June 20, 2008 – GE Healthcare IT said today Moses Cone Health System, a five-hospital system based in North Carolina, went live on the latest version 6.1 of GE’s Centricity Enterprise Solution.

“We selected Centricity Enterprise to provide an end-to-end continuum across our portfolio of GE products,” said John Jenkins, vice president and chief information officer, Moses Cone Health System. “Timely success could not have been achieved without our strong partnership with GE Healthcare, ensuring the success at every step in this journey.”

June 20, 2008 - Tangent Inc. released a new Medix 1700SF computer, a lightweight, 17-inch, all-in-one, point-of-care PC that meets certifications for patient safety, and is designed to withstand a harsh patient care environment.

June 20, 2008 – Kimberly-Clark Health Care launched its new isolation gown portfolio at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) Annual Conference held June 15-19 in Denver, CO.

June 20, 2008 — iCAD Inc. has initiated a clinical study for Colon CAD, its virtual colonoscopy CAD product, in partnership with ACR Image Metrix, a subsidiary of the American College of Radiology (ACR), to assess the impact of Colon CAD on the accuracy of interpreting CT Colonography exams and the sensitivity of Colon CAD for detecting polyps.

June 20, 2008 – Earlier this week, the American College of Radiology (ACR) in conjunction with the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists (SGR) and the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT-MR) informed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that there is sufficient data and clinical evidence to support national coverage for CT colonography (CTC) as a screening tool for colorectal cancer and urged CMS to reimburse providers for this exam.

June 20, 2008 — iCAD Inc. said it has initiated a clinical study for Colon CAD, its virtual colonoscopy CAD product, in partnership with ACR Image Metrix, a subsidiary of the American College of Radiology (ACR).

June 19, 2008 - The second annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Process Improvement and Business Excellence in Healthcare is taking place July 30-Aug. 1, 2008 in Chicago.

This is the only event that brings together executives from the healthcare, hospitality, automotive and manufacturing industries to discuss solutions to streamline business process management.

June 19, 2008 - The Medipattern Corp. recently announced the addition of two leading industry professionals, Cindy Rapp and Bob Dockendorff to Medipattern�s management team.

June 19, 2008 - More than 170 leaders from state nursing workforce centers throughout the nation attended a conference June 11-12 in Denver to discuss nursing workforce retention issues and the potential critical shortage of a skilled nursing workforce by the year 2010.

In a keynote address to attendees, Benjamin Isgur, assistant director of PricewaterhouseCooper’s Health and Research Institute, shared data that underscored the importance of focusing on nursing retention issues over the next several years. His findings indicated that:


Human error is one of patient safety’s biggest enemies and while clinicians try not to make mistakes, they frequently have their attention pulled in several directions at once. Computers on the other hand can be programmed to look for mistakes to help avert problems, which is the main reason advocates say electronic health records (EHRs) are needed to make vast improvements in patient safety.
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