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Infermed and Siemens collaborate to integrate EMR and EDC at the Technical University of Munich Frauenklinik

InferMed has completed the first year of study in conjunction with Siemens and researchers at the Technical University of Munich that enables an immediate, scalable method of automatically transferring data from an electronic medical records (EMR) to an electronic data capture (EDC) system, reducing lag time and increasing efficiency.

07 February 2008: Infermed

 

NCI turns to Leap of Faith Technologies to develop drug telemonitoring technology

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the USA has awarded Leap of Faith Technologies an $883,593 contract to further develop its drug telemonitoring technology, called eMedonline for use in oncology and clinical trials.

06 February 2008: Leap of Faith Technologies

 

iSOFT Spain integrates patient records for Portuguese health centres

Private healthcare group Essaude has selected iSOFT Spain, an IBA Health Group company, to install its hospital information solution at four health centres and one hospital in Portugal.

06 February 2008: iSoft

 

NHS Connecting for Health selects Egton to become an additional supplier to the NHS

NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CfH) has selected Egton, a division of EMIS, to provide IT products and services under the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) framework.

06 February 2008: EMIS

 

Allscripts offers quality reporting tool to Electronic Health Records software

The Allscripts Clinical Quality Solution (CQS) is a powerful new tool introduced by Allscripts that automates the quality reporting requirements of federal pay-for-performance programmes and provides additional real-time clinical decision-support information to improve the quality of patient care.

06 February 2008: AllscriptsMisys Healthcare Solutions

 

Norton Healthcare turns to Perceptive Software's Image Now workfow software to simplify administrative tasks

Norton Healthcare, which is Louisville, Kentucky’s leading hospital and health care system, has entered into an agreement to deploy Perceptive Software's ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow software

05 February 2008: Perceptive Software

 

Ohio obstetrics and gynaecology practice opts for Sage’s Intergy EHR solution

The Navarre Avenue obstetrics and gynaecology practice, based in Oregon, Ohio, USA, has selected Sage’s Intergy EHR to manage the practice's electronic health records needs.

05 February 2008: Sage Software Healthcare

 

CCHIT certifies Siemens Invision Clinicals solutions

Siemens Medical Solutions USA’s Invision Clinicals V27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy V24.0 and Med Administration Check V24.0 solutions have achieved full Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) Certified status.

04 February 2008: Siemens Healthcare USA

 

Tunstall confirms its telecare devices are compliant with the new EN300-220-2 Class 1 standard

Tunstall has confirmed that independent laboratory testing shows that its social alarm radio receiving equipment (including Lifeline home units and Communicall grouped housing systems) is compliant with the new EN300-220-2 Class 1 standard and thereby maintains CE-marking.

04 February 2008: Tunstall Group

 

PUMH implements enterprise-wide voice-assisted care to boost nursing productivity and improve patient care

Peninsula United Methodist Homes (PUMH), located in Hockessin, Delaware, USA, has completed its enterprise-wide implementation of Vocollect Healthcare Systems’ AccuNurse voice-assisted care at all four of PUMH’s skilled nursing facilities in Delaware and Maryland.

01 February 2008: Vocollect Healthcare Systems

 

Life:WIRE helps Action Healthcare Management to personalise patient care

Life:WIRE has entered into an agreement with Action Healthcare Management (AHM), to provide an innovative interactive system for improving clinical outcomes while reducing patient health care costs.

31 January 2008: Live:WIRE

 

Scottish Centre for Telehealth, and NHS Scotland run first Cisco HealthPresence Trial

Cisco, The Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT) and the National Health Service in Scotland have launched the world's first trial of Cisco's HealthPresence, a patient care delivery concept based on Cisco’s TelePresence technology.

31 January 2008: Cisco Systems

 

Tunstall launches guide to show how telecare can promote independent living for the disabled

A guide to show how telecare is being used to promote independent living for people with physical disabilities and sensory impairments has been published by telecare and telehealth specialists, Tunstall.

31 January 2008: Tunstall Group

 

King Fahd Medical City selects Orion Health to expand connectivity between hospital sites

King Fahd Medical City (KFMC), located in Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , has adopted Orion Health's Rhapsody Integration Engine to provide faster and more reliable communication between its IT systems.

30 January 2008: Orion Health

 

Children’s Hospital Boston selects ImageNow solution to automate invoice processing

Children’s Hospital Boston has selected Perceptive Software’s ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow solution to assist in reducing manual efforts in invoice processing while increasing the department’s level of accuracy.

30 January 2008: Perceptive Software

 

Health Quest selects Cerner to provide clinical information systems solutions for three hospitals

Health Quest, the largest healthcare system in New York’s Hudson Valley, has selected Cerner to be its clinical information systems solution provider

29 January 2008: Cerner

 

MedStar Health selects Cerner to implement healthcare information technology at all its hospitals

MedStar Health, the largest health system in the Baltimore/Washington region, has selected multiple Cerner Millennium healthcare information technology (HIT) solutions to be implemented at all seven of its hospitals.

24 January 2008: Cerner

 

Telanetix equips four medical facilities with new telepresence systems

Telanetix has installed the company’s Digital Presence products in four medical facilities affiliated with a major university.

24 January 2008: Telanetix

 

Philips launches news transcription system range that offers ergonomic benefits

Philips has launched a new foot control range featuring best-in-class ergonomics for dictation and transcription systems.

23 January 2008: Philips Speech Processing

 

Philips new Digital Starter Kit offers digital dictation and efficient transcription

Philips has launched the company's new Digital Starter Kit 9397, which is a versatile out-of-the-box solution that merges high-quality digital dictation technology with innovative transcription software and useful accessories.

23 January 2008: Philips Speech Processing

 

Irish integrated patient management system passes key milestone

The largest listed specialist information technology company in Australia has announced that the project for an integrated patient management system in Ireland has achieved a key milestone with 26 acute, community and mental health hospitals going live.

22 January 2008: iSoft

 

Greenway secures ten new community EHR contracts

Greenway Medical Technologies is continuing to expand sales and deployment of its 2007 CCHIT Certified electronic health record (EHR) solution, PrimeSuite 2007 R2.

22 January 2008: Greenway Medical Technologies

 

iSOFT equips radiology information systems with real-time speech recognition

iSOFT’s RadCentre radiology information system now offers real-time speech recognition so dictations appear instantly as screen text, which speeds the time to produce critical radiology reports and share patient diagnoses.

21 January 2008: iSoft

 

SCM’s eHealth100 health card terminal is certified to process Germany’s eGK health care cards

SCM Microsystems’ eHealth100 health card terminal has received certification to be used as an MKT+ terminal (multi-functional terminal) from gematik, the organization overseeing the implementation of the electronic health card programme in Germany.

21 January 2008: SCM Microsystems

 

New automated notification solution implements speech recognition technology

Automation specialist, Telephonetics VIP, has released an automated notification solution based on speech recognition technology that has been developed to reduce the potential for patients to miss their GP appointments.

18 January 2008: Telephonetics VIP

 
 
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