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2007

Groups receive grants
Augusta Chronicle, December 7, 2007
Purchase an Electronic Medical Record system along with equipment and training to maximize its usefulness so that affordable quality primary health care is provided to the underserved.

Medicare pilot project to pay more to doctors who use EMRs
AMNews, November 26, 2007
The American Academy of Family Physicians supports any activities to make it easier for physicians to adopt EMRs, said Jason Mitchell, MD, assistant director of the organization's Center for Health Information Technology.

Medical center’s tech boosted by $2 million Wal-Mart donation
Northwest Arkansas Times, October 30, 2007
Washington Regional Medical Center has received a $ 2 million contribution from the Wal-Mart Foundation to support technology advancements and associated quality improvement initiatives in its new electronic medical records system.

MO HealthNet receives $1.9M grant
MSN Money, October 12, 2007
Gov. Matt Blunt and the Missouri Department of Social Services said Friday that MO HealthNet Division (MHD) received a grant for more than $1.9 million to broaden the use of an electronic health record system used to manage care for Medicaid participants.

Healthscreen Wins C$750K Contract To Implement Electronic Medical Record System From Dixon Family Health Group [MDU.V]
RTT News, September 25, 2007
Tuesday, Healthscreen Solutions Inc. (MDU.V) said it received a contract aggregating C$750 thousand from Dixon Family Health Group, to implement its Electronic Medical Record or EMR system. The company said that the proposed contract includes hardware and software sales.

Investors Still Have Appetite for I.P.O.s
The New York Times, September 24, 2007
Investors last week week shrugged off the uncertainties of the mortgage crisis, stock market volatility, and the collapse of the dollar, turning the initial public stock offering of Athenahealth, a medical billing and electronic medical records company, into the most successful I.P.O. of the year.

White Electronic Designs Corporation Third Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results
Earth Times, August 8, 2007
Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 were $28.5 million, compared to net sales of $27.2 million in the immediately preceding quarter, and net sales of $26.9 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2006.

Kaiser Permanente records 2.7 million patient e-mail messages, 8 million visits to online features
East Bay Business Times, July 6, 2007
Use of e-mail linked to an EHR reduced the number of annual primary-care outpatient visits by adults from 7 percent to 10 percent, resulting in 14 percent fewer phone contacts by those enrollees than by those who didn't use e-mail.

Athenahealth plans initial public stock offering
Healthcare IT News, June 25, 2007
The filing with the SEC said the company expects to raise $86.25 million through the stock sale. An exact number of shares to be sold through the offering was not specified. In its listing, athenahealth said it had 29.4 million shares of stock privately held by 280 stockholders.

CalRHIO Receives $1 Million Grant from Sutter Health
Earthtimes, June 19, 2007
The California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO) announced today that it has received a $1 million grant from the Sutter Health network of physicians, hospitals, and other health care service providers to advance secure electronic access to medical records in the state.

CDPHP rewards doctors for filing electronically
The Business Review, June 14, 2007
CDPHP set up the incentive program for primary care physicians in its provider network in 2005, and extended it to specialists in 2006.

Ajaxo Using Technology to Reduce the Cost of Health Care
SYS-Con Media, May 17, 2007
DOLFIN technology is an invention that enables integration of data, multimedia, and image authoring. DOLFIN is a Web based development tool for building high-performance, secure, session based Web applications. For enterprise applications where time and cost are critical factors, DOLFIN provides the solution at 90% savings in time and cost when compared to conventional application development methods.

Novant reports big jump in net income
Journalnow, March 28, 2007
The hospital system reported about $1.9 billion in operating revenue last year, up from $1.7 billion reported in 2005.

ACHC receives funding from Ryan White Act
Gay Alliance, February, 2007
“We are grateful for the recent Ryan White grant, and the support of our local officials, in funding our conversion to electronic records. It is estimated that adoption of HER systems nationally could save 10 percent of the nation’s current health care bill,” said Jay Rudman, ACHC president.

EMR Software Solutions Reduce Operating Costs for Healthcare Providers
American Chronicle, January 25, 2007
Healthcare providers are discovering the benefits of electronic medical records (EMR) to improve patient care, eliminate errors, meet compliance requirements, and reduce operating costs.

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