Kootenai Health, a recent recipient of the "Most Wired Innovator" award, is progressive in its IT strategy and its approach to integration. Beginning in early 2012, Kootenai Health worked with Summit Healthcare to streamline its current integration strategy and future interoperability goals. The Summit Interoperability Platform featuring theSummit Express Connect interface engine and Summit Provider Exchange solution provided Kootenai's interface foundation for achieving these goals.

Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration announces that their Summit Express Connect interface engine has been tested and certified under the Drummond Group's Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) program for Meaningful Use Stage 2. This EHR software is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was awarded certification on September 26, 2013.

ProVation® Clinic Note Content and Clinical Decision Support will be Embedded into Cerner Millennium® to Improve Patient Care, Streamline Physician Documentation, and Drive the Capture of Structured data

eClinicalHealth Limited, a company dedicated to the provision of innovative clinical trial solutions, has launched Clinpal - a new patient-centric platform designed to engage patients digitally in clinical research more efficiently.

The integration team at Scribe Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (http://www.scribe.com) has successfully completed hundreds of integrations, working with the full gamut of Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record (EMR/EHR) systems, but none to date have offered the uniqueness of a recent project.

'Healthcare IT Outsourcing Market - By Application [Provider (EHR, RCM, LIMS) Payer (CRM, Claims Management, Fraud Detection, Billing) Life Science (ERP, CTMS, CDMS) Operational (SCM, BPM) & Infrastructure (IMS, Cloud Computing)] & Industry - Global Forecast To 2018'

Medical Informatics, Inc., a corporation committed to patient-centered technological innovations, has launched a web-based public education campaign to educate patients regarding the role of unique patient identifiers in identifying patient health records from different sources.  The grassroots effort's vision of "One Patient | One Number | One Card" aims to unify health records from different providers, irrespective of whether they are paper-based or electronic, and give access to those records to the patients themselves.

QUINCY, Mass., April 29, 2013 -- ConnectedLiving, a mission-based organization helping senior citizens live richer, more connected lives through the use of technology, today announced a partnership with CDW Healthcare, a leading provider of technology solutions for healthcare. Together both organizations will deliver the technology, services and training necessary to get entire senior living communities online.