iPhones Adopted by The Nebraska Medical Center

Sarasota, Florida, June 14, 2011—Nurses and clinicians at The Nebraska Medical Center, the state’s largest health care facility, will soon be using iPhones to improve their communication and increase efficiency, thanks to Voalté’s first-of-its-kind integrated communication solution.

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Cautious Patient Foundation Announces New Grants Program Aimed to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Healthcare

Houston, Texas, June 14, 2011—The Cautious Patient Foundation (CPF), the outreach and educational arm of Patient Always First, a nonprofit organization committed to educating and empowering patients in the quest for quality healthcare, announced a new grants program to support initiatives that successfully move patients towards greater engagement in their personal or family healthcare process.

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NQF Releases Updated Serious Reportable Events

Washington, D.C., June 13, 2011—The National Quality Forum (NQF) Board has recently approved for endorsement a list of 29 serious reportable events (SREs) in healthcare as outlined in the forthcoming report Serious Reportable Events in Healthcare–2011 Update: A Consensus Report.

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Surgical Information Systems Partners with Siemens to Deliver Advanced Perioperative Solutions to Enterprise Health Information System Customers

Atlanta, Georgia, June 8, 2011—Surgical Information Systems (SIS) announced a partnership with Siemens Healthcare expanding the reach of the Siemens health information system portfolio (including Soarian®, INVISION® and MedSeries4®) into the perioperative environment, including the SIS Anesthesia solution.

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MYCO Medical Adds Qlicksmart’s Breakthrough Scalpel Blade Removal Devices to Inventory

Cary, North Carolina, June 1, 2011MYCO Medical, a national medical supply company and a leading vendor of surgical products to the healthcare, dental and veterinary field today announced it is adding the Qlicksmart BladeCASSETTE and BladeSINGLE blade remover systems to its growing product line of safe, innovative, high-value surgical devices and disposables.

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