Eloquest Healthcare, Inc.,
a dermatology specialty company that focuses on improving dermal
outcomes for the acute care market, has announced that it is partnering
with Onset Therapeutics to market Optase (Balsam Peru (87mg/gm), Castor
Oil (788mg/gm) and Trypsin (0.12mg/gm)). Optase, a prescription product
formulated in a patent-pending gel delivery system for topical
application, promotes healing in the treatment of decubitus ulcers,
varicose ulcers and dehiscent wounds.

Ambient ID Inc. today unveiled the company’s
LabTrack™ solution — a comprehensive business information management
system proven in diagnostic laboratories and hospitals throughout North
America to significantly improve operational efficiency and reduce test
costs.

Implementation of an Interventional Patient
Hygiene (IPH) program that clearly defines comprehensive bathing and
incontinence practices and education in the hospital intensive care
unit can significantly reduce pressure ulcers (PrUs), according to a
recent study at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Allen Caudle, a partner with Appleseed Healthcare Resources, suggests
that applying lean management techniques to the use and maintenance of
mobile patient critical use equipment (CUE) — such as feeding tubes,
IVs, leg compression devices, and patient controlled analgesia and
syringe pumps — saves time and money, increases nursing time for
patient care, and could be helpful in reducing hospital-acquired
bacterial infections such as MRSA, C.Diff, and VRE.

Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) and Transforming Healthcare in Connecticut
Communities (THICC) – a coalition of Connecticut’s leading hospitals,
physician practices, employer groups and insurers – today announced the
formation of a statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) to improve
the health of Connecticut’s communities.

Fallon Clinic, a large, multi-specialty medical
group practice in Central Massachusetts, in conjunction with
HealthAlliance Hospital, a member of the UMass Memorial Health Care
system, recently launched SAFE Health (Secure Architecture For
Exchanging Health Information, www.SAFEHealth.org), a regional health information exchange program.

Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software as a service
provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced
today that The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ has adopted Sentri7 to
take its clinical pharmacy programs to the next level.

The St. Louis VAMC, John Cochran Division has selected Enterprise
VISion™, a real-time location information system (RTLS) from Versus
Technology, Inc. (Versus) to improve efficiency and safety while
helping to manage their growing patient populations. Specifically, the
St. Louis VAMC, a two-division, tertiary care facility with over 200
hospital beds, will deploy VISion: Clinic™ in their outpatient eye
clinic and VISion: Perioperative Suite™ in their operating room for
automated patient tracking.

CareFusion Corporation, the company that will
become public following the planned spinoff of Cardinal Health’s
clinical and medical products businesses, today launched its new brand
and marked the occasion by providing opportunities for its global
employees to volunteer for non-profit organizations in their
communities.

The American Hospital Association announces the
2009-2010 class of Patient Safety Leadership Fellows. Thirteen
individuals have been selected to participate in this year’s fellowship
class.