This is my interview with Don Schoen, CEO of MediNotes Corporation where we discuss their recent acquisition of Bond Technologies.
We talk about what this means to existing Bond Technologies customers, the support model and how MediNotes will manage on-going customer support for their two product streams. We also talk about on-going dvelopment and how MediNotes is going to manage two teams of developers.
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MediNotes can be reached by Toll Free number 1-(877)-633 6683 and email info@medinotes.com
MediNotes Corporation
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West Des Moines, IA 50265
Fax: 515.327.8856
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The following press releases accompany this interview.
MediNotes
Completes Acquisition of Bond Technologies
Company establishes separate national sales forces for best of breed EHR
and its newly- renamed integrated EHR/PM Solution
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - March 17, 2008 - MediNotes Corporation,
a leading provider of certified electronic
health record (EHR) systems, announced today that it completed its
acquisition of Bond Technologies.
The two companies announced on Feb. 25 that they had signed a letter of
intent for MediNotes to acquire Bond Technologies, which offers the industry’s most advanced integrated,
award-winning .Net-based EHR and Practice Management (PM) solution. Following
the merger, MediNotes renamed that solution from Bond Clinician™ to MediNotes Clinician™. It also created separate national
sales forces to market MediNotes Clinician™
EHR/PM solution as well as MediNotes e, its best-of-breed
interoperable EHR. MediNotes is the only healthcare IT vendor offering physicians
the choice of either a stand-alone EHR or an integrated, single-vendor EHR/PM
system.
“The merger positions MediNotes to become an even stronger force in our
industry by offering solutions that meet the needs of small to large physician
group practices,” said Donald G. Schoen, president and CEO of MediNotes. In
addition to investing in the further development of MediNotes Clinician, which
includes e-prescribing, patient portals, patient kiosk and image management,
MediNotes will continue to develop and support MediNotes e and its
users.
About
MediNotes Corporation
MediNotes Corporation
has been a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions for
more than a decade. With product offerings to fit any sized medical practice,
MediNotes offers an integrated EHR/practice management (PM) suite, as well as a
best-of-breed EHR solution that allows MediNotes to meet a physician practice’s
evolving needs. Installed in more than 4,700 sites nationwide, MediNotes EHR
solutions are utilized daily by more than 22,500 medical professionals.
MediNotes solutions offer physician practices industry-leading technology and
product reliability, coupled with superior U.S.-based service and support to
meet their dynamic technology needs. Their certified products include MediNotes e version 5.2, a CCHIT Certified®
product for Ambulatory EHR 2007. MediNotes
Corporation is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa with a satellite office
in Tampa, Fla. To learn more about MediNotes and its family of products visit www.medinotes.com
or call 877.633.6683.
MediNotes to Acquire Bond Technologies
Physician
practices of all sizes benefit from an award
winning, ASP.NET integrated EHR/PM application provider or best-of-breed
offerings
ORLANDO (HIMSS) – Feb. 25, 2008 – MediNotes, a leader in electronic health
records (EHRs) with more than 20,000 users nationwide, announced today that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Bond Technologies. Bond’s integrated
award-winning .NET-based EHR and practice management (PM) solutions include
e-prescribing, patient portals, patient kiosk, image management and more.
MediNotes’ strategic addition of complementary healthcare technology solutions
includes a full range of integrated, single-vendor and best-of-breed EMR and PM
solutions to enhance patient care and workflow, as well as the patient
experience. The announcement was made at the HIMSS 08 (Booth # 4363) Annual
Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla.
“Physicians want the best technology now, but need
assurance that the solution they choose today can evolve to meet their needs,”
said MediNotes CEO and President Donald Schoen. “When this acquisition is
complete, MediNotes’ will have the ability to provide a full range of scalable
solutions ranging from a best-of-breed interoperable EMR offering to a fully
integrated, single-database, .NET-based EHR and PM solution with image
management, e-prescribing, patient portals, patient kiosks and many other
popular features. Instead of the cookie-cutter approach some vendors employ, we
help practices leverage their IT investment by allowing them to develop the
ideal configuration to address their current needs with a cost-effective
migration path to fully support change and growth.”
Augmenting its specialized product lines with Bond
Technologies’ award-winning practice management software and small to
large-practice EHR solutions, Bond Clinician™, MediNotes will create a
one-stop-shop to meet the needs of all types and sizes of physician practices.
The company will continue to provide MediNotes e, its popular
stand-alone EHR.
According to Travis Bond, President of Bond
Technologies, who will serve as MediNotes Senior Executive Vice President and
Chief Strategy Officer, “Bond Technologies’ passion has been to create the best
technology for the healthcare industry. This acquisition will leverage
MediNotes’ national presence and U.S.-based customer service expertise to serve
physicians across the nation. I look forward to the challenges of taking on new
markets and meeting the opportunities of improving healthcare IT.”
About MediNotes Corporation
MediNotes Corporation has been a
leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions for more than a
decade. With product offerings to fit any sized medical practice, MediNotes
offers an integrated EHR/practice management (PM) suite, as well as a
best-of-breed EHR solution that allows MediNotes to meet a physician practice’s
evolving needs. Installed in more than 4,700 sites nationwide, MediNotes EHR
solutions are utilized daily by more than 22,500 medical
professionals. MediNotes solutions offer physician practices
industry-leading technology and product reliability, coupled with superior
U.S.-based service and support to meet their dynamic technology needs.
