On May 18 from 3-4PM Eastern, MedicaSoft CEO Mike O’Neill will join DHIN CEO Dr. Jan Lee to present on Patient Initiated Consent. Don’t miss this informative conversation, focused on maintaining privacy and patient consent for substance use disorder (SUD) patients!
Event details here:
MedicaSoft CEO Mike O’Neill joined a distinguished panel of Health IT experts on April 20 to share lessons learned about FHIR and patient outcomes. Link here:
Announcement: MedicaSoft CEO Mike O’Neill will join a distinguished panel of Health IT experts on April 20, 2022 from noon to 1:30 PM to share lessons learned about FHIR and patient outcomes. This webinar is sponsored by the NY State HIMSS chapter and is free to attend. Register online here:
MedicaSoft Chief Strategy Officer Helen Figge joined Becker's Healthcare Podcast on October 25th to discuss leadership in healthcare and women in Health IT. Tune in to Becker’s to listen here.
Congratulations to the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) for receiving one of the coveted “Innovation in Data Dissemination” Awards at the 36th Annual Conference of the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)!
The DHIN is a trusted information hub in the health ecosystem that serves providers and consumers of care through innovative solutions that make health data useful. As a strategic partner of the DHIN, MedicaSoft supplies our flagship NXT Platform to streamline the DHIN’s innovation efforts and to ensure that the DHIN achieves its goals, objectives, and mission.
Way to go DHIN!
Congratulations to Beth Anderson, President and CEO of Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL), for receiving the Emerging Leader Award at SHIEC 2021 in Scottsdale, Arizona!
VITL operates the Vermont Health Information Exchange, using patient health data to inform better health care. As VITL’s strategic technology Partner, MedicaSoft’s NXT Platform helps VITL aggregate, manage, and share patient health records.
MedicaSoft congratulates Helen Figge on her recent election to the position of President of the New York State Chapter of HIMSS. Congratulation Helen!
Read more here.
MedicaSoft Chief Strategy Officer Helen Figge joins Becker's Healthcare Podcast to discuss the shift to virtual care and the future of data in healthcare. Listen through Becker’s here.
Join MedicaSoft at the HIMSS, SHIEC, and NAHDO conferences in August and September for Joint Presentations with the Delaware Health Information Network and the Florida Department of Health. Sessions include:
Mary Agens, Florida DOH CNO and Mike O’Neill, MedicaSoft CEO
♥️ HIMSS in Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday August 11, 2021
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Dr. Jan Lee, DHIN CEO and Mike O’Neill, MedicaSoft CEO
🌵 SHIEC in Scottsdale, Arizona
Tuesday August 17, 2021
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
TerriLynn Palmer, DHIN Director of Analytics and Mike O’Neill, MedicaSoft CEO
📊 NAHDO Conference Online
Tuesday September 28, 2021
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
On June 4, 2021, MedicaSoft CEO Mike O’Neill sat down with Becker’s Healthcare for a podcast episode to talk Health IT opportunities and challenges in the context of consolidation among Healthcare providers. Listen through Becker’s here.
Arlington, VA – November 9, 2020 – On Friday November 6th, MedicaSoft received OSAP-HIE accreditation from the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC).
The OSAP-HIE accreditation program is a broad and rigorous assessment that evaluated MedicaSoft’s processes and procedures across twenty-eight subject areas and nearly two-hundred criteria applicable to outsourced healthcare information and data services.
MedicaSoft’s OSAP-HIE accreditation confirms that our processes and procedures exceed a stringent set of thresholds as defined and evaluated by an independent third party, reinforces our customers’ and prospects’ confidence in our ability to process millions of messages and API requests per day, and reaffirms our commitment to making better data available to healthcare providers, analysts, and administrators so that they can make better decisions about care and cost.
To learn more about how MedicaSoft can make your data more useful, contact us.
Arlington, VA – Oct. 23, 2020 – On Saturday October 9th, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and U.S. Coast Guard expanded their joint Health Information Exchange (HIE) network by connecting to the CommonWell Health Alliance.
The Joint HIE’s CommonWell connection enables healthcare providers in each department and the Coast Guard to access electronic health data held at an additional 15,000 hospitals and clinics beyond the 46,000 community partners already connected to the Joint HIE.
