Whois & Analysis for medhost.com

Founded in 1984, MEDHOST is a Health Information Technology company based in Nashville, Tennessee with a satellite office in Plano, Texas.

Their services streamline clinical workflow, provide patient care, maximize revenue capture, and optimize administrative inefficiencies, and are in use in 1,100 hospitals nationwide.

In 2009, their patient records technology and software helped community hospitals (fewer than 200 beds) comply with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, wherein physicians were required to adopt modern digital record-keeping solutions or face penalty.

An electronic health record (EHR), or electronic medical record (EMR), refers to the systematized collection of patient and population electronically-stored health information in a digital format.

These records can be shared across different health care settings.

Records are shared through network-connected, enterprise-wide information systems or other information networks and exchanges.

EHRs may include a range of data, including demographics, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology images, vital signs, personal statistics like age and weight, and billing information.

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

Healthcare is delivered by health professionals (providers or practitioners) in allied health professions, chiropractic, physicians, physician associates, dentistry, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, psychology, and other health professions.

It includes the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.

Information technology (IT) is the application of computers to store, study, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology (ICT).

In 2012, Zuppo proposed an ICT hierarchy where each hierarchy level "contain[s] some degree of commonality in that they are related to technologies that facilitate the transfer of information and various types of electronically mediated communications.".

Health information technology (HIT) is information technology applied to health and health care (including the aged care market).

It supports health information management across computerized systems and the secure exchange of health information between consumers, providers, payers, and quality monitors.

Based on an often-cited 2008 report on a small series of studies conducted at four sites that provide ambulatory care–three U.S. medical centers and one in the Netherlands– the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) was viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system.