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| Ochsner Posts ER Wait Times Online Posted: 15 Apr 2009 08:06 AM PDT New Orleans-based Ochsner Medical Center is now posting online, real-time wait times for its four New Orleans area emergency rooms, thereby allowing patients the option to be treated more quickly at another Ochsner hospital for non-life-threatening conditions, it says. According to the organization, Ochsner is offering this information to patients in an effort to improve healthcare for the community and meet patients’ growing requests for information about their care. Ochsner Health System is a non-profit, academic health system that includes seven hospitals and more than over 35 health centers located throughout Southeast Louisiana. Ochsner employs more than 600 physicians in 80 medical specialties and subspecialties and more than 300 clinical research trials annually. |
| Sam’s Club Launches EMR Package Posted: 14 Apr 2009 10:55 AM PDT Sam’s Club, a division of Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , is partnering with eClinicalWorks (Westborough, Mass.) and Dell (Round Rock, Texas) to launch a turnkey EMR and practice management package targeted toward small physician practices. According to the companies, the solution is designed to be scalable for growing practices. The eClinicalWorks software will be delivered through a Software as a Service model, enabling physicians to access the system via a secure Internet connection. Dell will provide hardware and site assessment, onsite technical set-up and training as well as integration of the eClinicalWorks software with the operating system, and hardware warranty support, they say. The EMR package is now available in Virginia, Illinois and Georgia as part of a phased implementation, and is expected to be available to physicians nationwide this year, say the companies. For more information about the package, healthcare professionals can visit www.samsclub.com/health or call 866-653-1933. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lawmaker has personal ties to hospital Posted: 4/15/2009 © Miami Herald Rep. Janet Adkins' fight to save Northeast Florida State Hospital from privatization is complicated and personal. Her husband owns an assisted living facility that receives state funding to house patients from the hospital. |
| Posted: A bill called “the most important mental health bill” in 30 years passed a House panel on Monday and will come before a key Senate committee on Wednesday. The bill would divert many of the state’s 70,000 mental patients from prisons to treatment. Its only opposition is the cash-strapped budget. |
| Posted: 4/14/2009 © Miami Herald Long notorious for its high healthcare costs, Miami has been chosen as one of 14 communities for a Medicare pilot project seeking to eliminate unnecessary hospital readmissions and reduce Medicare costs. |
| Internet pharmacy customer testifies Posted: 4/14/2009 © Daytona Beach News-Journal Mary Krieff of Tampa testified she ordered diet pills over the Internet without ever seeing a doctor through Jive Network, a now-defunct business in Daytona Beach. Owner Jude LaCour, three doctors and a pharmacist are on trial. |
| Doctor: Accused molester insane Posted: 4/14/2009 © Bradenton Herald Thomas Oliver, a convicted sex predator accused of molesting a patient at Manatee Glens Hospital, can't be tried because he is insane, according to doctors who examined him. |
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