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Merseyside chooses JAC for e-prescribingemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The North Mersey Health Informatics Service (HIS) has selected JAC to provide an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system (EPMA) to more than three million patients across Merseyside.
Source: E-Health-Insider - September 21, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Spanish develop intelligent trackingemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The University of Granada and TelefÓ;nica Innovation and Design have developed a system to locate dependent people in their environment to ensure their safety.
Source: E-Health Europe News - September 21, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Agfa's ORBIS gets SAP certemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Agfa HealthCare’s ORBIS clinical information system has received SAP interface certification.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 21, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

Pressure on in Europe for more HIT investmentemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Political pressure and public demand are forcing European government and regulatory authorities to put more money into healthcare information technology.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 21, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

AmI-09: 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligenceemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
18-21 November 2009, Salzburg, Austria. Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by technological means, sensitive and responsive to people and their behaviors, deliver advanced functions, services and experiences.
Source: eHealth News EU - September 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Conferences News Source Type: info

VAMED and c.a.r.u.s. HMS Signed a Cooperation Agreementemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Hospital service provider VAMED and c.a.r.u.s. HMS have signed a cooperation agreement to broaden working closely on the introduction of modern IT-systems into hospitals. This new partnership combines knowledge and experience from both companies: VAMED offers IT solutions, adapted to the demands of each clinic's environment; c.a.r.u.s. HMS develops and distributes high performance software for hospitals.
Source: eHealth News EU - September 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info

Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit for Best Practice and Innovationemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
1-2 December 2009, London, UK. Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit 2009, a unique two-day event dedicated to best practice in global wireless and healthcare convergence, this four stream conference has been developed with support from the Continua Health Alliance, GSMA, M:Health Alliance, international healthcare providers including the NHS, Bluetooth SIG, Mobihealthnews.com and more, to ensure a real 50:50 representation from across the wireless and healthcare sectors.
Source: eHealth News EU - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Conferences News Source Type: info

HHS guts health-care breach notification law, groups warnemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Privacy and civil rights advocates accused the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of trying to neuter a landmark data breach notification law for health care organizations that is scheduled to go into effect next week.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Vendor Notebook - Boston Software's WorkStation to enable Vocollect's AccuNurse solutionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Vocollect, Inc., a developer of voice technology systems, and Boston Software Systems, a provider of workflow automation solutions for healthcare, have announced a partnership to use Boston WorkStation automation technology to enable Vocollect’s AccuNurse voice-assisted care to integrate with MEDITECH and other healthcare platforms.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Wicklund Tags: Online Only Andover Arizona asset visibility solutions Atlanta Blanding Blue Mountain Hospital Boston Boston Software Systems Brazil business intelligence business intelligence solutions California Carbondale Carlsbad China Source Type: news

Florida health agency deploys new data security toolemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has launched a new tool for accessing information on privacy and security laws regarding electronic medical records and health information exchange. The Crosswalk Tool is the most recent addition to the agency’s Health Information Privacy and Security Resource Center on the Web at www.FHIN.net.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Agency for Health Care Administration Florida Industry News Kyle Hardy Tallahassee Source Type: news

Perot enters healthcare market in Indiaemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Perot Systems has signed a 10-year, $18 million contract to provide IT outsourcing and electronic health records implementation for India-based Max Healthcare. The agreement marks the Plan, Texas-based company's first full IT outsourcing project in the Indian healthcare industry as well as the company's first India-based healthcare client.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only India International Max Healthcare Perot Systems Plano Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news

Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Conferenceemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: Healthcare IT News Events - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: 1068601 Tags: China Chinese government International Source Type: events

Survey: 'Connected health' could cut healthcare costs by 40 percentemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
A patient-centered and coordinated approach to healthcare could save billions, according to a survey of leading healthcare providers, patients, payers and technology leaders.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Cambridge Cambridge Consultants Industry News Joseph Kvedar Massachusetts MassMEDIC PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S. healthcare Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Source Type: news

