Industry News

• Report Highlights Potential of HIT to Reduce Health Disparities
• EMRapproved Names Kevin Donnelly New CEO
• Peak Health Solutions Announces New Hires
• Medical Electronic Attachment, Inc and Health Data Vision, Inc Form Strategic Alliance to Streamline Medical Records Retrieval and Analysis
• DoD and VA Interagency Program Office Awards iEHR System Integration Contract to Systems Made Simple
• Healthcare Analytics Expert Jyoti Kamal to Serve in Expanded Role as President of Health Care DataWorks
• Lionrock Recovery Earns Accreditation from The Joint Commission for its Online Intensive Outpatient Programs for People Who Struggle With Drug and Alcohol Addiction
• MediMatrix Joins Optimus EMR To Improve Patient Care Nationwide
• A2iA Enters into Partnership with World-Leading Diagnostic Testing Organization to Modernize Operations within its Primary Business Unit
• A2iA Signs New Deal with Healthcare BPO to Automatically Classify Incoming Medical Charts, Including Those Written in a Providers' Handwriting
• Cheryl Robbins Appointed Expert Panelist to AHRQ ICD-10 Workgroup
• Harris Corporation Announces Agreement to Expand Florida’s HIE Secure Messaging Service to 11,000 Physician Offices Utilizing Care360 from Quest Diagnostics
• Intensive CCS Exam Prep Program Slated for September 2012

• Cedars-Sinai Health System Selects Health Care DataWorks for Clinical Data Warehouse and Healthcare Analytics

• Hello Health Partners with 5 O’clock Records to Facilitate Medical Record Request

• MDeverywhere Selects Health Language, Inc to Improve Diagnosis Lookup for an Enhanced Clinician Experience

• M*Modal Selected by United Hospital System for Best-in-Class Clinical Documentation

• Health Sciences North Signs Multi-Year Contract With Terra Nova for Clinical Documentation Services

• iMedX Announces Acquisition of Electronic Medical Transcription Services, Inc
• SoftServe, mHealth Alliance to Join Forces
• TAB Products Co LLC Acquires Document Imaging Technologies, Inc
• CTG Announces Four Major HIT Contracts
• Salumatics Appoints Director of Clinical Documentation Improvement
• Precyse Launches White Paper and Announces KLAS Accolades at HFMA ANI 2012
• Lifepoint Informatics and Lenco Diagnostics Laboratories Achieve EMR Integration Success
• MRO Corp First Release-of-Information Vendor to Receive KLAS Performance Ratings
• Just Associates Celebrates a Decade of Mastering Patient Identity, Improving Data Integrity
• Philips Speech Processing Recognized as World’s Most Popular Supplier of Dictation Devices
• Keystrokes Transcription Service adds Medical Coding, Coding Compliance Auditing, and ICD-10 Training  Education Service Lines
• NEMT a Finalist for Employer of the Year Award
• Stanley Healthcare Solutions Announces Acquisition of AeroScout to Augment Stanley Black & Decker’s Healthcare, Industrial, and Security Offerings
• Harrison College's Dean of School of IT passes HIT Pro Examination
• Precyse Receives the Highest Scores of Providers' Perception for Meeting Coding Needs in KLAS CAC Report
• MRO’s ROI Online 2.1.1 Receives ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification within Eligible Provider Domain
• IOD Incorporated Emerges as First CMS ROI Service Provider to Successfully Transmit Data for esMD across all RAC Regions
• Johns Hopkins Medicine Set to Offer ICD-10 Readiness Course at Six Network Hospitals
• Just Associates Appoints Karen Proffitt as VP of Consulting Services
• Arizona Taps Mosaica Partners to Update Health Information Exchange Plans
• iSALUS Healthcare Announces New Management Team
• Emdeon Announces Acquisition of TC3 Health to Expand Payment Integrity Solutions
• Barry Libman Inc and JLU Health Record Systems Collaborate to Provide High Quality and Low Cost Courses to Home Health and Hospice Coders
• Intelligent Medical Objects Supporting MedAptus in Preparation for ICD-10
• Large Healthcare Enterprises and Specialty Hospitals Tap Siemens for Next-Generation Revenue Cycle Management
• Acquisition Brings NextGen Practice Solutions Additional Resources and Expertise to Address Increased Market Demand for Revenue Cycle Services
• WeiserMazars Adds New IT Consulting and Revenue Cycle Partners
• NextGate Launches MatchMetrix v8 and the NextGate Registries for Healthcare Solution for Accurate Identity Matching and HIE
• Electronic Audit Solutions from IVANS Now Offered at Reduced Rates to Amerinet Members
• Major Academic Health System Selects iSirona to Provide Device Connectivity
• Apelon's Distributed Terminology System (DTS) to Benefit Researchers at Leading Children's Hospitals
• Datawatch and dbtech Enable Healthcare Providers to Access Hard to Reach Report Data From Document Management Systems
• CHAMPS Client Receives Outstanding Achievement Award
• New Podcast From Awarepoint CEO Jay Deady Expounds on Substantial ROI Hospitals Gain Using Real-Time Location Systems
• Horizon Medical World’s “MyDoctorsChart” Receives ONC-ATCB Certification by Drummond Group
• Emdat Makes Medical Documentation More Efficient With Newest Version of InScribe
• Nuance to Acquire Transcend
• MedeAnalytics Releases Comprehensive White Paper on ACO Final Rule
• AHIMA Appoints Lynne Thomas Gordon as Chief Executive Officer
• Health System to Save Millions by Investing in On-Site Warehouse
• Healthcare Providers Ready to Overcome Competitive Challenges with Siemens Health IT
• Iowa Health System Selects Medicity Technology to Give Community Health Care Providers Secure Access to Patient Health Information
• Mitochon Offers Regional Health Information Exchanges Free, Fully Certified EHRs for Member Physicians
• ProMedica Goes Live with the Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS® Revenue Cycle Information System at Its Tenth Facility; ProMedica St. Luke's Hospital
• AHIMA Releases White Paper on Accountable Care to Heighten Awareness on Importance of Managing Health Information
• MEDQUIST HOLDINGS AND M*MODAL TO MERGE CREATING THE NEW STANDARD FOR CLINICAL INFORMATION WORKFLOW
• MedQuist Holdings Hires 28-Year Healthcare IT Veteran as Chairman and CEO
• FL-AHDI Honors Terra Nova Transcription with 2011 Industry Support Award
• New 3M Software Enables Fast and Accurate Translation of ICD-9 Codes to ICD-10
• VitalWare Introduces VitalView, an ICD-10 Vendor Readiness Dashboard That Answers the Question: Will My Vendor be Ready for the ICD-10 Transition?
• Moses Cone Health System to Deploy ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support
• Sage Healthcare Division to Automate 16 Healthcare Facilities with Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition Software
• MRO’s roi online™ 2.1 RECEIVES ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 CERTIFICATION
• athenahealth Begins Collecting EHR “Meaningful Use” Dollars for Physicians
• Sonoma Valley Hospital to Implement ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support
• MRO Corp. Joins CMS esMD Gateway Pilot as a “Health Information Handler”
• Medicity selected as vendor for Ohio's health information exchange CliniSync will enable Ohio doctors and hospitals to exchange patient information
• Practice Fusion’s Free EMR Software Saves Doctors $57 Million