Covidien (NYSE: COV) and GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE), leading global providers of healthcare products and recognized innovators in patient monitoring and respiratory care devices, today announced a five-year, global collaboration to incorporate Covidien measurement technologies into GE Healthcare patient monitors. “GE Healthcare is committed to making a broad range of parameter measurements available on our
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Officials with information technology company ReadyPoint announced today that they were recently selected by St. Mary’s Health System to automate “incident management” services in its two Indiana-based facilities through their StandTo™ technology. St. Mary’s Health System – comprised of St. Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville and St. Mary’s Warrick Hospital in Boonville – is part of
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Valley ENT, Arizona’s largest Ear, Nose and Throat practice employing 25 doctors in 14 locations throughout the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas, has selected ChartLogic’s EHR Suite. The medical group provides state-of-the-art ear, nose and throat care with many in-house services including CT scanners, ultrasound, allergy testing, diagnostic audiology and hearing aid products. ChartLogic is
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Market Center Management Company, the management company of leading trade centers and trade events around the world, announced today a collection of new leases as well as other significant steps toward launching the Nashville Medical Trade Center in downtown Nashville. Over the last several months, Market Center Management Company has secured commitments from many companies
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Imagine a scenario in which data from a variety of disparate siloed systems could be aggregated into one repository and then used to analyze and predict patient care along the entire care continuum.

That vision of how data can transform healthcare may not be too far off in the future. Oakbrook, IL-based Advocate Health Care and Cerner have teamed up to create new data-driven models designed to improve patient health outcomes and safety.

A pilot project called OpenNotes may give healthcare providers and organizations some clues about how to manage the growing demand for transparency between caregivers and their patients. Principal Investigators Jan Walker, RN, MBA and Tom Delbanco, MD say that while the findings won’t be formally released until later this year, some inferences about what the
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In the wake of electronic medical records vendor Allscripts’ announcement of sharply lower first quarter sales and earnings and board resignations, the company became the target of a class action lawsuit filed on May 2, 2012 by Labaton Sucharow, LLP in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was filed
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One of the best parts of our job as health information technology industry chroniclers is talking with people from the across the country about the innovative projects they’re working on.  Over the past few years, a big part of those conversations have been focused on selecting, implementing and using electronic medical health records. Now we
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 Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services, today announced that it has signed a $2.15 million services contract with the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) to i) migrate data from their member centres’ existing EMR databases to Nightingale’s EMR platform and ii) create virtualized
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NextGen Healthcare Information Systems,LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. /quotes/zigman/77323/quotes/nls/qsii QSII -0.77% and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today announced an agreement with Minnesota Eye Consultants to deploy NextGen(R) Ambulatory EHR and NextGen(R) Practice Management across its enterprise. The renowned ophthalmology group joins a growing number of
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