News 8/1/13

Allscripts adds integration with Spaulding webECG, allowing the app to be launched from within Allscripts Enterprise EHR to support physician orders and access to ECG reports.

NextGen reseller TSI Healthcare will integrate PatientPay with NextGen PM.

HealthTronics will integrate SampleMD’s eCoupon and eVoucher solutions from OPTIMIZERx Corp. within its UroChartEHR and meridianEMR platforms.

Hallmark Health System (MA) selects athenahealth’s athenaClarity to proactively manage its patient population and engage in new reimbursement contracts.

LiquidEHR, which offers an EHR/PM platform for the eye care industry, partners with DrFirst to offer users integrated e-prescribing functionality.

3M Health Information Systems introduces Patient-focused Episodes software, an analytics program that considers the costs and outcomes of longitudinal care. PFE defines over 500 episodes of patient care across inpatient and outpatient encounters and analyzes provider costs, resource use, and performance across episodes.

Capterra publishes an infographic that is interesting to dissect, though perhaps not so useful to providers except to narrow the EHR field. The graph displays the top 20 “most popular” EHRs based on a combination of the number of customers and users and “social,” which I assume means social media presence. I don’t see why social media presence would be important to anyone looking to buy an EMR, but I suppose the list is meant to be more of a popularity contest than a hardcore look at customer satisfaction, product usability, or other factors more relevant to product selection. Regardless, what I do like about the graph is that it offers a nice visual to quickly grasp which products serve a relatively smaller number of customers with many users (Epic) versus relatively more customers/fewer users (athenahealth, AmazingCharts.)

Greenway Medical will provide its PrimeSUITE customers access to PatientCo’s patient financial engagement  platform.

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