By Amanda Patanow on
10/26/2009
Aprima Medical Software (originally iMedica), a leading developer of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) systems for medical practices, today announced its compatibility with Microsoft Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit PCs), due out for release on October 22nd. Aprima 2009 is fully compliant and tested with Microsoft's latest Windows release.
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By Amanda Patanow on
10/25/2009
Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years.
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, needed 60 votes to proceed. He won only 47. And he could not blame Republicans. A dozen Democrats and one independent crossed party lines and voted with Republicans on the 53 to 47 roll call.
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By Amanda Patanow on
10/19/2009
At about the same time the Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 Tuesday to approve its healthcare reform bill, Medical Group Management Association Presidnet and CEO William F. Jessee, MD, took the stage in Denver to urge his audience to do their part to fix the nation's troubled healthcare system.
Information technology is a vital piece of the solution, he said. He noted that practices are using the Web in innovative ways to connect with their patients– such as the use of telemedicine, especially in rural communities, and the "huge breakthrough" in monitoring patients in their homes.
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By Amanda Patanow on
10/12/2009
The Tampa Bay Technology Forum chose 15 finalists who will compete Nov. 12 for five awards honoring the best in Tampa’s tech community.
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By Amanda Patanow on
10/12/2009
The number of U.S. physicians and other medical professionals prescribing electronically is expected to more than double this year, enticed by higher Medicare payments tied to the technology's use.
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By Amanda Patanow on
9/21/2009
The first commercial EHR applications started to appear on the scene in the early 1990's. Fast forward to 2004, when then President Bush declared in his State of the Union address that electronic health records (EHR) would be universally implemented by 2014, and established by Executive Order the position of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to start the ball rolling. Four years later President Obama helped to put teeth into that plan through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, by providing $17 billion in direct incentives to physicians to adopt the technology, and basically maintaining the same time frame as his predecessor. So, why now? One reason: the technology is finally ready.
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