According to a global survey carried out recently, diagnostic images, scanned documents, emails and advances towards the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) are the major causes for the upsurge in healthcare data that is currently challenging hospitals, the survey was carried out by BridgeHead Software,...

New York State is going to improve its access to Electronic Medical Records (EMR) thanks to efforts made by two the federally designated healthcare IT regional extension centers (RECs) of the city. Today, the New York eHealth Collaborative and the NYC Regional Electronic Adoption Center for Health (...

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a company providing medical device systems, announced that it has launched in its Wireless USB Adaptor for the Merlin@home™ transmitter in the United States. The wireless USB adaptor is a system that offers wireless download and secure transmission, through telephone, of im...

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems announced that it has carried out an agreement with Sinai Medical Group to implement NextGen® EHR (Electronic Health Record) and NextGen Practice Management. Peter Ingram, VP, chief information officer for Sinai Health System said "We are dedicated to making i...

According to an announcement, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), both Washington and New Mexico Medicaid programs are going to be granted thousands of dollars as federal matching funds for state planning activities, which are needed before implementation of the electronic healt...

Ephraim McDowell Health announced that it has launched an integrated ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) from LSS Data Systems.  The new EHR offers connection between Ephraim McDowell Health clinics and their hospitals, Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center and Ephraim McDowell Fort Logan ...

The Scotland National Health System (NHS) announced that it is going to launch a new health IT suite in order to achieve the United Kingdom's healthcare integration goals. Ensemble, from InterSystems, is going offer help to the NHS with a seamless integration of health IT services. The chair of the ...

According to a recent editorial, the copy and paste function of an electronic health record (EMR) is "one of the most egregious dangers of electronic charting," The editorial was published in the American Journal of Medicine (AJM). Arie Markel, MD, director of one of the departments of internal med...

NHS Scotland announced that it has purchase a national license for the use of Ensemble® from InterSystems for healthcare integration in Scotland. Ensemble is a seamless platform for integration the development of connected applications. The application was purchased based on the contract for the Na...

The National Cancer Institute (NIC) announced that it is planning to release a new electronic health record (EHR) developed to manage specific data on the office visits of a cancer patient. Ken Buetow, associate director for bioinformatics and IT at the National Cancer Institute, mentioned that the ...