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Don't Miss Out on Section 179 Savings!! November
27, 2006 - The deadline for taking advantage
of the current Section 179 of the Federal Tax Code is
quickly approaching. Act now to take advantage of the
Section 179 Deduction which allows you deduct all or part
of the cost of eligible property, including hardware,
software, and medical equipment up to $100,000. The generous
deduction will be changing to a much lower amount, effective
January 1, 2007. Visit this helpful site, http://www.nfib.com/object/IO_28637.html,
to learn more about Section 179, and how it can work for
your business! For additional information, contact a Bond
Product Representative at 866.792.6900.
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Intelligent Medical Objects and Bond Technologies
Sign Multi-Year Agreement November 13, 2006 - Dateline
to be determined — Bond Technologies and Intelligent
Medical Objects, Inc. (IMO) have announced a five year
license agreement to enhance the diagnosis and procedures
terminologies inside Bond Clinician™ EHR.
The agreement provides for enhancements to the interface
terminology for Bond Clinician™ users, namely, IMO®
ICD-9 Enhanced™ for Diagnosis and IMO® CPT Enhanced™
with HCPCS for Procedures. These services are part of
IMO’s Personal Health Terminology™ (PHT),
and have been fully integrated into Bond Clinician, Summer
2006. Bond selected IMO to improve the user experience
and ensure that data is collected correctly for use in
decision-support and quality improvement. Bond provides
demand-driven solutions, based upon user feedback, that
lead to better outcomes and greater efficiency for care
delivery organizations.
Andrew Kanter MD, MPH, IMO’s Chief Medical Officer
commented, “As a part of this agreement IMO is continuing
to work closely with Bond’s team on their Terminology
Strategy to ensure that users of Bond Clinician™
EHR - from clinicians to practice management to patients
- get the most out of their system. Bond Clinician EHR
has taken advantage of a great deal of the enhanced functionality
capable with IMO’s terminologies such as primary
and secondary ICD code mapping, and links to SNOMED®
CT. This not only allows for decision-support and data
analysis but provides a state-of-the-art experience for
its users.”
Travis Bond, Founder & CEO of Bond Technologies explained;
“We began working with IMO on our terminology strategy
early on, in 2004. The objective then, as today, is to
perfect the use of interface terminology as a means to
connect the various terminologies such as ICD-9 and CPT
administrative codes and Thomson Micromedex for the evidence-based
medicine aspects…” Mark Swierzewski MD from
Tampa Bay Urology characterized the Bond Clinician EHR
improvements stating “The freedom to document with
terminology that is common to us versus billing-specific
definitions is refreshing. Generally, you want to chart
a medical problem first and bill second. With Bond Clinician™
EHR, we get both.”
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Bond
Technologies’ bond clinician™ EHR RECEIVES CCHIT CERTIFICATION
October 23, 2006, Tampa, FL - The Certification
Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHITSM)
today announced that Bond Technologies is CCHIT CertifiedSM
for its product, Bond Clinician™ EHR and meets CCHIT
ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) criteria for
2006. Ambulatory EHRs are designed for physician offices
and clinics where most Americans get their healthcare.
CCHIT is a Recognized Certification Body in the United
States for certifying health information technology –
an independent, non-profit organization that sets the
benchmark for electronic health records.
As a CCHIT Certified product, Bond Clinician™ EHR
has been tested and passed inspection of 100 percent of
a comprehensive set of criteria for:
- functionality (ability to create and manage electronic
records for all patients, as well as automating workflow
in a physician’s office),
- interoperability (a first step in the ability to receive
and send electronic data to other entities such as laboratories),
and
- security (ability to keep patients’ information
safe).
The CCHIT Certified mark — a “seal of approval”
for EHR products — provides the first consensus-based,
consistent benchmark for ambulatory products. By looking
to products with the CCHIT Certified seal, physicians
and other providers can be assured they are making a reliable
investment and insurers and other payers know the products
meet expected industry standards.
