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Quoted: ...smaller companies like Practice Partner and eClinical Works dominated the competition with their EMR systems for practices of all sizes.

EMR Systems for Small Practices (1-5 Physicians)
First Honors: Practice Partner - Patient Records
Second Honors: e-Clinical Works - e-Clinical Works
Third Honors: Medical Communication Systems - mMD.Net EMR

Quoted: Steve Leiber, head of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, said physicians might repeat tests because they do not trust the data stored in personal health records. Leiber said PHRs work best as a complement to providers health records.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a health conference last week stressed the importance of health IT in any health policy proposal and touted the technologys ability to lower costs and boost care. She added that privacy and security protections are necessary for widespread adoption. Other lawmakers have also said that health IT will be a priority in Congress this year.

Quoted: "Electronic medical records, starting at birth, (would) ensure quality, help to reduce errors, lower cost and improve healthcare through the coordination of personalized care."

Quoted: U.S. physicians need to catch up with other industrialized nations -- such as Australia, Great Britain, the Netherlands and New Zealand -- in adopting electronic health records to enhance medical care and reduce costs.

If this country does not accelerate the conversion from paper to electronic health records, many health care reform promises will become irrelevant.

Quoted: The San Mateo Medical Center plans to offer eClinical Works EMR/PM (unified electronic medical record and practice management software) to more than 160 affiliated providers throughout San Mateo County, Calif. The medical center will also adopt the eClinicalWorks patient portal.

With the deal, eClinicalWorks will have a total base of approximately 3,000 customers across all 50 states. San Mateo Medical Center is an integrated healthcare system providing care through a 509-bed acute care hospital, skilled nursing facility and 11 clinics located across San Mateo County. It receives more than 220,000 outpatient visits per year.

Quoted: Grove is a big fan of low-cost, walk-in clinics, the sort beginning to appear in stores like Wal-Mart," that provide primary care to uninsured residents and reduce overcrowding in EDs. In addition, Grove supports an electronic health records system that uses a "generic but Web-accessible word-processing file," rather than "an elaborate and technically sophisticated medical-database system

Quoted: Kaiser crows over electronic medical record implementation at Ten of Kaiser Permanentes 30 California hospitals...completed inpatient installations of its HealthConnect electronic health record system. Fourteen additional hospitals are scheduled to adopt the EHR system by the end of 2008.

Quoted: ...a much larger sample of 1,280 participants, as of August 2007 found that just 10% of its respondents had met that organization’s standards for having a functioning CPOE system. Another 4% of hospitals committed to having one by 2008.