Health Informatics News

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• AT&T Launches Mobile Paging for Healthcare
• Santa Rosa, CSA Associates to Merge
• HealthTech Holdings Acquires Medhost
• Concerro Acquires RES-Q
• N.Y. Hospital Org Partners with Staffing Vendor
• Survey: Privacy compliance has declined
• E-book: Making E-Health Work
• Consumer tools: UCompareHealthCare Offers Free Reports on Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physicians
• Articles: Direct to Consumer: Women are a powerful, but untapped, audience
• Consumer tools: Really Personal PHRs
• Consumer trends: Manhattan Predicts Online Health Trends
• News: Wall Street Journal Looks at Tools That Identify Low-Cost Care Options
• Consumer tools: Consumer Health Complete Now Available from EBSCO Publishing
• Jackson losing $14M a month
• Haitian baby has surgery

AT&T Launches Mobile Paging for Healthcare Posted: 03 Feb 2010 07:25 AM PST Dallas-based AT&T is teaming with Toronto-based Wallace Wireless , Inc. to offer Wallace Information Communicator (WIC) Pager, a premium group alert notification solution for hospitals and healthcare organizations to help address their productivity, security and coverage needs. According to the company, the solution provides tightly integrated communication between healthcare professionals and hospital departments by enabling centralized administration, group notification and real-time delivery statuses identifying when alerts have been sent, received, opened and responded to.

Santa Rosa, CSA Associates to Merge Posted: 02 Feb 2010 06:03 AM PST Two Michigan-based consulting companies — Santa Rosa Consulting, LLC (Southfield), and CSA Associates, Inc. (Ada) — have announced they are merging. Santa Rosa provides healthcare clients with strategy and advisory services, IT planning and implementation consulting, and staffing and recruitment services, while CSA Associates offers specialization with Meditech products. According to the companies, Santa Rosa has acquired substantially all of the assets of CSA Associates.

HealthTech Holdings Acquires Medhost Posted: 02 Feb 2010 06:01 AM PST HealthTech Holdings, Inc. (HHI), a healthcare technology holding company and parent of Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Management Systems Inc. (HMS), has acquired Medhost (Addison, Texas), a provider of emergency department information systems. Through the acquisition, HMS says it plans to develop an integrated emergency department system for community hospitals. HHI expects combined revenues in excess of $100 million in 2010, it says.

Concerro Acquires RES-Q Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:57 AM PST San Diego-based Concerro, Inc. , a Software-as-a-Service company, has acquired RES-Q Healthcare Systems (Calabasas, Calif.), a provider of staff/nurse scheduling software. RES-Q President Michael Meisel will join Concerro’s executive management team as vice president of product management and marketing, says the company. Concerro will continue to support RES-Q’s product suite of resource management and scheduling software, which includes applications for personnel management, enterprise-wide employee scheduling and staffing, surgery department management and case scheduling, patient acuity classification and productivity management and reporting. All RES-Q employees and its office will be retained, it says.

N.Y. Hospital Org Partners with Staffing Vendor Posted: 29 Jan 2010 08:33 AM PST The Melville, N.Y-based Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council , representing 24 member hospitals, has formed an exclusive strategic partnership with LLoyd Staffing (Melville) for its healthcare technology transition goals. The Hospital Council will help its member hospitals meet current federal mandates for patient chart conversions and a shared network of data that is expected to improve the overall quality, safety and costs of treatment, the company says. LLoyd says it will offer a program to inform and educate prospective talent associates on the EMR technology process. The LLoyd Health IT curriculum will be specifically focused on current health care industry technology initiatives and it says it will increase the pool of clinical IT professionals available to Council hospitals. The partnership became effective Dec. 1, 2009 and LLoyd has already begun working with member hospitals to create clinical technology staffing implementation plans.

Survey: Privacy compliance has declined Posted: 14 May 2006 01:56 AM PDT Three years after federal rules governing the privacy of patients' medical records went into effect, compliance seems to have declined for 6 percent, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Read more about this at here.