As a premier partner on the Cerner team tasked with modernizing the VA’s electronic health record, MedicaSoft provides management and strategic leadership to the groups responsible for delivering high-impact HIE capabilities like the CommonWell connection.
VA’s announcement is available here.
Arlington, VA – Apr. 20, 2020 – On Saturday, April 18th, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) launched the joint DOD / VA Health Information Exchange. The Joint HIE enables healthcare providers in each department to access electronic health record data held at participating community partners and health systems, and offers participating community providers a single point of entry through which to request and access electronic health records held by DOD and VA.
As a premier partner on the Cerner team responsible for modernizing the VA’s electronic health record, MedicaSoft is an integral member of the task team responsible for delivering the joint HIE capability on schedule.
VA’s announcement is available here.
Washington, D.C. – Oct. 3, 2018 – MedicaSoft announced today it is joining Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, and other industry leaders and innovators to help make seamless care available to the nation’s veterans. This newly formed team announced by Cerner will bring extensive experience in large enterprise systems and commercial sectors to modernize the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic health record (EHR).
“We’re very excited to be a part of the Cerner team for this important program. We’re honored to bring a combination of cutting-edge commercial healthcare solutions coupled with deep expertise in VA healthcare systems to facilitate Cerner’s creation of a modern, seamless EHR system to support the delivery of the best possible care to our veterans,” said Mike O’Neill, MedicaSoft CEO.
MedicaSoft’s specific skill sets will help Cerner deliver real time seamless data sharing and cultivate improved clinician and veteran experiences as part of VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) effort. From delivering national VistA-based EHR solutions to serving as VA’s Chief Architect for Health IT to initiating the VA Center for Innovation, MedicaSoft team members have extensive experience with improving VA health care. Commercially, the company develops health IT solutions on an open, HL7® FHIR®-based cloud platform that makes it easy to share data with patients, providers, and payers while enabling robust and practical analytics.
In addition to Cerner, MedicaSoft joins Leidos, Guidehouse, Accenture, Henry Schein, Inc., AbleVets LLC, MicroHealth, ProSource360 and 17 additional small businesses – many of which are veteran-owned to form the team that will provide experience and expertise to the VA implementation.
“We are proud MedicaSoft will be part of this important team of industry leaders that will shape the future of care for veterans through a modern EHR system,” said Travis Dalton, president, Cerner Government Services. “We will work together to address the needs and capabilities that are in the best interest of the VA. Our veterans deserve the highest quality care and with this team, we look forward to bringing a modern, seamless system to those who have served our country.”
In May, Cerner announced a historic agreement and VA made the program one of their top priorities to improve care for veterans. Using technology that has been deployed successfully at Department of Defense (DoD) medical facilities and thousands of provider sites globally, Cerner plans to provide seamless care across VA’s high-performing integrated network, including VA facilities, community providers and DoD facilities.
MedicaSoft will join Cerner and other VA EHR modernization members to outline the strategy during the Cerner Health Conference, Oct. 8-11, in Kansas City, Mo.
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About MedicaSoft
MedicaSoft is an innovative health information technology software company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, that creates and delivers modern, open, cost-effective, easy to implement and use, HL7® FHIR®-based products for healthcare industry providers and patients around the world. For more information, visit www.medicasoft.com follow us on Twitter @MedicaSoftLLC, like us on Facebook, or follow our LinkedIn company page.
About Cerner
Cerner’s health technologies connect people and information systems at more than 27,500 contracted provider facilities worldwide dedicated to creating smarter and better care for individuals and communities. Recognized globally for innovation, Cerner assists clinicians in making care decisions and assists organizations in managing the health of their populations. The company also offers an integrated clinical and financial systems to help manage day-to-day revenue functions, as well as a wide range of services to support clinical, financial and operational needs, focused on people. For more information, visit Cerner.com, The Cerner Blog, The Cerner Podcast or connect on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter. Nasdaq: CERN. Smarter Care. Better Outcomes. Healthier You.
ARLINGTON, Va. - Aug. 13, 2018 - MedicaSoft today announced it has appointed Helen Figge, BS, PharmD, MBA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS as Chief Strategy Officer. Figge is an expert healthcare innovator and futurist with a wide variety of healthcare IT experience and leadership skills.
