Maine’s HealthInfoNet has selected Orion Health as the primary technology provider for their statewide health information exchange (HIE). The HIE currently involves six healthcare organizations and many of their affiliated hospitals and physician practices that annually care for more than half of the residents of Maine.

eleTracking Technologies’ RadarFind real-time locating distributed sensor network now includes a temperature-measuring tag that  is NIST traceable and certified to be waterproof and dustproof for hospital facilities..

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Colton, California, and Masimo jointly announced the completion of ARMC’s system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.