White House Proclaims National Health Information Technology Week, Sept. 11–16, 2011
Washington DC, Sept. 12, 2011—President Obama has declared the week of Sept. 11-16, 2011, National Health Information Technology Week, and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for health IT has recently added new online resources for patients and providers.
All Systems Becomes Approved Voalté Reseller
Sarasota, Florida, September 7, 2011—Voalté, a leader in clinical communications technology, today announced a new reseller partnership with All Systems, based in Kansas City, Kan. This partnership allows All Systems to provide the Voalté One smart phone solution to hospitals in Kansas and Missouri.
Paper on Automation in Surgery Wins 2011 Human Factors Prize for Excellence in HF/E Research
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society congratulates Dietrich Manzey, Maria Luz, Stefan Mueller, Andreas Dietz, Juergen Meixensberger, and Gero Strauss on receiving the 2011 Human Factors Prize for their article, “Automation in Surgery: The Impact of Navigated-Control Assistance on Performance, Workload, Situation Awareness, and Acquisition of Surgical Skills.”
TeleTracking Announces Availability of its Next Generation Real-Time Locating System (RTLS)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 22, 2011—TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of its second generation Real-Time Locating System, TeleTracking RTLS.
GE Healthcare Launches Centricity Business 5.0
Barrington, Illinois, August 22, 2011—GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, launched Centricity* Business 5.0, the next-generation revenue cycle management solution for hospital networks, academic medical centers, large practices and physician billing groups.
iSirona Awarded Medical Device Integration Contract from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Panama City, Florida, August 11, 2011—iSirona®, a provider of simplified solutions for medical device integration, announced that Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has signed an enterprise license agreement to implement iSirona’s device connectivity solution.
NextGen Healthcare Launches Enterprise Patient Portal Powered by MEDSEEK
Birmingham, Alabama—NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced it has entered into an agreement with MEDSEEK to create the NextGen® Enterprise Patient Portal.
Partners HealthCare Clinicians Go Mobile with CACHÉ-based Electronic Health Records
RFID SHOWCASE: Fewer Events, Better Reporting
RFID SHOWCASE
Fewer Events, Better Reporting
Patient safety event-reporting systems are found in all hospitals and are a mainstay of efforts to detect potentially critical events and quality problems. Initial reports usually come from the personnel directly involved in an event or the actions leading up to it, such as the nurse or physician caring for a patient when an error occurred, rather than management or patient safety professionals.
Say No to Paper
Health IT & Quality
Say No to Paper
Paper came one pill away from killing my 91-year-old mom. Only through luck did we dodge a medical error that could have extinguished a life that survived the Great Depression, World War II, polio epidemics, the birth of two children, the Cold War, the loss of her husband, and more than 60 years of employment. Up until her admission on May 7th, she had never experienced being an ill patient in a hospital.