CureMD’s ICE – Integrated Community EHR Praised at 2009 HIMSS Conference

CHICAGO: CureMD’s ICE – an “Integrated Community EHR” (Electronic Health Record) won praise at this year’s annual meeting of HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) in Chicago, showing that the barriers to communications created across all care providers, physicians, hospitals, and ancillary providers. Integration of physicians and hospitals has long been the goal of many EMR instillations. CureMD’s ICE, take that integration to much further, recognizing, and providing the means for all community health care providers to communicate, safely, and securely, for information flow across the full continuum of care.

“What happens in the physical therapists practice may be critical in the orthopedist care, or the visiting nurse’s notes may give the internist the information they need for the right diagnosis, or keep an ER from inadvertently creating a drug complication” said Kamal Hashmat, President of CureMD, “We cannot claim integrated information for care, if it is integrated only between the physician and hospital.” He added.

CureMD’s ICE is a response to the recognition that healthcare costs and quality have too long been negatively impacted by duplicative testing and treatments, prescription conflicts, interrupted and fragmented care and that care, the continuum of that care, crosses a wide range of care givers. All providers must be included for information technologies to have the greatest positive impact.

ICE has the potential to contribute dramatically to improved clinical communications, reduced duplication in care and in administrative processes as users contribute updated information.

HIMSS, the Healthcare Information Management Society is the leading trade association of healthcare information professionals and vendors serving the healthcare industry.

CureMD is a New York based developer and operator of sophisticated medical practice management systems designed for physician practices, as well as for medical faculties.  CureMD’s HIPAA compliant software includes a complete and integrated system of practice resources including billing, electronic medical records, prescribing, scheduling, and practice operations.