Top executives from Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, Greenway and McKesson appeared on the same stage at HIMSS 2013 Monday to announce that they will collaborate to push for interoperability standards to enable advancements in patient data exchange. McKesson CEO John Hammergren and Cerner’s Neal Patterson joined colleagues Jonathan Bush, CEO athenahealth, and Tee Green, CEO […]
Allscripts acquires dbMotion and Jardogs. Reinventing itself after a change in leadership earlier this year (CEO Tullman Loses Final Battle for Control of Allscripts, Resigns – HCTR, 12/19/12), Allscripts announced during this week’s HIMSS Annual Meeting in New Orleans that it has acquired data integration vendor dbMotion and patient engagement software firm Jardogs. The […]
In 2004, President George W. Bush set a goal for the Department of Health and Human Services to guide completion of a National Health Information Network within 10 years. To spearhead the project, he created, but did not initially fund, the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. Nine years and four […]
