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Royal Philips Electronics is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and clinical decision support offerings at the point of care.
Information management systems provider DR Systems has added to its list of medical facilities taking part in beta trials of its Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), a cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and radiology reports.
Digital x-ray detectors are finally untethered and, in some cases, surprisingly easy to implement, according to a report issued today from healthcare market research firm KLAS.
Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, has released an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalte communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
For patient care in North American, South American and Latin American markets, Philips has opened the doors to its Healthcare Customer Care Solutions Center in Alpharetta, Ga., offering technology and local expertise to remotely support hospitals in keeping their equipment running.
Vital Images, a provider of advanced visualization software, has appointed Oran Muduroglu as a member of its board of directors.
While Royal Philips Electronics recorded a net income of €260 million ($367.7 million U.S.) in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared with a net loss of €1.18 billion ($1.67 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2008, Philips Healthcare did not fare as well, especially in the U.S. market.
Digisonics has negotiated deals with facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida.
Philips Healthcare has donated nearly $1 million worth of medical equipment and supplies to be used by a team of 12 clinicians from Caritas Christi Health Care who traveled to Haiti this week to aid in the earthquake relief efforts.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has sent letters to 31 U.S. hospitals asking about their experiences in implementing health IT under the $19 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). He is seeking to ensure the “effective and efficient use of taxpayer money” in implementing health IT, such as computerized provider order entry systems and EHRs.
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InnerWireless has added compatibility between InnerWireless’ Horizon Distributed Antenna System and Philips Healthcare’s family of IntelliVue telemetry system with smart-hopping technology.
A partnership announced Tuesday between Philips Healthcare and Edwards Lifesciences will integrate Edwards' oximetry catheter and sensor technology with Philips’ IntelliVue patient monitors.
Philips Healthcare showcased advancements and upgrades focused on managing radiation dose to expand clinical capabilities at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North American in Chicago earlier this month. The company also showed the iDose X-ray dose reduction solution and the DoseAware radiation dose tracking system.
Ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, has sent a letter to 10 health IT companies requesting consumer complaint information about their health IT products.
Philips Healthcare has entered the cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) market in Australia with a contract at Gold Coast University Hospital in Brisbane, which is currently under construction and slated to be completed in 2012.
Advanced visualization technology aided diagnostic interpretation during the U.K. MRI in Breast Screening (MARIBS) trial, which recruited 732 women--who had at least a 50 percent risk of being a breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1), BRCA2 or TP53 gene mutation carrier--for an annual breast MRI and two-view mammogram over a nearly seven-year period (Aug. 1997- March, 2003).
Philips Healthcare has released SureSigns VS2, which offers clinicians a spot-check monitor for use with neonates, as well as pediatric and adult patients.
Many hospitals are considering new vendor-neutral solutions for archiving and accessing medical images to avoid being locked into closed, proprietary software, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.
Philips Healthcare has signed an eight-year iSite PACS expansion deal with OrthoCarolina, an orthopedic practice comprised of 16 locations in the Charlotte, N.C. region.
Philips Healthcare has signed a five-year renewal/expansion deal for its iSite PACS with Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
The state of Maine currently has the largest operating statewide exchange in the country in relation to population. Although Devore Culver, Executive Director of Maine’s HealthInfoNet, expects that distinction to change in the months ahead, the state’s HIE is entering the final months of its demonstration phase, and is slated to move in to its full statewide implementation in the second half of 2010. Culver, who is former CIO of Eastern Maine Health Care, recently spoke with CMIO about the progress HealthInfoNet has made.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.
