To deliver maximum value for public money, St. James’s Hospital needs to keep tight control over its finances. Without integration between financial and materials management systems, the hospital faced delays and deficits.
By implementing a centralised ERP system, the hospital could facilitate integration and improve process efficiency. IBM Global Business Services helped St. James’s implement the [...]

PASADENA, CA – Nearly 1,000 affiliated physicians of Huntington Memorial Hospital, a 636-bed, not-for-profit hospital in Southern California, are moving to electronic prescribing, a step which hospital officials say will help bring them closer to an electronic healthcare record.
The hospital is offering its affiliated physicians a branded version of Chicago-based Allscripts’s stand-alone solution called HuntingtonRx.
“The [...]

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology,U.S.  has officially published a proposed rule establishing two certification programs–one temporary and the other permanent–to test and certify electronic health records.
The proposed rule describes how an organization would become an “ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Body” under the temporary program. An organization would submit an application [...]

SCOTLAND – NHS 24, a telephone and online service providing health advice and information in Scotland, has signed an agreement to extend its partnership with Clinical Solutions.
 
Clinical Solutions, a provider of health-based customer relationship management (CRM) and clinical content solutions based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, will be providing NHS 24’s core telephone triage software and decision [...]

FRIESLAND, THE NETHERLANDS – MC Leeuwarden, based in Friesland, the Netherlands has deployed new clinical review displays across its two locations.
The Medical Centre Leeuwarden is considered a top medical teaching hospital, with locations in Leeuwarden and Harlingen. Both locations, officials said, will install the medical displays developed by Barco, which is based in Belgium.
The displays [...]

Several presenters at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2010 conference offered advice and guidance for health care workers who oversee electronic health record purchasing, implementation and maintenance. Summaries of selected presentations are provided below.
Data Management, IT Planning Key to Avoiding Litigation
Matthew Curtin –forensic investigator and founder of Interhack — suggested that effective data management and [...]

Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., has started a concept of updating its emergency department waiting time by means of text messages, telephone and its Web site.
‘Waiting Time’  is the average time from when a patient checks in and is triaged to the time they are placed in a room where treatment begins. The times are [...]

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, recently announced that it has published the Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (as also specified in HITSP’s Interoperability Specification IS01).
 The implementation guide is directly related to the initial set of standards and certification [...]

Some 900 vendors exhibited at the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta and that means multiple announcements about new products, features or services. Among them:
The Take Care Health System subsidiary of Walgreen’s will use in some 380 worksite health clinics the practice management and electronic health records software of Greenway Medical Technologies Inc., Carrollton, Ga. In [...]

Saying ICD-10 holds potential to surpass even Y2K’s cost and impact, DeloitteConsulting has published a list of the ten most important things  that the providers should understand right now about the conversion. The consultancy is not alone in warning that advance planning is essential to a successful ICD-10 implementation, particularly for healthcare organizations to achieve business value [...]

The NeuroMind mobile application, developed by DigitalNeurosurgeon.com, is a good resource for surgeons, featuring beautiful hi-res images. It’s not without usability issues – the free version I’m running on my iPhone had me constantly zooming to make use of the images. The app provides great hi-resolution diagrams for surgeons to reference, but blowing them up [...]

 
Inc., the Salt Lake City-based health information exchange (HIE) company, has announced iNexx, its new “Health 4.0″ platform, which bridges systems, networks and people to create a care model that keeps the patient as the focus at all times. iNexx connects cloud services, bricks-and-mortar clinical, administrative, and financial networks, local applications such as PMS and [...]

CHICAGO – The American Medical Association (AMA) is offering physicians across the country a new online platform for access to an electronic health system from Ingenix, called CareTracker.
The AMA announced recently that it had selected Ingenix CareTracker as the first EHR system offered through the AMA’s new online health information solutions platform for physicians. The [...]

HIMSS Analytics, devised the EMR Adoption Model to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems called the EMRAM.  The EMRAM scores hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics Database on their progress in completing the 8 stages to creating a paperless patient record environment as shown in the figure below:
HIMSS EMR Adoption Model
 
 EMR Adoption Model Structure Ensures [...]

Canada-based Cynoprod, in partnership with Jordanian investor Zaher Al Masri, has launched a dental manufacturing centre in Amman, Jordan. The investment cost of Cynoprod’s Jordan is estimated at $2m in addition to a research and development investment of over $130m.
source: ameinfo.com