Mike Miliard
The ED Benchmarks Collaborative, a joint initiative of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and McKesson, is now is available to hospitals seeking to improve their emergency department performance. The Web-based subscription service enables hospitals to identify trends and compare ED performance with similar organizations nationwide.
Panasonic has unveiled its new CardioHealth Station, a tool for personalized preventive medicine, at the 2010 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
A new report from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) offers recommendations for reducing or eliminating "tensions" between healthcare IT vendors and their customers – specifically with regard to indemnity and error management.
Microsoft has announced a new suite of apps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. There are more than 50 applications listed in the health and fitness section of the marketplace.
Patient Privacy Rights, the health privacy watchdog, has enlisted the help of Zogby International to conduct an online survey of more than 2,000 adults to identify their views on privacy, access to health information, and healthcare IT. The results were overwhelmingly in favor of individual choice and control over personal health information.
Nuance Communications announced Wednesday that the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), a nonprofit organization made up of 60 medical groups and six health plans throughout Minnesota and surrounding states, has licensed its RadPort decision support technology to help ensure patients only receive medically appropriate diagnostic imaging tests.
HIMSS, the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) have announced a collaboration to develop a model curriculum in healthcare IT, which will be designed for undergrad and grad students in healthcare management programs.
Merge Healthcare announced Tuesday strong financial results for the third quarter of 2010. Revenue for the company grew to $45.2 million in Q3, compared to $16.9 million in the same period last year.
The Army has given a five-year contract to Diversinet, the mobile-healthcare communications company, to support expansion of the Army's mCare telehealth outreach program for members of the military recovering from mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and other wounds.
University of Utah Health Care, recently rated the top U.S. academic medical center by the University HealthSystem Consortium, has installed TransferCenter software, from Pittsburgh-base TeleTracking, to speed patient transfers and provide specialty care more quickly to those who need it most.