Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

ONC Selects Vangent HIE Open Source

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 07:50 AM PDT

The Office of the National Coordinator (Washington, D.C.) has selected Arlington, Va.-based Vangent ’s HIE Open Source (HIEOS) as a default XDS.b enterprise service component within the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) CONNECT Gateway Version 2.2, which was released in September.  HIEOS includes an implementation of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) compliant Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b) and Cross Community Access (XCA) profiles, says the company.  HIEOS is part of Vangent’s overall “open architecture” based health information exchange solution offered to federal and state government agencies as well as hospitals and regional health information organizations needing to exchange data across numerous mixed IT environments. 

Merge Healthcare Unveils Anesthesia Management Tools

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 07:45 AM PDT

Milwaukee-based Merge Healthcare has released new anesthesia information management solutions (AIMS) that use forms-based electronic templates, flexible software and user-friendly tools that the company says reduce documentation time and improve data accuracy and charge capture. This AIMS/PCIMS (perioperative care information management solution) is a module that provides pre-op nurses the ability to quickly switch between cases, helping improve patient care and throughput, says the company. The latest version also monitors and automatically records the perfusion record, and offers new roaming station capabilities that enable clinicians to complete records from any location within the hospital network without need of additional IT configuration, it adds.
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