Mike Miliard

Dell has announced that Siemens Healthcare Sector, one of the largest suppliers to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging and medical information technology, has adopted the new Dell Precision T5500 Long-Life workstation to power its ACUSON SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system.

Carefx Corp., a provider of interoperable workflow solutions, has been granted exclusive license rights to market and further develop the Cleveland Clinic business intelligence (BI) dashboards that are a part of IntellisEPM, a Clinic start up.

Intelimedix has launched Tru:Beacon, a technology-based solution that precisely identifies opportunities to save medical costs without lowering quality of care.

Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, one of the leading academic medical centers of the mid-South and the flagship of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has selected Allscripts Care Management's discharge planning solution to ensure continuity of care and improve the efficiency of the hospital patient discharge process.

Intuit Inc., the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Medfusion, of Cary, N.C., which makes front-office and back-office software designed to improve patient-to-provider communications.

Outdated hospital communications systems - based on blaring PAs and multiple, often incompatible mobile devices - are causing confusion, reducing efficiency, wasting money and helping contribute to serious staffing shortages, a new white paper finds.

The Department of Health and Human Services Office on Disability has announced the establishment of a new Center of Excellence in Research on Disability Services, Care Coordination and Integration.

Carestream Health has sold fully-featured medical imaging and image information management systems to medical facilities dedicated to serving the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and Citizen Potawatomi Nation, both of Oklahoma.

Being a small, rural hospital poses a special set of challenges. But the innovative ways in which these under-resourced organizations manage to meet their needs present new opportunities for vendors.

"When we deal with procurement and IT people in healthcare companies, we tend to hear the same message time and time again: 'Every dollar we spend on IT equipment we'd rather spend somewhere else.'"