Ingenix and the American Medical Association (AMA) are working together to help physicians use health IT systems to enhance patient care, simplify administration and improve clinical efficiency.

As part of this collaboration, the AMA has selected Ingenix CareTracker as the first electronic health records (EHR) system offered through the AMA’s new online health information solutions platform for physicians. The AMA platform will enable physicians to assess and meet their clinical and practice needs. It will provide physicians access to information, products and services with a single, secure sign-on.

The AMA platform, which will launch nationwide later this year, is currently being beta tested in Michigan in collaboration with the Michigan State Medical Society.

BJC HealthCare, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the United States, has selected MedAssets charge integrity solutions to automate and standardize its charge description master and pricing for increased efficiency, billing compliance and improved net revenue capture.

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. announced that the Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA) has expanded its preferred partner agreement with the company.

Through this agreement, OSMA members – which include more than 20,000 Ohio physicians, residents, medical students and practice managers – will be offered preferred pricing for NextGen Practice Management and NextGenSM Practice Solutions. Since 2008, NextGen EHR has been offered to OSMA members through the organization’s EHR Standards of Excellence Program.

FairWarning, Inc. announced that Symantec Security Information Management (SSIM) is an official FairWarning Ready-for-Healthcare Program Partner. By combining FairWarning’s application privacy monitoring capabilities with the infrastructure security monitoring capabilities of SSIM, customers for the first time will be able to seamlessly monitor their entire healthcare enterprise. In addition, customers using the combined solution will be able to rapidly perform end-to-end incident investigations involving patients, users and infrastructure devices to dramatically reduce the time and effort required to complete such examinations.