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Bar Codes Help Pumps Ensure Safety
Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health has added bar coding support to its infusion pumps to increase patient safety. The vendor's Auto-ID module enables nurses to scan and validate bar codes on patient wristbands, nurse badges, and IV bags that are used with the vendor's Alaris system pumps during medication administration.
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Source: Mobile Health Data, US
Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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To Scribe or Not To Scribe
Would you be nervous if you knew your car had a one-in-three chance of breaking down over the next two years? Well, according to a recent Health Affairs report sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, today's U.S. health care system has more than a one-in-three chance of breaking down on you when it comes to medical mistakes, medication errors or lab complications.
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Source: iHealth Beat, US
Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Losses Continue at Zix
Dallas-based Zix Corp. lost $14.5 million during the third quarter of 2005, compared with a $10.7 million loss during the same period last year. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Consultant Launches New Service Line
CareTech Solutions Inc. has introduced a revenue cycle management division, a new service line for the Troy, Mich.-based consulting firm. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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New Apps Aid Pediatrician Group
Pediatrix Medical Group Inc., a provider of services for high-risk pregnancies, has implemented payroll and human resources management software from Ultimate Software, Weston, Fla. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Survey: Americans concerned about privacy, unaware of rights
Americans are concerned about the privacy of their medical information and are mostly unaware of their privacy rights, a survey released today found. However, patients are willing to share information if it brings benefits.
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Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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VHA Hospitals Get Mobile App Discount
The 2,200 hospitals in the VHA Inc. group purchasing network will receive preferred pricing on mobile software from MercuryMD. ... Comments (0)
Source: Mobile Health Data, US
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Survey: CDHP Members Research Health Info Online
Consumer-directed health plan members are more likely to search for health information online than other consumers, according to a survey by Forrester Research. Fifty-two percent of respondents who are CDHP members have gone online to research a specific medical condition, compared with 45% of respondents with commercial insurance.
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Source: iHealth Beat, US
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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VA Initiates ID Management Contract
The Department of Veterans Affairs has licensed software to better manage its master patient index system across its health care enterprise. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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NHS Connecting for Health completes transfer of a patient's medical record
The first live electronic transfer of a patient’s medical record from one GP surgery to another has been successfully completed by NHS Connecting for Health. ... Comments (0)
Source: eGov Monitor, UK
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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IOM report: Behavioral health needs say in NHIN
The push to create a national health information network has failed to take the behavioral healthcare community's needs into account, a recent Institute of Medicine report found. ... Comments (0)
Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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CHCS II's global launch set
The Defense Department plans to launch the global deployment of its next-generation Composite Health Care System (CHCS) II Nov. 21 at a press briefing at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. ... Comments (0)
Source: Government Health IT, US
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Health care site aims to cure Web
New online service promises personalized, easier Internet-based medical research for patients and caregivers
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Source: New York Newsday, US
Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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IT as health care warrior
Bioinformatics battles cancer, epidemics and bioterrorism. ... Comments (0)
Source: Washington Technology, US
Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Feds drive e-health change
A year after the National E-Health Transition Authority was established to guide health technology reform, the industry faces a new wave of change driven by the federal Government.
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Source: NEWS.com.au, Australia
Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Lessons for NPfIT from 'wild ride' to US failure
A study of the ‘wild ride’ towards a failed implementation of a new electronic medical record system found a ‘transient climate of conflict’ associated with the adoption of the new way of working. ... Comments (0)
Source: E-Health Insider, UK
Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Feds Ready With Satisfaction Survey
The federal government is ready to conduct a national survey of patient perspectives of hospital care. In a notice published Nov. 7 in the Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services seeks authorization to launch the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems Survey. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Breast Imager Gets Computerized Help
Cedara Software has released a breast ultrasound product that includes computer-aided detection technology.
Cedara is a unit of Milwaukee
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Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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The recent announcement that Dallas-based Christus Health would be rolling out PatientKeeper’s mobile technology for 9,000 physicians across 40 hospitals signals even more rapid growth ahead for a company that over the p
Two standards organizations that have struggled to come to a consensus over how to hand off patients’ digital information between caregivers appear to have reached a solution.
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Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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PatientKeeper looks to rapid growth in 2006
The recent announcement that Dallas-based Christus Health would be rolling out PatientKeeper’s mobile technology for 9,000 physicians across 40 hospitals signals even more rapid growth ahead for a company that over the past two years has been landing new business at a record clip. ... Comments (0)
Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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