Obstetrics services are consistently ranked among the highest risk medical specialty areas. To help providers learn practical strategies for reducing risk and improving culture of safety, ECRI Institute announces the addition of seven new obstetrics-related courses to their online continuing education program, e-Learn™.

AliMed, a major fall alarm innovator and supplier, announced the release of a revolutionary new fall alarm system for hospitals that is budget friendly, reduces stocking multiple products to save costs, and is simpler to use.

Just in time for flu season, Econo-Keys has announced the launch of a backlit, disinfectable keyboard designed for use in medical applications.

RelayHealth announced the introduction of Connected Orders, a front-end workflow solution that connects ambulatory-care physicians with hospital and freestanding reference laboratories, imaging centers and patients to automate the test ordering process.

Allied Telesis Inc. and Hosted PACS Solutions announced a technology alliance offering managed cloud-based Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) services to enable the seamless and secure transfer and storage of bandwidth-intensive imaging and diagnostic studies.

Maine’s HealthInfoNet has selected Orion Health as the primary technology provider for their statewide health information exchange (HIE). The HIE currently involves six healthcare organizations and many of their affiliated hospitals and physician practices that annually care for more than half of the residents of Maine.

eleTracking Technologies’ RadarFind real-time locating distributed sensor network now includes a temperature-measuring tag that  is NIST traceable and certified to be waterproof and dustproof for hospital facilities..

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Colton, California, and Masimo jointly announced the completion of ARMC’s system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology.

Siemens Healthcare announced its newly-formed partnership with patient education content provider, ExitCare, to begin providing expanded patient education services to its broad health information technology customer base.

Stainless steel mounting collars that are ideal for attaching instruments and devices such as power outlet strips to medical IV poles are being introduced by Stafford Manufacturing Corp. of Wilmington, Massachusetts.