Over 300 Healthcare Organizations Turn to Phoenix Health Systems' Security Policies Suite to Meet HIPAA Security Compliance Deadline - Sep 21, 2004
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Phoenix Health Systems' Security Policies Templates are generating increased interest as the HIPAA Security deadline approaches. Introduced late last year, the policies have already been selected by...
Microsoft Healthcare Users Group and Microsoft Announce Annual Awards Call for Entries - Sep 20, 2004
CHICAGO and REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) and Microsoft Corp. today announced a call for entries for the MS-HUG...
HIMSS survey reports salary increases for health IT professionals - Sep 16, 2004
Results indicated that 75 percent of respondents received a salary increase in 2003...
Physician-computer conundrum sparks parade of new books - Jul 22, 2004
Physicians move through an increasingly high-tech world, yet they deal with woefully backward healthcare IT settings. Two books released by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society attempt to address this worrisome disconnect. While...
New VP of Information Services/CIO Joins ScriptSave - Jul 13, 2004
TUCSON, Ariz., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ScriptSave, America's premier prescription drug savings program, announced today that Paula Dunn has joined the company as its new Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer...
iMedica Backs Growth Plans With New CEO and COO Industry Veterans - Jul 12, 2004
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 12 /PRNewswire/ — iMedica, the physicians' choice for electronic medical records (EMR), today announced the appointment of Michael Nissenbaum as CEO and Neil Simon as COO. This move comes at a key time for iMedica as the...
Sentillion Announces Cottage Health System and Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services as Early Adopters of its User Provisioning Solution - Jul 6, 2004
ANDOVER, Mass., July 6 /PRNewswire/ — Sentillion, Inc, the leading provider of identity and access management solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced Cottage Health System of Santa Barbara, Calif. and Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services...
Netilla Networks Taps Bill Lynch to Drive Healthcare Sales and Marketing Programs - Jun 21, 2004
SOMERSET, N.J., June 21 /PRNewswire/ — Netilla(R) Networks, Inc., a leading provider of SSL VPN and secure application access management solutions, today announced the appointment of Bill Lynch as executive director, healthcare solutions. Lynch, who...
Sprint Selects PatientKeeper Mobile Software Platform for Healthcare Market - Jun 14, 2004
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., June 14 /PRNewswire/ — Sprint and PatientKeeper(R) announced today a formal arrangement to offer a comprehensive mobility solution covering a broad...
HIMSS Leadership Survey: Cost pressures and patient safety rank as major business issues for CEOs of healthcare information technology vendors - Jun 9, 2004
Patient safety concerns remain a top priority and business issue for CEOs and other senior executives of information technology vendor organizations who responded to the 15th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, sponsored by Superior Consultant Company. This...
Agfa provides tips for implementation of speech recognition - May 27, 2004
The recent advances in speech technology and hardware, coupled with proven financial and patient care benefits, have executives at hospitals and healthcare facilities strongly considering incorporating speech recognition into their informatics...
Industry Leaders Rally Around Connectivity Advancements in Healthcare - May 4, 2004
PORTLAND, Ore., May 4 /PRNewswire/ — Industry leaders gathered last week to rally around technological advancements in healthcare that will lead to a fully connected healthcare system as early as 2010. More than 135 decision makers attended the 2004...
URAC Exploring New Quality Benchmarks for Health Information Technology Systems - May 4, 2004
WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire/ — URAC announced today it will be convening a research and focus group to explore new quality benchmarks for health information technology (HIT), including the possibility of developing standards addressing electronic...
Hospital Pharmacy & Supply Chain Summit Provides Hospitals with Necessary Strategies for Bar Code Implementation - Apr 27, 2004
NEW YORK, April 27 /PRNewswire/ — Amid JCAHO's new proposal to require hospitals to develop an implementation plan for bar code technology, IIR and HCEC's Hospital Pharmacy and Supply Chain Summit provides a timely solution for hospitals seeking...
Ramp Announces Letter of Intent to Purchase SmartClinic(R), SmartVoice(TM) and SmartGist(TM) Point-of-Care Technology Assets From Berdy Medical Systems - Apr 26, 2004
NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Ramp Corporation today announced that it has entered into a letter of intent to purchase Berdy Medical Systems, Inc., the publisher of the SmartClinic point-of-care software, which has become an...
Keane Healthcare Executives Address HIPAA Security Concerns at QuickCompliance 'Ask-the-Expert' Seminar on April 27, 2004 - Apr 21, 2004
WESTPORT, Conn., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — QuickCompliance, Inc. today announced that healthcare experts from Keane, Inc. will present on April 27, 2004 at its "Ask-the-Experts" HIPAA security web seminar series. Rosemary Abell,...
