Health IT Business News – Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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News broke today Mitochon Systems will be exiting the EHR market. Mitochon will end support of its free, web-based EHR in mid-June, saying in a statement posted on their home page that the company will concentrate on other business lines.

Net Health, provider of clinical solutions for outpatient specialty care, announced the acquisition of Integritas, Inc., a provider of integrated clinical EMR and practice management solutions for the growing urgent care, occupational health, and hospital employee health markets. “Strategically, we were drawn to the rapidly growing and underserved Urgent Care and Occupational Health segments of the healthcare delivery continuum,” said Anthony Sanzo , Net Health’s Chief Executive Officer. “The quality of their products, their impact on patients and patient flow, and the quality of their team drew us to Integritas.”

HomecareCRM, a customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for the home healthcare and long-term care industries, announced that it has launched an integration with PointClickCare, a Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform for long-term care.“This integration with PointClickCare further enhances our LongTermCareCRM solution that is specifically designed for long-term care providers. The integration also demonstrates our focus on growth for both our customers and our business.”

M*Modal has announced an expanded relationship with Wellmont Health System to deliver exclusive enterprise-wide transcription, front-end speech recognition, workflow and reporting for electronic medical records (EMRs) and radiology systems. M*Modal Fluency Direct(TM) and M*Modal Fluency for Imaging(TM) were selected by Wellmont as the clinical documentation platforms.

Stoltenberg Consulting, a healthcare information technology consulting firm, announced the appointment of Douglas Herr as Vice President of Epic Practice and Client Relations. In this executive leadership role, Herr will focus on Epic vendor relations, Epic Practice growth, retention, recruiting oversight, and sales support. Herr will also manage Stoltenberg’s Epic consultants in both client relations and career development.

DocuTrac, developer of software for the behavioral health industry announced today that they have partnered with DrFirst to revamp the electronic prescribing functionality incorporated in their QuicDoc® EMR Professional and Enterprise Edition Software. The DrFirst integration provides a secure, powerful, and easy to use e-prescribing system. The new integration allows providers to electronically prescribe controlled substances, as well as transmit and fax prescription orders and renewals to local pharmacies.