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IBM has launched a Health Analytics Solution Center, part of a network of global centers addressing the demand for advanced analytics needed to help hospitals and medical staff improve decision making and optimal quality of care.
NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) of San Jose, Calif., has acquired a wireless video technology that extends its current imaging capabilities in the operating room.
Royal Philips Electronics has reported a 17 percent decline in revenues to €5.1 billion ($6.76 billion) for the first quarter, which the company partially attributed to slumping healthcare sales due to a "very soft U.S. hospital market." However, Philips also noted that while imaging sales are down, "performance in emerging markets and home healthcare solutions remains strong."
CHICAGO—Informatics nurse professionals regularly use their expertise to promote the adoption of more effective, higher quality clinical applications within their organizations, which contributes significantly to patient safety, change management and usability of systems, according to findings from the 2009 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Nursing Informatics Impact survey released this week at the 2009 HIMSS conference.
Philips Healthcare Informatics will create 30 new jobs as a result of its operations expansion in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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IT innovation and integration are alive and very well in 2008. This year’s Top 25 Connected Healthcare Facilities bring impressive resumes, tales of major cost savings and return on investment and excellence in patient care and patient and staff satisfaction.
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The Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), which represents approximately 1,800 health IT executives, has announced its annual awards that salute achievement in applied medical informatics. The awards will be distributed at the 18th annual Physician Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif., this week.
Medrad has launched Manage.Report, an informatics application that allows healthcare professionals to remotely access clinical and administrative information associated with radiology patients' contrast injections.
Health Level Seven (HL7) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO), the provider of standardized clinical terminology, are working together to eliminate gaps and overlaps between the HL7 and IHTSDO standards.
Philips Healthcare (Booth 6010/6210) is featuring a host of software solutions, including clinical decision support applications to complement EHR investments and integrate into hospital information systems.
Medrad demonstrated its P3T Cardiac CT Injection Software, shared results of a recent study of personalized patient injection protocols and showed potential advances of its P3T products at the 94th Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago.
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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.