By shadz on January 20, 2011
Free, web-based EHR is named top vendor for customer satisfaction among primary care specialties by an independent survey of 30,000 ambulatory medical providers
Practice Fusion has been awarded as the No. 1 EHR vendor in customer satisfaction for primary care specialties by Brown-Wilson’s annual Black Book Rankings. The free, web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system earned [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged eClinialworks, EHR, family practice Nextgen Greenway, practice fusion, primarycare
By shadz on December 31, 2009
USA’s HITECH Act aims to improve patient care and make it patient-centric through the creation of a secure, interoperable nationwide health information network. To enable this objective the government has provided many funding opportunities & these HITECH grants are specifically designed to work together to provide the necessary assistance and technical support to providers, enable [...]
Posted in Resource | Tagged EHR, funding, HITECH
By shadz on December 31, 2009
Beating the 31st Dec statutory deadline by one day Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its draft definition for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs) on 30th Dec as part of its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). The NPRM describes the proposed implementation of incentives to providers for the adoption [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged CMS, EHR, IFR, NPRM, ONC
By shadz on December 28, 2009
A white paper by Daniel Castro, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
This report is to identify the countries which are leading in the deployment of health IT and also highlights the lessons that might be useful for other countries. The first section of the report gives an overview of the current state of and trends in [...]
Posted in White Papers | Tagged EHR, healthcare IT, ITIF
By shadz on December 26, 2009
Recently IBM announced a C$22.5 million project with the Government of Manitoba to enhance healthcare throughout the province with the creation of an electronic healthcare records (EHR) system. This technology will offer a secure and quick access to pertinent patient information to healthcare providers, which can improve the efficiency and quality of patient care while [...]
Posted in Worldwide | Tagged dbMotion, EHR, IBM, Manitoba