Siemens Healthcare announced its newly-formed partnership with patient education content provider, ExitCare, to begin providing expanded patient education services to its broad health information technology customer base.

Language Line University, the interpreter assessment and training division of Language Line Services, an over-the-phone and video interpretation services provider, is offering a new scalable online training tool for medical interpreters.

Stainless steel mounting collars that are ideal for attaching instruments and devices such as power outlet strips to medical IV poles are being introduced by Stafford Manufacturing Corp. of Wilmington, Massachusetts.

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) intends to create tools to promote the meaningful use of health information technology (HIT) and incorporate them into ABMS Maintenance of Certification® (ABMS MOC®), a program created by ABMS and its 24 Member Boards to promote lifelong learning and self assessment for physician specialists.

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) cost U.S. hospitals $8.1 billion in 2006, according to a recently released study by the Centers for Disease Control. Even more alarmingly, the CDC reports 48,000 deaths in the same year can attributed to illnesses caught during hospital

One of the biggest obstacles to sharing patient information electronically is that health care systems and providers use a wide range of incompatible IT platforms and software to create and store data in various formats.  A new service – the Verizon Health Information Exchange – will soon be available via the “cloud’ to address this challenge.

eMix™, a new business venture incubated by DR Systems, announced that its cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and reports has added a new capability: eMix Preview – Any authenticated users can now preview the reports and images of any eMix exam package and save them directly into their EMR.

Ekahau Inc., the worldwide leader in high performance Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), launched a competitive upgrade program designed to give users of other Wi-Fi RTLS systems the opportunity to test drive and implement the Ekahau RTLS system within their organization in order to gain a performance boost over their existing systems.

The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners Healthcare, announced encouraging initial findings from a medication adherence study, using a wireless electronic pill bottle to remind patients with high blood pressure to take their medication.