Electronic Health Record (EHR)

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iCare to Showcase Web-Based HTML5 GUI for VistA at Military EHR Conference

Press Release | iCare | March 26, 2013

iCare releases pioneering new Graphical User Interface that would enable the Warfighter to access VistA on any device via any Web browser. Read More »

iCare: World’s Most Advanced EHR for Hospitals Unveiled at HIMSS15

Press Release | iCare | April 10, 2015

iCare, the enterprise cloud EHR company, will announce the public availability of its product to hospital leadership, industry analysts and the media at HIMSS15 April, 12-16 in Chicago.  The company’s online product launch in early January of 2015 was highlighted by the distinction of being the industry’s first enterprise cloud EHR to receive Complete Inpatient Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification.   Read More »

IDGA’s Interoperable EHR Roundtable Day: Facilitating the Conversation on Successful EHR Adoption

Press Release | The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement | January 9, 2014

IDGA’s Interoperable EHR Roundtable Day
Facilitating the Conversation on Successful EHR Adoption

The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement announces the Interoperable EHR Round Table Day, taking place March 17, 2014, in Washington, D.C. The Roundtable Daywill will bring together all relevant stakeholders - the medical professionals, service providers, purchasers and policy makers- to discuss the most pressing issues facing the Electronic Heath Records community.

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If Court Squashes 'Obamacare,' IT May Suffer: HIMSS

Nicole Lewis | Information Week | April 2, 2012

If the Supreme Court rules that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, a number of health information technology-related provisions of the law will also fall, and that could disrupt health IT implementation plans, according Richard M. Hodge, senior director of Congressional Affairs at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Read More »

IMS MAXIMS releases improved version of open source EPR (EHR)

Press Release | IMS MAXIMS | January 22, 2016

This week sees the release of the latest version of the IMS MAXIMS open source electronic patient record (EPR), openMAXIMS, which includes all of the enhancements made for Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. Taunton was the first trust to go live with the software and has been working closely with IMS MAXIMS on the new functionality. The upgraded code is now available on the open source website (GitHub), with many new features, including clinical triage of referrals to direct patients to the appropriate service and care according to clinical priority, and pre-operative assessment for theatres, ensuring patients are fit and suitable for surgery.

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Indian Health Service of HHS Contributes Open Source Version of Electronic Health Record

Press Release | OSEHRA | June 6, 2014

The Indian Health Service (IHS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has contributed an open source version of its Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) to the OSEHRA Technical Journal. This contribution will complement the current open source EHR capabilities of the VistA code base now hosted by OSEHRA. Read More »

Inside The Struggle For Electronic Health Record Interoperability

Greg Otto | FedScoop | August 20, 2014

Over the past few months, stories have popped up chronicling doctors’, clinicians’ or other health care providers’ headaches moving to and/or accessing EHRs. The chorus of complaints has led the Senate Appropriations Committee to submit language in a draft bill that calls for a report from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on what “the challenges and barriers” are to EHR interoperability.” Read More »

Integrating EHRs to Clinical Research EDC Systems

It has been a longstanding challenge to integrate patient data from EMRs (Electronic Medical Record systems) with EDC (Electronic Data Capture) systems for clinical studies and trials...These hurdles have been so high that the task has rarely been attempted in earnest, let alone accomplished in any significant way.  That is until recently.  How are these challenges being overcome today?  What changes have allowed this integration to be to considered and implement today? The answer is: lots!

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Intermountain Healthcare Partners With Cerner To Provide Clinical Governance For Leidos Partnership For Defense Health

Press Release | Cerner, Leidos Partnership for Defense Health | September 24, 2014

Cerner today announced a strategic agreement with Intermountain Healthcare to provide clinical governance of solutions and workflow to be proposed for the Department of Defense's Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) initiative.  Cerner is a member of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, an alliance that includes Leidos, the domain experts in Military Health, and Accenture, a global IT and management consulting company and one of the largest EHR systems integrators in the world...

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Intermountain, Cerner Collaborate On Defense Health IT Bid

Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | September 24, 2014

Cerner Corp., one of several major electronic health-record system vendors competing for a multibillion-dollar contract to replace the Military Health System's EHR, has entered what it terms a “strategic agreement” on its bid with Intermountain Healthcare...

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International Society Calls for Healthcare Projects to Collaborate using Open Source

Software projects in health care would benefit from increased collaboration, using open source, exchanging know-how and open documentation, say experts from IsfTeH, International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth. “Most important is the sharing of best practices, but reusing common software components also reduces costs”, the experts say. “There are excellent tools and projects in the domain of Free/Libre Open Source Software for Health Care”, the experts say, “but their impact so far is limited. That would change if they banded together to form an ecosystem.”

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Internationalization of OpenEMR

OpenEMR | OpenEMR Wiki | June 20, 2012

The theme of OpenEMR 4.1.1 is internationalization – it will work in 20 languages and will support SNOMED, ICD10 and ICD9 diagnostic coding. The current plan is to potentially release the next version of OpenEMR in August 2012. Read More »

IntraCare Behavioral Health Selects OpenVista® Healthcare IT Solution

Press Release | Medsphere, IntraCare Behavioral Health | March 6, 2013

Medsphere Systems Corporation...today announced that Houston’s IntraCare Behavioral Health will implement the company’s OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR). IntraCare, a community-based provider of comprehensive behavioral health services for children, adolescents and adults, identified OpenVista's flexibility and open architecture, as well as Medsphere’s rapid implementation process and clinical transformation services, as the most effective path to improved patient care. Read More »

IntraCare North Hospital Goes Live on OpenVista Electronic Health Record

Press Release | Medsphere Systems Corporation, IntraCare North Hospital | June 10, 2014

Houston psychiatric hospital uses proven open source EHR to realize affordable, economically sustainable, patient care improvements

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IOM Report Defense/VA Have No Clue if $9.3 Billion Worth Of PTSD Treatment Works

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.co, | June 20, 2014

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments spent $9.3 billion to treat post-traumatic stress disorder from 2010 through 2012, but neither knows whether this staggering sum resulted in effective or adequate care, the Institute of Medicine reported today....

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