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HEALTH INFORMATICS FOCUS ZONE REPORT – About three months ago Nuance Communications, the largest global speech recognition vendor, acquired its biggest rival in the healthcare dictation market, Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) in a move that is set to shake up speech recognition market on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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HEALTH INFORMATICS FOCUS ZONE REPORT - Last month the Radiological Society of North America held its annual conference and exhibition event in Chicago, USA, which brings together a host of radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and allied scientists under one roof. RSNA 2008 saw the unveiling of a number of innovative speech recognition solutions and integrations. Here is a brief review of what you may have missed. |
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IBA Health Group’s iSOFT European business has signed contracts with two major hospital groups in the Netherlands totalling $17.6 million (Euros 8.8 million). |
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German hospital group, Krankenhaus Buchholz and Winsen, has become an iSOFT customer for Lorenzo. |
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Delegate Healthcare Solutions has selected Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to ensure its solution can be rapidly integrated with its customer’s hospital information systems. |
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Medusa Medical Technologies’ electronic patient care reporting software, the Siren ePCR Suite, now has an interface with the Philips HeartStart MRx monitor/defibrillator. |
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Intelligroup has been selected by Almac Clinical Services to implement a Clinical Services Ordering and Supply Management Operating System (COSMOS) based on Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, Oracle Clinical and integration with multiple third-party systems. |
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Sage has launched the Sage Intergy version 5.5 integrated electronic health records and practice management system, which is to help improve the health and well being of physician practices and their patients. |
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St John's Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, USA, has become the first clinical site to utilise Mosaiq, Impac's image-enabled oncology information system, to treat patients using Varian's RapidArc treatment technique. |
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Baptist Healthcare System has contracted McKesson to handle the management of its physician revenue cycle to help Baptist’s affiliated physician office network staff spend more time on patient care as well as address operational and revenue challenges. |
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InterSystems has added innovative technology features to the InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform which will target critical requirements of large-scale enterprises that are building high-performance, complex applications in an SOA environment. |
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IntelliDOT has introduced its Bedside Medication Administration solution to enable hospitals to comply with the CMS requirement to report National Drug Code (NDC) numbers for drugs administered in outpatient settings. |
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To address the accelerating demand for services in Texas, USA, Specialists On Call (SOC) is hiring additional operations and business development staff. |
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South Jersey Healthcare (SJH) has selected Sage Intergy EHR electronic health records system to offer to physicians through eHealth Connection, SJH's EHR Grant Program. |
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The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has approved the Allscripts Professional Electronic Health Record Version 8.2 as a CCHIT Certified 08 Ambulatory EHR, additionally certified for Child Health, and meets the Certification Commission's electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. |
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Clinical Solutions has signed a three-year deal with leading primary healthcare supplier EMIS, to integrate the Mentor Drug Database Module into its IntefleCS Face to Face software. |
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CSC has won a contract from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) to replace the state's current Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) with a new healthcare administration system that will manage other state agency health services in addition to Medicaid. |
16 January 2009: CSC |
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An award-winning online GP consultation service that was iinitially used to monitor and treat asthma patients is going to be rolled out more widely to EMIS practices. |
13 January 2009: EMIS |
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Excela Health, a non-profit health care network serving Western Pennsylvania in the USA, has selected the Allscripts Enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) for the more than 115 physicians it employs in the Excela Health Physician Practices (EHPP). |
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Tully-Wihr, in conjunction with Ray Morgan, has signed a definitive agreement to resell the web-based Allscripts MyWay Electronic Health Record (EHR) and practice management solution to 100 physicians. |
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One of the largest multi-specialty group practices in the Southeast United States, Physician Associates, has selected the Allscripts Enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) to automate and connect its 80 physicians in 18 offices across Central Florida. |
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Siemens Healthcare has installed a Somatom Definition AS+ CT scanner at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK. |
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CSC has introduced new releases of the company’s FirstPoint and FirstDoc enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, adding features designed to support the systematic management of all aspects of the document life cycle and the growing collaboration needs of global life science organizations. |
09 January 2009: CSC |
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Exco InTouch has commenced its full mobile phone electronic data capture (EDC) study using the Western Ontario and McMaster Osteoarthritis (WOMAC) NRS 3.1 index after the success of their pilot study. |
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Amicas has formed a new partnership with one of the USA's largest radiology groups, Diversified Radiology of Colorado, PC, of Denver, Colorado. |
08 January 2009: Amicas |
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