Pharmacy OneSource Acquires MedBoard Application from MedKeeper
Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software-as-a-service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, and MedKeeper, a leading provider of Web-based and handheld pharmacy tools, announced today Pharmacy OneSource’s acquisition of MedKeeper’s MedBoard product.
St. Joseph’s Hospital Chooses WaveMark® to Track Cardiology Products for Process Improvement and Cost Savings
WaveMark, Inc. and St. Joseph’s
Hospital of Atlanta, GA announced the use of WaveMark’s hospital
inventory management solution, WaveMark CIMS, by St. Joseph’s
to manage its high value, specialty inventory.
New GE eHealth Business Better Connects Patients, Hospitals, Doctors to Critical Information
GE Healthcare today announced the launch of eHealth, a new business
unit offering enhanced connectivity to clinicians and patients designed
with data privacy and security features to enable sharing that can help
increase efficiency, reduce error and improve health outcomes.
UHC Benchmarking Project Focuses on Patient- and Family-Centered Care in Academic Medical Centers
Understanding the needs of patients and their families has several
advantages for health care providers, including enhancing safety and
helping to stem the increasing costs of medical errors and malpractice
litigation.
Banner Health Partners with Philips to Reduce Hospital Readmission Rates for Patients
Banner Heart Hospital, in partnership with Tri-City Cardiology, Banner
Home Care and Banner
Hospice, REM Medical and Cigna Healthcare, was recently named as the
first accredited Heart Failure Institute in Arizona by the Healthcare
Accreditation Colloquium.
Virtua Selects NextGen® EHR to Support Quality Initiatives
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary
of Quality Systems, Inc., announced it
has entered into an agreement with Virtua, a multi-hospital healthcare system, for the deployment of NextGen
EHR.
Preventing Surgical Fires: Important New Recommendations Released
A flash fire on a patient during surgery is a very real tragedy, often
leading to disfigurement, disability or even death. Though surgical
fires are uncommon — about 550 to 650 occur in the United States each
year — their consequences are grave enough to warrant ongoing prevention
education by healthcare providers.
rL Solutions Releases Update to Its Leading Patient Safety and Feedback Software
rL Solutions, the leading provider of healthcare quality and safety
software, today announced the availability of version 4.22 of its
software.
Commenting Tool for PSO Common Formats Version 1.0 Now Available
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released Common Formats
Version 1.0 for collecting and reporting patient safety information.
Surgical Site Infection Prevention Guidelines Widely Known, Practice Lagging
Preoperative antiseptic skin preparation to reduce infection-causing
microorganisms is recommended for the 27 million patients in the United
States undergoing surgery each year.