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Integration Tools And Interoperability


Corepoint, IPeople offer Meditech interfacing tool

New Products | Thursday, September 09 2010
Corepoint Health and Interface People (IPeople) have collaborated to offer a bidirectional interfacing tool for Meditech hospitals.
 

Detroit physician group integrates data with Orion Health

Contracts & Installations | Thursday, September 09 2010
Wayne State University Physician Group, a Detroit-based nonprofit, multi-specialty physician practice group, has selected Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to help create an exchange of clinical and demographic data among hospitals, medical centers and physicians' own offices.
 

Carolinas health system chooses Medicity for HIE creation

Contracts & Installations | Thursday, September 09 2010
Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), a healthcare organization affiliated with 32 hospitals in North and South Carolina, has selected Medicity as its partner to build a multi-state health information exchange (HIE).
 

JAMIA: EMRs enable genetic study of peripheral artery disease

Clinical Studies | Wednesday, September 08 2010
EMR-based data, used across institutions in a structured way, offer great potential for diverse research studies, including those related to understanding the genetic bases of common diseases, according to new research published in this month's Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
 

BMJ: British EHR roll-out experience proves to be long, complex

Friday, September 03 2010
Delivering improved healthcare through nationwide EHRs will be a long, complex and iterative process requiring flexibility and local adaptability both with respect to the systems and the implementation strategy, according to research published online Sept. 2 in the British Medical Journal.
 

Caspio releases chart, dashboard apps

New Products | Thursday, September 02 2010
Caspio has made available new chart applications to create visual web-based charts and dashboards for any database and assist users' understanding of large data sets.
 

Surgical instrument tracking tech gets FDA clearance

New Products | Wednesday, September 01 2010
The FDA has cleared Haldor Advanced Technologies’ ORLocate, a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system that accounts for items used during surgery to reduce incidence of surgical items left inside patients.
 

VisionFM, ECRI to facilitate device safety alert, recall communication

Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, August 30 2010
Vision Facilities Management has started a new two-way communication interface with ECRI Institute to improve the ability of hospital staff to manage medical device safety alerts and recalls.
 

West Virginia facility to deploy Wolters Kluwer order sets

Contracts & Installations | Monday, August 30 2010
St. Mary's Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., has selected Wolters Kluwer Health’s ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as its electronic order set technology.
 

Welch Allyn unveils new vital signs system

New Products | Monday, August 30 2010
Welch Allyn has lanched Connex Electronic Vitals Documentation System to capture and transmit patient data to EMRs to provide clinicians in non-critical settings with access to vital signs.
 

Maine HIE selects Health Language for clinical content integration

Contracts & Installations | Monday, August 30 2010
HealthInfoNet, the nonprofit organization managing the health information exchange (HIE) for the state of Maine, is partnering with medical terminology management company Health Language to assist in the transition from a two-year demonstration project to a full statewide HIE implementation.
 

Texas facility deploys Corepoint interop technology

Contracts & Installations | Thursday, August 26 2010
OakBend Medical Center, of Richmond, Texas, has implemented Corepoint Health’s Corepoint Integration Engine to integrate its information systems.
 

Analog Devices' tech powers Zoll's PocketCPR

New Products | Thursday, August 26 2010
Medical device company Zoll Medical has selected Analog Devices' iMEMS technology to enable PocketCPR, Zoll’s palm-sized CPR device, to measure the rate and depth of chest compressions administered by rescuers.
 

California hospital selects RelayHealth's HIE

Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, August 25 2010
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, of Monterey, Calif., has selected RelayHealth's health information exchange (HIE) connectivity tool.
 

iSalus Healthcare releases EMR iPhone app

New Products | Wednesday, August 25 2010
iSalus Healthcare, a web-based EMR and practice management software company, has released an iPhone mobile application that allows doctors to access patient records and office information.
 

Oridion, IMI team for patient monitoring devices

Mergers & Acquisitions | Monday, August 23 2010
Medical device company Oridion has entered into an agreement with IMI, a medical equipment distributor in Japan. The agreement will extend Oridion's presence in the Japanese market with its line of Microstream capnography monitoring products.
 

IBM, Beijing Goodwill develop cardio mgmt system for China

Partnerships & Alliances | Friday, August 20 2010
IBM and Beijing Goodwill Information and Technology, a provider of electronic cardiogram systems in China, have developed the first all-in-one electronic cardiogram management system in China.
 

HTH gets global with iPhone app

New Products | Thursday, August 19 2010
HTH Worldwide, a global health and safety services company, has developed six new mPassport destination-specific iPhone applications for finding quality healthcare services in major cities in East and Southeast Asia.
 

Intersystems TrakCare gets an upgrade

New Products | Thursday, August 19 2010
The latest version of TrakCare, Intersystems' web-based healthcare information system, includes new capabilities for optimizing workflow, harnessing live data and minimizing adverse drug events, according to the Cambridge, Mass.-based company.
 

QuadraMed partners with CPM Resource Center

Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, August 17 2010
QuadraMed and the CPM Resource Center, an Elsevier company, have entered into a partnership to provide QuadraMed's clients with nursing and allied health clinical documentation, care planning, clinical practice guidelines and transformation services.
 
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Physicians in states with medical liability tort reform laws ordered fewer imaging studies for emergency patients with mild-moderate head trauma, according to a study published July 13 in the online edition of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Beaconology for beginners: A chat with ONC's Aaron McKethan

The ability to transform healthcare delivery at the community level requires information and tools for both consumers and providers—not one or the other, said Aaron McKethan, program director for the Beacon Community Program under the Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). McKethan discussed "Beaconology," an informal term used by ONC to describe the basics of the Beacon Program, in an exclusive interview yesterday.

Feature: Early a.m. rad shift expedites communication of urgent findings

An early morning radiologist shift can expedite the communication of urgent findings and improve patient care, according to a study in this month's Journal of the American College of Radiology. “The Joint Commission and the ACR have emphasized the importance of improved communication, particularly of critical test results, for better patient care,” Rathachai Kaewlai, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, shared with Health Imaging News.

Feature: U.S. needs national strategy to curb imaging overutilization

Medical imaging overutilization--a growing concern in the U.S.--exposes patients to unnecessary radiation, while also adding to rising healthcare costs, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Radiology. In an interview, William R. Hendee, PhD, lead author, reviewed various methods by which medical imaging could be curtailed.

Radiology: Prelim study shows CE breast CT outperforms CT, mammo

Dedicated contrast-enhanced (CE) breast CT delivered significantly improved conspicuity of malignant breast lesions, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), compared with unenhanced breast CT and mammography, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.

SMU nets nearly $600K to study ultrasound in bone strength assessment

Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas has received a $596,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Neurological Disorders and Stroke Institute to study the role of ultrasound in determining the effects of radiation on bone.

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