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Orthocare Innovations Receives Prestigious R&D 100 Award for Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Orthocare Innovations and R&D Magazine have announced that Orthocare Innovations has been selected by R&D Magazine to receive the 2009 R&D 100 Award for its Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System, Compas(TM). (Photo: h...

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science First in Illinois to Equip Students With Computerized Diagnosis System

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) is the first medical school in Illinois and one of the first in the nation to provide its students with an advanced computer system that helps diagnose patients and recommend treatments. The...

New Computerized Scans Effective for Spotting Clogged Arteries

They could eliminate need for invasive procedures for some patients, study says MONDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- The new generation of cardiac scanners is almost as reliable as more invasive procedures when checking for blockages in the heart and surrounding arteries, researchers are...

Researchers Have Developed Computerized Garment to Diagnose Mental Illness

Scientists in the US claim to have developed a computerized garment that they say can help doctors diagnose mental illnesses like mania, depression and schizophrenia . The high-tech garment is packed with sensors that monitor the heart, breathing rate, blood pressure, skin temperature, body ...

New Computerized Imaging Systems Help In Better Dental Treatment Planning

A new technology called the Cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT) is increasingly becoming a potent tool for dentists to diagnose complicated oral problems.// J. Martin Palomo and Mark Hans from the department of orthodontics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine a...

More Errors From Computerized Prescriptions

It was thought that computerized prescription could be used to avoid medical mistakes, but now it seems computerized prescription systems // may lead to even more errors. It is known that adverse drug events injure or kill more than 770,000 people in hospitals each year. One way hospitals are tr...

Brain Fitness Reduces Risk of Onset of Depressive Symptoms

...tive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study. The ACTIVE study randomly assigned participants to four groups: one group did computerized brain exercises, a second group took classes in memory strategies, a third group took classes in reasoning and a fourth group served as a control that...

PET can help guide treatment decisions for a common pediatric cancer

...DG PET scans in 60 patients with neuroblastoma at two major pediatric cancer institutions were reviewed. PET was used in conjunction with localization computerized tomography (CT) scans, and MIBG planar and SPECT imaging were combined. The study shows that for stage 1 and stage 2 neuroblastoma patients, FDG-PET d...

Summa Health System Creates Quick Win With Their Caregiver Community By Implementing Sentillion's Clinical Workstation Solution

...cess with this mixture of technology was one of the primary reasons it was selected by Summa Health System. In addition, as Summa Health System computerized its patient records it found that electronic data spread across multiple clinical applications was not able to be accessed by physicians and nurses as...

Too many ways to say 'it hurts'

...hes a common scientific vocabulary. In August, he and colleagues from six other institutions and the NIH will release a set of free publicly available computerized tests for researchers to measure pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety and physical and social functioning. Now there will be a pain measurement of 75, f...

CareTech Extends IT Outsourcing Contract with The Christ Hospital

...O of The Christ Hospital. "CareTech played a key role in installing and supporting new IT infrastructure and business and clinical systems, including computerized physician order entry (CPOE), in just eight months. It's that kind of technological expertise and understanding of the hospital environment that made...

Netsmart Technologies Acquires Pharmacy Management Software Company

...ogies. "Our customers who operate pharmacies will be able to use RxConnect to integrate pharmacy management with their electronic health record (EHR), computerized physician order entry (CPOE), electronic medication administration records (eMAR) and electronic medical record (EMR) capabilities provided by their N...

New HHS HRSA Grant Will Fund Development of an Electronic Genetic and Family History Record for Doctors' Offices

...prove their health and that of their babies." Patients in doctors' offices will fill out a standardized family history questionnaire using a computerized tablet, instead of paper and pen. The information will be analyzed electronically, and the tool will provide red flags and recommendations for health ...

Simulating medical situations helps students learn, retain basic science concepts

...ving answers, those same students participated in a 90-minute live simulation of a medical emergency. Students were told that the patient "SimMan," a computerized mannequin that can be programmed to have different medical problems had altered mental status, nausea and vomiting. A team of physicians played t...

HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association Supports Achievable 'Meaningful Use' Criteria in Comments to ONC

...that the taxpayers receive value for their investment in HIT - more efficient and effective care delivery." Other recommendations focus on computerized provider order entry (CPOE), tying it to electronic medication administration records (eMAR) and targeted order sets for specific chronic diseases. "...

Sit 'n Sleep Refocuses on Consumer Sleep Health and Well-Being

...es the little-known fact that old mattresses can adversely affect overall health. All Sit 'n Sleep stores now also feature body diagnostic technology, computerized sensors that measure each customer's unique body profile and custom fit them with just the right mattress. "Your mattress is one of the primary f...

El Camino Hospital Los Gatos Celebrates Opening With the Community

...an four decades. The hospital is also recognized as a national leader in the use of health information technology to promote patient safety, including computerized order entry, electronic medical records and wireless communications. To learn more about El Camino Hospital and its services in Mountain View and...

Washington D.C. Metro Crash Jolts Personal Injury Attorneys from Coast to Coast

... the crash is so far unknown, though, experts and New York personal injury attorney , David Perecman, speculate that it was a result of both a faulty computerized sensor system and operator error. The sensor system is designed to stop trains when a problem occurs on a track, including, when one train comes too c...

Wrong dose of heart meds too frequent in children

...In 2006, Hopkins researchers demonstrated that Web-based ordering systems make it less likely to order and give a child a wrong dose. However, because computerized orders can prevent only certain types of errors, it is critical to find new ways and design new systems that reduce other types of errors as well, suc...

Detroit Medical Center to Partner With my1HIE(R) and Link With United Physicians and Olympia Physician Groups

...novative Electronic Medical Record (EMR) technology, already in use at the DMC. DMC is the first and only Michigan hospital system with 100% doctors' computerized orders, 100% medication scanning and a fully implemented Electronic Medical Records program. This partnership extends the DMC electronic reach to Phy...

Medicsight Launches ColonCAD(TM) Online CTC Platform

...mputer-aided detection (CAD) and image analysis software for the medical imaging market. The CAD software automatically highlights suspicious areas on computerized tomography (CT) scans of the colon and lung, helping radiologists to identify, measure and analyze potential disease and early indicators of disease. ...

HealthSource of Chicago: New Techniques for Back Pain Relief in Chicago

...covery were about 50% not including the risk of infection and complications. So his family tried to talk him out of it. That's when he heard about the computerized back machine at HealthSource of Chicago Chiropractic™ and when his life turned around. Here's how spinal decompression works. People's discs...

Medicsight Announces Global Agreement With Alma IT Systems

...mputer-aided detection (CAD) and image analysis software for the medical imaging market. The CAD software automatically highlights suspicious areas on computerized tomography (CT) scans of the colon and lung, helping radiologists to identify, measure and analyze potential disease and early indicators of disease. ...

Largest Software Release in HMS History Now Generally Available

... price transparency with patient charge estimator; Increased nursing efficiency with patient vital sign monitor integration; Enhanced computerized physician order entry features including result alerts, nursing alerts and weight-based dosing; Enhanced patient safety features including pos...

InfoLogix Ranked as 7th Leading Consulting Company in Healthcare IT

...The addition of these two organizations enabled InfoLogix to expand the depth and breadth of its consulting services related to workflow optimization, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), EMR implementation, medication administration initiatives, mobility solutions, and increasing operating margins at the e...

Sanford Installs New Low Dose CT Technology

...CT scanner in Sanford Children's Hospital , but also with the 64-slice CT scanner in Sanford's emergency department, Trauma 5. A CT scan, also called computerized tomography or just CT, is an X-ray technique that produces internal images in cross section rather than the overlapping images typically produced by c...

Measuring brain atrophy in patients with mild cognitive impairment

...ical settings. For more than a year, researchers at the Memory Disorders Clinic at UC San Diego Medical Center have been successfully using a fully computerized procedure that takes images from the MRI scanner and translates them into quantitative values, according to Rafii, the clinic's director. UC San Die...

