Top Health IT Purchases of the Week
New contract signings for health information systems that providers or payers have announced in recent days.
Here are new contract signings for health information systems that providers or payers have announced in recent days:
*Baptist Health South Florida with seven hospitals and nearly 50 clinics has bought Cerners Millennium electronic health record systems along with a suite of ancillary software. The package, being put in enterprisewide, includes inpatient/outpatient EHRs and pathology, laboratory, pharmacy, surgical and OB/GYN systems, among others.
*North Shore-LIJ Health System serving metro New York City will work with Newport Health Solutions to further develop and commercialize a population health management platform. Called Health Connect, the platform is implemented at Lenox Hill Hospital and affiliated facilities following a year-long pilot. North Shore has 19 hospitals and 400+ practices.
*Providence Health & Services in the Pacific Northwest will use quality and registry reporting software from QPID Health at its facility in Everett, Washington. Providence has 34 hospitals and 5,000 physicians.
*Beaufort Memorial Hospital in Beaufort, S.C., is upgrading its Meditech system to 6.1 and also will implement ancillary oncology and critical care software. A 25-year client of Meditech, the hospital expects to add the vendors web-based ambulatory EHR in 2016.
*The U.S. Coast Guard, transitioning to a commercial electronic health records system, is using the HealthShare health information exchange product of InterSystems.
*Two-hospital Heywood Healthcare in Gardner, Mass., will implement an emergency department information system from MEDHOST in Athol Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility. The delivery system also includes 134-bed Heywood Hospital and several practices.
*Baptist Health South Florida with seven hospitals and nearly 50 clinics has bought Cerners Millennium electronic health record systems along with a suite of ancillary software. The package, being put in enterprisewide, includes inpatient/outpatient EHRs and pathology, laboratory, pharmacy, surgical and OB/GYN systems, among others.
*North Shore-LIJ Health System serving metro New York City will work with Newport Health Solutions to further develop and commercialize a population health management platform. Called Health Connect, the platform is implemented at Lenox Hill Hospital and affiliated facilities following a year-long pilot. North Shore has 19 hospitals and 400+ practices.
*Providence Health & Services in the Pacific Northwest will use quality and registry reporting software from QPID Health at its facility in Everett, Washington. Providence has 34 hospitals and 5,000 physicians.
*Beaufort Memorial Hospital in Beaufort, S.C., is upgrading its Meditech system to 6.1 and also will implement ancillary oncology and critical care software. A 25-year client of Meditech, the hospital expects to add the vendors web-based ambulatory EHR in 2016.
*The U.S. Coast Guard, transitioning to a commercial electronic health records system, is using the HealthShare health information exchange product of InterSystems.
*Two-hospital Heywood Healthcare in Gardner, Mass., will implement an emergency department information system from MEDHOST in Athol Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility. The delivery system also includes 134-bed Heywood Hospital and several practices.
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