INTEGRIS Health’s Palm Scanner Increases Patient Safety
McKesson to Acquire MedVentive, Support “Better Health 2020”
McKesson will enter into a definitive agreement to acquire MedVentive, a leading provider of population and risk management tools that drive transparency in healthcare cost and quality. MedVentive’s solutions will augment McKesson’s capabilities and experience to support providers as they become clinically integrated, engage physicians and patients to reduce costs, and transition to risk-bearing models such as accountable care.
RadNet Joins GE Healthcare to Evaluate Breast Cancer Detection Processes
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Receives HIMSS Analytics Award
HIMSS Analytics recognizes the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa, with its Stage 7 Award. The Stage 7 award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems.
Health IT Week Includes Call for Access to Personal Health Information
The Alliance for Nursing Informatics wants its members to ask for and access their personal health records as part of a collaborative effort to Ask for Your e-Health Record. During National Health IT Week: September 10-14, all ANI organizations will join forces to ask their members, nurses and clinical colleagues to reach out for their own digital medical information.
Advocate Health Care and GE Healthcare Join to Reduce Patient CT Radiation Dose
Text to Speech Audio Upgrade Improves Communication
TextSpeak has released the TTS-EM-HD2, a small yet all-inclusive voice synthesis paging and announcement product. Targeted to deploy with unified hospital communications, the stand-alone package requires only a single digital input signal to produce spoken audio.
HHS to Promote Use of EHRs and Health Information Exchange
Group Health Selects Intelligent InSites’ RTLS Software
Group Health has selected Intelligent InSites to help make medical centers of the future a reality today.
For Improved Patient Outcomes, Think Device Integration
Each year, the experts at ECRI Institute release a “Top 10” C-Suite Watch List, enumerating upon the most important “technology-related issues” that health system leaders should pay attention to in the next 365 days. And, when applicable, the ECRI experts even suggest solutions.