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Recent News: Happenings in the MEDITECH & Health IT CommunitySummit Healthcare to Showcase MEDITECH 6.0 Migration Successes
BRAINTREE, MA, May 24, 2011 -- Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, today announced that it will be showcasing its MEDITECH 6.0 migration best practices at the 2011 International MUSE Conference next week. Summit Healthcare also announced that its customer, Beaufort Memorial Hospital, has recently completed its full migration to MEDITECH 6.0. Beaufort is the latest milestone in a long list of successful MEDITECH 6.0 integration engagements in which Summit has provided its expertise for interface management, data migration and dictionary maintenance to ensure successful, streamlined and secure migrations.
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BridgeHead Software and MEDITECH Mark Decade of Healthcare Data Protection Combined offerings from leading HCIS provider and healthcare data and storage management vendor help hospitals, worldwide, with backup and archiving
ASHTEAD, UK and WESTWOOD, MA, May 24, 2011 -- BridgeHead Software, a leader in healthcare data and storage management, and MEDITECH, the leading vendor of Health Care Information Systems (HCIS), today announced that the two companies are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their business partnership. For a decade, BridgeHead Software has helped MEDITECH customers, spanning North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, to manage and protect their healthcare data.
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MEDITECH Achieves Additional Certification
MEDITECH is proud to announce additional certification of our Electronic Health Records, under the Drummond Group's Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB) program.
WESTWOOD, MA, May 17, 2011 -- In addition to our complete EHR inpatient certification for Magic 5.6.4, Client/Server 5.6.4 and 6.05, MEDITECH is now providing customers with new "modular certification" options for qualifying for the Meaningful Use funding under ARRA.
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Company Sponsors Revenue Cycle Track; Illustrates the Value of Automation for MEDITECH for Operational Efficiencies
BOSTON, MA, May 16, 2011 -- Boston Software Systems™, the leader in workflow automation technology to the healthcare market, today announced that it is participating in the 2011 MUSE International Conference in Nashville, May 31-June 3 and will be sponsoring the Revenue Cycle track of presentations.
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Listening, Acting, Delivering: CIO Technology Forum Highlights MEDITECH's Initiatives for Change At the 2011 event, MEDITECH revealed its detailed plan for working closely with customers and responding quickly to their needs, as we face a time of transformation for our industry.
WESTWOOD, MA, May 12, 2011 -- Every decade brings forth new changes for health care, but if 2011 is any indication, the next several years may produce one of the most monumental transformations our industry has ever seen. With so many new developments coming at a rapid pace, MEDITECH is taking a proactive approach to helping its customers confront today's health care challenges--the details of which were shared with attendees of the recent CIO Technology Forum.
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Getting Ready for Change MEDITECH outlines solutions now in development for helping health care professionals to meet the long-term goals of health care reform.
WESTWOOD, MA, May 12, 2011 -- Health care reform is not only introducing 32 million more patients into our system--it is also requiring medical professionals to embark on new, more expanded collaborations with others across the continuum of care. At the same time clinicians are handling increased demand, they will also be asked to improve quality and document their results, engage patients and families, and ensure privacy while increasing the level of coordination among the different care areas.
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At Your Service MEDITECH sets its sights on improving communication with customers, by reaching out to physicians and leveraging their real-world expertise.
WESTWOOD, MA, May 12, 2011 -- As clinicians and health care executives are facing greater challenges, it's become more important for them to maintain close ties with their I.T. vendors, to ensure that they're getting the system functionality they will need to succeed. MEDITECH has been taking steps to reenergize the relationships we have with customers, so that going forward, we can all be better prepared to tackle the demands of health care reform.
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Williamson Medical Center Expands Partnership with Summit Healthcare to Improve Physician Office Integration
BRAINTREE, MA, May 10, 2011 -- Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Williamson Medical Center to upgrade and expand its existing interface technology by leveraging Summit Provider Exchange.
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MEDITECH Achieves ISO 9001 Certification Our long-standing commitment to quality is reflected by achieving this internationally-recognized standard.