Kryptiq Sponsors First Annual Healthcare Connectivity Summit - Apr 19, 2004
PORTLAND, Ore., April 19 /PRNewswire/ — Kryptiq Corp. announced today that the company is hosting the first annual Healthcare Connectivity Summit on April 29 and 30 in Portland, Ore. The conference will provide a viable, scalable roadmap for...
Updated Release - Kryptiq Sponsors First Annual Healthcare Connectivity Summit - Apr 19, 2004
PORTLAND, Ore, April 19 /PRNewswire/ — Kryptiq Corp. announced today that the company is hosting the first annual Healthcare Connectivity Summit on April 29 and 30 in Portland, Ore. The conference will provide a viable, scalable roadmap for overcoming...
Devising a New Approach for HIPAA and Hospital Training Documentation - Apr 14, 2004
LOS ANGELES, April 14 /PRNewswire/ — UniversityOfHealthCare, a leading e-learning solutions provider, reported that it had an extremely successful debut at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) conference in Orlando.At the...
ChartMaxx(R) Chosen as Electronic Patient Record Solution by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Feb 26, 2004
CINCINNATI, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ — MedPlus(R), a leading provider of clinical connectivity and data management solutions for healthcare organizations and clinicians, announced today that Children's Healthcare of Atlanta has selected ChartMaxx(R) as its...
Northwestern Memorial's Timothy Zoph Named the CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall CIO of the Year - Feb 26, 2004
CHICAGO, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Timothy R. Zoph, vice president, Information Services and chief information officer (CIO) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, was recently named the 2003 John E. Gall CIO of the Year. The award was presented jointly by...
Commentary: Bingeing on infotech is easy, but just try finding the follow-through - Feb 26, 2004
I've been to several of these healthcare meetings in the past few years. At the very least, they're good for one's physical health. I get more aerobic marching in five days of medical meetings than I do in a season of angry golf. This is my fourth...
It's 1984 when the electrons stop flowing - Feb 26, 2004
It's IT's worst nightmare. Whether the call comes in the middle of the night or the height of the afternoon, the consequences are the same: all systems are down. "It's a message we all dread, and most are not prepared for," said Alice Lee, vice...
Patient safety, terror protection top HIMSS topics - Feb 26, 2004
The specter of bioterrorism is haunting major medical meetings. One session this week provided a glimpse of initiatives under way by the HIMSS National Preparedness Response Task Force. Another explained how the Health Resources and Services...
Microsoft Healthcare Users Group and Microsoft Announce Winners of 2004 MS-HUG Annual Awards - Feb 25, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today at the HIMSS 2004 Conference & Exhibition, Microsoft Corp. and Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) announced the winners of the 2004 MS-HUG Awards. The annual awards from MS-HUG, a part...
GBA Unveils First Secure XML, Browser-Based, Multi-Platform, Healthcare Information System — A Pure Java Based Solution, Featuring J2EE Architecture With A Rich-Client User Interface. Fully Scalable To The Enterprise Supporting Linux, Solaris, & Wind - Feb 25, 2004
WARWICK, R.I., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ — GBA Health Network Systems: Business Power for Healthcare.GBA Health Network Systems, a leading provider and developer of practice management software products and services, announces the delivery of a...
Healthlink Executives Recognized for Contributions to Healthcare Information Technology - Feb 25, 2004
HOUSTON, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare and Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recognized executives from Healthlink Incorporated for their significant contributions to the society and the industry at the 2004 Annual HIMSS Conference...
Cost concerns limit CPOE implementation - Feb 25, 2004
Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems can flag potential medication errors and cut the number of serious prescribing errors in half. But cost concerns have limited their implementation to fewer than 5% of U.S. hospitals, the director of...
PDAs put the whole ward in your hand - Feb 25, 2004
The use of PDAs by physicians increased from 47% to 67% in just one year from 2001 to 2002, according to a 2002 American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine survey. A similar survey conducted by the American Academy of...
iAnywhere Database Helps Healthcare Partners Streamline And Improve Patient Care - Feb 24, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., HIMSS CONFERENCE 2004, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. , today announced that SQL Anywhere(R) Studio powers innovative healthcare applications developed by BeyondNow Technologies,...
High-Tech Tools Help Hospitals Manage Clinical Workflow and Enhance Patient Care - Feb 24, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Mobile technology leaders ePocrates, Inc. and MercuryMD, Inc. announced today at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference and exhibition an agreement that enables the integration...
StorageTek Sees Early Adoption in Health Care for Information Lifecycle Management Solutions - Feb 24, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., HIMSS, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — For some it's a battle of visions. For others it's a battle over definitions. For StorageTek(R), it continues to drive interest in StorageTek solutions to address the daunting challenge to...
