The Connected Hospital with iBed technology integrates caregivers and systems throughout the hospital, enabling improvements in the quality of care while increasing staff efficiencies. The iBed Awareness option is a fully customizable bed status indicator. With the touch of a button, iBed Awareness allows a caregiver to set a bed in a certain status according to specific patient care needs. If the status changes in any way, the bed alerts the caregiver either visually, audibly and through the nurse call system depending on configuration.

The DocuPrompte suite is an automated Web-based tool that elicits a patient’s health history in advance of surgery, scores the patient for risk of surgery and utilizes the hospital’s protocols to establish action plans for medication optimization in advance of surgery.

February 27, 2007 – CDW Healthcare announced yesterday that it will unveil their donation of MED-1, a one-of-a-kind mobile treatment facility that provides comprehensive on-site medical care in response to disasters and mass casualties, consisting of two 53-foot tractor trailers, one of which expands to more than 1,000 square feet of treatment space with 134 beds, this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference (HIMSS) in New Orleans.

Feb. 27, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions Tuesday introduces a new healthcare data-mining tool, Soarian Quality Measures, powered by Siemens' REMIND technology. The company has also added MedCentral (North Central Ohio) and Reading Hospital (Reading, PA) as beta sites for this tool. Additionally, St. Luke's Health System (Boise, Idaho) has added Soarian Quality Measures to its complement of Siemens solutions.

February 27, 2007 � Cerner Corp. recently announced executives and clinicians from a variety of healthcare organizations will guide attendees through a specific patient condition demonstration, highlighting how Cerner Millennium, the company�s unified software, adapts to the various clinician roles and venues, this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference (HIMSS) in New Orleans.

February 27, 2007 – OTN, a physician services company, recently announced its interfaces between the automated charge capture, inventory management and reporting tool, Lynx Mobile and 90 percent of electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management systems available in the marketplace, including IMPAC’s oncology EMR.

February 27, 2007 – The Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently granted that The Joint Commission continue deeming authority under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), meaning laboratories accredited by The Joint Commission are deemed as meeting both CLIA and Medicare certification requirements.

The federal government’s Final Notice, granting the deeming authority for five years to The Joint Commission Laboratory Accreditation Program was published in the February 2007 Federal Register.

February 26, 2007 – VersaMed recently announced its contract with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) to provide the iVent201 Disaster Preparedness ventilator, giving the ability to set up in seconds and transfer a patient between leak-tolerant, non-invasive and invasive modes without having to switch machines.

The iVent201 provides advanced diagnostic features including loops, 14 parameters of trending, graphics and data recall.

Feb. 26, 2007 — Maquet Critical Care announced its has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its breakthrough NAVA (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist) technology for optional use with the company’s SERVO-i ventilator. The SERVO-i ventilator with NAVA option is intended for treatment and monitoring of all patients, neonatal, pediatric and adults who require mechanical ventilation.

Feb. 26, 2007 — Draeger Medical Inc. has begunthe U.S. launch of its new ventilation system, the Oxylog 3000, which is designed to support critical care patients in demanding emergency and transport environments. Its combination of volume and pressure-controlled and pressure support ventilation across the entire breathing cycle enable the Oxylog 3000 to deliver high-end performance for caregivers.

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