Regina Harrell, MD, detailed a visit to one of her homebound patients and her difficulty in holistically recording his health using an EHR in an article published Nov. 17 on NPR.org.

To help hospitals successfully submit syndromic surveillance, lab results and immunization registries to their state’s designated public health agency as required by Meaningful Use Stage 2, MEDHOST today announced the launch of its “YourCareLink” service. By utilizing YourCareLink, hospitals can free internal staff to focus on other core measures required for Meaningful Use Stage 2 attestation and leave the labor-intensive management and monitoring of the public health information reporting to MEDHOST.

Quest International today announced that it has been appointed as an Authorized Reseller for Sony Electronics’ Medical Systems Division. Under the agreement, Quest will resell the Sony diagnostic monitors to qualified channel partners and end-users in the United States.

RamSoft expands its product line by offering PowerServer Nube, a Spanish language, hosted platform RIS/PACS for Latin America. PowerServer Nube will allow RamSoft to service markets in Latin America that have previously found RIS/PACS solutions to be cost prohibitive due to having to purchase multiple servers to run disparate software. PowerServer Nube is a scalable solution that is perfect for imaging centers, radiology groups, and hospital imaging departments that are looking to achieve a fully digital environment and improve patient care without significant capital investment. This new offering by RamSoft will allow hospitals and imaging centers to leverage the benefits of a fully hosted platform while reducing hardware and operational costs.

HealthCare Partners, LLC, based in Torrance, Calif., will expand its nationwide partnership with Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) by further deploying the Allscripts Enterprise(TM) Electronic Health Record (EHR) across its California medical group sites and selecting the FollowMyHealth(TM) patient portal and the dbMotion population health management solution.

Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration announces that their Summit Express Connect interface engine has been tested and certified under the Drummond Group's Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) program for Meaningful Use Stage 2. This EHR software is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was awarded certification on September 26, 2013.

WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD), the leading source of health information, today announced that it has acquired Avado, Inc., a developer of cloud-based patient relationship management (PRM) tools and technologies that enable better communication between consumers and health care professionals.

AOD Software, the leading integrated software solution for long-term care providers, will embed the nationally recognized INTERACT™ Quality Improvement program into its Answers™ electronic health record (EHR) solution through a license with Florida Atlantic University (FAU). AOD made the announcement today at the Leading Age Annual Conference and Expo in Dallas.