SOURCE: Government Health IT ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments are much more alike in the healthcare services they deliver than they are different. That is critical as they build the components of their integrated electronic health record...
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Oct 12, 2011
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. SVMC—which operates a 99-bed flagship...
Oct 12, 2011
To achieve and maintain its award-winning reputation, Thibodaux has progressed on several key initiatives in recent years. The medical center has increasingly moved toward a more paperless environment and brought in bedside medication verification (BMV). This case...
Oct 12, 2011
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...
Oct 12, 2011
Bar coded patient wristbands provide the necessary foundation for preventing errors by ensuring accurate patient information is always available at the point of care. Automated medication administration, electronic health records, computerized physician order entry...
Oct 11, 2011
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...
Oct 7, 2011
SOURCE: Insurance & Technology 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...
Oct 7, 2011
SOURCE: eWeek 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. "For every project we've done, it comes back to how do we reconceptualize this...
Sep 30, 2011
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...
Sep 28, 2011
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...
