Quality Systems Incorporated (QSI), the parent company of practice management and EHR company NextGen Healthcare, will acquire HealthFusion, makers of the MediTouch mobile EHR for small practices. The cash only deal is for $165 million, with a possible contingent consideration of $25 million depending on HealthFusion's performance before the March 2016 close of the deal.
QSI does already have a...
Aprima Medical Software is the latest electronic health records (EHR) vendor to go mobile. The Carrolton, Texas-based company once known as iMedica this week unveiled Aprima Mobile, an iOS and Android app that provides smartphone access to Aprima's core ambulatory system.
"It's suitable for use on an iPad, though it's not optimized," Mark Richards, Aprima senior vice president of sales and...
So far, incentive program for "meaningful use" of electronic health records has not required any mobile component, nor may it ever, but mobility is fast becoming a de facto necessity for achieving meaningful use in many clinical settings.
"I'm not sure how [physicians] do that without having access to [EHRs] wherever they are," Robert Oscar, CEO of RxEOB, a Richmond, Va., company that makes Web-...
