Screaming matches in front of bewildered patients. Angry surgeons
hurling instruments across the operating room. Treachery and
backstabbing as physicians and nurses try to undermine one another.

 The Journal of Participatory Medicine was launched October 22 at the
Connected Health symposium in Boston. It is a free, online,
peer-reviewed journal dedicated to documenting how healthcare
encourages, supports, and expects active involvement by all parties,
and leads to improved outcomes.

The University of Akron’s College of Nursing has
been awarded a $1.063 million 3-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation for a pilot program that aims to improve the oral health of
low-income pregnant women, mothers, and children in Summit and Portage
counties.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded the
Health Research & Educational Trust nearly $7 million to
support projects aimed at preventing healthcare-associated infections, such as central line-associated bloodstream infections
and catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

The NQF announced the release of the Quality
Data Set, a common technological framework for defining clinical
data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in
patients’ quality of care.

Planetree, a non-profit organization facilitating efforts to create
patient-centered care in healing environments, has entered into a new
strategic business alliance with the Case Management Society of America, the nation’s largest multi-disciplinary professional
association for case management.

AeroScout, the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility for the healthcare industry, working with Dräger, announced that St. Trudo Hospital in Belgium is extending the use of its AeroScout Healthcare Visibility solution to include tracking the location of patients and Wi-Fi devices.

Quantros, Inc., an industry leader in healthcare data management,
decision support analytics and prospective point of care data
surveillance solutions, today announced the acquisition of MediQual
from CareFusion Corporation.

Zebra Technologies Corporation, a global leader in
specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, announces
the release of its IQ Color Thermal Labels
to its extensive supply offering.

Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in data management solutions that
enable the exchange of health information, announced today that
Intermountain Healthcare™ will use Initiate®
Interoperable Health as the foundation of its new Enterprise Clinical
Information System.