The DFS3 is a mattress replacement system that provides alternating pressure relief with automatic adjustment to the weight, size and position of the individual patient.
Integrated into the mattress, the Auto Matt sensor pads enables the system to automatically sense the weight and position of the patient and deliver the proper interface pressures below clinically relevant thresholds. The DFS3 employs the Heelguard section at the foot of the mattress with “powered down” air cell construction that provides pressure relief under the heels.

A new patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) device, LifeCare PCA, has additional capabilities that allow hospital patients to control the flow of their pain medication within carefully specified limits.
The device is the first and only pain management medication delivery system with a built-in bar code reader that is compatible with prefilled, bar-coded medication vials, including pharmacy-generated bar codes for custom-filled medication vials.

The new Amelior ED 2.0 emergency department information system combines the Amelior ED Tracker, a passive-based patient and asset tracking solution and Amelior ED, an information management system featuring computer-based nurse and physician charting, order management and clinical decision support for documenting the care of emergency department patients in real time.

A complete solution for tracking assets and people within hospitals, HealthTrax includes RFID asset tags and enterprise software that can be used with standard wireless networks. The RFID tag is 802.11 Wi-Fi-based and eliminates the need for a separate or redundant wireless network for asset tracking. Once the tags are attached, hospital staff can quickly locate what they need on a Web-based electronic floor plan. The tags can also provide security benefits by triggering an alarm if hospital assets are taken from designated areas.

GE Healthcare has completed its acquisition of IDX Systems Corp.
The acquisition enables GE to offer a comprehensive suite of financial and business management solutions for group practices, hospitals and integrated delivery networks (IDNs), as well as a combined radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving communications system (PACS) solution.

Bar coding for all prescription and over-the-counter medications — which are commonly used and dispensed in the acute-care setting — will be required as of April 26, marking the end of a two-year implementation period for the FDA’s 2004 rule. Medications that are FDA cleared on or after April 26 must be bar code labeled within 60 days of their approval date.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations issued a Sentinel Event Alert that urges healthcare organizations to pay special attention to how tubes and catheters are connected to patients, and challenges the manufacturers of these devices to redesign them in ways that will make dangerous misconnections much less possible.

GE Healthcare and Intermountain Healthcare have announced a contract for the implementation of GE’s Centricity Radiology Solution, a combined RIS/PACS solution formerly known as IDX Imagecast, in 21 institutions across Intermountain Healthcare’s network. When complete, the installation will mark the largest GE centralized PACS installation in the U.S. 

EliteAccess, which is used to combine the AquariusNET thin-client with the advanced Aquarius Workstation to greatly increase radiology reading efficiency and enhance workflow, has been introduced. It provides access to both streamlined workflow, optimized tools and high-end workstation applications through the convenience of the single AquariusNET thin-client user interface.

HIPAAT Inc.’s toolkit enables imaging vendors to generate IHE-compliant audit messages from proprietary logs, supports IHE’s Audit Trail and Node Authentication profile, and offers centralized security auditing capabilities.

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