Integration news from FierceEMR
NewsVA's Baker: Modernize rather than replace VistA
The Department of Veterans Affairs won't be trying to replace VistA anymore, but instead will be looking for ways to improve the powerful EMR system via open-source collaboration with the private Read more...
ARRA 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...
Survey: 85 percent of HIT professionals planning EHR implementation by end of 2011
Clinical information technology has arrived. According to a newly released report from San Francisco-based Embarcadero Technologies, EHR implementation is the top priority of health IT professionals, 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...
Cerner implementation at UK hospital has 'gone remarkably well'
Here's something you don't see every day: an EMR success story in England's massive National Programme for IT. Implementation of a Cerner Millennium system at the Kingston Hospital National Health Read more...
CSC: More hospitals are promoting 'integrated' EHRs in their communities
Meaningful use of EHRs undoubtedly will require interoperability of electronic health information between care settings, as well as coordination of care. With physician practices largely "still on Read more...
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