Thursday, September 10, 2009

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

MRO Corp. Acquires REI

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 08:34 AM PDT

King of Prussia, Pa.-based MRO Corp has acquired the assets of Record Enterprises Inc. (Midlothian, Va.), a provider of release-of-information solutions, effective Sept. 1, 2009. Don Hardwick, founder of REI, will join MRO as director of compliance and field operations. MRO expects that through the acquisition, it will expand its market presence in Virginia and Tennessee, states where Record Enterprises currently services healthcare providers, according to company. The integration of the two companies will take place over a 90-day period. Existing REI customers will experience no disruptions to access or customer service, says the companies.

KLAS: Imaging Market Remains Strong

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 08:33 AM PDT

A new report from Orem Utah-based KLAS finds that providers most frequently mentioned magnetic resonance (MR) systems as a planned purchase over the next 24 months, followed by ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), digital mammography, and then digital x-ray (DR). In the CT market, GE maintains the lead in mindshare, with 68 percent of providers planning to include the vendor in their purchase decisions, the report notes, adding that the next most-considered vendor was Siemens, followed by Toshiba and Philips. KLAS says that while GE, Siemens and Philips remain the top three vendors in provider mindshare in DR, Carestream is also turning heads with the introduction of its DRX-1 product, a cassette-sized wireless detector. Taken together, GE, Siemens and Philips garnered the most mentions from providers across the six market segments highlighted, maintaining the “Big 3” of imaging equipment status that has earned all three companies significant loyalty among providers, says KLAS. To purchase the full report, titled, “Diagnostic Imaging Equipment: Which Vendors are Positioned to Win,” healthcare providers and vendors can visit www.KLASresearch.com/reports .

Virginia Hospital Rolling Out Clinical Suite

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:33 AM PDT

Rockingham Memorial Hospital , a community hospital located in Harrisonburg, Va., is deploying a suite from Horsham, Pa.-based NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. that will include a CHS (Community Health Solution), EHR, EPM (Enterprise Practice Management) and ICS (Image Control System). According to the company, the suite will be implemented across the entire Rockingham Memorial ambulatory enterprise. NextGen EPM will be rolled out this month, with NextGen CHS and EHR scheduled for early 2010. Rockingham Memorial is a 270-bed independent community hospital serving a seven-county region of Virginia. In June of 2010, Rockingham will open a new, 600,000-square-foot facility on a 254-acre site just east of Harrisonburg, in Rockingham County.

Orgs Unite to Form Hospital Collaborative

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:33 AM PDT

Six national organizations are joining to form the Hospital Care Collaborative (HCC), an initiative designed to address the most pressing needs in patient care. The HCC is composed of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, American Association of Respiratory Care, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Case Manager Society of America, Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care, and Society of Hospital Medicine. The group is publishing its Common Principles for Team-Based Healthcare, a set of 13 guiding principles for delivering care in the hospital setting. According to HCC, the principles emphasize the need for collaboration, patient-centered care, accountability and information sharing. Goals for the new organization include the following: Identify and promote best practices in multidisciplinary teamwork; Promote continued and expanded collaboration among the HCC organizations to develop and implement strategies for teamwork among health professionals; Develop methods and tools for teams in hospitals to perform a Self Assessment of Compliance with the Common Principles; Develop and promote education programs, specifically for interdisciplinary teams; Promote the Collective Accountability by Measurement of Performance at the Team Level.

TeraMedica Gets Patent for Content Management Solution

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:15 AM PDT

Milwaukee, Wis.-based TeraMedica Healthcare Technology was granted a patient for its Evercore Smartstore Clinical Content Management system Through the use of clinically-based rules and multi-tiered storage, the Evercore solution can manage data using efficient methods to reduce required storage space and more effectively provide patient data to clinical consumers, according to the company.

Verisk Health Acquires TierMed Systems

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:11 AM PDT

Verisk Health, Inc. , a healthcare data analytics firm based in Waltham, Mass., has acquired through a subsidiary the assets of TierMed Systems (Chanhassen, Minn.) a provider of HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) software solutions. The TierMed solution suite allows managed care organizations to calculate and submit HEDIS results to the National Committee for Quality Assurance, improve quality in covered populations, and reduce administrative overhead associated with quality reporting, says the company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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