Friday, June 19, 2009

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

Tokyo Women’s MC Gets PACS Displays

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:56 AM PDT

Tokyo Women’s Medical University Medical Center East in Japan has ordered a supply of diagnostic display systems for its new PACS system from Belgium-based Barco . The company says the Medical Center also ordered 60 units of Barco’s MDRC clinical review displays to be used as quality-controlled review monitors in the various hospital departments. Tokyo Women’s Medical University, located in Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, is a renowned, state-of-the-art hospital with 1,423 beds. The University Hospital has nine medical centers, and Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East, located in Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, is the second largest medical center of them with 478 beds. This center has about 1,800 outpatients per day serving the northeastern Tokyo area.

Blake to Succeed Pure at McKesson

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:59 AM PDT

Patrick “Pat” Blake has been promoted to executive vice president and group president, McKesson Technology Solutions, with responsibility for all of the businesses within McKesson Technology Solutions, including Provider Technologies, Health Solutions, RelayHealth and the International Operations Group. Most recently, Blake served as president of McKesson Specialty Care Solutions, a business unit that delivers services to manufacturers and providers “to ensure specialty pharmaceutical products, coordinated reimbursement and clinical services are available to patients with complex diseases.” In this role, he led the acquisition and integration of Oncology Therapeutics Network, which included the Lynx technology platform. Blake joined McKesson in 1996 as senior vice president for McKesson Health Systems. Blake will report to John Hammergren, chairman and CEO.

MedCentral Launches Data-Mining Solution

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:58 AM PDT

MedCentral Health System (Mansfield, Ohio) launched Malvern, Pa.-based Siemens knowledge-driven healthcare data-mining tool, Soarian Quality Measures. According to the company, the application will help MedCentral streamline its quality improvement process by automating chart abstraction and helping expedite the submission of quality measures. Soarian Quality Measures replaces manual chart reviews with accurate and automated chart abstraction of quality measures, says the company. It analyzes and draws conclusions from all available electronic patient data from both Siemens and non-Siemens IT systems, and the results of the analysis are presented in a simple, intuitive interface, it touts. MedCentral Health System is an independent, not-for-profit organization comprised of two general, acute care hospitals: Mansfield and Shelby, with a combined total of 351 beds and 44 bassinets. The system offers complete cardiac care, comprehensive neurological services, a walk-in medical center, industrial health and safety services and the MedCentral College of Nursing.  

Robert Wood Johnson Project Deems PHR Privacy Inadequate

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:57 AM PDT

Project HealthDesign , a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) funded project to develop PHR applications that extend and enhance the range of services offered by existing PHRs, is releasing work products and a final report from the initial phase of project.   Key findings from the report include: Traditional concepts of privacy and confidentiality are in many respects inadequate to capture the way health information can be shared and distributed; Patients themselves have a large and unprecedented role in helping to safeguard their own health information; Society’s response to demands for privacy/confidentiality protection and best practices for information management must take into account the health aspirations and social and economic fears of patients. The final report includes key learnings from the work of the program’s first nine grantee teams. The project is also releasing open, sharable source code and other technical code documentation produced by the grantee teams in developing PHR application prototypes which is available at www.projecthealthdesign.org .

Imaging e-Ordering Coalition Formed

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 10:25 AM PDT

An alliance of healthcare providers, technology companies and diagnostic imaging organizations have joined forces to form the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition (The Coalition, Washington). According to the coalition, it will promote Health Information Technology (HIT) enabled decision-support (e-Ordering) as a solution to assure that all patients receive the most medically appropriate diagnostic imaging test for their specific condition.   The Coalition is focused on the following components: Promote existing HIT legislative concepts to inform policy makers on the value of e-Ordering to enable the appropriate use of imaging. Ask lawmakers to include e-Ordering in the development of healthcare system efficiency incentives. Act as a resource for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on its Medicare Imaging Demonstration Project established by Congress in Section 135(b) of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA). Work with policy makers to have the Coalition’s e-Ordering proposal for CMS scored to validate long-term value and savings for the healthcare industry. Work with stakeholders to establish standards to accelerate e-Ordering as a meaningful and valuable application with EHRs. For information on membership please call (202) 457-7004.

