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| InSite One, IBM Partner to Expand Medical Imaging Data Capabilities Posted: 10 Apr 2009 06:57 AM PDT InSite One, Inc. , a cloud provider for medical image data archiving, storage, and disaster-recovery solutions based in Wallingford, Conn., is utilizing technologies from IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) to help healthcare facilities store and manage medical imaging data. According to InSite One, IBM is its vendor of choice for its primary datacenter expansion and storage device upgrades. Under terms of the agreement, the company is purchasing IBM storage and servers in its primary data center. Over the next few years, InSite One will also replace its existing storage and servers, with the total amount of storage purchased exceeding 1 petabyte, it says. The data center will use IBM System x Servers and DS3200 Storage systems. IBM and InSite One will also collaborate on client enterprise storage and archiving opportunities where InSite One sells its services and IBM sells its storage and infrastructure solutions. The company expects the total value of the agreement to exceed $15 million. | ||
| Complete Healthcare Resources Installs Wireless LAN Posted: 10 Apr 2009 06:55 AM PDT Complete Healthcare Resources Inc. (Dresher, Pa.), a provider of management and consulting services for long-term healthcare facilities, has selected Santa Clara, Calif.-based Aerohive Networks ’ 802.11n wireless LAN solution for 42 customer facilities housing 5,500 beds. The new wireless LAN will initially support the company’s eMAR application, which uses barcode medication administration at the bedside, and may later support other point-of-care applications and voice over wireless LAN, it says. Complete Healthcare uses the Aerohive HiveManager network management system to manage its entire distributed wireless LAN from its data center. | ||
| More doctors demand pay up-front Posted: 4/10/2009 © St. Petersburg Times An increasing number of doctors and health care providers are demanding payments up front, even from fully insured patients. Some providers claim it is easier to collect from patients before they leave the office than chase them down later. | ||
| USF offers free e-coaching for doctors Posted:
A lot of doctors say they can't afford to adopt electronic prescribing. Others need technical help. Today, USF's top doctor Stephen Klasko and Allscripts Inc. announced an end to both barriers with free software and 1-on-1 in-training in doctors' offices in up to 10 counties. | ||
| Hospital district paid for 2 posh retreats Posted: 3/15/2009 © South Florida Sun-Sentinel Even as the Broward County hospital district grappled with state budget cuts and uninsured patients, it paid almost $60,000 on two retreats at a local four-star resort in violation of its own policy. | ||
| Drug database could pass this year Posted: 3/16/2009 © Sarasota Herald-Tribune Each year, the proposal for a database to monitor prescribing of controlled drugs stalls in the Legislature. But doctors' views about it are changing; could this year be different? (See also Florida Health News' article on the continuing problem.) | ||
| VP of clinic accused of dispensing drugs Posted: 3/14/2009 © Orlando Sentinel The vice president of a drug-rehabilitation clinic in Lake Mary faces charges of dispensing drugs and practicing as a healthcare professional without a license, officials said this week. | ||
| Couple flooded with medical faxes Posted: 3/11/2009 © WTSP-Ch. 10 For two years, a Tampa couple say, they've been trying to stop the flood of faxes from pharmacies and clinics intended for a doctor who once had their phone number. They contain patients' medical information and Social Security numbers. | ||
| Coalition: Protect drug access Posted: 3/10/2009 © Florida Health News USF psychiatrist Michael Bengtson advises the Florida Medicaid program on which drugs need to be readily available. But even he can't always get the drugs his patients need, he says, because the process is "murky." Consumer groups agree; they've formed a coalition to keep drugs available at a time of budget cuts. | ||
| Reform could cost hospitals $4B Posted: 2/27/2009 © Florida Health News A former state health official says if Florida’s Medicaid Reform plan is expanded statewide it will cost hospitals nearly $4 billion a year in uninsured emergency-room visits and make it difficult for patients to get immediate treatment. | ||
| Crist wants to merge health agencies Posted: By Christine Jordan Sexton 2/25/2009 © Florida Health News Gov. Charlie Crist is reportedly preparing to recommend a merger of the two largest state health agencies into one, a proposal that would affect thousands of state employees. He also wants to keep Medicaid “Reform” unchanged and increase the fees doctors and HMOs get for treating the poor. |
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