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CIO Leadership Series: Phil Loftus, Aurora Health Care

... the patient's record pops up in the office or the exam room. It required a dramatic upgrade to the wireless infrastructure of Aurora clinics, but it's an investment that could pay for itself in timesavings alone. People have to agree to work in a common way, but then they can move much faster, Loftus no...

CIO Leadership Series: Deb Rislow, Gundersen Lutheran

...pters of EMRs, and the desktop PCs to view them in exam and hospital rooms. Paper charts had a lot to do ...n installed computers with wireless cards in every exam room on campus and out in its service region. The organization invested $150,000 in a Unix-Oracle...

CIO Leadership Series: Ed Meachen, University of Wisconsin System

...ired to pass a high-stakes test called the Praxis exam . Those who fail the exam, which is focused on testing teachers in various subject areas, cannot get a license to teach in those fields. The test is not only expensive, it means that teachers have to go back to school and take math classes that may ...

Fiserv acquires insurance, training product lines

...nsing and registration filings electronically, and exam prep products for the NASD, a test for securities professionals, will be added to Fiserv's RegEd business unit in Morrisville, North Carolina. Debra Freitag, general manager of CT Insurance Services, will become RegEd's executive vice president of bu...

GE Healthcare announces new, high-tech 'stethoscope'

...er than the reverse. In intensive care and cardiac exam rooms this is a marked advantage." The system will be commercially available in fall 2004. GE Healthcare develops medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research and biopharmaceuticals...

Winning and losing in the brain gain game

...-place rankings in this years ACT college entrance exam scores, one reporter asked a question that was simultaneously amusing and serious: Could Vikings fans really be this smart? As annoying at this may be to Wisconsin natives who were raised to believe little good ever comes out of Minnesota, the evide...

Will mobile phones go back to school?

...era phones. It would be far easier to study for an exam than to read the photo. Certainly, it's understandable that teachers and administrators want to eliminate distractions from the classroom. Ringing phones and electronic note passing diminish the learning environment. Cheating, by any means, cannot b...

Human factors and IT: Designing for patient safety

...r. The system which had the goal of linking every exam room to the EMR database was implemented in November 2000 following data collection the previous spring. Focusing on employee attitudes and time analysis, the collection was repeated in 2001 to see how characteristics of technology affected the qual...

GE Medicals Technologies Aid Battle Against Cancer

... that some women who have a 3D digital mammography exam can be assured that they are cancer-free without the pain and anxiety of an invasive breast biopsy procedure. An estimated 1.2 million breast biopsies are performed in the U.S. each year to determine if a mass is benign or malignant. According to t...

Teramedica Signs Deal With Mayo Clinic - Digital Imaging solution improves healthcare

...s. For example, if a patient previously had an MRI exam at Mayo Clinic and required care in another part of the world, the physician at the new point of patient care could access that MRI in seconds. The result is the ability to obtain a more complete and accurate medical history more efficiently." Dr. H...

CEO Wilson Defines GE's Health-IT Customer

...the radiologist sees the patient so long after the exam is done that if there's a mistake, it takes so long for [the patient] to get called back. (Wilson cites Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver as an example of where the rewards of filmless have been reaped.) HITW: Who is your customer...