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2009 Davies Ambulatory Award: Virginia Women's Center kay Stout, MD: How the EHR Has Changed 'Practice as Usual'
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The 2009 Davies Ambulatory Award goes to the Virginia Women's Center in Richmond, Virginia.
Virginia Women's Center is the largest women's healthcare private practice in central Virginia,
with 25 physicians and 12 mid-level providers at five clinical sites.
Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC): 2008 Davies Organizational Award recipient
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EMMC has leveraged technology to help reach its strategic goals of safer, higher quality care.
Eastern Maine Medical Center is a 411-bed medical center, the only referral specialty center
serving the northern two-thirds of Maine. With a vision that drives national-level performance
in a rural setting, EMMC offers leading edge treatment in virtually all subspecialties with a fo-
cus on cancer (and cancer research), cardiac and vascular, advanced surgical care as well
as adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care. The video features Deborah Carey Johnson,RN,
CEO and President, Eastern Maine Medical Center; Cathy Bruno, FACHE, EMHS, Vice presi-
dent and chief information officer, Eastern Maine Medical System; Eric Hartz, MD, Chief Me-
dical Officer, Eastern Maine Medical Center.
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) Twibe is growing fast! More...
ProKSys releases a beta version of its Healthcare Integration Platform called Ría More...
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HIMSS09 welcomed almost 27,500 attendees to the conference, held in Chicago on April 4-8.
Watch this opening video for an insightful review of healthcare IT from the perspective of accom-
plishment and the end-user - the patient.
The Healthcare Interoperability Experts Social Network has been launched! More ...
Just released! According to the 2007 Economic Census there are 544,735 Ambulatory Health Care Service Establishments Source ...
Just released! According to the 2007 Economic Census there are 6,058 Hospital Establishments Source ...
Fastest growing technologies in the Inpatient settings will be Clinical Context Management (CCOW), Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO), Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI), and Information Aggregation Platforms. More ...
A 250-bed hospital could receive up to $5.7 million in Medicare incentive payments from 2011 to 2014 for "meaningful use" of EHRs.. Source ...
China embarks on a monumental effort delivering healthcare to 1.3 billion people with their $120 billion universal health-care plan. Source ...
CVS has signed up with Google Health which will allow more than an estimated 100 million consumers to access their prescriptions online. Source ...
IHE published the Inter-Laboratory Workflow (ILW) Technical Framework Supplement for public comment on April 3rd, 2009 and it is due on May 4th, 2009. Source ...
CCHIT has opened for public comment the proposed final 09 criteria and test scripts thru April, 28th 2009. Source ...
Physicians nationwide have open access to a free online prescription writing software provided by Allscripts since 2007. Source ...
Wal-Mart plans to market Digital Health Records System Source ...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes an estimated net investment of $19 billion for health information technology (IT) Source ...
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