American Hospital Management Company Announces the Opening of the New HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DEL RIO-HOSPIRIO in Cuenca, Ecuador

... emergency beds, 161 doctors offices, 18 commercial stores, fully equipped diagnostic and intervention radiology services with 1.5 Tesla MRI, 64 slice computerized tomography, invasive cardiovascular lab, and specialized laboratory. AHMC´s executive Dr. Diego Castresana MD, MHA is the CEO of the hospital. "...

GE Launches Program to Doctors, Hospitals to Accelerate EMR Adoption; First $100 Million of healthymagination Commitment

...ricity Enterprise is an integrated clinical, financial and administrative system that helps hospitals caregivers provide enhanced patient care through computerized physician order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support and expert rules, while documenting many aspects of patient care. The system integrates core c...

EnovateIT Announces New Enovate Medical Cart Series

... mobile and wall mounted clinical workstation solutions for the healthcare environment. EnovateIT provides multiple solutions for medication delivery, computerized physician order entry, clinical documentation, electronic medical records, and language translation products and services. For more information, ...

EnovateIT Announces New Enovate Medical Cart Series

... mobile and wall mounted clinical workstation solutions for the healthcare environment. EnovateIT provides multiple solutions for medication delivery, computerized physician order entry, clinical documentation, electronic medical records, and language translation products and services. For more information,...

A new computer modeling program can help hospitals prepare for the worst

...blic Health Preparedness journal. The article, "A Novel Approach to Multihazard Modeling and Simulation," is based on the authors' test of the NYU computerized disaster simulation framework known as "Plan C" with a hypothetical malicious sarin release in several Manhattan locations. With the input of city dem...

Morning Sickness Drug Gets Green Light in Study

... the study, the researchers reviewed 81,703 births between 1998 and 2007, all to mothers registered with a particular Israeli health system that has a computerized database of medical information. From that group, 3,458 women -- 4.2 percent -- were given metoclopramide during the first trimester of their pregnanc...

Imaging Is Now Easier for the Area's Vulnerable Children

...tals around the country, and is one of only a handful in use in any hospital in the mid-Atlantic region. The families dedicated the first portable computerized tomography (CT) scanner in the Washington, DC area on Friday, June 5. Both families have sons who were treated for traumatic brain injuries (TBI) at C...

CMS Decision - No Material Financial Impact to Medicsight

...mputer-aided detection (CAD) and image analysis software for the medical imaging market. The CAD software automatically highlights suspicious areas on computerized tomography (CT) scans of the colon and lung, helping radiologists to identify, measure and analyze potential disease and early indicators of disease. ...

APIC Supports Automated Surveillance Technologies in Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections

... paper, "The Importance of Surveillance Technologies in the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)." Surveillance technologies are computerized systems designed to collect infection data, thereby allowing infection preventionists to rapidly protect patients by identifying and investigating pot...

Understand ARRA Spending Allocations with HIMSS Analytics™ Market Intelligence

...eviews the impact of meaningful use on specific applications of the EMR that include order entry, clinical data repository, clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry and clinical and physician documentation. "About $4.7 billion will be spent on hospital IT applications in 2009, increa...

Compliance and cost: Bitter pills to swallow in the age of oral chemotherapy

...to modest impact, and they may not work for the long term. DeMichele and her colleagues suggest, however, that technology from cell phone programs to computerized pill boxes -- remains an untapped resource for helping patients improve their compliance. One 2008 study, for instance, found that adolescents who pla...

Academic Leader Joins Medical Management International Board of Directors

...anfield are committed to giving Pets the highest quality of veterinary care. Banfield hospitals offer a full-range of comprehensive, medical services, computerized medical records, Pet preventive care plans, extended operating hours, and is the only veterinary practice in the world with an extensive quality assur...

Four Rivers Software System Launches TMS OnSite Professional

... 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Four Rivers Software Systems , a leading provider of computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) for the healthcare industry, announce...vers Software Systems, Inc. ( www.frsoft.com ) is the leading provider of computerized support services solutions for healthcare clinical engineering and faciliti...