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Perot Systems Successfully Implement Payer/Provider Collaboration Via Open Architecture Web Services - Feb 24, 2004
WELLESLEY, Mass. and PLANO, Texas, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. and Perot Systems Corporation have developed an open architecture solution that enables healthcare providers to effectively exchange secure...
New Siemens Healthcare Security Solution Helps to Free Up Clinical Personnel for More Patient Care and Greater Efficiencies - Feb 24, 2004
BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens AG introduced both its HiPath(TM) SIcurity(R) clinic card, for easy-to-use hospital-wide access to buildings and IT...
Elsevier Launches First Wireless Product for Hospitals - Feb 24, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., HIMSS Booth #2206, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Elsevier today announced FIRST Consult is available as a wireless tool for hospital physicians and students. This is the industry's first and only handheld decision support tool designed...
Siemens and Drager Medical Announce First Product of Co-Development Efforts - Feb 24, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Siemens Medical Solutions and Drager Medical today announced INVISION(R) ChartAssist(R), the first critical care offering resulting from their co-development and commitment to bringing enterprisewide...
BellSouth Provides Innovative Communications Solutions for Florida Hospital - Feb 24, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ — HIMSS healthcare tradeshow — As part of its initiative to address the growing needs of healthcare providers in the Southeast for secure and cost effective connectivity, BellSouth is delivering innovative voice and...
MedcomSoft Portable Chart (MPC) unveiled at HIMSS - Feb 24, 2004
ORLANDO, FL, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — MedcomSoft Inc. (TSX - MSF) unveiled today at the Health Information Management Systems Society conference in Orlando Florida, in collaboration with its business alliance partner Plante & Moran, PLLC,...
PACS workstations are dead. Long live 3D. - Feb 24, 2004
Three-D image management capability will be essential within two years and must be incorporated into PACS workstations, a leading radiologist told a HIMSS education session Monday. National statistics show that radiologists are reading more studies than...
Other nations lead U.S. in EMR development - Feb 24, 2004
No region of the world has yet achieved full electronic medical record implementation. But several countries taking a national approach are further along than the U.S. Canada Health Infoway's first priority is to have the major components of an...
Sputtering EMR could be commonplace in five years - Feb 23, 2004
The shift to the electronic medical record, while perhaps inevitable, has yet to find widespread traction. Only a few institutions have begun to move in that direction. Still, at least one expert believes in five years the EMR will be commonplace....
Kryptiq Introduces New Physician Office Web Portal - Feb 23, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ — (HIMSS Conference & Exhibition) — Kryptiq Corp. announced today that it has released a new Web portal designed to improve communication between physicians and their patients. CareCatalyst(TM) is the first...
Kryptiq Unveils New Solution for Managing Healthcare Insurance Contracts - Feb 23, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ — (HIMSS Conference & Exhibition) — Kryptiq Corp. announced today that it has released a contract management solution aimed at helping medical insurance payers better manage their contracts with medical care...
ZyDoc(R) Speech Recognition Modules Widely Disseminated Though Medical Industry - Feb 23, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ — At the 2004 HIMSS Conference, ZyDoc announced evidence confirming the impending widespread adoption of speech recognition in the medical industry incorporating ZyDoc specialty specific vocabularies. Multiple...
Omnicell Co-Sponsors HL7 / IHE Joint Demonstration at HIMSS - Feb 23, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Continuing its leadership in patient safety, Omnicell, Inc. will co-sponsor a live demonstration of interoperability technology at the 2004 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition being held February...
Omnicell Sponsors HIMSS Nursing Informatics Survey - Feb 23, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Results of an Omnicell, Inc. -sponsored national nursing informatics survey will be unveiled at 5:30 p.m. ET February 23 at the 2004 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition. Survey findings will be posted at...
New OmniGate(TM) Interface Engine Provides Advanced Enterprise Integration Capabilities - Feb 23, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Omnicell, Inc. today announced the release of OmniGate, an interface engine that will give hospital IT managers remote monitoring, alert functionality, and more rapid development and testing of new...
OmniEvolve(TM) Offers Technology Obsolescence Solution - Feb 23, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — In a counterattack on the rapid obsolescence of hospital computer technology, Omnicell, Inc. today introduced OmniEvolve, a program to keep customer technologies "evolving" so they are never...
QRS Diagnostic Secures 510K Approval for its New BPCard(TM) Device - Feb 23, 2004
MINNEAPOLIS and ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Today at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., QRS Diagnostic, leader in innovative design and development of software-based medical devices contained in computer cards,...
First Consulting Group (FCG) Launches FirstGateways(TM), a Unique and IntegratedClinician Portal, at HIMSS - Feb 23, 2004
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — First Consulting Group (FCG), announces the launch of FirstGateways(TM) today, a breakthrough product that can improve how clinicians access and use aggregated clinical information; resulting in...
