Eclipsys news from FierceEMR
NewsARRA fueled doubling of 2009 EMR sales
Fueled by the prospect of federal incentive payments courtesy of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, sales of acute-care EMRs to large hospitals nearly doubled in 2009, according to health IT Read more...
Allscripts, Eclipsys complete $1.2 billion merger
The $1.2 billion merger of Allscripts and Eclipsys merger is final as of Wednesday. The combined firm--dubbed Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, dropping the Misys name--brings together strong products Read more...
Allscripts to buy Eclipsys in $1.3B, all-stock deal
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions is about to drop the "Misys" part, as the Chicago-based company has agreed to a $1.3 billion all-stock takeover of Eclipsys. As part of the deal, Misys plc will Read more...
Best-of-breed falling out of favor with ED physicians
Just days after announcing that vendor satisfaction for ambulatory EMRs dropped in 2009, KLAS Enterprises reports that emergency departments are starting to favor a single-vendor over the Read more...
Grassley demands answers from vendors; Blumenthal calls current systems 'primitive'
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) apparently has begun an investigation of the major EMR and HIT vendors, particularly in the area of computerized physician order entry (CPOE). "Over the past year, I have Read more...
KLAS: Hospital EMR sales slowed in 2008, but now trending up
These are Epic times for clinical information systems, as the Verona, WI, EMR vendor won nearly 40 percent of new acute care EMR sales in the U.S. and Canada last year, according to research firm Read more...
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