Thursday, October 29, 2009

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

CDC Taps GE Healthcare to Help Track H1N1

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 08:12 AM PDT

The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is using software from GE Healthcare (United Kingdom) to help track H1N1 and seasonal influenza activity in real-time. According to the company, the CDC will be able to access reports from GE Healthcare’s Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC), a repository of anonymous clinical data and best practices. The MQIC, which is populated by data from GE’s Centricity EMR, will provide the CDC with tools to help track clinical symptoms such as fever, nausea and chills, prescriptions written, and vaccination rates, as well as variables such as procedures performed, pregnancy and patient age, within 24 hours of being documented in participating doctors’ offices, it says. This information, the company claims, will help the CDC better understand the characteristics of H1N1 outbreaks and determine who is most at risk for developing complications from the virus.  

Four Organizations Deploy CIS

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 08:02 AM PDT

Four healthcare organizations — Hunterdon Medical Center , Galion Hospital , Summa Health System-Barberton Hospital , and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute — are implementing Reston, Va.-based QuadraMed Corporation ’s QCPR Clinical Information System. According to the company, QCPR is a CPOE and EHR system that includes closed-loop medication management, clinical decision support, and integrated laboratory and radiology management systems.   QuadraMed says in addition to QCPR, the organizations are also deploying other solutions.   ·         Hunterdon Medical Center, a 178-bed facility located in Flemington, N.J., is implementing QuadraMed Enterprise Scheduling (QES) and AcuityPlus. ·         Galion Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Galion, Ohio, has selected QES, QuadraMed Electronic Document Management and AcuityPlus. ·         Summa Health System-Barberton Hospital, a 311-bed acute care community hospital in Barberton, Ohio, is installing AcuityPlus. ·         Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, a 200-bed teaching and research hospital of the University of Toronto, is deploying AcuityPlus.  
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)