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| Carolina Network Deploys Med Management System Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:53 AM PST FirstHealth of the Carolinas (Pinehurst) has selected Mountain View, Calif.-based Omnicell ’s OmniRx automated medication dispensing cabinets and supply systems to streamline the management of medications and healthcare supplies throughout its facilities. The company says its solution will allow FirstHealth to integrate physician preference cards with managing surgical supplies, increase inventory management and automate charge capture to cumulatively improve productivity, efficiency and hospital revenue. FirstHealth, a private, non-governmental, not-for-profit healthcare network serving 15 counties in the mid-Carolinas with 559 licensed beds, will deploy Omnicell solutions to its three-hospital network which includes Richmond Memorial, Montgomery Memorial and Moore Regional. |
| Grassley Questions Vendors, Hospitals about HITECH Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:48 AM PST Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent letters to 31 hospitals nationwide asking about their experiences in implementing the $19 billion federal health information technology program launched last year. Grassley said that his survey of hospitals is based on concerns brought to his attention in recent months, including administrative complications, formatting and usability issues, errors and interoperability, adding that some of those providers have expressed frustration about the response, or lack of, they get when they take those kinds of problems to the vendors or the hospital administration. He is currently reviewing responses from Cerner Corporation, 3M Company, Allscripts, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Computer Sciences Corporation, Eclipsys, Epic Systems Corporation, McKesson Corporation, Perot Systems Corporation, and Philips Healthcare. In addition, the senator sent his letter to the following hospitals: Banner Health, Brigham & Women’s Hospital Case Western Reserve University Hospital Health System, Catholic Healthcare West, Cedars Sinai Children’s National Medical Center, Geisinger Medical Center, Hackensack Hospital, HCA TriStar, Intermountain Healthcare, Indiana University Hospital, Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente System, Marshfield Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mayo Clinics, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Methodist Hospital of Indiana, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Saint Mary Mercy Hospital, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Trinity Hospital System Tufts Medical Center, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania Health System, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of Virginia Medical Center, and Vanderbilt University Hospital. |
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