Medical Industry News

Choosing an EHR Incentive Program

More than 21,000 providers initiated registration for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs in January and four states reported initial Medicaid incentive payments totaling $20,425,550, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today. In addition, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced that as of Feb. 11, 2011, more than 45,000 providers requested information or registration help from 62 Regional Extension Centers (RECs). RECs provide hands-on support for providers who want to adopt and become meaningful users of electronic health information technology. This early interest in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR programs reveals strong support for these programs that will advance health care through improvements in patient safety, quality of care, and patient involvement in treatment options. 

OREM, UT, February 23, 2011 -- Already a hot market,  ambulatory EMR sales -- both first-time and replacement -- have shot up again over the last year, and though options are more plentiful than ever, health care providers are leaning toward the tried-and-true, according to a new report by KLAS.

ORLANDO, Fla. - (Business Wire) eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that the company has completed interfaces with more than 1,000 hospitals. These include bi-directional interfaces for labs, radiology and discharge summaries for hospitals using Meditech, Cerner, Siemens, Eclipsys, McKesson and others. This integration allows patient care information, including discharge summaries and medication lists, to be shared between the hospitals and their regular physician, promoting improved coordination of care.

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that suburban Chicago’s Riverside HealthCare will be offering eClinicalWorks comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) solution to its employed physicians. This solution includes eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) system, eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange (eEHX), Enterprise Business Optimizer (eBO), eClinicalWorks Patient Portal, eClinicalWorks P2P, eClinicalMobile and eClinicalMessenger – all designed to extend the use of EHRs beyond the practice’s walls to improve communication with access to real-time information.

CMS is preparing to test electronic claims transmission using the new 5010 HIPAA standard -- a secure electronic format that all your software must use. This will impact your practice management software, your electronic health record (EHR) system if you have one, and your clearinghouse, if you use one.