EHRs

Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications, a leading supplier of speech solutions, announced that eClinicalWorks, a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical systems market, and McKesson Practice Partner, a leading integrated electronic health record, medical billing and appointment scheduling software, have…

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley announced the launch of a computer system that will permit all hospitals in the state to share information on admittances, diagnoses and treatments, according to a report in The Washington Post.

The U.S. government announced nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals and other healthcare providers implement electronic health records, according to a Reuters report.

I. SummaryThis article explains what hospitals should know about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("ARRA") and HIPAA updates under the ARRA, as well as what hospitals should do when they face a HIPAA investigation and practical next…

Prexus Health — Prexus Health is a physician-owned healthcare consulting firm that specializes in the development and management of multi-specialty, physician-owned ASCs, small hospitals, imaging centers, physical therapy services and anatomical pathology labs. The company provides a full range of…

Approximately 1.5 percent of hospitals have comprehensive electronic health record systems in place in all clinical units, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pinnacle III — Pinnacle III specializes in turnkey operational development, operational management and revitalization for ASCs around the country and offers equity and non-equity models to joint venture and single- and multi-specialty ASCs. The company also assist centers in developing…

Promotion of health information technology plays a significant role in the stimulus packages under consideration in Congress. H.R. 1, the House of Representative's version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides incentive payments for adoption and "meaningful"…

The rate of visits to freestanding ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) tripled from 1996-2006, while the rate of visits to hospital-based surgery centers remained flat during that period, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics at…

Mike O’Keefe, a director in the healthcare real estate group of Navigant Consulting, a practice which provides facility development, program management, real estate advisory, strategic planning, performance improvement, facilities planning and capital advisory services to healthcare providers throughout the United…