E-book: Making E-Health Work Posted: 14 May 2006 01:53 AM PDT E-Health has become an integral part of present-day healthcare delivery. With healthcare consumers, increasingly the focus of most health systems, the widespread implementation of health information and communications technologies offers cost-effective opportunities to meet their increasingly sophisticated healthcare needs.Bankix Systems Ltd has released its latest e-book. It is a 200-page in-depth analysis of the issues involved in "Making E-Health Work," the e-book's title. Read more about this e-book at here.

Consumer tools: UCompareHealthCare Offers Free Reports on Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physicians Posted: 11 Mar 2006 01:01 AM PST "UCompareHealthCare has just unveiled its Web site, ucomparehealthcare.com, which features free reports on the nation's nursing homes, hospitals and physicians to help consumers make informed healthcare decisions. I checked the web site and found it very informative for health consumers to help them make informed decision about their choices of doctors, hospitals and others." Read more about this at UCompareHealthCare

Articles: Direct to Consumer: Women are a powerful, but untapped, audience Posted: 03 Feb 2006 12:04 AM PST "Women influence many family decisions—from choosing what's for dinner to selecting the medications their children take. In fact, nearly two-thirds of women are responsible for family healthcare decisions, according to a 2004 national survey conducted by Plan for Your Health. Many women also assume the care-giving role outside their nuclear families. Today's middle-aged woman may also look after her parents and in-laws too, often determining how long they can live on their own and how to best care for them. In addition, she often influences the important health decisions of grandchildren, co-workers, and friends." Read more at PharmExec.

Consumer tools: Really Personal PHRs Posted: 27 Jan 2006 01:05 AM PST "If we're committed to fostering the adoption of personal health records, we should take a page out of the consumer marketing textbooks — not the primers of health IT marketers. This was my conclusion after attending a recent meeting in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Markle Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Quality Research and Quality. " Read more about this at iHealthBeat .

Consumer trends: Manhattan Predicts Online Health Trends Posted: 27 Jan 2006 12:06 AM PST "US healthcare specialist Manhattan Research has published a summary of the major trends for health and pharmaceutical marketers to consider in 2006. The trends chart the increased use of the web and other new technologies as a health information and communication tool for both patients and physicians." Read more at Daily Research News Online.

News: Wall Street Journal Looks at Tools That Identify Low-Cost Care Options Posted: 26 Jan 2006 01:07 AM PST "The Wall Street Journal on Thursday looked at efforts by insurers to provide patients with tools - including a cell phone Web browsing service - to help them find low-cost treatment options. Lumenos, a unit of WellPoint, in February will launch the cell phone service, which lets patients type drug names into their cell phones' Web browsers and get lists of lower-cost alternatives. The program is designed so that patients can ask their physicians about cost-effective alternatives while they still are at their appointments." Read more at iHealthBeat.

Consumer tools: Consumer Health Complete Now Available from EBSCO Publishing Posted: 25 Jan 2006 12:09 AM PST "In continuing with the company's goal of providing the most comprehensive collection of online health and wellness resources, EBSCO Publishing has announced the release of Consumer Health Complete (CHC). This full text database is designed to support consumer and patients' information needs as well as foster an overall understanding of health-related topics." Read more at Managing Information News.

Jackson losing $14M a month Posted: 2/3/2010 © Miami Herald The giant Miami-Dade public health system actually lost four times as much as previously thought last year and is headed for disaster because of the huge increase in uninsured patients, board members were told.

Haitian baby has surgery Posted: 2/3/2010 © USA Today Doctors performed lifesaving surgery on an 11-month-old Haitian boy with severe hydrocephalus to relieve pressure inside the baby's skull, ending an ethical debate in which some questioned whether there would be follow-up care available when the shunt gives out. Florida doctors who helped in Haiti are troubled by what lies ahead. "The earthquake was their 9/11," said Dr. Mark Atkinson of the University of Florida College of Medicine.

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