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ReportsnReports.com offers new EMR market research reports with 2017 & 2018 forecasts for electronic medical records industry. DALLAS, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- EMR 2013: The Market for Electronic Medical Records and U.S. Market for Electronic Medical Records are new EMR market research reports available with ReportsnReports.com. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130506/CG07941) The market for electronic medical records (EMR) reached 20.7Billion in 2012, a 15%...

EMR-Matrix.org offers doctors and health systems a unique way to evaluate, test and read reviews of electronic medical record software systems that are crowdsourced from other clinicians and health systems using social networking and quick polling. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) January 19, 2013 EMR-Matrix is pleased to announce the launch of the brand’s new website: http://www.emr-matrix.org. The January 2013 launch is scheduled to coincide with the upcoming HIMSS and mHealth conferences....

AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Six months after going live with its inpatient electronic medical records (EMR), Akron Children's Hospital now ranks in the top tier of hospitals nationwide for EMR implementation. HIMSS Analytics, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, recently informed Akron Children's that it has achieved Stage 6 (out of seven stages) on its EMR Adoption Model scale. This scale ranks about 5,300 hospitals...

Canadians Say Clinicians Using Electronic Records More Likely to Know their Health History TORONTO, Nov. 15, 2012 /CNW/ - More Canadian physicians than ever are embracing the move from paper to electronic medical records (EMR), according to new surveys released today. More than half of Canada's family physicians (56%) used EMRs in mid-2012, up from 23% in 2006 according to the Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians in 11 countries....

The use of an electronic medical record (EMR) for reviewing portal images dramatically improves compliance with timeliness and record keeping, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Portal images are used to verify the positioning of patients during daily radiation treatments to improve the accuracy of the radiation field placement, to reduce exposure to normal tissue and to deliver accurate dose to tumor volumes. "The benefits of the...

First electronic medical record system to receive national mark for privacy, security and interoperability TORONTO, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) announced today that Nightingale on Demand, a software product developed by Nightingale Informatix Corporation (TSX-V: NGH), (Nightingale), is the first product in Canada to successfully achieve electronic medical record (EMR) certification. Infoway has developed EMR certification in concert with its...

DALLAS, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ReportsnReports adds new market research report 'EMR 2012: The Market for Electronic Medical Records' to its store. This report takes a look at the market and trends impacting electronic medical record software and related services.- Included in the report are statistics influencing the industry, demographics; life expectancy, and company strategies. Information is presented as a U.S. market, with a section on key international markets. A...

Baptist Health of Northeast Florida is the first local health system to go entirely paperless with a systemwide electronic medical record in Jacksonville, FL, and has long been a leader in clinical technologies. All 5 of our hospitals, our primary care offices, our pharmacies, home health and other services are now connected by one EMR platform, called SHIELD. Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) March 16, 2012 On February 25, 2012, thousands of physicians, nurses, medical records professionals and...

EMR technology and consulting resource EMRapproved.com will exhibit at the 2012 HIMSS Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) February 15, 2012 EMRapproved.com, the definitive web resource for everything regarding electronic medical records, will be returning to this year’s 2012 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in booth #4734. Taking place February 20-24 at the Venetian Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, the conference will feature over 30,000 healthcare industry professionals and 1,100...

NORWALK, Conn., June 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Norwalk-based LibertasMD will assist more than 500 Connecticut physicians to achieve "Meaningful Use," a federally-designated milestone that will entitle each participating physician to as much as $63,750 in 'stimulus' funding. To date, the nine-year-old company has signed more than 200 area physicians to its "Latitude" and "Fast Track" services, whereby the LibertasMD staff assists each practice with selection, implementation, training, and...