eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, has announced an option of on-demand deployment of the eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) system and complimentary eClinicalWorks solutions. This will remove the wait time for installation by allowing self-activation of the EMR/PM system and add-on services including Patient Portal, Enterprise Business Optimizer (eBO), eClinicalWorks P2P, eClinicalMobile and eClinicalMessenger. Read more...

Sage North America today announced that Annapolis Pediatrics, a leading healthcare provider to infants, children, adolescents and young adults in Annapolis, MD and surrounding communities, has selected Sage to implement the Sage Intergy Suite of financial and clinical products across its four clinics. Sage has been providing ambulatory healthcare systems for almost 30 years, serving more than 80,000 physicians in the United States with practice management, electronic health records, and other services to streamline patient care. Read more...

At the HIMSS10 Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, IBM (IBM) introduced Initiate Exchange, a new service that enables health systems to exchange patient data with physicians. The company also announced that Initiate client CareSpark, has been awarded a Social Security Administration contract through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read more...

Underscoring its rich tradition of healthcare technology firsts, Eclipsys Corporation (NASDAQ: ECLP) has announced the release of Helios by Eclipsys(TM), an industry-defining open architecture platform designed to deliver vendor choice and flexibility to a sector grappling with lagging technology adoption and soaring costs. Moving away from traditional, proprietary operating systems, Eclipsys(TM) is opening up its platform to provide certified third-party companies open, secure access to common services and visual and data integration. Read more...