HealthPort’s RACPro Achieves Certification Status from Executive Health Resourcesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
HealthPort, a top-25 company in the healthcare information technology industry, today announced that its Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) software solution, HealthPort RACPro, has achieved PLATINUM level integration certification status, the highest level of integration certification, from Executive Health Resources (EHR), the leading provider of medical necessity compliance and denials management solutions.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Alpharetta Executive Health Resources Vendors Source Type: news

HIT policy committee holds privacy hearing todayemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The HIT Policy Committee is holding a hearing today in Washington, D.C. to discuss the privacy aspects of healthcare IT found in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Jodi Daniel, director of the Office of Policy and Research at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), who opened the meeting this morning, said privacy and security are fundamental building blocks for meaningful use of healthcare IT.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Deborah Peel Industry News Jodi Daniel Washington Washington, D.C. Source Type: news

IHTSDO and openEHR to partneremail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) and openEHR Foundation have begun a collaborative programme on developing clinical terminologies and archetype-based electronic health record structures.
Source: E-Health Europe News - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Trisoft adopts Mid Essex pre-op moduleemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Trisoft has worked in collaboration with Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust and Health Enterprise East to develop a web browser based pre-assessment system, and interface it to its TheatreMan theatre management system.
Source: E-Health-Insider - September 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Computerized Wrist Pulse Signal Diagnosis Using Modified Auto-Regressive Modelsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Abstract  The wrist pulse signals can be used to analyze a person’s health status in that they reflect the pathologic changes of the person’s body condition. This paper aims to present a novel time series analysis approach to analyze wrist pulse signals. First, a data normalization procedure is proposed. This procedure selects a reference signal that is ‘closest’ to a newly obtained signal from an ensemble of signals recorded from the healthy persons. Second, an auto-regressive (AR) model is constructed from the selected reference signal. Then, the residual error, which is the difference between the a...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Journal of Medical Systems Source Type: journals

Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS Hospital/Clinical Information System Obtains SAP Interface Certificationemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces that the interface between its leading Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS and SAP Controlling (CO), SAP Material Management (MM) and SAP Financial (FI) has been certified. The certification was carried out by an authorized team of experts from SAP after having conducted an in-depth audit on the individual functionalities.
Source: eHealth News EU - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info

Siemens Partners with Leading Turkish Value Added Reseller for Soarian MedSuiteemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Siemens has entered into a value-added reseller agreement with leading Turkish healthcare solutions company, Simeks Tibbi Sistemler Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, to sell Soarian MedSuite, Siemens' innovative Hospital Information System (HIS). Simeks has been specifically licensed to sell MedSuite HIS software licenses, services, and support plans to healthcare providers in Turkey.
Source: eHealth News EU - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info

Nevada creates health IT task forceemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons has formed the Health IT Blue Ribbon Task Force, which will consist of experts and stakeholders in healthcare, IT, government, insurance, business and other industries.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

Medsphere implements EHR at rural Utah hospitalemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Medsphere Systems has implemented OpenVista, the company’s EHR, at the Blue Mountain Hospital in Blanding, Utah.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

Information for World Class Commissioningemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
World Class Commissioning is a developing discipline with information at its heart. Daloni Carlisle reports.
Source: E-Health Insider Opinion And Analysis - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Safer prescription system from JACemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
to benefit millions of Merseyside patients
Source: Hospital IT Europe - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

DH’s lead on acute choice leavesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The NHS chief information officer leading work on offering acute trusts in the South a choice of IT systems has left the Department of Health for a new job.
Source: E-Health-Insider - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Enterprise LAMP Network Eventemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
On Saturday, Nov. 7, approximately 600 top LAMP developers from around the U.S. will converge on Nashville suburb Franklin, TN, to learn from innovative companies that will share their on-the-ground reports about the latest developments in LAMP offerings and implementation. Note: Nashville, TN is home to some 150+ healthcare companies (many of which can trace their roots back to HCA. This is the FIRST broad open source integration event in this area (there was a Red Hat Summit in recent years). You'll note, as of now, there is no open source healthcare representation. Let's change that!
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Health IT Data Breaches: No Harm, No Foulemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Under new rules developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, HIPAA-covered health care providers, health plans and other health entities must notify patients of data breaches involving their health information. Unless, of course, they decide not to. - Data breach notification rules for health entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act take effect Sept. 23. Under the rules issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, (PDF) health care providers and health plans will be required to notify individuals of...
Source: eWeek Health Care - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

