RFID Showcase
RFID Showcase
Coming to the AID of Healthcare
Many companies focus on the realm of RFID (radio frequency identification) for healthcare, and there have been some significant challenges both on the R&D side and the practitioner’s implementation side.
Open Source Health IT in the Psychiatric Care Environment
Open Source Health IT in the Psychiatric Care Environment
Silver Hill Hospital of New Canaan, Connecticut, recently joined a select group of psychiatric hospitals in the United States that have implemented an electronic health record (EHR) system. Founded in 1931, Silver Hill Hospital is a 129-bed not-for-profit psychiatric hospital that provides inpatient and residential transitional living programs for adolescents and adults.
Clinical Analytics
Clinical Analytics
EMR Implementation Is an Opportunity, Not a Guarantee
As hospital IT leaders consider how to address meaningful use of electronic medical records (EMR) within their own organizations, they should see the next generation of EMRs as an opportunity to take arms against avoidable medical errors, improve the level of personalized medicine, and reduce hospital readmissions to boost quality scores.
Diagnostic Radiology
Diagnostic Radiology
Critical Communication: Improving Patient Safety
The written diagnostic imaging report is the key method of communication between radiologists and referring clinicians. However, the radiology report is valuable not only for its contents, but also for the timeliness of delivery given the important subject matter of radiologic results, including, in some cases, critical findings.
Health & IT Quality: Failure Is Not an Option
Health & IT Quality
Failure Is Not an Option
Healthcare could learn much from Gene Kranz. A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with other mission scientists and crew, Kranz led his Tiger Team of experts at NASA in its successful effort to bring three astronauts on a perilous 500,000 mile journey around the moon and back home to Earth.
Study Finds Radio Frequency Technology Highly Effective in Preventing Retained Surgical Items in Bariatric Procedures
Bellevue, Washington, February 10, 2011—RF Surgical Systems, Inc., the market leader in the prevention and detection of retained surgical sponges, announced the first published data on the power of radio frequency technology to identify retained surgical items in all patient types.
New Bed Designed to Reduce Patient-Lift-Related Injuries
Covisint, a Compuware Company, Wins New Business from Vermont Blueprint for Health
RelayHealth Expands SaaS-Based HIE and PHR Platform with Certified EHR
RelayHealth announced the latest addition to the company’s health IT solutions: RelayClinical™ EHR, now fully certified for ambulatory EHR by Drummond Group, Inc.