Covidien and GE Healthcare have announced a five-year collaboration to incorporate Covidien's measurement technologies into GE's patient monitors.
GE Healthcare and
AirStrip Technologies have launched AirStrip Patient Monitoring, which delivers patient monitoring information to critical-care physicians’ iPhones and iPads.
Orion Health and Microsoft have signed two agreements in the field of e-health. In Asia Pacific, wholly owned subsidiary Orion Health Asia Pacific, has signed an agreement to purchase Microsoft’s hospital information system (HIS) software assets, including RIS/PACS, previously known as Amalga HIS. The two parties also have signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their intent to co-market their health information exchange (HIE) and data aggregation and analysis products—Orion Health HIE and Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System—to the public and private HIE and integrated delivery network markets.
Applying a collaborative filtering methodology to medication reconciliation lists can better predict drugs that patients could take, but may miss complete patient medication lists which can negatively affect patient outcomes, researchers found.
European health ministries are keen on improving the IT infrastructure in the health sector. The higher adoption rate of hospital information systems, EMRs and other health IT has boosted the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems market, according to analysis from Frost & Sullivan.
The worldwide hospital information system (HIS) market reached a value of $7.4 billion in 2010, and is expected to achieve a value of $14.7 billion by 2017, according to companiesandmarkets.com.
Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colo. and Pioneers Medical Center in Meeker, Colo. have joined Quality Health Network (QHN), a Grand Junction, Colo.-based healthcare system.
“We have a very diverse group of [health information exchanges] that started in many different ways but are in some ways evolving in the same direction, which is an interesting trend,” said Kate Berry, CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), during a June 28 HIE Leaders Roundtable webinar hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based organization.
Adapting a DICOM structured reporting template to content-based image retrieval (CBIR) could help integrate CBIR into PACS workflow and clinical practice, according to an article published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
- CMIOs Say IT Spending Is Up, Along With Training Budgets
- EHRs Are Deployed in 69% of Respondents' Facilities
- ICD-10 Conversion Has Become a Business Priority
- iPads Have Not Conquered All
Prime Healthcare Services has expanded its partnership with FormFast for its document management capabilities, allowing 14 facilities managed by Prime Healthcare and its affiliates can leverage FormFast’s on-demand document management workflow for assistance with medical records, revenue cycle and patient registration processes.
Open source software and standards will have a widening role in future health IT systems, according to a report titled “Open Source, Open Standards and Health Care Information Systems,” which was first published in the
Journal of Medical Internet Research. However, it still faces some challenges, said Carl J. Reynolds, BSC, MB, of the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education at UCL Medical School in London.