“Physician who purchase certified products have
the assurance that they have been reviewed by a panel
of judges, including practicing physicians, and that they
are being evaluated against standards set by professionals
in the field and successfully piloted with products from
large and small companies,” said Mark Leavitt, M.D.,
Ph.D., chair, CCHIT. “The quality and safety of
EHR products can now be measured using certification criteria
that were developed specifically for that purpose.”
“We are incredibly proud to be able to list Bond
Clinician™ EHR among the products able to display
the CCHIT Certification seal,” said Travis Bond,
President and Chief Software Architect of Bond Technologies.
“The CCHIT Certification demonstrates that Bond
Clinician EHR maintains the level of features and functionality
that are required in the ambulatory market, and provides
physicians with the added comfort knowing that the product
has been thoroughly tested against the thorough CCHIT
criteria.”
The goals of CCHIT product certification are to reduce
the risk of HIT investment by physicians and other providers;
ensure interoperability of HIT products; enhance the availability
of HIT adoption incentives from purchasers and payers;
and protect the privacy of personal health information.
CCHIT’s certification compliance criteria and its
design for a certification inspection process have been
thoroughly researched, taking into account the state of
the art of EHRs and available standards, and comparing
certification processes in other industries and other
countries. The inspection process is based on real-life
medical scenarios designed to test products rigorously
against the clinical needs of providers and the quality
and safety needs of healthcare consumers and payers. One
script, for example, recreates a scenario of an elderly
man with poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension and
other chronic conditions in order to test EHR functions
such as potential adverse drug reactions, disease management
and treatment plans.
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Bond Technologies’ Clients Highlighted in National Media
August 24, 2006, Tampa, FL - Two Bond clients
were highlighted in the national media this morning. SmartCare
Family Medical Centers was featured in the USA Today's
cover article on walk-in retail clinics. Health-e-Station
was featured in a segment on the Today Show with Matt
Lauer, on NBC.
For more information about Bond Clinician™ EHR,
please visit www.bondclinician.com
For more information about SmartCare Family Medical Centers,
please visit www.smartcarecenters.com
For more information about Health-e-Station, please visit
http://healthestation.com/
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Bond Technologies’ client opens first, unique, off-hours
clinic in Suburban Atlanta August 16, 2006, Tampa, FL -
A new Bond Technologies’ client, Health-e-Station,
has opened its first off-hours clinic in Peachtree City,
Georgia. In addition to the basic functionality of Bond
Clinician™ EHR, Health-e-Station’s unique needs
use Bond’s enterprise features including the Patient
Portal and Kiosk functionality, IntelliHistory™ patient
interview/questionnaire, advanced bi-directional e-prescribing,
and retail functionality.
For more information about Bond Clinician™ EHR, please
visit www.bondclinician.com.
For more information about Health-e-Station, please visit
http://healthestation.com/
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Bond Technologies Awarded
5-Star Rating June 20, 2006, Tampa, FL -
Bond Technologies, an industry leading provider of Electronic
Health Record Software, was awarded the highest rating in
several EHR functionality categories in the AC Group’s
annual mid-year survey. Those categories include:
- EHR Functionality
- Interfaced PMS/DIM/EHR
- Small Group Practices (6 to 19 physicians)
- Small Practices (1 to 5 physicians)
Overall, only twelve companies, Bond Technologies (Bond
Clinician? EHR), NextGen Healthcare Information Systems,
Inc., eClinicalWorks, Medical Communication Systems, Propractia
(StreamlineMD), Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Practice
Partner (formally know as PMSI), Misys, OmniMD, A4 Health
Systems, Epic Systems Corporation, and GE Healthcare,
received the highest overall 5-Star rating.
The EHR survey included 2,300 functional questions divided
into 47 categories, while the PMS survey includes over
1,000 functionality questions divided into 26 categories.
The 47 functional categories included a section on the
Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) requirements for a
computerized patient record (CPR), along with functional
questions relating to operational areas including prescriptions,
charge capture, dictation, interface with laboratories,
physician order entry, decision support and alerts, security,
personal health records, reporting and documentation.
