Electronic Health Records (EHR) news and information

Vitera Healthcare Solutions, an electronic health-record company based in Tampa, Fla., announced a deal to acquire Birmingham, Ala.-based SuccessEHS.
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CareCloud, a Miami-based electronic health-record vendor which delivers applications over the Internet, announced it raised $20 million in series B funding. Tenaya Capital, a technology venture capital firm, led the investment which included returning investors Norwest Venture Partners and Intel...
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CareCloud, a Boston-based provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health record and medical billing software and services, has named Tom Cady VP of professional services.
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Like partners choosing up for a dance—or, depending on one's outlook for the healthcare industry, teams forming for a game of dodgeball—providers organizations aiming to be early adopters of Big Data and large-scale analytics programs are busy picking out their advisers and IT providers.
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The federal agency charged with providing health services to more than 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives is undergoing a multimillion-dollar project to upgrade its electronic health record system by 2014.
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iSalus Healthcare named Kimberly Poland to the newly created role of VP of client engagement, effective June 1.
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Still recovering from the costly implementation of a new electronic medical-record system, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will post an operating loss this fiscal year, medical center officials told investors Monday.
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Getting out front of possible federal regulation of their industry and its products, a trade group representing more than 40 developers of electronic health-record systems issued an EHR Developer Code of Conduct. By signing on, vendors would commit to dropping “gag clauses” that hinder...
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The usability of electronic health-record systems varies widely, and developers of EHRs that do a lot of handholding after the sale score highest on usability ratings, according to a report by health information technology market researcher KLAS Enterprises.
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Cleveland Clinic patients will begin to see more detailed information in their online electronic medical records beginning this week giving them broader access to test results and physician reports.
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