Harris Corporation and Johns Hopkins Medicine have announced a joint venture to develop next-generation medical image management solutions. The collaboration brings together Harris' health information and security technologies with Johns Hopkins' clinical expertise to fuel innovations in medical image management. The venture will focus on developing medical image management solutions to be deployed by the Johns Hopkins Health System and later, to hospitals and health care providers around the country.
ARAMARK Healthcare announced recently that it has acquired Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based Masterplan, a clinical technology management and medical equipment maintenance company. With the buy, ARAMARK expands its capabilities to service all levels of hospital clinical technology, from high-end imaging equipment, such as MRI and CT devices, to common infusion pumps used in daily patient care.
Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE), a Web-based EHR provider, has been named a preferred vendor by HITArkansas, the regional extension center for Arkansas. As a preferred vendor, WebChart EHR from MIE will help HITArkansas’ participating healthcare providers transition from paper to electronic health records and qualify for meaningful use incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
eClinicalWorks announced that Main Line Health, a non-profit health system serving the greater Philadelphia region, is implementing its comprehensive electronic health records solution, and also making assistance available to its affiliated physicians who desire to use the eClinicalWorks EHR. The health system has purchased 150 licenses to date and the first practice became live in less than 11 weeks.
Royal Philips Electronics announced the new Voice Tracer 600 series. The memory capacity of all new Voice Tracers has been doubled to up to 4GB, which allows for 44 days of constant voice recording. The Voice Tracer 625 now includes the brand new Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 speech recognition software for an even better speech-to-text experience.
Virtual Radiologic (vRad), a technology-enabled national radiology practice, announced the launch of an innovative delivery of breast imaging solutions that will expand access to the highest-quality interpretations from fellowship-trained subspecialists across the United States.
SeeMyRadiology.com announced that St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena, Mont., has selected the firm for the immediate, cost-effective sharing of images with patients and physicians beyond the enterprise as well as for the viewing and management of cardiac images.
Carestream announced that Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Medical Center has purchased two DRX-Evolution suites for its high-volume emergency department and five DRX-Mobile Retrofit kits. The 779-bed medical center provides the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center. VCU Medical Center conducts up to 311,900 medical imaging procedures a year, including 43,000 X-ray exams in its ER.
T-System, Inc. announced the general availability of T SystemEV version 3.0, the latest iteration of its emergency department (ED) information system. The solution offers significant advancements in clinical workflow, operational efficiency and interoperability that hospital and health system EDs need to drive higher quality care and financial results.
SRS, which develops EHR technology specialty practices, has announced that Orthopaedics East & Sports Medicine Center has selected SRS ePrescribing for its 17-provider orthopaedic practice. Located in Greenville, N.C. Orthopaedics East works in conjunction with Pitt County Memorial Hospital and provides quality care to eastern North Carolina.
Microsoft announced several new customers that have chosen Microsoft’s suite of cloud applications, Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), to enhance collaboration, improve productivity and reduce costs. Advocate Health Care and Tampa General Hospital are among the latest companies to choose Microsoft’s cloud applications.
TrustHCS, an HIM, compliance and revenue cycle consultancy firm for healthcare providers, announced its partnership with RemitDATA to utilize TITAN in their physician services practice. Practices and clinics nationwide use TrustHCS’s consultants to help reduce denials, hasten reimbursement and improve staff productivity. The company provides comprehensive billing, coding, compliance and reimbursement services ranging from simple process assessments, coding services and physician education to complex workflow re-engineering.
FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A. has announced the availability of its Intelligent Structured Reporting (ISR) technology. An advanced software decision support system, ISR will be featured along with the complete line-up of Synapse Cardiovascular products at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2011 Annual Scientific Session and Expo April 2-5 in New Orleans, La. Available exclusively from Fujifilm, ISR is the latest addition to the Synapse family of integrated solutions dedicated to enhancing clinical workflow and increasing diagnostic certainty.
3M Health Information Systems announced that software modules of 3M eHealth Documentation Solutions – 3M ChartRelease Software, version 7, 3M Electronic Signature Authentication (with 3M ChartView), version 5, 3M ChartScan Software version 3, 3M ChartFact Software, version 14, 3M PFS Document Management Software, version 5, 3M VoiceScript Software, version 10, 3M ChartScript Software, version 10, and 3M ChartScriptMD Software, version 10 – are 2011/2012 compliant and have been certified as EHR Modules by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), an ONC-ATCB.
Sage Healthcare Division, a unit of Sage North America and a major provider of electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software and services, announced that United Medical Centers (UMC), an eight-practice community health center in Eagle Pass, Texas, will implement the Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition to meet the practice’s financial and clinical needs.
CGI, a provider of IT and business process services has developed the Healthcare Quality Compare application, an award-winning, Web- and mobile-based hospital “compare” application that allows citizens to personalize searches for the information they need to evaluate and make informed health care decisions. The app even includes a feature showing emergency room wait times, contact information, and driving instructions.
Ancillary Care Solutions (ACS) announced that it was selected by Orthopedic Center of Illinois (OCI) to strengthen its therapy coding, compliance and billing activities, effective immediately. OCI, staffed by 14 orthopaedic surgeons and 11 physical and occupational therapy providers, will utilize ACS’ physical and therapy expertise in the following areas: ACS will audit patient charts to help ensure compliance with Medicare and other payer policies; ACS will review practice management report reviews to help ensure that therapy providers are appropriately billing all therapy services.
Novation, the healthcare industry supply contracting company, announced that it has awarded agreements to Briggs Medical Service Co. in West Des Moines, Iowa and Medline Industries in Mundelein, Ill. for Hand-Held Diagnostic Tools: Sphygmomanometers. Based on current purchasing trends, pricing for this agreement is 0.4 percent lower than the previous agreement. Compared to average market pricing, contract pricing is 2.7 percent to 4.2 percent lower.
CoActiv announced that the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS) has selected its EXAM-PACS for the viewing, management, archiving and communications of medical images at its new FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital in Ghana, West Africa, set to open in mid-2011. An important humanitarian effort to provide much needed care to scoliosis patients, the not-for-profit hospital was founded by Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD, an attending orthopedic surgeon at the prestigious Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City (HSS) who was born in Ghana.
GE Healthcare announced that Centricity Perinatal 6.90 has received Modular EHR Certification. This solution enables eligible providers and hospitals to use the Centricity Perinatal solution as part of their efforts to meet meaningful use measures and qualify for federal health IT incentives. Centricity Perinatal, an EHR Module, is 2011/2012 compliant. It has been certified by InfoGard, an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Wolters Kluwer Health announced that Firelands Regional Medical Center in Ohio has implemented Quantifi as its clinical pharmacy documentation system. Quantifi is a customizable clinical intervention documentation and reporting tool for hospital pharmacies and health systems. It allows pharmacists to document their clinical interventions quickly, collecting crucial event data easily. Users have the ability to follow-up on their reports or the reports done by their peers. Administrators can easily generate executive level reports and detailed managerial reports to support clinical and quality improvement activities.
