ALISO VIEJO, Calif., December 6, 2005 - Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of VistA-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions, announced a multi-year agreement with the Community Health Network of West Virginia (Network) to implement a comprehensive electronic health information system...................more.

Five years ago, twenty community health centers formed the West Virginia Primary Care Network to take advantage of shared technology and business resources to overcome the fragmentation of our rural health care delivery system. The purpose of our collaboration is to improve the health status of the communities served by these organizations. The Network member sites collectively provide services to over 100,000 patients in 28 of West Virginia's 55 counties each year, with nearly 400,000 patient encounters annually. Our member health centers provided over $40 million in health care services last year, with 70% of this care to Medicare, Medicaid and uninsured patients.