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Allscripts' Tullman: We'll do better

It's been a month of upheaval at electronic health record giant Allscripts, but CEO Glen Tullman told  Healthcare IT News  in an interview that he's working hard to right the ship.

Allscripts names new chairman after turmoil

After a crazy week in which electronic health record giant Allscripts fired chairman Phil Pead and shares of its stock plummeted 36 percent, the company announced a slight return to normalcy by

Allscripts contest aims to create EHR-agnostic CDS tool

Allscripts has launched a Million Hearts Initiative Clinical Decision Support Challenge, aligned with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Million Hearts campaign to prevent 1 million

Hospitals slow on tablet implementation

The enthusiasm for iPads in healthcare these days is palpable. Hospital CIOs like John Halamka sing the device's praise, while health systems like The Ottawa Hospital and even the Department of

Implementation support needed for small practice EHR adoption to take off in 2012

Long ignored by leading electronic health record vendors because of the high cost of selling to them, small practices finally are getting the spotlight. Motivated by the government's EHR incentive

Costco expands EHR offerings for providers

Shopping giant Costco is going nationwide with its electronic health record venture. The big box retailer jumped on the EHR vendor bandwagon this past June on a test-case basis, teaming up with

KLAS: EHR compatibility key for PACS replacements

One out of six large hospitals and health systems are in the market to replace their picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), which will cause a boomlet in an otherwise rather stable

Blues plan invests $15M to boost docs' EMR use

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is investing $15 million to help providers adopt health information technology (HIT) tools and switch from paper to electronic medical records

NextGen parent buys surgical information system vendor

Quality Solutions Inc. (QSI), the parent of NextGen, a leading ambulatory-care electronic health record vendor, has bought CQI Solutions, which makes surgical information systems, for an undisclosed

NextGen, Dell team to work on hospital, ambulatory health IT

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a leading electronic health record vendor, has partnered with Dell to deliver health IT services and products. Under the agreement between the two companies,