Saturday 28 January 2012

Heritage Valley Health System reaches deal to enhance electronic medical records system - The Business Review (Albany):

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The gear allows Heritage’s 150 employed doctors to electronically transmit prescriptions and access patient medicaol records from laptops andhandhelds computers, reducing errors and streamlining care. The industrgy average for buying electronic medical recor systemsis $10,000 per doctor, althougn the exact amount of the Heritages Valley contract was not available. Heritage Valley received a $661,500 gran t through health insurance giant to help pay for the In addition totwo hospitals, Heritage Valley has two surgeryh centers, two cancer treatment centers and a numbere of community-based diagnostic and treatmentt facilities to treat patients from Allegheny, Butler and Lawrence counties, and parts of West Virginia and Allscripts began helping Heritage develop its electronic recordkeeping systek in 2006.
“As an integrated delivery network, we’re relying on the Allscripts solution to help us creater a single electronic patient recor that will drive greater integratiom and improvement in care Heritage President and CEO Norm Mitrty said in aprepared statement.

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