MediNotes Corporation is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa with a
satellite office in Tampa, Fla. To learn more about MediNotes and its family of
products visit medinotes.com
or call 877.633.6683.
About
Bond Technologies
Bond Technologies, a
leading developer of clinical software, offers the industry’s most advanced,
integrated Electronic Health Record and Practice Management software available
today. Bond Clinician™ EHR/PM Digital Medical Office of the Future infuses
the workflow with an easy to use Microsoft ASP.Net application, allowing
physicians to experience an innovative, intuitive, and intelligent EHR
embodying every element of the practice of medicine at an affordable price.
Bond’s Clinician has been awarded many top industry awards including the TEPR
2007 Pediatric Documentation Challenge and the AC Group’s 5-STAR rated EMR
solution for the last four years. Visit www.bondclinician.com
for more information.
MediNotes e Receives
2007 CCHIT Certification
Software Complies with 100 Percent of Updated 2007 Certification Criteria
ORLANDO, Fla. (HIMSS) – Feb. 27, 2008 – The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
(CCHIT®) today announced that MediNotes’ product, MediNotes e is CCHIT
Certified®, and meets the Commission’s ambulatory electronic health record
(EHR) criteria for 2007. Ambulatory EHRs are designed for physician offices and
clinics where most Americans get their healthcare. CCHIT – an independent,
nonprofit organization – is the Recognized Certification Body in the United
States for certifying health information technology products.
In the second year of the program’s operation, the
criteria and testing have been significantly enhanced. The Commission added 96
criteria to the 151 original requirements from last year. As a CCHIT
Certified product, MediNotes e has been tested and passed inspection
of 100 percent of a set of updated criteria for functionality, interoperability
and security.
“For 2007, the Commission raised the bar from the previous year’s
criteria. Ambulatory EHRs now must include electronic prescribing,
demonstrate an ability to receive lab results, and show enhanced patient
safety, quality, and security features,” said Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., chair,
CCHIT. “Investment in 2007 certified ambulatory EHRs gives providers even more
powerful tools to improve quality, safety and efficiency while protecting the
privacy of health information.”
The CCHIT Certified mark — a “seal of approval” for EHR products —
provides the first consensus-based, government-recognized benchmark for
ambulatory EHR products. By looking to products with the CCHIT Certified seal,
physicians and other providers can reduce their risk in selecting an EHR
product, allowing them to focus their evaluation on the special needs of their
practices.
“The
CCHIT certification is a testament to MediNotes’ commitment to evolve our
product offerings to meet the highest standards of our clients who prefer a
‘best-of-breed’ approach in deploying technology in their practices,” said
Donald G. Schoen, CEO and president of MediNotes. “Coupled with our recently-announced
intent to acquire the award-winning EHR/PM of Bond Technologies, for practices
that prefer a fully-integrated, single-system approach, we are clearly
executing an ‘evolve’ strategy in becoming a single-vendor resource for
practices of all sizes.”
CCHIT’s certification compliance criteria and its
design for a certification inspection process have been thoroughly researched,
taking into account the state of the art of EHRs and available standards, and
comparing certification processes in other industries and other countries. The
inspection process is based on real-life medical scenarios designed to test
products rigorously against the clinical needs of providers and the quality and
safety needs of healthcare consumers and payers. One script, for example,
recreates a scenario of an elderly man with poorly controlled diabetes,
hypertension and other chronic conditions in order to test EHR functions such
as potential adverse drug reactions, disease management and treatment plans.
About MediNotes Corporation
MediNotes Corporation has been a
leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions for more than a
decade. With product offerings to fit any sized medical practice,
MediNotes offers an integrated EHR/practice management (PM) suite, as well as a
best-of-breed EHR solution that allows MediNotes to meet a physician practice’s
evolving needs. Installed in more than 4,700 sites nationwide, MediNotes EHR
solutions are utilized daily by more than 22,500 medical professionals. MediNotes
solutions offer physician practices industry-leading technology and product
reliability, coupled with superior U.S.-based service and support to meet their
dynamic technology needs. MediNotes Corporation is headquartered in West
Des Moines, Iowa with a satellite office in Tampa, Fla. To learn more about
MediNotes and its family of products visit medinotes.com
or call 877.633.6683.
About CCHIT
The Certification Commission for Healthcare
Information Technology (CCHIT®) is an independent, nonprofit organization that
has been named by the federal government as the Recognized Certification Body
for health information technology. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of
health information technology by creating a credible, sustainable certification
program. The certification requirements are based on widely accepted industry
standards and involve the work of hundreds of expert volunteers and input from
a variety of stakeholders throughout the health care industry. More information
on CCHIT and CCHIT Certified® products is available at www.cchit.org.
“CCHIT®”
and “CCHIT Certified®” are service marks of the Certification Commission for
Healthcare Information Technology.
Posted
Apr 08 2008, 07:56 AM
by
Robert Gleeman