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CCHIT Sees Surge in Vendor Applications Posted: 09 Apr 2009 09:14 AM PDT The Chicago-based Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) says a rush of applications to meet a March 31 application deadline brought the number of ambulatory EHR products seeking CCHIT certification to 64. The organization says total applications represent a 33 percent growth over the 2007 cycle, which it says is strong evidence that the industry sees a solid continuing role for CCHIT certification in federal and private-sector health IT adoption efforts. Additionally, nearly 40 percent of the applications were seeking certification for first-time rather than returning EHR products, and more than 60 percent of the applicants reported revenues of $10 million or less.

Methodist Healthcare Opts for Converged Wireless Posted: 09 Apr 2009 09:13 AM PDT Methodist Healthcare (San Antonio, Texas) has signed a contract for complete wireless infrastructure, software and services from Sprint (Overland Park, Kan.) and GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wis.). The companies say the agreement will result in a converged wireless ecosystem for six hospital sites within the Methodist Healthcare. The deployment includes GE Carescape, an integrated wireless platform that will run on more than 800 Sprint wireless phones carried by physicians, nurses and staff throughout the hospital. Methodist Healthcare, whose 24 facilities include eight acute care hospitals, is San Antonio’s largest health care provider. The facilities offer a wide variety of services including transplant, cardiac care, oncology, behavioral health, emergency medicine, bariatrics and women’s and children’s services.

Many putting off needed surgery Posted: 3/14/2009 © The New York Times Patients who fear losing health insurance are moving up surgery. Others are putting it off, to the point that one Florida hospital system is seeing five or six patients a day in dire condition that could have been avoided had they gone to surgery earlier, officials say.

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