EHRs

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., has opened a new outpatient center in New Brunswick, according to a New Brunswick Patch report.

Merge Healthcare's iConnect Enterprise Clinical platform is now available through EMC Select, a program that helps providers acquire components that comprise an information infrastructure.

Merge Healthcare intends to connect its imaging network with the Surescripts Network for Clinical Interoperability in order to enable hospitals and imaging centers to electronically deliver imaging reports to providers through electronic health records on the Surescripts Network.

The North American Spine Society will launch a pilot registry program next month to collect data on spine treatment clinical outcomes.

The American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy are asking physicians to complete the Relative Value Update Committee's surveys, according to an AGA news brief written by Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF.

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Kevin McDonald, Senior Vice President of Sales, Revenue Cycle Solutions Division of SourceMedical Solutions will give a presentation titled "ICD-10."

Anesthesia Business Consultants released its EHR platform built for anesthesiologists and pain management specialists to satisfy Stage 1 of Meaningful Use and earn the Medicare EHR incentive payment, according to Herald Online.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program State 2 Final Rule, and in it created a new hardship exemption to temporarily allow anesthesiologists to escape EHR requirements, according to the American Society of…

Technology solution firm CSC and health IT firm NextGate Solutions announced they will integrate NextGate's Multi-Language Enterprise Master Patient Index with CSC's software applications.

Indiana Orthopedic Hospital has selected Surgical Information Systems Anesthesia as its anesthesia information management system.