Nightingale Informatix Corporation

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Nightingale
Company typePublic
TSX-VNGH
IndustryHealthcare Information Technology
Founded2002
Headquarters
Markham
,
Ontario, Canada
Key people
  • Sam Chebib,
    (CEO and President)
  • Michael Ford,
    (CFO)
Websitenightingalemd.ca

Nightingale Informatix Corporation, commonly abbreviated as Nightingale, is a public company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in Rancho Cordova, California, Cambridge, Ontario, Kansas City, Missouri, Pembroke, Massachusetts, and Wexford, Pennsylvania. Nightingale provides products and services that support physicians[1] (family physicians and specialists), allied healthcare practitioners, hospitals and other healthcare organizations with their clinical (i.e. EMR, EHR, Patient Portal) and operational (i.e. Billing, Scheduling, Document Management) requirements. Nightingale provides EHR (Electronic Health Records) and Practice Management services, as well as a Patient Portal,[2] Revenue Cycle Management and Medical transcription services to solo physicians, group practices and large clinics across the United States and Canada. The EMR/ EHR (Electronic Medical Records/Electronic Health Records) by Nightingale is a web-based program and is hosted in a secure ASP (Application Service Provider) environment.

Nightingale ranked no.1 in 2008, Canadian Technology companies' Fast 50 Ranking by Deloitte[3] as an established software as a service (SaaS) technology-based company.

The EHR by Nightingale will be ONC-ATCB[4] certified in summer 2011[needs update], and is OntarioMD,[5] CMS certified for its Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR).

History[edit]

Nightingale Informatix Corporation (NGH: TSX-V) was incorporated in 2002, and acquired the intellectual property rights and assets of Vision MD, which originated in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1997.

In 2016, Nightingale sold its canadian assets to TELUS Health and renamed the remaining business to Nexia Health Technologies.[6]

Products & Brand Names[edit]

  • Nightingale On Demand
  • Nightingale SmartScribes
  • Nightingale Medical Transcription
  • myPatientAccess powered by Nightingale [7]
  • Nightingale Revenue Cycle Management

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Combatting colorectal cancer with technology - Food.ca-All about food in Canada! Canada Food Business, Wineries, Restaurants and Delivery Directory".
  2. ^ "IT in Canada - Canada's Only Integrated Social Media News Network". infoexecutive.itincanada.ca. Archived from the original on 2010-09-21.
  3. ^ "43 Canadian Companies Make 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500". 2008-11-12.
  4. ^ "ONC-ATCB Certified EHR Technology | CCHIT". Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  5. ^ "Innovation Banking | Commercial Banking".
  6. ^ Nightingale Closes Previously Announced Sale to TELUS
  7. ^ "Canadian Patient Access to Offer Canada's First Interactive Personal Health
    Record"
    .