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An early adopter of healthcare IT, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) began implementing bar coding for bedside medication verification in 2007 as part of its organization-wide initiative to enhance patient safety.
This case study outlines how Thibodaux Regional Medical Center utilized durable, flexible bar coded wristbands to prevent Workarounds and contribute to high scan rates at their facility.
When healthcare organizations introduce bar coded patient identification wristbands, they must determine the most effective, efficient way to print bar codes.With dozens of printer models available to satisfy different user requirements for producing wristbands, it can be challenging for healthcare organizations to decide which option is the most cost-effective over the long term.
Bar coded patient wristbands provide the necessary foundation for preventing errors by ensuring accurate patient information is always available at the point of care.
Tweet As the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) spurs the widespread adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems at hospitals nationwide, bar code-based systems, such as patient wristbands, have proven to be an excellent way for medical centers to improve the safety and quality of care while meeting industry mandates. To gain the most […]
It may be an exaggeration to say you can’t manage what you can’t measure, but it’s certain that if you can measure it, you can manage it better. That is the premise behind business intelligence (BI) — the technology-driven identification, aggregation and analysis of data to support decision making and process optimization.
Verizon and Duke University have announced a partnership that the two parties say will build on cloud computing and mobile technology to change how health care is delivered.
Tweet Imprivata, a provider of access-management tools, has released the results of a survey showing health care poised to take the lead in desktop virtualization adoption in the next 12 months. For the report called “2011 Virtualization Trends in Healthcare,” researchers interviewed 477 IT managers in multiple industries, including health care and financial services. Health […]
Tweet SOURCE: TechNewsWorld Researchers have used a form of MRI to peer into test subjects’ brains and “see” what the subject is looking at. It’s a complicated process, and scientists don’t expect practical applications any time soon, but the team’s research could eventually help in the diagnosis of brain conditions and contribute to research involving […]
The benefits of making improvements to data management have been highlighted by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trusts (RCHT).
Solution Helps State Governments Meet the Requirements for Healthcare Insurance Exchanges and Provides a Comprehensive Platform for Integrated Program Delivery
Oct. 19 event, featuring thought leader Dr. David Blumenthal as keynote, to focus spotlight on healthcare innovation and best practices for breaking down barriers to better care
Health care is becoming the fastest-growing vertical for U.S. businesses, with (IAAS) (infrastructure as a service) leading the way, according to a new report by research firm In-Stat. IT spending in health care will grow 29 percent from 2010 to 2015, the company reports.
Business intelligence (BI) is becoming more essential for healthcare providers as they make critical decisions about accountable care organizations and how best to meet meaningful use requirements, according to new research from Orem, Utah-based KLAS.
QlikTech, a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced it has received an overall performance score of 91 out of 1001 in the “Business Intelligence: Making Cents of Performance” report by KLAS, a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting healthcare vendor performance.
Altosoft, an innovator in the field of healthcare informatics and business intelligence, today announced that Geisinger Health System, a recognized national leader in healthcare information technology, has implemented the Altosoft Insight for Pathology™ system at its clinical and anatomic pathology labs.
Meaningful use remains the strongest driver to implement electronic health records for physicians, according to a new survey that finds both potential EHR buyers and current users valuing the technology, but with substantially different perceptions and expectations.
Elsevier Business Intelligence, the biopharma industry’s leading provider of strategic business intelligence and conferences, is hosting Windhover’s 21st Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances (PSA) September 21-23, 2011 at the Millennium Broadway in New York, NY.
As health care companies grapple with whether to adopt cloud computing platforms to store patient data, providers face many choices on which services to choose and how to keep data secure.
drchrono, the company modernizing healthcare through a free Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform on the iPad, announced today that its free iPad app has received official government certification that will result in doctors receiving $44,000 in incentives when they use drchrono as an electronic medical records platform. The certification makes drchrono the first native EHR on the iPad to be certified for Meaningful Use.
With Medicare about to stop paying for some preventable hospital readmissions, the care management industry is starting to come up with ways to help healthcare providers avoid complications that can lead to such needless readmissions.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, as one of eight companies in the large business category to participate in a five-year technology and telecommunications Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quality (IDIQ) contract designed to upgrade the department�s information technology (IT) systems. With a total ceiling value of $12 billion, the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) contracting vehicle covers services that will streamline and modernize VA operations, including patient care delivery at more than 150 VA hos
Tweet Google Health, the search giant’s online database where users can upload and manage their medical information, is being shut down. Google says it’s failed to draw widespread adoption and will be phased out, disappearing completely on the first day of 2013. Rival services, some of which focus entirely on online health records, may have […]
Tweet Researchers at the University of Exeter say recent work using phase-changing materials could pave the way for the creation of computers that learn much like biological brains. PCMs were used to reliably execute the four basic arithmetic functions as well as store information. This indicates that phase-change materials can be used to manufacture artificial […]
While everyone in the data center industry follows the new Internet Data Centers (IDCs) built by Google’and Facebook, there are really only a handful of these in the world. While being a supplier to these companies is a great opportunity, it can also be too demanding and take your products in directions that are very custom – like containerized data centers.
Tweet SOURCE: FierceIT Healthcare organizations are embracing the need for information transparency to drive clinical transformation, but they still require the tools and capabilities to make data available in real time and reduce the burden on scarce resources. These are among the key findings from the HIMSS 2011 Clinical Transformation Survey, sponsored by McKesson. Three-quarters […]
Tweet SOURCE: WTN News As healthcare providers nationwide install and upgrade electronic medical records (EHR) systems in hopes of capturing their share of $27 billion in federal incentive money for “meaningful use” of EHRs, those who manage the underlying IT infrastructure are hard at work trying to manage all the new electronic data being generated. […]
HIPAA enforcement is getting tougher—the OCR & FTC are performing more audits to enforce HIPAA/HITECH Compliance. Healthcare firms of all sizes are being targeted to ensure full compliance and that Protected Health Information (PHI) is protected and secure.
Tweet SOURCE: GNAX Global Net Access (GNAX), a leading healthcare technology service provider, announces a strategic relationship with Acuo Technologies to develop a cloud-based, vendor neutral archive (VNA) of medical images for healthcare providers. Medical Image Archiving is one of the latest healthcare solutions from GNAX which include second-tier application delivery, cloud hosting, managed backup […]
Late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began issuing Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments to eligible providers. For physicians who were able to attest their compliance with the Meaningful Use requirements, that could mean an $18,000 annual incentive payment–which sounds like a nice pile of money to get started on EHR adoption.
