Healthcare Synergy Inc. has signed an agreement with Great Lakes Health Information Exchange (GLHIE) forging the first partnership of a home health electronic medical record (EMR) vendor with the Michigan based health information exchange.

Tampa, Florida – Sept. 17, 2013 – Vitera Healthcare Solutions, the nation’s premier provider of ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software and services, announced today that it has earned the 2013 Customer Value Enhancement Award from Frost & Sullivan for providing outstanding customer value and helping physicians’ practices thrive in a complex, changing healthcare environment.

SOMERSET, NJ — September 12, 2013 — Wellsoft Corporation announced today that Wellsoft’s Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) v.11 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as an EHR Module on August 21, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The ONC 2014 Edition criteria support both Stage 1 and 2 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-- MRO Corp., a leading provider of technology-driven disclosure management services and applications for healthcare organizations, has acquired the assets of MTT Enterprises, LLC (Metairie, La.), a provider of release-of-information (ROI) services. Mariela Twiggs, CEO of MTT, will assume the role of MRO’s executive director of training and education, client relations. The transaction took effect September 6.

With the Sept. 23 compliance deadline for the HIPAA Omnibus Rule inching closer, new revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) ability to circumvent or crack much of the encryption that guards IT systems, including those for medical records, may stir more questions about the ability to protect and secure personal health information.

HORSHAM, Pa.-- NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, and Clinical Decision Support Consortium (CDSC) announced today the successful deployment of a clinical decision support tool aimed at making evidence-based clinical knowledge more readily available to healthcare providers. NextGen Healthcare client Willamette Valley Providers (WVP) Health Authority is one of the first clinical sites with a commercial electronic health record (EHR) to take the program live.

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today a reseller agreement with Cerner to integrate Elsevier's evidence-based clinical content into Cerner's PowerChart ® electronic health record (EHR).

DALLAS, Aug. 28, 2013 -- The Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today announced nearly $1.3 million in grants to fund projects that advance the interoperability of electronic health records with the Commonwealth's health information exchange, called the Mass HIway.  Aprima Medical Software is pleased to announce that it was one of the grant recipients for the Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI).