Cardiology Associates of Mobile purchased the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) for its 38 providers, in order to enhance the quality of patient care, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery, announced Allscripts. "While Allscripts has been a great partne...

Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) and Jefferson University Physicians (JUP) have chosen Allscripts and dbMotion  to provide an integrated and interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) and population management solution for JUP's physicians. The new EHR solution will help to create a single, uni...

Electronic medical records (EMR) are considered a major step in the way to eliminate older paper file system. However, a new study is questioning the outcome and the actual benefits of the existing electronic systems and suggests that EMR did not significantly improve patient life spans or reduce co...

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems signed an agreement with Mercy Health System (MHS), in order to deploy NextGen® EHR (Electronic Health Record) and NextGensm Health Information Exchange (HIE). NextGen HIE will be implemented starting third quarter 2010. Further, NextGen HIE is going to engag...

Otech, a healthcare technology company providing PACS Training and Consulting, announced that it will be carrying out a Seminar discussing Electronic Health Record (EHR) and its relation with MPR and PHR. The seminar will include several components to highlight while going on, and will take place in...

Saudi Arabia National Guard Health Affairs (SANG-HA) has received the prestigious Excellence in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Award at the 2010 Arab Health Awards in Dubai, UAE, announced RESTON, Va. QuadraMed® Corporation. In fact, SANG-HA was rewarded for making the greatest advancement in de...

Practice Fusion announced its doctors, nurses and front office staff users contribution in helping optimize the company's free, web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Through the EHR system, any user can easily submit feature requests and suggestions directly to the company's product deve...

Orion Health, a provider of clinical workflow for the healthcare community, will be highlighting its several healthcare IT technologies and EHR solution at the World Health IT (WoHIT) Conference taking place this month. Orion Health provides customer friendly solutions and applications that display ...

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) released the Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory. The Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide contains the necessary specifications for laboratory results reporting to local, state, territorial and federal health agencies. HL7 Version 2...

Kaiser Permanente announced today that all medical facilities included in its eight regions is now equipped with Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, the largest electronic health record in private sector in the world. Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo in Northern California w...