MedicaSoft is an innovative health information technology software company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, that creates and delivers modern, open, cost-effective, easy to implement and use, HL7® FHIR®-based products for the healthcare industry.
Figge brings deep healthcare experience to her role with MedicaSoft. She currently serves in several senior industry advisory roles in various nationally recognized organizations and educational entities in the United States, has been recognized by Health 2.0 as a "Ten Year Industry Leader," named one of the "Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT" by Health Data Management for three consecutive years, and named as one of the "Female Health IT Leaders to Know" by Becker's Hospital Review in 2018. She has served on several national committees and boards such as HIMSS, CHIME, The Sullivan Institute for Healthcare Innovation, WEDI, State University of New York's Global Institute for Health and Human Rights, and State University of New York's School of Public Health to name a few.
"I'm very excited to join MedicaSoft and add the breadth of my healthcare and healthcare IT knowledge and experience in healthcare to MedicaSoft's leadership team. MedicaSoft's products and services are ideal for helping providers, payers, and patients leverage data to solve practical problems in delivering high-quality health care," said Figge.
"As MedicaSoft grows our healthcare solution set, we are thrilled to add someone with Helen's vision to the team," said Mike O'Neill, MedicaSoft CEO. "Helen's insights will help our customers successfully apply technology to tackle their most meaningful challenges."
During her career, Figge served in three Fortune 500 companies, including AmerisourceBergen, Allscripts, and Alere as well as serving in non-profit organizations such as Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Helen has achieved HIMSS fellow status and secured HIMSS healthcare IT certification. She has supported, consulted, and guided several start-up health IT companies to successful next steps in their growth processes. She likewise lectures and writes extensively on healthcare and healthcare technologies as well as supporting women and the need for recognizing diversity in healthcare IT today.
Figge holds a Baccalaureate in Science, a Doctorate of Pharmacy, an MBA in healthcare administration, completed a drug information research fellowship, is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Six Sigma Lean Sensei. She holds academic appointments at the University of Maryland, the Sage Colleges, New York and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and Allied Health Science, Boston. Figge is also is a career coach, mentor, and volunteers extensively in her free time.
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Washington, D.C. – HIMSS18 Booth #11626, January 26, 2018 – MedicaSoft, an innovative health information technology software company, today announced its partnership with the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation (NVCCF) at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS18) to positively impact the community in HIMSS18’s host city of Las Vegas. The MedicaSoft team will provide monetary donations to NVCCF to for individuals who schedule and view demos at their booth March 6-8, 2018, in lieu of booth giveaways.
MedicaSoft will feature demonstrations of their HL7 FHIR-based health IT software products including HealthCenter, a patient portal and personal health record, ehr.NXT, a next generation EHR, and the NXT universal health record and platform at their HIMSS booth this year. Individuals viewing demos at HIMSS will have a donation made to NVCCF in their honor by MedicaSoft.
“This is our third year exhibiting at HIMSS and we are very excited for the opportunity to help the greater Las Vegas community this year. We can’t think of a better way healthcare can give back to the community than to donate funds to children and families going through really tough times,” said MedicaSoft’s CEO Mike O’Neill. “We’re looking forward to talking with many other passionate health IT professionals to discuss innovative, open, interoperable, and reliable technology that drives better clinician and patient relationships. We’re not alone in wanting to do good and we invite any other vendors attending the show to join in with a donation, too.”
MedicaSoft’s products are built using cutting edge technologies and open, standards-based architecture that fully supports interoperability and data accessibility. The use of these technologies enables MedicaSoft to create healthcare IT platforms that enable their customers to optimize healthcare outcomes and efficiency while leveraging the power of web-based, mobile, and cloud solutions. MedicaSoft’s EHR and PHR products are ONC-ACB certified.
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About NVCCF:
The Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation (NVCCF) is a non-profit organization offering over 45 different programs and services for critically-ill children and their families living in Southern Nevada. Visit www.nvccf.org for more information.
ARLINGTON, Va. – Dec. 8, 2017 – MedicaSoft, a next-generation health IT company, announced today that ehr.NXT, its Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution, attained Surescripts certifications for electronic prescribing in six different areas: New Prescriptions, Prescription Renewals, Medication Histories, Prescription Benefits, Prescription Changes, and Prescription Cancellations.
