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SAP and LSI Consulting Help Small and Midsize Healthcare Providers

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. - July 07, 2010 - The need for efficient operations in the healthcare provider industry is not isolated to large health systems and hospital chains. Smaller and midsize healthcare provider organizations are also under pressure to continually become more efficient while at the same time offering high-quality care.

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Sage to Offer Guidance on Meaningful Use Rules

July 19, 2010 – Tampa, Fla. – Sage North America Healthcare Division, providing practice management software and services to more than 80,000 physicians in North America, today announced several tools it is providing to practices, clients and members of the healthcare community to help them navigate the final Stage 1 meaningful use rules recently announced under the 2009 HITECH Act.

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Greenway Medical Technologies Signs 55-Provider St. Cloud Medical Group

Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. is partnering with St. Cloud Medical Group to provide its single-database electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®, online portal PrimePatient® and remote clinic PrimeMobile™ to St. Cloud's primary care, urgent care, occupational health, surgical, pediatrics, pain management, and OB/GYN services. Read more...

Hitachi America, Ltd And Medibase Solutions, Inc Deploy Finger Vein Biometric Solution

Hitachi America, Ltd and Medibase Solutions, Inc has announced that an Ohio health system with two hospitals is using Hitachi's Finger vein authentication (VeinID), which incorporates Medibase's identity management technology to help ensure accurate patient identification. Initially, the Ohio health system plans to deploy Hitachi's SDK and finger vein scanners in the Emergency Departments of both hospitals. This Ohio health system currently uses Medibase's identity management products to aid in positive patient identification. The new biometric solution, BASEmetricT, will be seamlessly integrated into the health system's existing registration processes to enroll new patients and to authenticate returning ones. The integration represents the logical next step toward improving the patient enrollment and identification processes, and it demonstrates the health system's commitment to ensuring patient safety and privacy. Read more...

Aprima Medical Software Achieves Pre-Market CCHIT Certified(R)

Aprima Medical Software, a leading developer of electronic health record (EHR), practice management (PM) and revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for medical practices, today announced Aprima Version 2011 (Aprima 2011) has been inspected by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) and is a pre-market CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory EHR additionally certified for Child Health EHR technology. Aprima 2011 also achieved a usability score of 5 out of 5. The Aprima 2011 product's CCHIT certification is pre-market, pending live use of the application in two practices for 45 days. Read more...

Study Finds Optimizing Payments Increases Cash Flow

Sage North America today announced high-level findings from Aberdeen Group’s recently published third annual payments report, titled “Global Payments: Maximizing Cash Flow with Electronic Payments and Process Automation.” According to the report, leading companies are employing electronic payments and process automation to streamline and accelerate finance processes, reduce operating costs, and improve visibility, control, and efficiency to provide a foundation for increased profits. Read more...

Firms Partner to Produce HITECH Act Educational Workshops

WorkSmart MD, a Florida based physician services company, has partnered with HITECH Act Help Consultants (www.hitechacthelp.org) and the Georgia State Medical Association to provide education, outreach, and practice support services to physicians in the Metro Atlanta area. Read more...

Sage Intergy EHR Recognized as a Leader Healthcare Practices

In two reports recently released by IDC Health Insights, Sage Intergy EHR received high scores for ownership confidence and fit to market needs, earning placement as one of the leaders in electronic health records management for small, midsize11 and large2 ambulatory healthcare practices. Sage is a leading global provider of business management applications and services for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) with more than 6.1 million customers around the world. The company serves more than 80,000 physicians in the United States with practice management, electronic health records, and other services to streamline patient care. Read more...

Health Plan Sales Solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Corp. today announced at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Institute 2010 the Health Plan Sales Solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a strategic sales and service-enabled customer relationship management (CRM) platform that will allow health plans to quickly and easily move their marketing and sales processes online to better manage and monitor sales, member service and retention. As a result, health plans will be able to better compete in the individual and small-group market, reduce multiple points of failure in their current sales, service and retention processes, and interoperate with state health insurance exchanges. Read more...

Sage Selected As Preferred Vendor By New York eHealth Collaborative

Sage North America Healthcare division a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management software, has been named a preferred vendor by the New York eHealth Collaborative Regional Extension Center (NYeC REC), one of the largest nonprofit RECs in the country. The Sage Intergy EHR system will be available to all NYeC’s participating providers. Read more...

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