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Cerebral oximetry provides new way to identify patient risk levels prior to cardiac surgery

Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognized innovator in mechanical ventilation and respiratory care devices, today announced that its INVOS™ Cerebral/Somatic Oximeter can provide a simple, noninvasive way to help cardiac surgeons assess patients at risk for poor outcomes prior to surgery.

21 Feb 2011

Panasonic to offer new high definition patient room display for hospitals

Panasonic Solutions Company, provider of collaboration, information-sharing and decision-support solutions for healthcare, government and commercial enterprises, today announced it will offer a new high definition, 32", hospital-grade, patient room display later this year.

From PHC Europe B.V. 21 Feb 2011

Motorola announces new advanced data capture solution for healthcare

Motorola Solutions, Inc. today announced its newest advanced data capture solution for healthcare - the DS4208-HC corded imager.

21 Feb 2011

GE Healthcare, CDC collaborate to explore efficacy of actionable health alerts

After a full year of feasibility studies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking a significant step toward providing public health information at the point-of-care. CDC is collaborating with GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, to explore the efficacy of actionable health alerts, delivered instantly to a physician's electronic medical record.

21 Feb 2011

GE Healthcare announces two new EMR solutions certified for meaningful use at HIMSS meeting

At the annual meeting of the Health Information Management and Systems Society in Orlando this week, GE Healthcare announced two new Electronic Medical Record solutions that have been certified for meaningful use.

21 Feb 2011

GE Healthcare completes Orbotech Medical acquisition

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Orbotech Medical Solutions Ltd. (OMS), a subsidiary of Orbotech Ltd. (Orbotech), and a manufacturer of cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors used in GE Healthcare's innovative Alcyone nuclear medicine technology.

21 Feb 2011

Seattle Children's Hospital implements Gemalto's Protiva security solutions

The Seattle Children's Hospital and Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced that Seattle Children's Hospital has implemented Gemalto's Protiva security solutions, including the Strong Authentication Server, two factor authentication devices and technical support services, to securely access its servers, networks and VPNs.

21 Feb 2011

ImplementHIT to roll out OptimizeHIT physician EHR elearning solutions at HIMSS11

ImplementHIT will roll out OptimizeHIT, physician electronic health record (EHR) elearning solutions, at HIMSS 2011 in Orlando, FL, February 20-24 in booth 3385. This new patent-pending solution will deliver bold new functionality scaled to small physician practices with 20 doctors or fewer, empowering them to achieve meaningful use of qualified EHRs.

21 Feb 2011

Hitachi expands Medical Imaging VNAs to include entire healthcare facility

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today introduced a new solution for healthcare providers to improve clinical decision making and resulting patient care. Hitachi Clinical Repository (HCR) is an information management solution that transforms raw medical data and images into meaningful information, independent of the source applications.

21 Feb 2011

GNAX demonstrates new Free Health Information Exchange at HIMSS11

Global Net Access (GNAX), a leading healthcare technology infrastructure service provider unveils a new Free Health Information Exchange (HIE) today at the 2011 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition. The GNAX HIE facilitates the direct electronic exchange of patient information between healthcare providers.

21 Feb 2011

Sanofi Pasteur, International Vaccine Institute support Dengue Vaccine Initiative

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that it is partnering with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to support the recently launched Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI). Sanofi Pasteur and the IVI will aim to raise awareness and to work to move dengue vaccination higher on the global health agenda.

21 Feb 2011

SAP launches Collaborative E-Care Management application

To address the current reactive approaches to treating chronic and post-acute care conditions, SAP AG is launching a new solution. The SAP® Collaborative E-Care Management application connects patients, care providers and their families through medical monitoring software and mobile devices to better manage their health with individualized treatment plans and educational content.

21 Feb 2011

UMass Memorial Health Care selects MedCPU's Meaningful Use Advisor clinical decision support tool

MedCPU Inc., provider of real-time clinical decision support solutions, has been chosen by UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Massachusetts to deliver its Meaningful Use AdvisorTM tool to assure compliance of UMass' physicians and hospitals with the Meaningful Use requirements and qualification for the attendant economic incentives.

