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InConcertCare, a health center-controlled network of eight community and migrant health centers that provides care to 78,000 people in underserved communities throughout Iowa and Nebraska, has selected GE Healthcare for its health IT system.
Information management systems provider DR Systems has added to its list of medical facilities taking part in beta trials of its Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), a cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and radiology reports.
With a push from the HITECH Act for facilities to install EMR software solutions, GE Healthcare has created a technology suite under its Centricity EMR solution and revenue cycle management tools that will increase the speed of the installation process.
Omnipaque (iohexol, GE Healthcare), a low osmolar iodinated contrast agent has the potential to be better tolerated by patients than the more widely used high osmolality iodinated oral contrast agent, meglumine sodium diatrizoate (Gastroview, Mallinckrodt) for CT, according to a study presented Feb.21 at the Abdominal Radiology Course Meeting held by the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology and the Society of Uroradiology in Orlando.
The market for electronic medical record systems will exceed $5.4 billion in North America and $1.4 billion in Europe by 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, a San Jose, Calif., market research firm.
East Orange General Hospital in East Orange, N.J., has signed an agreement to install the portfolio of GE Healthcare’s Centricity Enterprise.
GE Healthcare has released Vscan, a pocket-sized visualization tool developed to provide physicians with imaging capabilities at the point of care.
Monday, February 08 2010
The chairman and CEO of SenoRx, Lloyd H. Malchow, is taking an indefinite medical leave of absence due to illness and John T. Buhler, president and chief operating officer of SenoRx, will serve as acting CEO.
GE Healthcare has expanded its portfolio of ecomagination products aimed at helping healthcare companies and hospitals reduce cost and waste.
Eastern Diagnostic Imaging and InfiMed have developed an original equipment manufacturer distribution partnership for the wireless technology in the portable x-ray environment, the i5 Mobile DR upgrade for GE Healthcare's AMX-4 and AMX-4+ portables.
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Olympus America has signed a licensing agreement with Omnyx--a joint venture of GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania--allowing Omnyx to access Olympus America patents in the field of virtual microscopy and digital pathology, to help develop solutions in the digital pathology field.
Written by Mary Tierney
ATLANTA--GE Healthcare this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition rolled out a new clinical knowledge platform and announced the launch of its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
Concern about the cancer risk from low medical level radiation, particularly low-dose radiation delivered from CT scans, has been growing in the healthcare community.
Digital x-ray detectors are finally untethered and, in some cases, surprisingly easy to implement, according to a report issued today from healthcare market research firm KLAS.
Health IT company Civco Medical Solutions has introduced the Infiniti needle guidance system for use with GE Healthcare ultrasound platforms.
At HIMSS10 in Atlanta during the first week of March, GE Healthcare (Booth #7039) will unveil and highlight remote monitoring technologies that assist point of care decision making.
GE Healthcare’s Centricity Radiology-IW technology will enable medical staff at remote facilities to have real-time access to patient information and images when treating injured athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.
William Denman, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer (CMO) at GE Healthcare.
CT is being utilized as an adjunctive tool in the evaluation of patients presenting with complicated H1N1 flu cases in hospitals, which can be positive for both the technology and medical imaging agent manufacturers, said life sciences market research group Kalorama Information.
GE Global Research, a subsidiary of GE has been awarded a four-year, $3.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to aid the development of a new cryogen-free magnet technology.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.