Wednesday, May 20, 2009

HEALTHeLINK Signs with EMR Vendors (Interoperability)

Buffalo, NY - HEALTHeLINK, the Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, announced that it has reached formal agreements with Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, McKesson Corp., MedAppz LLC, NextGen and Pulse Systems, Inc. for the use of their technologies in local physician offices and other health care practices. The vendors have agreed to extend preferred community-based pricing to improve adoption rates.

HEALTHeLINK is a collaborative community-based approach to interoperability. Interoperability basically means the ability to move health care information safely and securely between a patient’s health care providers. Interoperability p
romotes collaboration and can help control healthcare costs (not to mention improving patient care!) HEALTHeLINK's vision is for Western New York to have an electronic system for real-time sharing of clinical information among health care professionals.

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