8/28/08
Centre Medical and Surgical Associates Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management Solution
Allscripts, a provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced that Centre Medical and Surgical Associates, P.C. (CMSA) has selected the company's Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution for its 69 providers.
Centre Medical and Surgical Associates is one of the largest multi-specialty physician groups in Central Pennsylvania, with 53 physicians and 16 mid-level providers in offices located in State College, Boalsburg, Bellefonte, and Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. CMSA is replacing its financial automation system with Allscripts -- and adding the Allscripts Electronic Health Record -- to improve its ability to provide high quality care more cost-effectively.
As part of the Electronic Health Record implementation, Allscripts will interface the Electronic Health Record with the Meditech inpatient clinical information systems of Mount Nittany Medical Center, a 203-bed acute care hospital in State College. The connection will benefit both CMSA and the hospital, allowing physicians to access the latest clinical information on patients, no matter where they are being seen.
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Valley Baptist Health System Selects The Breakaway Group for EMR Implementation
Valley Baptist Health System (VBHS), one of the largest health systems in South Texas, has selected The Breakaway Group to lead learning and adoption for more than 3,000 users during an ambitious healthcare technology initiative. The initiative, which includes four simultaneous technology installations and updates, is intended to provide Valley Baptist patients with higher quality care and improved safety and convenience, and provide clinicians with better access to healthcare information.
The Information Management for Physician and Patient Access with Clinical Transformation (IMPPACT) initiative includes implementation and adoption of: Centricity Enterprise, an electronic medical record (EMR) system; Streamline Health, document imaging, management and workflow software; Picis, software that tracks perioperative information; and ImageCast, a radiology information system that enables "filmless" radiology image workflow.
To launch the IMPPACT initiative, The Breakaway Group will employ its proven methodology for guaranteed end-user proficiency. This methodology includes leading change, online simulators, and customized programs for sustainability. Valley Baptist, a national leader in the application of Six Sigma methodology in health care, will complement this with a group of approximately 200 "change agents" who have been trained in CAP (Changed Acceleration Process) and who will serve as Ambassadors for the project.
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Clarion Hospital Selects HMS to Provide IT Infrastructure
Healthcare Management Systems, a provider of healthcare technology, has announced that Clarion Hospital has selected the company to supply an integrated hospital information system.
Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) will provide a full suite of clinical and financial software applications to help the facility implement an electronic health record (EHR).
With the HMS system, doctors will have 24-hour access to patient records which is expected to have a positive effect on medical outcomes.
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Anesthesia Business Consultants Announces an EMR Created Specifically for the Speciality of Pain Management
Anesthesia Business Consultants, LLC (ABC) announces the addition of an EMR created specifically for Pain Management – F1RSTEMRP.
As an integrated expansion to F1RSTAnesthesiaTM, their current billing and practice management technology, F1RSTEMRP was created with a single-minded focus of meeting the needs of Pain Management specialists. Other generic solutions that are altered to adapt to many specialties may miss the delicate nuances such as illness history, social factors, exam elements, and medical decision making. Data such as this must be captured in order to bill at the appropriate level in order to maximize collections.
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Satyam and RelWare Form Alliance
Satyam Computer Services, Ltd., a leading global consulting and information technology services provider, and RelWare, a leading developer of Web-based solutions for healthcare, announced today that the organizations have signed an alliance agreement. The alliance agreement calls for Satyam and RelWare to join forces to implement, customize, train, and provide professional services in support of RelWare’s OneRecord solution around the world.
This newly formed alliance will provide healthcare organizations, physicians and patients access to a full range of solutions from a full-blown acute-care electronic medical records systems (EMR) to a personal health record (PHR) for individuals and everything in between. The relationship will leverage RelWare’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) and other web-technologies to allow both organizations to provide solutions for all of healthcare. It will also lower costs and save time, thus allowing medical professionals to spend more time providing enhanced patient care, rather than managing paperwork. This transformation in how work is performed in healthcare will have real and measurable business and patient health benefits.
The alliance will also help both companies enhance customer experience. While Satyam will benefit from exposure to RelWare’s customers and unprecedented technology, RelWare will gain access to the resources and reach of a global organization in Satyam.
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