Among the institution, the medical institution are incorporating the use of the Electronic Health Records of EHR’s with the business in order to streamline processes while the medical billing companies are increasingly incorporating EHR along the service lines in an effort to take advantage of the increasing adoption of EHR. The American Medical Software published an article during the last quarter of the year 2010 which showed how medical institutions and the medical personnel improved their services after using the electronic medical records. It has improved the quality of care and patient safety, they are seeing that the number of errors have declined. Between the successful and unsuccessful treatment, the American Health Information Management Association has also identified the provision of the timely and unsuccessful treatment. The Integration of the technology with the medical processes, the EHR is proving to be an efficient method of relaying timely and reliable patient information through the secure environment.
Among the the healthcare organizations and providers, during the last few days of February Microsoft Corporation and the athenahealth announced that they were collaborating to provide a cloud based services that will further improve the exchange of the information. This includes the collaboration that will bring about the greater opportunities in the medical field as solutions that can address the issues in the healthcare industry will now be available to the market. The two healthcare institutions, Steward Health Care System and Cook Children’s Health System, it have already expressed the support for the collaborations between Microsoft Corporation and athenahealth after testing out the systems.
To the medical facilities, the developments are continuously rolling out in the healthcare field as software solutions providers are still looking to provide software solutions to medical facilities. In the market, this may have been done previously already but as the industry develops, the software providers must also find ways on how to address such innovations in the market. On the first day of the month, a medical billing outsourcing service providers, launched the news that their EHR software solutions are now available for the medical facilities and the practices. This includes the services revolve around the medical billing and receiving aspect of the healthcare industry and the recently launched software solutions that will enhance the performance of the healthcare institutions as the software will help in the filing of invoices.
Into the industry, having seen how the industry reaps the benefits of integrating EHR software with the other medical tasks and there is a great demand for such product, the outsourcing businesses are also being lured into the tapping industry. There was an announcement of an acquisition of a medical software company. The automatic data processing is a provider of the human resources and finance and the accounting solutions, this announced that it has advancedMD’s president and CEO. Eric Morgan, this perceives that the acquisition as a means for them to be a better services and ADP has utilized the agreement into the suite of the medical practice services to provide a complete Medical Practice Optimization solution based in AdvancedMD’s offerings including the medical billing outsourcing solutions.
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