News on Health Care Information Services

AthenaHealth skids after delaying 4Q report

2010-02-26T10:30:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Analysts say AthenaHealth earnings delay and accounting change could worry customers</div><div><p>Shares of clinical billing software maker AthenaHealth Inc. skidded Friday after the company delayed its fourth-quarter report, leading to questions about its management.</p><p>AthenaHealth was scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year results Thursday afternoon and hol...

AthenaHealth says it is delaying 4Q report

2010-02-25T15:00:11Z

<div id="subtitle">AthenaHealth delays 4th-quarter report, scheduled for Friday, to complete financial review</div><div><p>Clinical software maker athenaHealth Inc. said Thursday it will delay its fourth-quarter report so it can complete its year-end audit and review the way it records implementation fees.</p><p>AthenaHealth was scheduled to report its fourth-quarter results Friday morning. It d...

Amicas rejects Merge, urges vote on Thoma Bravo

2010-02-23T13:45:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Amicas rejects Merge Healthcare buyout offer, urges vote on agreed upon Thoma Bravo deal</div><div><p>Amicas rejected a buyout offer from Merge Healthcare Inc. and told shareholders to vote instead for a competing bid from Thoma Bravo for $217 million.</p><p>Amicas, which provides health care information technology services, agreed to be acquired by private equity firm...

Molina buying Unisys support division for $135M

2010-02-22T18:11:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Molina Healthcare will buy Unisys health information management unit for $135 million in cash</div><div><p>Health insurer Molina Healthcare Inc. said Tuesday it will buy Unisys Corp.'s health information management business for $135 million in cash.</p><p&...

U.S. issues standards to spur e-health records

2010-02-23T07:51:55Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials released standards for electronic medical records on Wednesday, seeking to spur the technology in hopes of cutting health costs and reducing medical errors.</p><p>Congress required the standards, partly as a condition of about $19 billion in February's economic stimu...

AthenaHealth sets two-year high on growth outlooks

2010-02-23T20:44:18Z

<div id="subtitle">AthenaHealth extends profit and revenue growth views into 2014, and shares set two-year high</div><div><p>Shares of AthenaHealth Inc. rose to a two-year high Friday after the clinical software maker forecast continued profit and revenue growth over the next five years.</p><p>The company makes software to help physicians communica...

Government teams with company to track swine flu

2010-02-24T22:04:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Sebelius: Computerized medical records will help improve tracking of swine flu</div><div><p>The federal government is teaming up with a medical software maker to better track the spread of swine flu nationally.</p><p>U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the program with Dr. Tony Alamo grips a patients file three inches of notes, lab results and pages of vital signs crammed into a manila folder and compares it to the computer monitor in one of his exam rooms.</p><p>The folder is the traditional way doctors have kept their medical records. Its wo...

U.S. grants $1.2 billion for electronic health records

2010-02-25T17:47:46Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government announced grants of almost $1.2 billion on Thursday to help hospitals and health care providers establish and use electronic health records.</p><p>The grants include $598 million to set up some 70 health information technology...

Biden to announce almost $1.2B for medical records

2010-02-25T17:56:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Biden to announce Thursday nearly $1.2 billion to promote electronic medical records system</div><div><p>Vice President Joe Biden plans to announce Thursday nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals transition to electronic medical records.</p><p>Biden and Health and Human Servi...

Emdeon jumps, Starwood eases after IPOs

2010-02-25T21:12:17Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Emdeon Inc &lt;EM.N&gt; soared in its trading debut on Wednesday while Starwood Property Trust Inc &lt;STWD.N&gt; fell slightly after their respective initial public offerings.</p&am...

GE to offer electronic medical record financing

2010-02-26T21:08:35Z

<div><p>General Electric Co.'s health care division said Monday it will offer financing to doctors and hospitals that buy GE's electronic medical records equipment in an effort to cover an expected lag in the flow of federal stimulus money meant for the medical technology.</p><p>Through its Reuters) - Shares of Cerner Corp &lt;CERN.O&gt; look a little pricey, but there may be upside yet because of "gaping holes" in healthcare information technology that are starting to get filled, Barron's reported on Sunday.</p&g...

THE DUBIOUS PROMISE OF DIGITAL MEDICINE

2010-02-27T17:29:07Z

<div><h1> THE DUBIOUS PROMISE OF DIGITAL MEDICINE </h1><p>Neal Patterson likens the current scramble in health information technology to the 19th century land rush that opened his native Oklahoma to homesteaders. Cerner, the large medical vendor Patterson heads, is jockeying for new business spurred by a $19.6 billion feder...

Obama's Stimulus Package May Lead to a Medical Records Bonanza

2010-03-03T08:45:03Z

<p>Obama's Stimulus Package May Lead to a Medical Records Bonanza</p><p>By D. York</p><p></p><p>Physicians must begin using EMR systems to process their patient data by 2014. In fact, the time for physicians and hospitals to begin their switch overs is NOW. Stringent conditions exist in order for physicians and hospitals to take advantage of the new economic stimulus package pertaining to EMR sof...

Effective EMR Software For Single and Small Medical Practices

2010-03-03T08:45:05Z

<p>Effective EMR Software For Single and Small Medical Practices</p><p>By Harry T Selent</p><p></p><p>Single and small medical practices need all the help they can get when it comes to managing the practice. Employing more staff won't solve the problem of operational efficiency and effectiveness as the practice continues to grow. Doctors m...

Study: Few US hospitals use digital records

2010-03-03T22:11:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Survey finds fewer than 2 percent of US hospitals have comprehensive electronic health records</div><div><p>U.S. hospitals have a long way to go to join the digital age. Fewer than 2 percent have abandoned paper medical charts and completely switched to electronic health records, a new national survey found.</p><p>Another 8 to 11 percent...

Wal-Mart to enter electronic medical records arena

2010-03-03T17:34:35Z

<div id="subtitle">As government pours billions into health technology, Wal-Mart moves to leverage size</div><div><p>As the Obama administration begins investing billions in health information technology, Wal-Mart plans to use its unrivaled size to bring high-tech medical records to Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, discusses healthcare information technology at a news conference Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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