RF Surgical Systems, Inc., the market leader in the prevention and detection of retained surgical sponges, announced the availability of the RF Assure™ Detection System Model 200.

The Medical Society of Delaware today announced they have chosen RelayHealth as their solution partner to enhance patients’ participation in managing their health care and to increase efficiency for physician practices throughout the state.

By Mitch Work, MPA, FHIMSS

On October 21 and 22nd, I had the opportunity to attend a symposium in Boston, organized by the Center for Connected Health, which is a division of Partners Healthcare.

Dialog Medical, the leading provider of informed consent and patient education systems for hospitals and physician practices, announced that Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) has installed the iMedConsent application and fully interfaced that software tool with the institution’s electronic health record (EHR).

Bridging the gap between health care providers and payers with a powerful tool to improve care coordination and patient outcomes, clinical analytics pioneer Anvita Health™ released the latest version of its powerful Anvita™ Insight clinical analytics engine.

A new study looking at how hospitals identify pediatric patients who develop catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSI) found significant inconsistencies in the methods used to report the number of patients who develop them.

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital has partnered with McKesson to expand the hospital’s use of bar-code scanning technology to blood product administration.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 7, 2010—The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a five-year Master Contract to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to help accelerate adoption of new models of health care delivery nationally. The contract is awarded through AHRQ’s Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) II initiative. … Continued