EHI interview: Andrew Spenceemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Reporter Sarah Bruce talks to Andrew Spence, CSC's director of healthcare strategy, about the importance of Lorenzo, progress in rolling it out, and the future prospects for healthcare IT in England.
Source: E-Health Insider Opinion And Analysis - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

Dataspace and Central Michigan University Introduce Patient Volume Forecasteremail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Dataspace, an Ann Arbor-based business intelligence software and consulting firm and Business Insight, a part of the Central Michigan University Research Corporation, announce the introduction of Patient Volume Forecaster, a service that helps health care leaders predict and respond to expected demand for services.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: ANN ARBOR business intelligence Central Michigan University Central Michigan University Research Corporation MOUNT PLEASANT Vendors Source Type: news

FDA Activates VPCI Electronic Registration Accountemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now requires that establishment registration and drug listing information be filed in electronic format. The new requirement involves a 14-step account set-up process, followed by a specially formatted internet submission. VPCI (Vectech Pharmaceutical Consultants International) has received account activation from the Electronic Submission Gateway and is compliant with the registration requirements to file on behalf of its clients.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Industry News Kyle Hardy Miami U.S. Food and Drug Administration Vendors Source Type: news

Hospital alliance aims to boost obstetrics care with mobile technologyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Premier healthcare alliance has contracted with San Antonio-based AirStrip Technologies to offer its 2,200 hospital members mobile healthcare information technology to boost obstetrical (OB) care. Premier's purchasing partners division is the first group purchasing organization to offer AirStripOB, which provides obstetricians and nurses with real-time, remote access to fetal and maternal waveform data such as fetal heart rate and maternal contractions.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only AirStrip Technologies cellular telephone Charlotte Cleveland Cleveland Clinic information Mike Alkire Premier Purchasing Partners San Antonio Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news

Henry Ford Health System implements digital pathology solutionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Henry Ford Health System has rolled out a new picture archiving and communication system. PathPACS, developed by Falls Church, Va.-based Apollo PACS, Inc., was designed to provide digital imaging management for pathology laboratories. The solution will be integrated with the Detroit-based health system’s Sunquest Anatomic Pathology Information System and Sunquest Clinical Laboratory Information System.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Apollo PACS Inc. Detroit digital imaging Falls Church Kyle Hardy Virginia Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news

Mawell, Agfa team on Norwegian radiology projectemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Patients served by Helse Vest, Norway's Health Region West, stand to benefit from an IT project to improve cooperation and coordination between radiology departments in the region. Citing Norway's geography as "difficult to navigate" for patients, Mawell claimed in a press release that its X7 InfoBroker will eliminate problems associated with patient transfer by allowing radiologists to access studies from all areas of the region and send images for diagnosis to any clinic or hospital in the network.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Chip Means Tags: Online Only Helse Vest IKT International Norway Oslo Source Type: news

Reboot 17.9.2009email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Hello and welcome to reboot, E-Health Insider's look at the lighter side of life in healthcare technology. We'd love to see your own diary items, media spots and appointments news. All contributions gratefully received: email Lyn Whitfield.
Source: E-Health Insider Opinion And Analysis - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

3rd Annual China Healthcare Congressemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Nopppen’s 3rd Annual China Healthcare Congress will bring together the largest panel of experts across China’s healthcare industry, including healthcare authorities, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, insurance companies, and consultants discussing opportunities and challenges for stake-holders in the healthcare industry.
Source: Healthcare IT News Events - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: jenna Tags: China Congress International pharmaceutical Source Type: events

EHR 2009: Transforming Healthcare Delivery with Electronic Health Recordsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Global health authorities have put healthcare delivery transformation on top of their agenda and are provided stimulus packages to hurry the trend along . Healthcare policy makers and providers are continuing to leverage on health informatics for better efficiency, accuracy and quality in the delivery of healthcare.
Source: Healthcare IT News Events - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: jenna Tags: Asia Pacific International Source Type: events

