Monday, February 15, 2010

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

Akron General Extends EHR to Physician Practice

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 12:18 PM PST

Akron General Health System (Ohio) will build on its deployment of Atlanta-based McKesson ’s EHR in its employed physician practices, According to the company, Akron General has purchased Practice Partner, a fully integrated EHR/practice management system, and will offer this solution to their Physician Hospital Organization and additional affiliated physicians in the community, 500 providers. The upgrade of Akron General’s existing healthcare information technology (HIT) systems will bring the hospital onto the latest release of McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals advanced inpatient solution suite. Akron General Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare organization that includesAkron General Medical Center, a 511-bed teaching and research medical center, and Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation Institute, the area's largest provider of rehabilitation services; Akron General Partners, which includes Partners Physician Group, the Akron General Health & Wellness Centers, Lodi Community Hospital, Community Health Centers and other companies; Akron General Community Health Ventures, which includes Visiting Nurse Service and Affiliates, the largest and most comprehensive provider of home healthcare services in Ohio, and Rose Lane Health Center; and Akron General Development Foundation.

U. Colorado Extends Communications Infrastructure

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 12:13 PM PST

  The University of Colorado Hospital (UCH), extended its communications infrastructure built on Irving, Tex.-based NEC ’s communications servers by implementing the nation’s first Cisco Nurse Connect solution. The company says NEC’s customized deployment is designed to allow nurses and other clinical staff to reduce human latency, improve response times and spend more time with patients. The University of Colorado Hospital is the Rocky Mountain region's leading academic medical center. Located at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo., the hospital’s physicians are all affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, part of the University of Colorado system.  

Children's Center Selects Implementation-Ready EHR

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 12:11 PM PST

The Children's Center , a not-for profit pediatric specialty hospital in Bethany, Okla., has purchased Reston, Va.-based QuadraMed ’s EHR solution. According to the company, The Center purchased the QCPR Smart Start solution, which enables order entry, results reporting, nursing assessments for care data capture, care management plans, and inpatient acuity measurement. Care providers receive integrated, clinical decision support for medication administration, (including lab values and care documentation), as well as pharmacy medication delivery. The Children's Center also acquired Computerized Physician Order Entry CPOE; Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation modules, and QuadraMed's AcuityPlus nurse staffing management solution. The Center offers a wide range of medical services, rehabilitative care and social services to children with complex medical and physical disabilities in long-term care and others who have experienced traumatic injuries to the brain or spinal cord in short-term rehabilitation. It also serves thousands of outpatients through the hospital and Pediatric

Providence Health Selects Performance Management Solution

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 06:23 AM PST

Providence Health & Services Washington Region has selected Detroit-based Compuware ’s EHR Service Delivery Solution to improve the performance and availability of its clinical applications. According to the company, this enables Providence to proactively resolve performance issues by providing the needed data around the performance of its applications before they impact patient care while also improving system adoption with clinical staff. The solution captures performance data across all infrastructure tiers ensuring optimal EHR performance. Providence Health & Services Washington Region is part of a 27-hospital healthcare system located in Renton, Wash.

Quality Systems Acquires Opus Healthcare

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 06:15 AM PST

Irvine, Calif.-based Quality Systems Inc ., a provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire Opus Healthcare Solutions Inc. (Austin, Texas). Opus Healthcare delivers Web-based clinical solutions to hospital systems and integrated health networks nationwide and has achieved the 2008 CCHIT Certified Inpatient EHR System Certification Level. According to the company, the acquisition complements and will be integrated with the assets of Sphere Health Systems (Laguna Hills, Calif.) which was acquired in August 2009. Both companies are established developers of software and services for the inpatient market and will become part of NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc. , QSI’s wholly owned subsidiary. The company says NextGen Healthcare will focus on providing solutions to hospitals with 100 beds or less, a marketplace that it adds has been historically underserved and is in need of state-of-the-art systems. The transactions are expected to be accretive in QSI’s fiscal year 2011, ending March 31, 2011.
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