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| N.Y. hospital taps Microsoft to digitize records Posted: 05 Apr 2009 09:00 PM PDT New York-Presbyterian Hospital will use the software maker's technology to help make health records electronically available to patients. |
| Indiana Health Center Gets EMR/PM Posted: 06 Apr 2009 09:44 AM PDT Indianapolis-based HealthNet , Indiana’s largest federally qualified health center has selected Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks ’electronic medical records and practice management solution for its more than 110 providers and resident physicians in its eight locations, the company says. In addition, the ambulatory clinical systems company says the healthcare organization will use its eClinicalWorks Enterprise Business Optimizer (eBO) for enhanced reporting capabilities and its eClinicalMessenger VoIP messaging service. According to eClinicalWorks, its EMR/PM will allow HealthNet to streamline processes between practice locations for decreased cost and increased patient safety. HealthNet has also chosen to implement eBO, which the company touts uses meta-data to provide the practice with more flexibility through the creation of customized reports and by performing clinical and financial analysis. The eClinicalMessenger is embedded in eClinicalWorks EMR/PM and is a messaging service that utilizes VoIP to enable physician practices to send messages, either in batches or singularly, to patients with appointment reminders and lab results. HealthNet provides care in Indianapolis and has a network of five primary care centers, an OB/GYN care center, a pediatric and adolescent care center, and eight school-based clinics. The healthcare organization provides care annually to more than 42,000 individuals and families, many of whom are uninsured or underinsured and live below the federal poverty level. |
| NYP Offers Patients Unprecedented Electronic Access Posted: 06 Apr 2009 09:26 AM PDT New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) of New York has introduced a new electronic personal health record to enable patients to access their medical information. Named MyNYP.org , the new PHR is available to the patient at no charge, and runs on Microsoft ’s (Redmond, Wash.) next generation Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) and HealthVault. Microsoft says the enterprise data aggregation platform enables hospitals to unlock patient data stored in myriad systems and make it accessible to every authorized member of the team inside and beyond the hospital — including the patient. Using Microsoft Amalga, NYP is able to to aggregate a wide range of patient data from multiple silos — including EKG, Echo and surgery reports, as well as discharge instructions medications — and send it, using the CCR standard, to the patient’s personal HealthVault record accessible via the new patient portal. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, based in New York City, is the nation’s largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospital, with 2,242 beds. The Hospital has nearly 2 million inpatient and outpatient visits in a year, including more than 230,000 visits to its emergency departments — more than any other area hospital. |
| Drug reps' notes tell secret of sales Posted: 4/5/2009 © St. Petersburg Times Riveting reading: AstraZeneca sales reps' notes on how they used gourmet chocolates and other freebies to change Florida doctors' prescribing habits. One Tampa neurologist who wouldn't talk to the drug rep at all about Seroquel became a big subscriber and won free trips to Europe. |
| Posted: 4/6/2009 From a press release Florida Medicaid patients and those who treat them will soon have access to their full health record online through a partnership between the state and Availity LLC. The company will offer a secure Web portal, state officials say. |
| Group turns down North Collier Hospital offer Posted: 4/5/2009 © Fort Myers News-Press NCH Healthcare System in Naples has ended its long-time alliance with local neonatologists and has brought in a group from Miami, causing a flap in Lee and Collier counties. |
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