Tennessee HIE to provide EHR and e-prescribing to Mississippi Medicaid beneficiariesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Shared Health is slated to begin rolling out in December a solution that would give Mississippi Medicaid providers a Web-based electronic health record system and e-prescribing capability. Mississippi has nearly 600,000 Medicaid members.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Patty Enrado Tags: Online Only Bruce Taffel Chattanooga e-prescribing Industry News Mississippi Tennessee Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Source Type: news

Burnham: publish staff satisfaction dataemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Health secretary Andy Burnham has announced plans to publish data on staff satisfaction across the NHS.
Source: E-Health-Insider - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

First EuroPACS academy courseemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The first EuroPACS academy course is to be run later this month in Pisa, Italy.
Source: E-Health Europe News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Michigan seeks ARRA funding for health IT developmentemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm announced Monday that the state will apply for funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to improve healthcare quality, reduce costs and enhance patient privacy through electronic exchange of health information.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

IHM recognises E-Health Insider Live ‘09email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Institute of Healthcare Management has recognised E-Health Insider Live '09 and decided that managers attending the event should qualify for 12 CPD points.
Source: E-Health-Insider - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Health Mart Pharmacies Ranked Highest in Customer Satisfaction among Chain Drug 09-17-2009email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: McKesson News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: organizations

Healthcare IT is the means, but not the end, says Blumenthalemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Getting healthcare IT up and running in doctors' offices is not the main objective behind the incentives provided by the federal government under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator of health information technology. Improving health is.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Blumenthal Industry News Washington Washington, D.C. Washington, DC Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Source Type: news

IOM recommends HHS accumulate, disperse data on ethnicityemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) develop and disperse lists of narrowly defined ethnic categories, as well as written and spoken languages, as part of an effort to standardize the collection of information on patient race, ethnicity and language.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

Survey: Wisconsin hospitals rapidly becoming health IT adoptersemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
By the end of the 2008 fiscal year, 50 percent of Wisconsin hospitals were considered to be “high” users of health IT—a 25 percent increase over 2007, according to the Wisconsin Health Association’s Annual Survey of Hospitals.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

New Senate health reform bill promotes healthcare ITemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Senate Finance Committee released a health reform package Tuesday that includes measures to advance healthcare IT. The last of five plans offered by Congressional committees and the most controversial, "America's Healthy Future Act," proposed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), now faces a committee vote. If approved, it would then need to be combined with the other bills before going before Congress for a full vote.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Congress Industry News Max Baucus Washington Source Type: news

Alder Hey surveys are Fabioemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
One of Europe's largest children's hospitals has developed an electronic survey system to involve children in their care plans and allow them to rate their experiences.
Source: E-Health-Insider - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

A web server for interactive and zoomable Chaos Game Representation imagesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Chaos Game Representation (CGR) is a generalized scale-independent Markov transition table, which is useful for the visualization and comparative study of genomic signature, or for the study of characteristic sequence motifs. However, in order to fully utilize the scale-independent properties of CGR, it should be accessible through scale-independent user interface instead of static images. Here we describe a web server and Perl library for generating zoomable CGR images utilizing Google Maps API, which is also easily searchable for specific motifs. The web server is freely accessible at http://www.g-language.org/wiki/cgr/,...
Source: Source Code for Biology and Medicine - September 16, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kazuharu ArakawaKazuki OshitaMasaru Tomita Source Type: journals

Tieto's National Patient Summary Solution for Swedenemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Swedish National Patient Summary solution (known as NPÖ), one of the first of its kind in the world, has received formal acceptance and has been in full production since 1 September, 2009 in Örebro County Council and the Municipality of Örebro.
Source: eHealth News EU - September 16, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info

The Medical College of Wisconsin Adopts Quantros Event Manager and Claims Manager for Comprehensive Malpractice Litigation Managementemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Medical College of Wisconsin (Medical College), a private medical school with more than 1,100 physicians, in Milwaukee, WI, has selected the Quantros Safety and Risk Management (SRM) solution to track, manage and report adverse and near-miss events, as well as to manage the entire claims process. The Quantros Event Manager (EM) and Claims Manager (CM) modules, part of the SRM solution, were chosen from among seven different vendors.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - September 16, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee SAN Jose Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news