By shadz on March 3, 2011
IBM has announced the next evolution of the patient portal, significantly expanding the types of information, alerts, recommendations and interactive coaching healthcare providers can offer to their patients online.
The IBM Patient Empowerment System goes beyond simply allowing patients to schedule appointments online or access a personal health record. The portal is based on new technology [...]
Posted in Asia-Pacific | Tagged gil hospital, IBM, patient portal
By shadz on January 20, 2011
Next-generation wrist-worn pulse oximeter provides SpO2 monitoring flexibility and accuracy in ambulatory, sleep-study settings.
The WristOx2, Model 3150 is a compact, wireless wrist-worn monitoring device that accurately monitors blood-oxygen saturation (SpO2) levels and pulse rate in patients undergoing ambulatory monitoring to screen for breathing disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or sleep disorders such as [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged 3150, medical bluetooth, Nonin, wristOx2
By shadz on January 20, 2011
Free, web-based EHR is named top vendor for customer satisfaction among primary care specialties by an independent survey of 30,000 ambulatory medical providers
Practice Fusion has been awarded as the No. 1 EHR vendor in customer satisfaction for primary care specialties by Brown-Wilson’s annual Black Book Rankings. The free, web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system earned [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged eClinialworks, EHR, family practice Nextgen Greenway, practice fusion, primarycare
By shadz on March 26, 2010
While the healthcare industry is often accused of being slow to change, a new study conducted by HIMSS Analytics and sponsored by GHX found that there is widespread use of e-commerce by U.S. hospitals in the purchasing process, with 95 percent of acute-care hospitals with more than 150 beds purchasing at least some of their [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged e-Commerce, GHX, Himss, Hospital
By shadz on March 24, 2010
US president Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law a landmark health care reform bill, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November congressional elections.
The law will bring near-universal coverage to a wealthy country in which tens of millions of [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged health bill, obama, US healthcare
By shadz on March 22, 2010
A study conducted by Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has found that among 12 New York State primary care practices, the six that had adopted “e-prescribing” systems reduced their prescribing errors by nearly seven-fold over one year. Errors included mistakes like giving patients the wrong dose, wrong duration of use or incorrect [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged e-prescribing, Electronic prescribing, Weill Cornell
By shadz on March 3, 2010
IBM unveiled a new high-performance computing (HPC) initiative for biomedical and life sciences research that features one of the most powerful supercomputers in the Texas Medical Center. Rice scientists will use the supercomputer in collaboration with researchers from across the medical center to study cancer, AIDS and other complex diseases.
The POWER7-based supercomputer is the centerpiece [...]
Posted in USA
By shadz on March 2, 2010
GE Healthcare introduced Qualibria, its new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets. Qualibria gives clinicians more control over patient outcomes by bringing together real-time data from existing IT systems and comparing these data against shared baselines of evidence-based best practices.
Qualibria is the result of a multi-year [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged Ge healthcare, Qualibria
By shadz on March 2, 2010
This week in Atlanta, healthymagination takes center stage as GE Healthcare uses its technology expo to demonstrate how it will affect cost, quality and access in healthcare systems across the world. At the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the company will showcase new innovations and achievements from each of its [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged Ge healthcare, Healthymagination, Himss
By admin on March 1, 2010
This week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is sponsoring a series of demonstrations at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase that illustrate innovative efforts to achieve progress toward secure, nationwide health information exchange across providers and jurisdictions.
The ONC and the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) showcase will feature 25 demonstrations that involve 42 [...]
Posted in USA
