GE Healthcare has successfully linked its electronic medical records (EMR) solution with several non-GE inpatient systems, providing a single view of the patient record that will go beyond the requirements of meaningful use. The interoperability solution is set to debut at beta sites Capital Region Healthcare (N.H.) and Decatur Memorial Hospital (Ill.) in early 2011 with general availability expected later that year. This capability takes a standard, viewable continuity of care document, extracts select patient data and delivers just the interaction problems, allergies, and medication information into the EMR as discrete data. This subset of the data, after clinician review and approval, is accepted as data native to the EMR, with the ability to check for drug interactions.
Main Line Health, suburban Philadelphia’s leading healthcare resource with four of the region’s leading acute care hospitals, partnered with Summit Healthcare to address business continuity and ensure system access during a HCIS system or network downtime. Main Line Health will be implementing the Summit Healthcare Downtime Reporting System this fall.
McKesson has partnered with Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital to expand the hospital’s use of bar-code scanning technology to blood product administration. The new Horizon MobileCare Transfusion solution uses the same approach to positive patient identification now widely used by hospitals for medication administration.
Meta Health Technology announced the introduction of eAbstract, the company's new chart abstracting solution. The software accommodates the new ICD-10 coding system that will be implemented in the United States effective October 1, 2013. It features a built-in workflow engine and includes Meta's market-leading Electronic Physician Query software to maximize HIM coding and abstracting efficiency.
idOnDemand, makers of "smart identification" technology, has debuted the first universal building and IT access card that supports more than 30 building access card systems. The idOnDemand SmartID solution provides a single identity card for access to all company buildings, regardless of the building access system, enabling seamless employee admittance and migration.
EDCO Group was awarded an agreement by Healthcare Coalition of Texas (HCT) for document management solutions including: on-site day forward scanning, backfile scanning, storage, shredding and electronic data back-up services. The 17 healthcare system members of HCT will have access to all of EDCO’s solutions to help lower their document management costs.
Phytel has announced that Ministry Health Care has deployed its Proactive Patient Outreach system, an automated care coordination and population health management solution, to help fill gaps in preventive and chronic care within Ministry Medical Group while augmenting the organization's patient-centered medical home initiative.
Voalté has announced that its application, which consolidates voice, alarm and text on the iPhone platform, has been adopted by nurses and other point-of-care workers at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.H. The solution will enable the nurses and clinicians at Frisbie to send and receive presence-based text messages and make high definition voice calls across the hospital VoIP system.
Carestream Health has sold its 1,000th medical imaging system using its CARESTREAM DRX-1, the industry’s first wireless, cassette-size detector that can help streamline overall imaging workflow, while simultaneously improving productivity and enhancing patient care. Prominent healthcare providers that have adopted the system include the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois in Lausanne, and Homerton University Hospital in London
SRS, maker of productivity-enhancing EMR technology and services, has announced that Medical Hills Internal Medicine and Pediatrics has selected the SRS Hybrid EMR for its 14 providers. Located in Bloomington, IL, Medical Hills provides preventive care and treatment for a wide range of health conditions.
Health Access Solutions announced that the Individual Practice Association Medical Group of Santa Clara County, Inc. (SCCIPA) has gone live with the next generation of Access Express (version 5.0) to create an advanced technology platform that tightly integrates care management with the clinical functionality of Excelicare software.
Agfa HealthCare, a provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announced that Kettering Health Network in Ohio, has chosen its CR 30-X and DX-G computed radiography (CR) solutions for installation in two of its area outpatient imaging centers. The solutions will help both patient centers streamline clinician workflow. The CR solutions will be utilized by 18 radiologists and ten residents throughout the network.
Wellsoft has announced that the Wellsoft EDIS received ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification as an EHR Module, meeting certification criteria for security, privacy, CPOE, medication reconciliation, clinical decision support, drug/drug and drug/allergy checking as well as problem, medication and allergy lists and more.
LiveTime Software, a provider of Web, SaaS, and Cloud based ITIL 3 Service Management (ITSM) and Service Desk software, announced an agreement with Novell for worldwide distribution of LiveTime as Novell Service Desk. The product will be generally available on November 11.
VHA announced that NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Ill., has selected its price benchmarking service, VHA PriceLYNX to assist with the system's ongoing cost reduction efforts. With access to accurate and timely pricing details via VHA PriceLYNX, the health system is poised to achieve its $5 million cost reduction target this fiscal year.
NextComputing, a manufacturer of high-performance portable and small form-factor workstations and servers, announces the Vigor Evo Plus. The latest in the company’s line of rugged mobile computers is designed to support high-end software applications in deployed environments.
Allscripts has announced that the St. Charles Health System, a private not-for-profit corporation that operates four hospitals with an active medical staff of 350 physicians, has selected Allscripts as the provider of Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solutions for the health system’s employed and affiliated physicians. The selection of Allscripts is a key component of St. Charles Health System’s creation of a clinically integrated health information system that will support the practice of evidence-based medicine and streamline patient care.
A2iA, a developer of tools for handwritten and machine printed text recognition, information extraction and intelligent classification of paper documents, announced new features and improvements to its core, proprietary recognition engines. By allowing complex and cursive handwritten data to become part of a structured database from all types of forms, documents and checks, including cursive handwritten letters, A2iA is proven to reduce manual data-entry and document handling costs.
Consumer Health Technologies announced that it has signed a multi-year services agreement with Noridian Administrative Services (NAS), one of the nation's largest administrators of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The multi-year contract firmly establishes CHT, an award winning Healthcare IT Company, as an IT leader in the private and government Healthcare sectors.
Univita Health has officially unveiled an independent aging program designed to help families plan, coordinate and manage the activities needed for seniors to stay independent. The new program, Univita Living, was selected as one of the top ten new product launches at Health 2.0’s Annual Conference.
Merge Healthcare, a leading HIT solutions provider, announced the addition of four new customers for its e-trials myEDC solution. These wins reflect continued momentum and interest from the pharmaceutical and contract research organization community with this innovative solution. In addition, Merge has released a new version of its proven etrials Enterprise EDC solution. This newest version contains a new rules engine and notification module that has been successfully deployed for a project providing full SAE reconciliation workflow.
Greenway Medical Technologies announced that its PrimeSUITE 2011 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a Complete EHR on October 14, 2010 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT).
Quest Diagnostics announced that its healthcare IT subsidiary MedPlus and the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, announced they are partnering to expand the adoption of health information technology by offering Care360 EHR, a web-based electronic health record, on the AMA’s new online platform for physicians. AMA’s platform is currently being beta-tested in Michigan in collaboration with the Michigan State Medical Society and will be available nationally in 2011.
