March 1, 2007 - IBM announced that Memorial Hospital, South Bend, IN, has implemented an IBM-tiered storage solution in conjunction with McKesson�s Horizon Medical Imaging picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to reportedly help clinicians access patients� medical information faster, easier and more securely.

March 1, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare demonstrated its IMPAX data center, a real-time database of all structured and unstructured data from different clinical sources that presents a unified view of a single patient and leverages a central bank of transactional and data services, which can permit an enterprise level of data and clinical content management.

IMPAX Data Center provides a set of demographic data along with a number that uniquely identifies each patient throughout the continuum of care, meaning the IMPAX data center can manage multiple patient ID domains.

March 1, 2007 - WinScribe announced that its digital dictation solution has reportedly helped healthcare professionals and medical transcriptionists reduce the time it takes to produce medical reports by as much as 150 percent because of integrated speech recognition capabilities and the speed at which the dictation is transcribed. The system allegedly lets users choose how and when dictation is transcribed and how reports are routed.

March 1, 2007 - Philips has unveiled the IntelliVue Clinical Information Portfolio (ICIP), which enables the exchange of patient data or electronic health records (EHRs) across providers� networks, reportedly bringing a patient�s accumulated clinical data to clinicians while providing support for automated regulatory compliance through its ability to integrate into hospitals� IP enterprise architecture.

Philips also demonstrated the benefits of exchanging patient data by allowing show attendees to create and build an integrated electronic health record.

March 1, 2007 - Misys Healthcare Systems and MedAptus announced the integration MedAptus Electronic Charge capture with Misys EMR, Misys Vision, Misys Tiger and Misys ambulatory solution suite, claiming the system will flag potential errors for editing prior to submission, prompt accurate coding at the point-of-care and enable physician offices to avoid missing charges and maintain accurate records.

March 1, 2007 - GE Healthcare unveiled its efforts to connect clinicians across the healthcare continuum by demonstrating a simulated healthcare network, the Centricity Continuum of Care pavilion which infuses information into the care process to support clinicians in providing safer, more cost-effective care.

Technologies highlighted during this demonstration included the Centricity Enterprise Solution, the Centricity Electronic Medical Records and Centricity Business.

March 1, 2007 - Philips introduced its handheld Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA), designed to enable nurses and physicians to improve bedside patient care by using an integrated, wireless device to connect to patient information stored in electronic medical records (EMRs), enabling IT flexibility throughout the hospital.

March 1, 2007 - GE Healthcare launched its newest Centricity Laboratory Information System (LIS), reportedly designed to handle high-volume test-processing needs of mid-to large-sized labs and multi-hospital facilities and aimed at helping healthcare organizations automate and integrate their laboratory processes. The system is now available with a Transfusion Medicine module, a new QC module, and additional security features.

March 1, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare has received the 2007 Frost and Sullivan American Medical Informatics Competitive Strategy Leadership of the Year award for execution of strategy set to reinforce the company�s position as a leading provider of medical informatics solutions for the healthcare enterprise and for its competitive strategy in the North American medical market.

Merge Healthcare recently announced the name of its North American direct business unit will be changed from Merge eMed to Merge Healthcare North America.

"The shift follows a significant reorganization initiative that has unfolded over the past few months to better align our cost and revenue structures, reduce operational redundancies across the organization, and optimize synergies and economies of scale from the 2005 merger," said Kenneth Rardin, Merge Healthcare CEO.

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