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The blockbuster merger between Allscripts and Eclipsys announced Wednesday is "a match made in heaven on a PowerPoint slide," says Sean W. Wieland, senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray. But he anticipates some rough going at the start.
The Premier Healthcare Alliance recognized 21 of the nation's top hospitals and three health systems for their commitment to outstanding patient care and operational efficiency with the 2010 Premier Award for Quality. Healthcare information technology underpins the patient care and organizational measures.
Health plans and insurers, who have endured the brunt of criticism for soaring healthcare costs, are bracing for change as the nation moves toward reform.
Healthrageous, a new personalized health technology company, has landed $6 million in financing to bring to market technologies developed at the Boston-based Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners Healthcare.
New York state regional extension centers pick EHR firms for providers to consider in meeting meaningful use guidelines.
Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman and Eclipsys President and CEO Phil Pead discuss their merger in this collection of videos from the combined company's site.
Leaders of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) - claiming to be the largest HIE organization in the country - announced Wednesday the exchange would expand to serve patients in Terre Haute and Clinton, Ind.
With "Usability Methods to Improve EMRs," Jeffery Belden, MD, from the University of Missouri, and Janey Barnes, from User-View Inc., presented a detailed and user-focused design process for organizations developing EMRs.
The message from the HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo session "The Roadmap of EMR Adoption and IT Hospital Success" was clear: IT implementation isn't just a technology project, it's a clinical one.
Although nearly half of all Americans are ready to toss the paper and believe electronic health records will enable more efficient healthcare, they are largely in the dark about what it actually means for them as a patient, says a new survey.