The Surescripts certification process validates that MedicaSoft’s ehr.NXT electronic prescribing software is able to send and receive electronic messages with pharmacies and pharmacy benefits managers through the Surescripts network in accordance with industry standards. It also validates that MedicaSoft’s ehr.NXT gives providers accurate cost and formulary information to inform medication choices and provides flexibility in choosing dispensing locations.
ehr.NXT is a next generation EHR built on modern technology and an open, standards-based architecture designed for interoperability. It utilizes best-of-breed cloud, web, and software technologies to provide clinicians with an EHR that is fast, interoperable, and affordable.
EHR software certified through Surescripts allows providers to improve patient safety and caregiver efficiency while reducing costs. MedicaSoft’s ehr.NXT electronic prescribing solution provides medication ordering and medication reconciliation in a clinically effective workflow that allows providers to focus on care delivery and outcomes. The Meaningful Use-certified electronic prescribing and medication history solution is also available for integration with other EHRs.
Michael O’Neill, CEO stated, “At MedicaSoft, we’re not only committed to compliance with industry standards, but also to increasing patient safety, enhancing efficiencies, and reducing medication costs. ehr.NXT facilitates the delivery of the highest quality of care possible.”
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Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017 – MedicaSoft, a next generation healthcare IT company, announced today it has achieved 100% interoperability with all DirectTrust Health Information Service Providers (HISPs).
The DirectTrust Accredited Trust Anchor Bundle includes HISPs, Certificate Authorities (CAs), and Registration Authorities (RAs) that have achieved accreditation through the EHNAC-DirectTrust Trusted Agent Accreditation Program (DTAAP).
MedicaSoft is committed to delivering the highest quality software and cloud services to commercial and government clients and completed the Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program for Health Information Service Provider (DTAAP HISP) accreditation as certified by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) in 2016.
Interoperability testing by DirectTrust verifies all messages containing personal health information are encrypted, securely delivered between two trusted entities, and are decrypted as intended. MedicaSoft joins companies such as Cerner, McKesson/Relay, and Surescripts, who are also 100% interoperable with HISPs in the DirectTrust Accredited Trust Bundle in 2017.
“We are proud to be a part of the DirectTrust community. Our membership reinforces our commitment to deliver modern, high quality software and cloud services to our clients,” said Brandt Welker, MedicaSoft CTO. “Achieving 100% interoperability represents the ability to exchange data securely between vendors. This means doctors using MedicaSoft products can easily and securely communicate with their peers and other clinicians in the field.”
MedicaSoft puts interoperability at the core of its systems, delivering secure, cloud-ready healthcare IT products, including Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Personal Health Record (PHR) software and HISP secure messaging services, to clients worldwide.
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Washington, D.C. – HIMSS Booth #11449, February 25, 2016 – MedicaSoft, an innovative health information technology company, today announced that it will showcase its new technologies and workflows at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2016 Annual Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS16) via in-booth demonstrations on the show floor. Also at HIMSS, MedicaSoft will launch several new health IT products developed and accredited this year including ehr.NXT, a next generation electronic health record (EHR), HealthCenter, a patient portal and personal health record (PHR), and HISP Services, a cloud-based Direct secure messaging service.
“We’re very excited to exhibit at HIMSS16 and help drive change and innovation in our industry. As we’ve discussed in many of our blogs, at MedicaSoft, we’re committed to doing things differently and we are determined to get results,” said MedicaSoft’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Brandt Welker. “We’re looking forward to meeting with other passionate health IT professionals to discuss technologies that are open, interoperable, reliable, and fast. We want to help steer health IT in the direction of other industries to create products that help clinicians improve health outcomes for their patients while also being easy to use and fast.”
MedicaSoft’s products are built using cutting edge technologies and open, standards-based architecture that fully supports interoperability and data accessibility. The use of these technologies enables MedicaSoft to create healthcare IT platforms that enable their customers to optimize healthcare outcomes and efficiency while leveraging the power of web-based, mobile, and cloud solutions. MedicaSoft’s EHR and PHR products are ONC Certified and its HISP Services are accredited by EHNAC’s Cloud-Enabled Accreditation Program (CEAP) and Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program (DTAAP).
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