January 10, 2008 - Dublin Methodist Hospital, part of OhioHealth, is opening today as one of the nation's few all-digital, full-service community hospitals, due to the implementation of McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals suite EHR system, which supports more than two million clinicians nationwide.

January 9, 2008 - ReBuilder Medical Technologies Inc. announced this week it has created a new research and development facility.

“We have leased, fitted and established the infrastructure for a new offsite engineering laboratory that will allow us to streamline the process of new product development,” said David B. Phillips, Ph.D., CEO of RBRM. “This state of the art R and D facility will house both electronic and pharmaceutical laboratories.”

January 9, 2008 - Wellsoft Corp. recently announced Memorial Hospital in York, PA has selected its emergency department information system (EDIS) to help create a more efficient emergency department.

January 9, 2008 – Every hospital in England’s national socialized medicine program will be able to recruit two infection control nurses, two isolation nurses and an antimicrobial pharmacist with millions in extra investment for infection control in the National Health Service.

New stringent requirements outlined today in the government’s strategy to tackle healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) also mean that NHS Foundation Trust applications will not be supported by the secretary of state unless trusts are consistently hitting local targets on both MRSA and C. difficile.

January 9, 2008 – Every hospital in England’s national socialized medicine program will be able to recruit two infection control nurses, two isolation nurses and an antimicrobial pharmacist with millions in extra investment for infection control in the National Health Service.

New stringent requirements outlined today in the government’s strategy to tackle healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) also mean that NHS Foundation Trust applications will not be supported by the secretary of state unless trusts are consistently hitting local targets on both MRSA and C. difficile.

January 9, 2008 - The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) recently issued education materials to more than 3,000 local union presidents in the U.S. and Canada calling for routine carbon monoxide (CO) screening using a pulse CO-oximeter for all fire fighters potentially exposed to CO.

January 9, 2008 - OhioHealth opened the doors of Dublin Methodist Hospital this morning, which boasts an innovative, patient-centered design, state-of-the-art technology, and a near-paperless environment making it the first in Ohio and one of the first in the country to do so.

January 9, 2008 - Viztek introduced to its Opal-RAD Web-based PACS an OnCall auto-routing feature that delivers designated exams to a Web-enabled PC to enable flexible reading, allows users to define where and when particular types of studies will be automatically pushed over the Internet, without any pre-planned setup or IT coordination.

January 9, 2008 - The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology with its software design partner, the MITRE Corp., stated that their work to build a testing tool to evaluate compliance of electronic health records (EHR) with criteria for interoperability, named project LAIKA, will be further advanced by the Commission’s collaboration with two organizations that play major roles in healthcare IT connectivity.

January 9, 2008 – KLAS recognized DR Systems as the leading PACS vendor in this year’s Top 20: 2007 Best in KLAS report for the second year in a row, also honoring the company for in the Community Clinical Ancillary Software category, that encompass vendors serving community hospitals, or hospitals with 200 beds or less.

DR Systems was rated ahead of all other PACS providers including Philips, Dynamic Imaging, McKesson, Fuji, GE Medical Systems, Siemens, Agfa, and Amicas.

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