Meditech news and information

The digital divide between large and urban hospitals and their smaller and more-rural counterparts may be closing, based on an analysis of a federal database of electronic health-record systems and the EHR vendors supplying products for hospitals participating in the Medicare EHR incentive payment...
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The market for electronic health-record systems is slowing for hospitals of 200 or more beds as two developers, Epic Systems and Cerner, consolidate their positions atop the heap, according to health IT market watcher KLAS Enterprises, Orem, Utah.
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For-profit hospital chain LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn., promoted Leigh Ann Braswell to the new position of senior director of health information management services and Ron Evans to the position of senior director of physician systems.
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Epic Systems Corp. is an early leader among a broad field of for-profit companies, providers and not-for-profit organizations developing electronic health-record systems used by physicians and other "eligible professionals" as well as by hospitals that have received federal incentive payments,...
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Regarding "IT Everything: Info Technology Blog - Not yet an Epic monopoly or conflict": Wouldn't it help clarify to see a ranking of the political contributions of Cerner, Meditech and the other major players...
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Bruce Friedman, in a post on Lab Soft News, says, "Epic has achieved a near monopoly of the (electronic health-record systems) installed in the largest U.S. hospitals."
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Healthcare executives are challenged daily to manage human and financial resources to optimize patient outcomes, drive compliance with state and federal mandates, and maintain their organizations' sense of mission in a rapidly consolidating healthcare system. The necessary but sometimes...
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Software vendor Meditech has completed its acquisition of LSS Systems, an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based health IT company that specializes in ambulatory care. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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