Maybe an area we don’t think of too often but yet another large medical records and pharmacy system going in to place soon based on the success of the pilot program. The article states the system from ATG is specifically designed to meet the needs of the correctional facilities and varies a bit...
In time the Misys name will go away as branding combines as well as the companies and Allscripts will be the prevailing name that is retained. By combining both companies there’s a lot of software integration to take place. Headquarters now will be officially in Illinois. ...
It has been a big day at Stanford with genomics, not only was the announcement made to better use sequencing to predict own syndrome, but they are also just about ready to receive their new genomic sequencing machine from Helicos. Earlier this year I interviewed Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Science...
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Will we ever get the DEA away from paper? With the current move to e-prescribing the DEA has not come up with their exact plan yet to work with providers to make it easier to e-prescribe instead of having to use the old antiquated 4 part paper pads. As posted previously, there is a pilot...
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Just yesterday I posted about the VA and Kaiser Permanente accomplishing a data interchange example . BD “This is a data to data transfer, and there is also the personal health record interface with Microsoft HealthVault as another alternative to getting information back and forth, whereby the...
Patrice Milos, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Helicos Biosciences This week I had the opportunity to talk with Patrice Milos from Helicos Biosciences who has a long background in global research and spent a number of years at Pfizer as Executive Director at Pfizer Global Research and Development...
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Dispute among the EMR/EHR vendors, and Misys in in the process of merging with Allscripts, so perhaps too much at once? 2 small sales of the rebranded software in the amount of time might give anyone's sales and marketing departments a little discontent. BD Raleigh, N.C.-based Misys...
In addition, Health Information Technology has a series of upcoming web events to to teach interoperability. One subject that I have written about substantially on the site here is Business Intelligence, and yes there’s a seminar for that too! Back to the story at hand, I agree, we do need...
The competition for being “connected” with personal health records continues. Earlier this year Google made their announcements and this agreement with Kaiser looks to be pretty substantial. The key now is to encourage more consumers to take an interest in their health and establish a PHR...
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The article goes into detail on the many reasons...insurers are the bigger benefactors...and some states like Massachusetts are coming up to the plate with the E-health collaborative pilot project...and one other comment of importance ..."EMRs are not plug and play"... lack of incentives from...