November 7, 2007 – Phoenix Health Systems announced Nov. 6 it signed an agreement with Salem Hospital in Salem, OR to provide information technology infrastructure management services.

Under the agreement, Phoenix will manage Salem’s infrastructure service towers, which includes, leadership, 24/7 help desk operations, network (both voice and data), desktop and server management from both its Leveraged Service Center in Dallas, TX and onsite at the hospital.

November 7, 2007 - Health information technology company Enhanced Medical Decisions Inc. announced its open beta public release of www.DoubleCheckMD.com, an easy-to-use online search technology, which offers accurate and immediate medical search results regarding drug interactions and adverse side effects.

November 7, 2007 – Medical software maker Allscripts said today Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS) selected its electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) system to automate and connect clinical and administrative processes for its medical staff of independent physicians.

Initially, PVHS - a regional, nonprofit healthcare network serving northern Colorado, southern Wyoming, and western Nebraska - has purchased 200 licenses for the combined Allscripts solution. PVHS is

November 6, 2007 – MEDHOST said yesterday El Centro Regional Medical Center, in El Centro, CA, achieved a full return on investment from its MEDHOST Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) system in six months versus the hospital’s projected four years.

November 6, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions said Nov. 5 Soarian Clinicals V2.0C5 with Siemens Pharmacy and Med Administration Check V24.0, has achieved premarket, conditionally CCHIT certified status from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology and meets the commission’s newly launched inpatient electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007.

November 6, 2007 - The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) is holding its 34th Annual Meeting and Conference Nov. 8-10, at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington D.C.

This year’s theme “Breaking Barriers: Changing Policy and Practice with Evidence” could not be timelier, according to conference co-chairs, Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, Ph.D, RN, FAAN and Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Ph.D, RN, CPNP/NPP, FAAN.

November 6, 2007 - The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology said Nov. 5 that six electronic health record (EHR) products designed for use in acute care hospitals, representing an estimated 25 percent of the inpatient vendor marketplace, applied for and achieved CCHIT certified status after undergoing inspections that demonstrated their compliance with 100 percent of the Certification Commission’s published criteria.

November 6, 2007 - ImaRx Therapeutics Inc. and Royal Philips Electronics announced a research collaboration to evaluate Philips ultrasound technology as part of ImaRx’s SonoLysis program to develop new treatment for acute ischemic stroke, aiming to determine the optimal ultrasound parameters to use with ImaRx’s proprietary MRX-801 microbubble technology.

November 5, 2007 – Though San Antonio, TX-based Texas Cancer Clinic earned the 2007 Outpatient Excellence Award for Oncology Centers by Outpatient Care Technology and was featured in the magazine’s June/July 2007 edition, facility representatives formally received the award during the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology’s (ASTRO) annual meeting.

OPCT Editor Rick Dana Barlow presented Bradley R. Prestidge, M.D., Texas Cancer Clinic’s founder, president, CEO, medical director and radiation oncologist, with the award on Tuesday morning, Oct. 30.

November 5, 2007 - The recent surge in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cases have thrust the infection into the spotlight and some hospitals are turning to a new technology from Biomist Inc. that converts alcohol into a nonflammable vapor, making it possible to sanitize surfaces that cannot be quickly sanitized by other methods.

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