WESTWOOD, MA, May 6, 2011 -- MEDITECH is pleased to announce that we have received ISO 9001:2008 certification from certifying body TUVRheinland. ISO 9001 is the internationally recognized standard for the quality management of businesses. Achieving this certification demonstrates MEDITECH's commitment to producing and servicing a quality product by measuring continual improvement, placing a high focus on determining customer needs and expectations, and monitoring customer satisfaction.
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Corepoint Health Achieves ONC-ATCB Modular EHR Certification by Drummond Group FRISCO, TX, May 4, 2011 -- Corepoint Health, a leader in healthcare integration software, has announced that Corepoint Integration Engine has received Modular Ambulatory EHR and Modular Inpatient EHR certification. Tested and certified by Drummond Group under the Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB) program, the integration engine software is 2011/2012 compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Fast-growing Fall River employer, Meditech, bucking the trend FALL RIVER, MA, April 30, 2011 -- The makers of the country’s largest medical software systems, Medical Information Technology Inc., established in 1969 and ready to open a second SouthCoast operation, has one word to describe business in 2011: Growing.
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Champion Medical Technologies Partners with Corepoint Health for Interoperability FRISCO, TX, April 28, 2011 -- Corepoint Health, a leader in healthcare integration software, and Champion Medical Technologies, an applied information technology company dedicated to innovative tissue and implant tracking in the medical industry, have announced a comprehensive integration solution for health care facilities seeking seamless integration with Champion Medical Technology applications, such as GraftTracker® and UDITracker®. Case entry data is transmitted from Corepoint Integration Engine directly into these applications using a secure web services protocol.
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Iatric Systems’ Public Health Immunization Interface Receives ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification BOXFORD, MA, April 27, 2011 -- Iatric Systems, Inc. announced today that its Public Health Immunization Interface, MAGIC version 5.2, is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as an EHR Module on April 20, 2011, by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The 2011/2012 criteria support the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Salina Regional Health Center Selects Summit Healthcare To Meet Downtime System Needs BRAINTREE, MA, April 25, 2011 -- Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, today announced an alliance with Salina Regional Health Center (SRHC), the leading acute care hospital of north-central Kansas, to address business continuity and ensure system access during planned and unplanned downtime of its MEDITECH health care information system (HCIS) or network. SRHC will be implementing the Summit Healthcare Downtime Reporting System (DRS) as part of its overall disaster recovery strategy.
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Boulder Community Hospital Implements Summit Healthcare Toolsets For Colorado HIE Integration BRAINTREE, MA, April 12, 2011 -- Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, today announced that Boulder Community Hospital has successfully implemented Summit Healthcare’s integration tools to participate in the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization’s (CORHIO) Health Information Exchange (HIE). Boulder Community Hospital’s adoption of Summit’s Express Connect interface engine resulted in rapid, seamless integration with CORHIO and its HIE technology partner, Medicity. In its second phase of this implementation, Boulder Community Hospital will leverage Summit’s physician office integration tool, Provider Exchange, to deepen its collaboration with CORHIO.
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Iatric Systems’ Visual Flowsheet Receives ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification BOXFORD, MA, April 12, 2011 -- Iatric Systems, Inc. announced today that Visual Flowsheet, version 3.0, is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as an EHR Module on April 1, 2011, by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONCATCB, in accordance with the applicable hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The 2011/2012 criteria support the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Dell Services Collaborating with VMware and Other Partners to Deliver a Mobile Clinical Computing Solution to MEDITECH Users PLANO, TX, April 11, 2011 -- Dell Services has launched a Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC) solution for hospitals and health care organizations that use the MEDITECH Health Care Information System, enabling a simplification and automation of IT operations. The solution leverages VMware® View and Forward Advantage im-one API management with Imprivata® OneSign® Single Sign-On (SSO) technology to help deliver secure virtual desktop solutions for healthcare enterprises.
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Boston Software Systems Appoints Thom C. Blackwell as Vice President of Technical Services
BOSTON, MA, March 7, 2011 -- Boston Software Systems™ today named Thom C. Blackwell as vice president of technical services. In this role, Mr. Blackwell will serve as the liaison between the sales team and technical services which includes development, training and support. Blackwell will also oversee product management of Boston Software Systems’ technologies, Boston WorkStation®, Cognauto® and UNISON™.
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