Coastal has released eight HIPAA training programs that accommodate the
new mandates of the HITECH Act.

In response to an FDA
notice issued on Dec. 3, 2009 hospitals throughout the U.S. are faced with
the task of finding acceptable alternatives to the STERIS System 1®
sterile processing system.

A poor economy in a rural area might seem like overwhelming obstacles
to creating a sophisticated culture of safety in a health care system
that serves the largest aging population in the country, but leaders at
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems beat those odds in 2009.

D2 Sales, LLC announced that Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center has successfully completed their pilot testing and is deploying
the My Patient Passport Express™ throughout their facilities.

Pfizer announced results of a survey the company recently sponsored
that shows physicians are more likely to report side effects through an
electronic health records (EHR) system, as compared to traditional
paper methods.

liniComp Intl., a global provider of clinical documentation systems,
announced today that VA Rocky Mountain Network (VISN 19) selected
CliniComp’s Essentris® Critical Care™solution.

Kaiser Permanente together with the National
Patient Safety Foundation and the National Association of Public
Hospitals and Health Systems announced the “Patient Safety Initiative
at America’s Public Hospitals.”

Acesis, the enterprise software company focused on healthcare
performance improvement, announced results from its first six months of
service for the University of California, San Francisco Division
of Hospital Medicine.

TVR Communications (TVRC), the largest U.S. provider of interactive
patient services and entertainment products, and Interactive Care
Network (ICN) have partnered to deliver an enhanced discharge planning
solution.

ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best
approaches to improving patient care, reveals the Top 10 Challenges for
2010 as identified by healthcare risk managers.