Gwinnett Medical Center, a hospital with four acute care facilities serving Gwinnett County, Ga., chose the HP Medical Archive solution to help manage its explosive growth of digitized medical information. The hospital was able to also reduce storage costs and allow faster access to online images—even in the event of a disaster. The HP Medical Archive solution, a specialized content archiving appliance, provides Gwinnett with long-term archival storage for its more than 450,000 imaging studies generated per year.
QuadraMed Corporation has announced general availability of Smart Identity Exchange (Smart I/X), a next-generation identity management solution that helps hospitals and health information exchanges in their efforts to identify, reconcile and manage patient records to significantly reduce the potential for medical errors and needless expenses such as unnecessary tests and procedures. Smart I/X is both an enterprise master person index (EMPI) and a record locator/reconciliation solution designed specifically for organizations that require a means of more accurately identifying patients and establishing and maintaining a composite medical record across multiple data sources. The solution helps organizations comply with HIPAA and uses a probabilistic algorithm to analyze all records stored in an organization's MPI systems, cross-references and reconciles them, then assigns each patient a unique, enterprise identifier.
More than 60 hospitals in seven states are using REACH Call’s turn-key telestroke and telehealth service. The company has added 14 customers in the past three months. REACH was conceived to quickly and remotely treat stroke patients, who often must be treated within three hours to minimize long-term effects. Rural hospitals in California, Florida, Georgia, New York and South Carolina have installed REACH in a hub-and-spoke model, where neurologists at the larger “hub” hospital provide consulting services to smaller “spoke” hospitals for remote stroke evaluation. REACH does not require any proprietary or expensive hardware—only a standard PC with a webcam and broadband Internet connection. Spoke hospital ER staff use a Web browser to initiate a consult with a specialist who is affiliated with the hub hospital. The specialist can view all patient data and DICOM images, then use the integrated decision support tools to efficiently and effectively evaluate the patient and recommend treatment. All data and medical images collected during the consult are securely stored in REACH databases and can be used for immediate billing, quality of care measurement and generation of on-demand reports and statistics.
Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, has successfully activated Eclipsys clinical information solutions, including Sunrise Acute Care and Sunrise Pharmacy, which are integrated modules of Sunrise Clinical Manager. Regularly ranked as one of the nation's best hospitals, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager to gain a modern clinical information solution to help drive improved outcomes across its enterprise. To date, Yale-New Haven Hospital has trained 4,300 users on the system, with 100 percent of orders placed in Eclipsys' computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system throughout the 944-bed hospital and its emergency departments. By having all of its orders placed electronically, Yale-New Haven Hospital is helping enable its physicians to follow established practices.
Tellurian Networks has joined National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI) as an executive sponsor. Tellurian, a nationwide provider of hosting solutions, is the data center and managed service sponsor of NEPSI, a coalition of leading health care and technology companies that is dedicated to eliminating preventable medication errors by providing electronic prescribing at no cost to every physician in America. Since Allscripts founded NEPSI in 2007, Tellurian has ensured that the Allscripts’ ePrescribing solution offered by the coalition is accessible to authorized caregivers anywhere in the world, at any time.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center of Pittsburgh, PA has chosen the My Patient Passport Express kiosk from D2 Sales for its patient check-in program. The My Patient Passport Express kiosk allows patients to check-in, make future appointments, and update their medical history, all using a simple to navigate touchscreen. Patients can use their credit card to make co-pay payments, and sign documents using the integrated electronic signature pad.
Emdeon Business Services announced the launch of a new electronic solution for the filing of Workers’ Compensation and Auto Medical bills and simultaneous electronic submission of required documentation. This new transmission solution allows payers and providers to streamline submission and bill processing for jurisdictional ASC X 12N 837 Workers’ Compensation and Auto Medical bills. By enabling medical reports and documentation to be submitted electronically along with billing, Emdeon’s solution facilitates compliance with various new state eBill mandates and is designed to eliminate a processing barrier that had previously hindered acceptance of eBill traffic from health care claim subscribers and delivering clean bills to carriers.