To assist the physician community, the AC Group report
quantifies six specific components necessary to ensure
that a physician or a group of physicians have made the
right choice. The components include: Product functionality,
end-user satisfaction, company financial viability, client
base, technology, and price.
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Bond
Technologies Releases Bond Clinician EHR/PM with Sleep Medicine
Feature Sets, Salt Lake City, UT, June 19, 2006
- Bond Technologies, an industry leading provider of Electronic
Health Record and Practice Management Software, announced
today, the release of the only sleep medicine-focused electronic
health record feature-set available today.
Being demonstrated for the first time at the SLEEP 2006
20th Annual Meeting, in Salt Lake City, some of the sleep
medicine-specific features include integrated EHR and PM
allowing for explosion codes, inventory tracking, and DME
rentals, advanced integration with diagnostic equipment,
and time-sensitive flowsheets with text notation. The customizable
IntelliHistory™ questionnaire sets include sleep-specific
interview questions that can be filled out ahead of time
by the patient via the secure Patient Portal, or in-office
kiosk. Bond Clinician’s iWatch™ technology allows
for remote system monitoring and surveillance.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, over 90 million
Americans snore, 12 million have Obstructive Sleep Apnea,
10% have Restless Leg Syndrome, and up to 6% of people worldwide
have Fibromyalgia. With these newer understandings of sleep
disorders and how they affect overall health and the quality
of life, the busy and fast-paced workflow surrounding sleep
medicine has become increasingly important. Bond Clinician™
helps streamline these complex processes through the automation
of data transmission, remote access, and surveillance technology.
"With millions of Americans suffering from, and seeking
treatment for, a wide variety of sleep disorders, we are
excited to be able to offer the sleep medicine industry
the electronic health record tools that they need to manage
the workflow of the physicians, sleep professionals, administrative
staff, and patients," said Travis Bond, President of Bond
Technologies.
In addition to these unique product features, Bond Technologies
will continue to offer its patient portal, industry-leading
clinical content and decision-making support, iClinician™
Mobile solution, Clinician Image Management (CIM), and advanced
Query Builder reporting module, with no add-on costs.
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5/22/2006
- Bond Technologies Launches Bond Clinician EHR/PM, Summer
2006 Release - Bond Technologies, an industry leading
provider of Electronic Health Record Software, announced
today, the release of Bond Clinician™ Summer 2006,
which includes the newly released, integrated Practice Management
module, as well as a wealth of additional feature and functionality
enhancements.
Being demonstrated for the first time at the Towards an
Electronic Patient Record Conference (TEPR) in Baltimore,
Maryland this week, the Bond Clinician™ PM includes
a customizable Central Command Center for workflow-driven
access to information and Worklists-at-a-glance, a powerful
fee schedule system that actively manages insurance contracts,
and advanced customization functionality throughout that
enables hands on management of the entire patient revenue
cycle.
Additional EHR feature enhancements include customizable
and robust flowsheets, advanced protocols and order sets,
retail and inventory management functionality, as well as
multiple enhancements to encounter notes. Kiosk functionality
allows patients to access the patient portal from the physician’s
waiting room for self check-in, paying co-pays with credit
cards, as well as to receive visit instructions. Communication
feature enhancements include secure patient email, as well
as both physician and employer portals.
In addition to these product enhancements, Bond Technologies
will continue to offer its patient portal, industry-leading
clinical content and decision-making support, iClinician™
Mobile solution, Clinician Image Management (CIM), and advanced
Query Builder reporting module, with no add-on costs.
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Micromedex, Geisinger Form Alliance Focused on Evidence-Based
Solution Sets - Thomson Micromedex says it has
formed an alliance with Geisinger Health System to produce
evidence-based tools for standardizing and improving patient
care and outcomes in health care organizations. The largest
U.S. rural health care provider, Geisinger will provide
a large amount of inpatient order sets to Micromedex. The
companies will then work to integrate those protocols with
evidence-based solutions to produce Micromedex Order Sets.