21 Feb 2011

Zipit Enterprise Critical Messaging Solution debuts at HIMSS conference

From the 2011 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Fla., Verizon Wireless and Zipit Wireless, a pioneer in next generation connected platform solutions, today introduced the Zipit® Enterprise Critical Messaging Solution™, a two-way paging system available exclusively from Verizon Wireless.

21 Feb 2011

Virtua deploys MedCPU's Expert Advisor for OB

MedCPU Inc., provider of real-time clinical decision support solutions, has been chosen by Virtua to support its clinicians in providing the best patient care in OB.

21 Feb 2011

Mater Children's Hospital converts to Masimo rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry technology

Mater Children's Hospital and Masimo today jointly announce the conversion of Mater Children's Hospital to Masimo rainbow® SET Pulse CO-Oximetry™ technology for advanced noninvasive patient monitoring capabilities. The conversion equips the tertiary facility with the most technologically and clinically-advanced oximetry and noninvasive patient monitoring solutions available.

21 Feb 2011

Emdeon selects IBM as technology provider for patient-centric clinical information exchange

Emdeon Inc., one of the largest health information networks in the nation focusing on clinical exchange and a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management solutions, today announced the selection of IBM as its technology provider for patient-centric clinical information exchange.

21 Feb 2011

Cedars-Sinai, AirStrip enter mobile patient monitoring solution collaboration

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and AirStrip Technologies announced a developmental collaboration to leverage mobile patient monitoring in a variety of clinical environments where immediate access to data is necessary. A key goal of the partnership will be to develop, deploy, and create innovative ways to get real-time device data available anytime and anywhere.

21 Feb 2011

Dell launches subscription-based cloud-enabled service solutions for hospitals, physician practices

Dell is delivering new cloud-based services to simplify secure information access and sharing for physicians and hospitals and improve healthcare efficiency from the point of care to the data center and business office. The service offerings are designed for hospitals and physician practices that want to focus less on managing information and more on using it to improve patient care and to maximize reimbursements.

21 Feb 2011

GE Centricity Enterprise v6.9 achieves Complete EHR ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification

GE Healthcare is pleased to announce that GE Centricity Enterprise version 6.9 is officially 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a Complete EHR February 17, 2011 by Drummond Group Inc. Drummond Group made the designation in its capacity as an Office of the National Coordinator - Authorized Temporary Certification Body (ONC-ATCB) in accordance with the applicable Eligible Hospital certification criteria adopted by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

21 Feb 2011

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Cerebral oximetry provides new way to identify patient risk levels prior to cardiac surgery

Panasonic to offer new high definition patient room display for hospitals

Motorola announces new advanced data capture solution for healthcare

GE Healthcare, CDC collaborate to explore efficacy of actionable health alerts

GE Healthcare announces two new EMR solutions certified for meaningful use at HIMSS meeting

GE Healthcare completes Orbotech Medical acquisition

Seattle Children's Hospital implements Gemalto's Protiva security solutions

ImplementHIT to roll out OptimizeHIT physician EHR elearning solutions at HIMSS11

Hitachi expands Medical Imaging VNAs to include entire healthcare facility

GNAX demonstrates new Free Health Information Exchange at HIMSS11

Sanofi Pasteur, International Vaccine Institute support Dengue Vaccine Initiative

SAP launches Collaborative E-Care Management application

UMass Memorial Health Care selects MedCPU's Meaningful Use Advisor clinical decision support tool

Zipit Enterprise Critical Messaging Solution debuts at HIMSS conference

Virtua deploys MedCPU's Expert Advisor for OB

Mater Children's Hospital converts to Masimo rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry technology

Emdeon selects IBM as technology provider for patient-centric clinical information exchange

Cedars-Sinai, AirStrip enter mobile patient monitoring solution collaboration

Dell launches subscription-based cloud-enabled service solutions for hospitals, physician practices

GE Centricity Enterprise v6.9 achieves Complete EHR ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification

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