IT and Communications in Healthcare |
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NHS 24, the telephone and online service providing health advice and information in Scotland, is to extend its partnership with Clinical Solutions, following the success of the current contract. |
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Essex County Council , which is using intelligent telecare solutions from Tunstall Healthcare, reports on the success of its free Telecare Home Safety Service, which is enabling elderly people in Essex to live safely and independently in their own homes. |
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An agreement is forged between Quest Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, and Surescripts, The Nation's E-Prescription Network, to form an integrated service to make laboratory and prescription information broadly and easily accessible to physicians. |
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The Healthcare e-Academy receives Royal College of Nursing (RCN) accreditation for its ‘Management of Urinary Catheterisation for Adults’ e-learning course. |
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Quest Diagnostics is introducing the Care360 EHR (Electronic Health Record), which represents the next evolution of the company’s innovative Care360 platform used by the company's growing base of 150,000 connected physicians. |
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Dallas Nephrology Associates (DNA) selects the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solution to enhance the quality of patient care, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery in its locations across the Dallas Metropolitan area. |
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The Arkansas Department of Health has selected Orion Health Rhapsody Connect for Public Health to be deployed at four pilot site hospitals for reporting of CSTE-defined reportable cases and influenza case reports. |
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Gestion Sanitaria de Mallorca (GESMA), which consists of three medical facilities that focus on social-medical issues in Spain, selects Orion Health technology to serve as the backbone for its electronic health record (EHR) solution. |
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Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) selects the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solution to automate and connect clinical and business functions for their 130 employed physicians and more than 3,300 independent physicians affiliated with the health system's 13 hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin. |
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iPLATO Healthcare launches mSite - a new module of iPLATO Patient Care Messaging which is provided free of charge to licensed GP surgeries and will enable each surgery to create their own mobile internet site to inform patients about opening hours, contacts details, access maps and out of hours services. |
03 March 2010: iPLATO |
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The Long Island Patient Information eXchange (LIPIX) is adding three major healthcare providers to its InterSystems HealthShare-based health information exchange (HIE) network. |
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Two of America's leading integrated health systems - Covenant Health and Sharp HealthCare - select the Allscripts Care Management and Post Acute solutions to automate administrative processes in their hospitals and post-acute care facilities, improving efficiency, streamlining and enhancing the quality of patient care, and generating cost savings. |
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B Braun is to demonstrate the Outlook Safety Infusion System, DoseTrac and DoseLink (B Braun's IHE compliant HL7 interfaces) systems and its medication administration and electronic health record interoperability at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's HIMSS10 Interoperability Showcase at booth 233 in the Atlanta Convention Center during the HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, March 1-4 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. |
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Greenway Medical Technologies is partnering with Take Care Health Employer Solution to supply Greenway's integrated electronic health record (EHR) and interoperability solution PrimeSuite to Take Care Health Employer Solutions, the USA's largest and most comprehensive provider of worksite health and wellness services and pharmacy. |
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Ingenious Med is releasing a new application for BlackBerry smartphones which will enable Ingenious Med's 6,000 users to access the charge and data capture application virtually anywhere. |
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MedQuist, a leading provider of technology-enabled clinical documentation services, introduces the MedQuist Performance Monitor (MPM) reporting tool that provides MedQuist customer facilities with physician, worktype and facility detailed reporting to monitor, track and optimize their clinical reporting process. |
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Mid-Michigan Physicians, a multi-specialty group headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, selects the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) to provide 70 of their physicians and mid-level providers, located across seven locations, with the latest tools required to deliver high quality care. |
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OakBend Medical Center of Richmond, Texas, USA, implements McKesson’s Paragon hospital information system (HIS) to capture health information electronically as patients receive care in the hospital. |
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iSOFT completes the implementation of Lorenzo 3.5 across all surgical departments at St Jansdal Hospital, Netherlands, with the latest release providing tools for patient management, results reporting, requesting and advanced clinical data capture, for 96 nurses and ten surgeons currently. |
26 February 2010: iSoft |
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McLaren Medical Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of McLaren Health Care, based in Flint, Michigan, USA, selects the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) for 150 employed physicians in an agreement valued in excess of $3 million. |
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iSOFT Group acquires Belgium-based health IT company UltraGenda for $16 million as part of the company’s strategy of boosting its portfolio of innovative solutions and driving additional sales through bolt-on acquisitions. |
23 February 2010: iSoft |
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IMS Health, a provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, launches the IMS Aggregate Spend Compliance Services, a comprehensive set of solutions to help pharmaceutical and medical device companies comply with the growing number of federal and state transparency and marketing disclosure laws in the USA, known as “aggregate spend” reporting regulations. |
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City of Hope (Duarte, California, USA), a research and treatment centre for cancer and other diseases, is the first medical centre to implement an electronic interface that links its TomoTherapy Hi-Art treatment systems with the MOSAIQ radiation oncology information management system. |
22 February 2010: Elekta |
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Small to mid-sized (100-400 bed) US hospitals and health care networks, including Mt Ascutney Hospital, the Western Washington Rural Health Care Collaborative (WWRHCC), and the Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council (CCSNPC) are using solutions from Orion Health to address point-of-care and data management functions. |
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The Danbury Office of Physician Services (DOPS), a physicians group based in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, is expanding its deployment of the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) across its network from its current base of 51 physicians to all of its 238 employed physicians. |
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