IMS contracts Barco for new clinical display

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 11:48 PM PDT

IMS, a breast imaging systems provider based in Bologna, Italy, has contracted Barco for new clinical review displays. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Western Australia Health implements patient management

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 11:45 PM PDT

The Western Australian Department of Health has entered into a contract to deploy a state-wide patient management system. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Annecy Smart Terminal installation one of largest in France

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 06:58 AM PDT

The Centre Hospitalier de la Region d'Annecy (CHRA) has installed over 600 Smart Terminals - integrating voice, data, and imaging - and believed to be the largest deployment of its kind in France, a press release said. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Sectra releases Sectra PACS 12.1

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 01:59 AM PDT

Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra has launched Sectra PACS release 12.1 with RapidConnect technology. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Philips unveils nuclear medicine and radiation oncology innovations

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 12:32 AM PDT

Royal Philips Electronics has introduced its new BrightView X, a scalable SPECT camera that can be easily upgraded with CT when physicians are ready for the full capabilities of BrightView XCT. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Pioneer of World Wide Web to advise UK Government on data use

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:10 AM PDT

The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, will advise the UK Government on the delivery of public information, such as healthcare-related data. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

European docs improve workflow with multimodal mammography workstation

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:04 AM PDT

The frustrations of proprietary workstations have led many European doctors to adopt multi-modality, vendor-neutral solutions. This need for efficient workflow is driving sales for Carestream's Mammography Workstation, which enables diagnostic review of all breast imaging exams (FFDM, ultrasound, MR, CR and others) as well as all general radiology exams. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Royal Free Hospital digitizes radiology reporting

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 12:50 AM PDT

London's Royal Free Hospital has gone live with Nuance Communications' speech recognition technology, SpeechMagic. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Agfa's IMPAX 6.4 introduces volumetric management features

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 01:42 AM PDT

Agfa HealthCare has released the latest version in the IMPAX PACS product line, IMPAX 6.4. Agfa said IMPAX 6.4 delivered new features and tools to aid users in managing complex multi-series studies that were the rule rather than the exception in today's imaging technology. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Patients have 'mixed views' on electronic health records

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:29 AM PDT

Two-thirds of patients are happy for their medical records to be stored electronically, but many patients still have concerns about security and confidentiality, according to a snapshot survey carried out in a UK community mental health setting. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Siemens Mammomat Inspiration wins design awards

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 11:44 PM PDT

Mammomat Inspiration, the digital mammography platform designed by Siemens and Designaffairs, has received the iF Product Design Award 2009 and the red dot award: product design 2009. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Toshiba expands PACS offerings with advanced visualization release

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:24 AM PDT

Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems, a group company of Toshiba Corporation, has expanded its Voxar 3D product line with two advanced PACS visualization solutions: Voxar 3D 6.3.2 Workstation and Voxar 3D 6.3.2 ActiveX. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

iSOFT launches new diagnostic imaging PACS solution

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 12:10 AM PDT

Health information technology company iSOFT Group has introduced its new iSOFT PACS (picture archiving and communications system), enhancing its global portfolio of IT products designed to create a seamless electronic health record. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Researchers to develop health IT-equipped clothing for elderly

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 11:17 PM PDT

Researchers at the University of Ulster are embarking on a ground-breaking research project to develop hi-tech clothing which could improve older people's quality of life. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Sweden launches national electronic health record

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 07:23 AM PDT

The first stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary project was successfully deployed last month, according to the project's partnering IT vendors, InterSystems and Tieto. It's the first national EHR for Sweden, and is billed as one of the first of its kind in the world. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

User-friendly healthcare IT demand increases across Europe

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 02:02 AM PDT

Demand for more user-friendly healthcare IT professional services has been increasing across Europe, according to a new Frost & Sullivan study. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

IGEL thin client technology in use at Smart Healthcare Live

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:26 AM PDT

Fast and secure access to patient files on the move is just one of the benefits IGEL Technology is demonstrating using thin clients at Smart Healthcare Live in London. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Agfa HealthCare and Segami integration agreement

Posted: 29 May 2009 12:50 AM PDT

Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with Segami Corporation to integrate Oasis workstation software into Agfa's 6th generation Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) known as IMPAX 6. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Doctor with 6 DUIs returns

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By Maya Bell and Carol Gentry
6/19/2009 © Health News Florida 
Hal Ridgway, 58, a Palm Beach County dermatologist who racked up six drunken-driving arrests and served two prison terms has persuaded state health authorities that he can stay sober and safely treat patients again. His attorney calls him the "poster boy for rehabilitation."

Latest scam is oxygen concentrators

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6/19/2009 © Miami Herald
State investigators announced Thursday a sweep of 12 medical supply companies suspected of billing Medicaid for oxygen concentrators that weren't needed. They also visited 120 patients, they said, and are looking at whether some received kickbacks from the suppliers.
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