Allscripts news from FierceHealthIT

For a while, hospitals were afraid to move ahead with subsidizing or outright donating EMRs for physicians, as possible violations of Stark laws and IRS regulations loomed for many. However, with... Read more...

> If providers needed to hear it again, here's more support for their position. Another report has concluded that new deadline for for using the National Provider Identifier will create big... Read more...

Despite recent turmoil in the financial markets, it looks like health IT transactions have had a surprisingly healthy few months. During the first quarter of 2008, 57 HIT deals were announced, equal... Read more...

In a deal that strongly suggests that the exploding HIT market has some limits, Allscripts and Misys Healthcare have announced a merger. The deal follows years of turmoil for Misys, which allegedly... Read more...

Sure, EMRs have been a hot idea for quite some time. But now that federal and state legislators have made electronic data sharing their pet project--something which implies a pretty robust EMR... Read more...

E-prescribing continues to be popular with state and federal officials, with a growing number either funding new initiatives or demanding that affiliated physicians get on board. Among the most... Read more...

Sure, this study might be worth taking with a grain of salt, as the vendor behind the project profiled is taking a large hand in promoting the case. But it's still worthy to note that the University... Read more...

Last week IBM announced its technology approach for managing the pending Nationwide Health Information Network, which will offer physicians, patients, hospitals, labs and pharmacies to share data from any location. IBM announced that it was developing a service oriented architecture to connect data locations, built on an interoperability standard published by the Health Information Technology Standards Panel. The IBM effort is also drawing on the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise …

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All U.S. physicians should have free online access to electronic prescribing technology before the end of the month, courtesy of a new initiative from various tech firms, health insurers and major physician groups. The $100 million National E-Prescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI) launched last week with a Washington press conference attended by what one speaker called a "who's who of technology across the United States."

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So, what's your trade association done for you lately? Maybe you got a nice keychain when you joined, or an invitation to a soggy happy hour? Doctors in Massachusetts may be getting something a bit more valuable from their Medical Society: Serious cost savings for implementing electronic medical records in their practices. While fewer than 20 percent of the Massachusetts Medical Society's 18,500 members currently have electronic medical-record systems in place, that might be about …

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