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Healthcare practice saves more than half a million by using Windows Mobile Phones

Jan 11, 2012 by
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First Choice Home Health & Hospice of Utah saves more than $500,000 annually by using Windows Phones to electronically file paperwork by traveling clinicians

Despite enthusiasm from healthcare providers, hospitals are slow to adopt tablet systems

Dec 29, 2011 by
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Its no secret that healthcare providers are adopting tablets at a rapid pace – one survey found that over 25% of physicians own a tablet and that was nearly nine months ago. This trend, both with tablets and smartphones, has generally been bottom-up; physicians, PA’s, NP’s, nurses, and other healthcare providers are buying consumer devices and bringing them into the clinical world. However, as Eric Yablonka, CIO of University of Chicago Hospitals put it, “This is not ‘nice to have [Read more]

Allscripts dominating mobile electronic health records in North Carolina – over 3,300 individual physician practices

Jul 20, 2010 by
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Allscripts, the EHR company that was one of the first to enable mobile phones to access EHRs from remote locations continues to gain in popularity, especially in North Carolina.  A recent press release detailing how MedWest Health Systems chose Allscripts shed some light onto the gains Allscript has made in the state of North Carolina: “Allscripts clearly has superior features and functionality, but what really tipped the scales in their favor was their demonstrated ability to implement and support the [Read more]

Triage and Treat Patients From Anywhere with Allscripts Remote iPhone App- An Electronic Health Record and ePrescribing Tool (upcoming Android support)

Mar 05, 2010 by
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This article is part of iMedicalApps HIMSS 2010 Coverage. It includes a brief review of the Allscripts Remote app for the iPhone as well as details of a conversation with Allscripts executives who revealed that they are moving to development of an Android app. When Allscripts announced the launch of Allscripts Remote last year, an iPhone application for their popular electronic medical record, it was widely touted as a transformational move. Forbes Magazine called this an app “that could change [Read more]

Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect and the compelling results from their study with the Cleveland Clinic

Mar 02, 2010 by
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This is part of iMedicalApps coverage of the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia A common cause of annoyance for patients is filling out the same forms over and over again.  While just about every adult has experienced this issue, the deeper problem is a single patient will almost always have more than one physician or caregiver. This means the repetitive form filling is really the tip of a much more serious problem of data in silos, with each physician [Read more]

Microsoft Potentially Moving to Major Healthcare Partnership Related to Electronic Medical Records – Apple and Google Beware!

Jan 23, 2010 by
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As healthcare systems and individual practices rush to adopt electronic medical records, health information technology companies have experienced unprecedented growth – Eclipsys’ net income grew by 140% to nearly $100 million in 2008. With billions of dollars allocated to electronic health records in the 2009 stimulus package, the health information technology sector is likely to experience even more growth as these funds are released and the economy turns around. But even though these electronic medical record systems proliferate, one key [Read more]