On Jan. 21, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center completed the certification of its enterprise electronic health record technologies via the CCHIT EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH) program.
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Surveys suggest doctors warming up to EHRs
Three recent surveys showed that the adoption of electronic health record systems amongst U.S. physicians and hospitals is increasing.
A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics found that the number of primary care physicians who have started using EHRs has increased from 19.8 in 2008 to 29.6 in 2010, a 49 percent jump.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Make health IT systems interoperable
For Google Inc. (NSDQ:GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt, fixing healthcare is a matter of scale.
The chief executive of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has made of business out of attempting to amass all information that’s available digitally, told an audience at the JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) Healthcare Conference that "the biggest and easiest thing to do" to improve patient outcomes is to make healthcare IT systems interoperable.
LifeImage closes $12 million round
LifeImage Inc. completed its second funding round, bringing in $12 million, according to The Boston Globe.
The Newton, Mass.-based start-up develops a cloud-computing based medical image sharing platform.
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Patients change hospitals, but their health records often stay put
Recently, I was admitting a patient to the general pediatrics service who was followed by several specialists from different hospitals, required a number of medications and was quite ill. We were obliged to start treatment immediately given the severity of his illness, but unfortunately, this was his first visit to Children’s Hospital Boston and none of his records were available to us.
Ohio Health IT firm PRC Medical lands low interest loan for job creation
PRC Medical LLC, which provides technology and practice management services to doctors, was awarded a $1.7 million loan from the state of Ohio.
The Akron-based company will use the loan to help fund a $2.3 million software development project that will create 126 jobs and retain another 60, according to a statement from the Ohio Dept. of Development.
NaviNet merges with Prematics
NaviNet Inc. plans to expand its healthcare IT products with the buyout of mobile healthcare service provider Prematics Inc.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based healthcare communications company said the acquisition of Prematics will enable it to offer its patient information management system to healthcare provider’s handheld devices.