EHR Stimulus Alliance
About The Tour
The EHR Stimulus Tour is the first campaign of its kind, aimed to educate 500,000 physicians across the nation on opportunities aligned with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AARA) of 2009 - and specifically the HITECH Act (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health).
This nationwide tour is delivering the message "The Time is NOW" for Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption through a series of seminars, webcasts and other education resources to help physicians navigate new federal incentives for electronic healthcare.
Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) uses innovation technology to bring health to healthcare. More than 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and nearly 7,000 post-acute and homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of their patients and their bottom line. The company's award-winning solutions include electronic health record, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management, practice management, document management, medication services, hospital care management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation. Allscripts is the brand name of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Cisco is an industry leader in networking solutions and is committed to the healthcare market by focusing on solutions that improve quality of patient care and improve clinical workflows. The Cisco Medical Grade Network provides a healthcare optimized framework, which enables physicians, clinics, and healthcare providers with improved interoperability and patient care experience. This robust framework provides a strong foundation for myriad of healthcare applications such as electronic health records (EHRs) and computerized physician order entry. Cisco, working with other healthcare industry leaders, is helping drive a transformation that will lead to clinical workflow efficiencies and better patient care.
For more information, please contact:
Melissa Bennett
610.695.6258
TimeIsNow@cisco.com
Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and most trusted name in application delivery. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide (include 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide) rely on Citrix to deliver any application with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix desktop, application, and server virtualization, plus application networking radically simplify computing for healthcare – delivering EMR, PACS and other clinical application as an on-demand service to any location on any device, including thin clients, mobile carts, and now iPhones.
For more information please contact:
Dave Podwojski
650.868.3989
David.Podwojski@citrix.com
At Dell, we're committed to helping you deliver the best care possible. By connecting your organization to the latest technology and cost-saving strategies, we can help to improve efficiencies and the quality of care across your entire healthcare operation.
Intel’s Digital Health Group is committed to delivering research-based innovation for healthcare. Informed by more than a decade of ethnographic studies, we share a vision with healthcare leaders of using innovative technologies to transform healthcare, improve chronic disease management, and enhance wellness and independence. We develop new health technologies for individuals in the home or on the go, and collaborate with healthcare professionals to enable seamless interaction and information exchange. We help to connect people and information in new ways that increase patient care and safety, reduce healthcare costs, and improve quality of life across the continuum of care.
For more information please contact:
Steve Leibforth
630.269.8181
Steve.Leibforth@intel.com
Intuit serves thousands of practices today with several solutions including, QuickBooks financial software, payroll solutions, website solutions, payment processing and Quick Base. Intuit’s Quicken Health Group is working with health plans, employers and physicians to create solutions that make the financial side of healthcare easier and is working on a new solution that will benefit practices scheduled to be available in the summer of 2009. Learn more
Microsoft is committed to improving health around the world through software innovation. An electronic health records solution built on the Microsoft platform provides a familiar user interface, flexibility, reliability, and excellent price performance. Microsoft collaborates with Allscripts to deliver solutions on the Microsoft platform that help unify health information and make it more readily available, ensuring quality of life and affordable care for everyone.
For more information please contact:
Cindy Hibble
404-312-4126
cindhib@microsoft.com
Nuance’s healthcare portfolio of proven, speech-enabled clinical documentation and communication solutions enable healthcare provider organizations to improve financial performance, enhance patient care, and increase patient safety. With more than 3,000 healthcare customers worldwide, Nuance has the experience and solutions that meet the individual needs of any size healthcare provider organization. Dragon Medical, a Nuance Healthcare solution, is used by over 100,000 physicians today to improve their overall experience and efficiency with Electronic Health Record solutions.
For more information, please contact:
Steve Hapaniewski
Steve.hap@nuance.com