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.
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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.

Nellcor, a unit of Tyco Healthcare, has entered into an agreement with Lyntek for an exclusive worldwide license to certain patented technology developed by its founder and president, Dr. Lawrence Lynn, DO, FCCP. Dr. Lynn is on staff at the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Riverside and Doctors Hospital in Columbus, OH, and is also executive director of the sleep and breathing research institute.

Hospitals in northeastern and central Pennsylvania are working together to develop standards for the use of color-coded patient wristbands in their facilities.
Wristband colors are often used to convey clinical information to nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers, but potential safety issues were raised when a patient nearly died in a Pennsylvania hospital due to confusion about the meaning of a colored wristband that had been put on the patient’s arm.

Siemens completed its acquisition of Diagnostic Products Corp. (DPC) in late July, marking a significant milestone for Siemens as it enters the in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market. Together with DPC, Siemens Medical Solutions will become the first full service diagnostics company.
Founded in 1971, DPC is a global leader in immunodiagnostics, focusing on developing, manufacturing and distributing automated body fluid analyzers and tests, such as those related to cancer and cardiac disease, as well as hormone and allergy conditions.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) recently adopted practice guidelines for the perioperative management of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to reduce the risk of adverse outcomes in patients with OSA who receive sedation, analgesia or anesthesia.

Eclipsys Corp. announced that St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, (Syracuse, NY) has documented record cash collections, achieved near 100 percent registration accuracy and recovered more than $20 million in revenues over budget due to reduced Accounts Receivable days. According to Mike Shaffer, St. Joseph's chief financial officer, the results can be attributed to the Sunrise Access Manager/Patient Financial Manager, Eclipsys' revenue cycle management software solution.

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