to know for certain if existing technology will qualify, or to make plans for investing in new information systems that can be paid for from incentive payments.
change:healthcare teams with health record venture
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 7:01 am
Fresh off announcing a contract to work with three big Pennsylvania hospitals on R&D commercialization, the team at change:healthcare announces it will integrate its cost-saving application into the personal health record platform of a San Diego company that is working with Wal-Mart, Intel and other blue-chip names.
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ICA certifies first partner
Posted on August 26, 2009 at 6:55 am
Informatics Corp. of America, the health care IT company born at Vanderbilt, has certified a Paducah company to be its first systems integrator and take its electronic health record technology to end users.
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ICA hooks up with Silicon Valley player
Posted on August 20, 2009 at 1:13 pmLocal health care information technology venture Informatics Corp. of America has inked an OEM partnership with Silicon Valley tech firm Mark Logic.
This partnership will support the meaningful use of the ICA Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution and advance population health management techniques for hospitals and integrated delivery networks, which include Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), regional health information organizations (RHIOs), and other statewide initiatives.
Of the deal, ICA chief technology officer Jeff Cunningham said:
As a result of this partnership, ICA expands its ability to enrich, search, navigate, analyze, and dynamically deliver aggregated healthcare content across patient populations. This is a key differentiator for ICA, and of critical importance to our customers who will be able to take data from any source or format and make the information more usable in combination with the Mark Logic platform.
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Bredesen’s baby doing alright
Posted on July 29, 2009 at 2:23 pmHealthcare software outfit Qualifacts announced recently that it has added some 14 new contracts in eight states during the first half of 2009, despite the lagging economy.
Highlights from the new customer contracts include:
• 14 new contracts across 8 states including, West Virginia, Oregon, Arkansas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Tennessee, and Florida.
• In Georgia, a market the company only entered recently, 10 providers are now fully operational on CareLogic.
• Qualifacts was selected by its third inpatient psychiatric service provider.
The company said further:
With rapid, low-cost implementations, Qualifacts’ customers are benefiting from an integrated, fully functional EHR and billing platform sooner and with less financial risk which in this difficult economic environment and rapidly evolving healthcare sector, are essential for success.
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HMS lands West Memphis deal
Posted on at 10:16 amHealthcare Management Systems has inked a deal to supply its software package to Crittenden Regional Hospital in West Memphis.
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ICA teams with CDS to offer EHRs to John Q. P
Posted on June 30, 2009 at 12:43 pmNashville’s Informatics Corp. of America announced today that it has joined forces with South Carolina-based Companion Data Services to market a new combined product that will:
offer heath care consortiums and state agencies the capability to electronically move clinical information among disparate health care information systems and facilitate access to and retrieval of clinical data to provide higher quality, patient-centered care.
ICA’s CEO Gary Zegiestowsky said of the partnership:
The ability to deploy systems that add value to long-term investments in existing health care information technology is crucial, and the collective capabilities of ICA and CDS represent a powerhouse of resources.
OK, the new “solution” mentioned in this announcement isn’t being marketed to individuals, but it made the acronym joke work.
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HCA exec to chair HHS committee
Posted on May 22, 2009 at 1:15 am
Jonathan Perlin, chief medical officer at the nation’s largest hospital chain, will oversee the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s Health IT Standards Committee, which will make recommendations to national health IT coordinator David Blumenthal on standards for a future electronic health record. Before joining HCA in 2006, Perlin was under secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Say cheese
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 1:58 pmRiding the EHR/HCIT wave, Iasis Healthcare announced today that it plans to implement McKesson’s picture archiving and communications system (PACS) at its hospitals.
The plan is to allow doctors using the system access to medical images as part of the electronic health record. More detail in the release available here.
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Why EHRs aren’t being widely adopted
Posted on March 26, 2009 at 9:17 amAnd what the federal stimulus bill could do about it.
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AmSurg inks coding, EHR software deal
Posted on March 10, 2009 at 10:55 amThe Nashville-based surgery center operator (Ticker: AMSG) has signed an agreement with a division of publishing and technology giant Wolters Kluwer to use its software for surgery coding and electronic health records.
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Yeah, but how was the chicken at the banquet?
Posted on November 25, 2008 at 4:40 pmInformatics Corp. of America, the Vanderbilt-generated company playing in the electronic health record market, recently won two awards at an industry summit.
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