ED PulseCheck is a comprehensive patient tracking and documentation system that shares data with existing hospital information systems, benefitting patients, hospitals, physicians and nurses.

The MEDHOST EDIS helps hospital EDs increase patient safety, reduce individual wait times and improve financial performance with its patient tracking, nurse charting, physician documentation and clinical order entry components. 
The system utilizes touchscreen technologies and features an Administrative ToolKit application that allows facilities to customize clinical content to meet specific needs. MEDHOST also provides facilities with consulting, support and training initiatives to accompany its technology platform.

Centricity Emergency is a clinical information system that replaces the traditional whiteboard and paper documentation within the emergency department with an electronic status board that reflects virtually every facet of patient care and condition.

The HealthMatics ED helps emergency departments improve the bottom line by streamlining and automating the care process. The system provides sharable, real-time, mobile access to comprehensive patient information from registration to disposition.

A new version of the CALM family of software products has been released by LMS Medical Systems — CALM Version 3.03 is currently being deployed at sites operating on the CALM 3.0 platform.
CALM 3.03 includes significant architectural and functional enhancements to the CALM system, chiefly providing a foundation to support extensive interfacing capabilities, a prime focus of the company.
For more information, contact Amy Ruffalo Hawkinson, Martin E. Janis & Co., Inc. 312- 943-1100, ext. 15, [email protected]

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide who suffer with chronic illnesses, from diabetes to high blood pressure and heart disease, could benefit from a Bluetooth SIG effort aimed at allowing health-related devices to work with consumer electronics products.

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (Packard Children’s), perennially ranked as one of the nation’s top hospitals, has deployed 100 wireless mobile clinical workstations from Flo Healthcare. These integrated devices will help the hospital increase patient safety at the point-of-care as it rolls out its electronic health record (EHR) initiative.
A team of project managers from Packard Children’s evaluated carts, and hospital nursing staff spent about a month testing and evaluating units from the final two vendors, including Flo.

A news alert from ModernHealthcare.com reports that the percent of Americans without health insurance hit 15.9 percent, or roughly 46.6 million people, in 2005.
This was up from 15.6 percent of the population in 2004, or about 45.3 million people, according to the Census Bureau.
For more information, visit www.modernhealthcare.

According to the FDA, one death per day occurs in the U.S. and 1.3 millions people are injured annually due to medication errors. The agency indicates that poor communication, job stress, lack of training and poor understanding of the directions for use are all common causes or contributors to an actual or potential error.

Misys Healthcare Systems, a market leader in healthcare IT, has released the Misys Data Warehouse 4.0, a tool to provide clinicians with enterprise-wide data analysis of information stored in an Oracle-supported database.

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