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Store-and-Forward Teledermatology Facts

Dermatologists can serve many more patients by making use of store-and-forward teledermatology systems. This CHCF paper looks at criteria for evaluating these systems, and gives a comparative overview of four available applications.

Clinics Collaborate on EHR Deployment

EHRs can help California's safety-net clinic patients, and collaboration between clinics can significantly smooth the way to successful adoption. This issue brief looks at the lessons learned by eight clinic networks.

Telepsychiatry in the Emergency Room

Telepsychiatry is used in some emergency departments to make the process of evaluating and treating patients with mental health issues more efficient. This paper examines seven ED telepsychiatry programs.

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Business and Finance

Friday, November 20, 2009

Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of November 20, 2009

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

QHR Technologies will acquire Clinicare, a vendor of physician practice management and EHR software, for $5 million...Harris Corp., a communications and IT company, has acquired Patriot Technologies, a privately held provider of health IT-related systems to the federal government, for an undisclosed sum.

Contracts

Neighborhood Healthcare, a not-for-profit community health group in California, has selected eClinicalWorks' EHR, practice management and Enterprise Business Optimizer applications...HHS has awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a three-year contract to compete on various IT task orders.

Johns Hopkins Health System in Maryland has selected Carefx's Fusionfx workflow software and Imprivata's OneSign employee access management platform...the NYU Langone Trinity Center has begun to implement Epic Systems' EHR system.

Tufts Medical Center in Massachusetts has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation evidence-based order sets...Image Movement of Montana, a consortium of 30 state health care facilities, will implement DR Systems' electronic medical information exchange system.

Personnel

Michele Perry -- former chief marketing officer for Sourcefire, a developer of network security software and hardware -- has been named COO of GetWellNetwork, a provider of inpatient Internet and communication services.



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