The product will supply up-to-date instructions and treatment
options for the most common hospital and emergency department
diagnoses, procedures and complaints.
The company claims that more than 3,400 U.S. and Canadian
hospitals use Micromedex products. These hospitals can link
the new product to Micromedex evidence-based clinical decision
support modules to adapt Order Sets to their own policies
and procedures. Order Sets can also be used as a stand-alone
solution.
For more information, visit
http://www.micromedex.com.
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RxHub:
E-Scripts Hits 'Tipping Point'
(April 14, 2006) Electronic prescription network vendor
RxHub LLC in 2005 added 25 million lives to its master patient
index. That brings the total to 160 million, representing
80% coverage of the commercial payer market, according to
the St. Paul, Minn.-based company. For that and other reasons,
RxHub believes the "tipping point" for e-prescribing has
been reached.
RxHub's primary services enable providers to access patient
drug benefit eligibility, formulary information and medication
histories at the time of prescribing. Under some contracts,
the company also supports direct submission of prescriptions
to pharmacies using the national network of Alexandria,
Va.-based SureScripts.
But based on the size of its master patient index and
other metrics--including significant transactions growth
during the past quarter--RxHub believes e-prescribing
has become an accepted part of medicine. For instance:
- National standards for new and refill electronic prescriptions,
and eligibility, formulary and medication history transactions
have been approved.
- RxHub handled more than 26 million real-time eligibility
requests in 2005 and 10 million in the first quarter
of 2006.
- The company provided more than 2.5 million medication
histories to physicians during 2005 and 1 million in
the first quarter of 2006. In 2005 the vendor delivered
medication histories to clinicians in all 50 states.
- The vendor now offers access to more than 725 drug
formularies.
RxHub also announced CEO David McLean has left the company.
The company named J.P. Little to lead the company as COO.
Little has been with the vendor since its formation in
early 2001 and has served as senior vice president and
CIO. More information is available at rxhub.net.
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SmartCare Family Medical Centers Announces Use
of New Electronic Health Record Technology from Bond Technologies
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., March 29, 2006
- SmartCare Family Medical Centers (SmartCare) has selected
Bond Technologies to provide a comprehensive customized
electronic health records solution for its patients. The
solution is integrated into each new SmartCare facility
to optimize the quality of patient care.
The HIPAA-compliant Bond Clinician™ EHR (Electronic
Health Record) makes available the most current treatment
guidelines and protocols from industry leader Thomson MICROMEDEX.
The system features e-prescribing and lab order entry capabilities,
a secure patient portal, document imaging and many more
functions. Consumers benefit from secure, Web-based access
to their personal health information through a patient portal,
streamlined health monitoring and dialogue with their regular
physician.
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Highmark
Offers Physicians Payment Increases for EHRs
Highmark Blue Shield beginning in April will offer payment
increases to physicians who meet quality goals, including
the adoption of electronic health records, the Harrisburg
Patriot-News reports.
The voluntary program will be open to 1,300 physicians in
250 medical practices in central Pennsylvania. Physicians
will be rewarded for providing recommended care such as
ensuring that children receive immunizations and that patients
get flu shots. In addition, medical practices will receive
payment increases for using EHRs, the Patriot-News reports.
Participating physicians will receive regular reports on
their quality scores and how they compare with other practices
(Patriot-News, 3/8).
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Report:
Online Health Info Searches Vary by Age
February 10, 2006 - Seventy-nine percent of all
adult Internet users have gone online to search for health
information, according to a survey by the Pew Internet &
American Life Project.
Of the adults who use the Internet, 84% of respondents ages
29 to 40 as well as 84% of respondents ages 51 to 59 said
they had searched online for health information on at least
one topic. Eighty percent of respondents ages 41 to 50 said
they had searched online for health information, and 73%
of respondents ages 18 to 28 said they had gone online for
health information. In addition, 72% of respondents age
70 and older and 68% of respondents ages 60 to 69 said they
had searched for health information online.
The survey also looked at the percentages of all adults
who use the Internet. Eighty-seven percent of respondents
ages 29 to 40 said they use the Internet, compared with
75% of respondents ages 41 to 50 and 54% of respondents
ages 60 to 69. Just 21% of respondents age 70 and older
said they use the Internet.
Results are based on surveys conducted in January 2005,
May through June 2005, and September 2005.
- www.ihealthbeat.org
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Great News from CMS!
The
Good News
Yesterday President Bush signed the Deficit Reduction Act
of 2005. The new law reverses the 4.4% Medicare payment
cuts that were effective January 1.
What
To Do
Any claims you have filed, retroactive to January 1, will
be reimbursed at the conversion factor of $37.8975, the
2004 rate. You do NOT need to resubmit claims.
Medicare will reprocess any eligible claims in batches,
so don’t look for a lump sum right away. You
will begin to see these credits in the coming weeks, in
small amounts.
Finding Details
For more complete information on the reversal, please visit
www.cms.hhs.gov.
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2/07/2006
- Bond Medical Receives Microsoft Gold Certification
Bond Medical is proud to announce achieving
gold level partner status with Microsoft Corporation. Gold
Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence
and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have the
closest working relationship with Microsoft. Attaining Gold
status is a testament to Bond Medical’s dedication
to maintaining the highest quality partnerships and technological
advancements. Microsoft awards Gold level partner status
to companies who show a superior level of commitment and
expertise in Microsoft technology. Bond Clinician™
EHR was built using the latest Microsoft technology, as
well as the industries leading clinical content and decision
support. Bond engineers design, install and configures network
infrastructures that support Bond solutions. Microsoft awarded
specific competencies in Networking Infrastructure Solutions,
Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Information Worker
Solutions with specialized competency in Storage Solutions,
Active Directory & Identity Management.
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2/01/2006
- As healthcare is key issue for Americans, the President
addresses areas of concern
Washington , D.C./Atlanta, Georgia - January 31, 2006 -
In tonight's State of the Union, President Bush addressed
a number of key issues, healthcare being the number one
domestic policy issue discussed.
"Tonight, the
state of our Union is strong, and we will make it stronger,"
President Bush stated, as he began his address. After the
President addressed key international policy and national
security issues, such as Iraq and the War on Terroism, he
then addressed domestic issues, placing a great deal of
emphasis on reforming healthcare.
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1/26/2006
- Bond Medical Voted Best Customer Service
TAMPA , Fl. - January 26, 2006 - Bond Medical, headquartered
in Tampa, Florida, was voted best Value-Added Reseller (VAR)
in Customer Service at the annual Per-Se Technologies’
MediSoft Conference in Tempe, Arizona this week.
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7/7/2005
- Motion Computing Launches Industry's Smallest, Lightest
High-Performance Tablet PC
For more information or to purchase your own Motion
Tablet, contact us at info@bondclinician.com
Click here to read about the LS800.
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5/31/2005
- Motion Computing Launches Industry's Next-Generation Tablet
PC
New Motion LE1600 - First Slate Tablet with Latest Intel
Centrino Mobile Technology -
Is Lighter, Slimmer and Capable of Up to a Full Day of Battery
Life
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5/16/2005
- Bond Technologies Partners with Thomson Micromedex to
Offer Healthcare IT's Most Advanced Handheld Solution
SALT LAKE CITY, UT., May, 16 2005 - Bond Technologies, by
partnering Micromedex, a business of The Thomson Corporation
(NYSE: TOC; TSX; TOC), becomes the first Electronic Health
Record (EHR) solution provider to offer the full suite of
Micromedex integrated decision support products within its
handheld offering.
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2/14/2005
- PHR and HIM: A Perfect Fit
Advance for Health Information Professionals, by Tricia
Cassidy. HIM professionals are well suited to be personal
health record (PHR) advocates.
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