Geisinger Health System has selected Los Angeles, California-based Stanson Health to implement Stanson Health Clinical Decision Support and Stanson Analytics. Combined with relevant analytics, Stanson solutions safely guide physician decisions toward the elimination of unnecessary or inappropriate care and help improve the quality of care.The Stanson catalog of several hundred clinical decision support interventions are geared toward assisting physicians at the point of care. Content is focused
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North York General Hospital Named 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award
North York General Hospital, a community academic hospital located in the Toronto suburb of North York, Ontario has been named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Through partnerships, collaboration and academic endeavours, North York General seeks to set new standards for patient- and family-centred care. NYGH submitted four case studies demonstrating how they leveraged health IT to improve patient outcomes.- NYGH implemented closed-loop medication administration (CLMA.) By
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Ascensia Diabetes Care, Glooko Partner to Integrate Diabetes Data for Consumers
Ascensia Diabetes Care and Glooko, a remote patient monitoring platform for diabetes has announced an integration partnership to improve diabetes data management and analytics. The integration includes Glooko's Diabetes Data Management Platform and Ascensia's blood glucose monitoring systems that will allow people with diabetes and health care professionals to access and analyze highly accurate blood glucose data through the digital platform of their choice. The collaboration includes all
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DrFirst Acquires VisibilityRx to Optimize Clinical Trial Recruitment
DrFirst, a provider of electronic prescribing, integrated medication management and secure communication for healthcare has acquired Duluth, GA-based VisibilityRx, a provider of clinical trial recruitment services to life sciences, clinical research organizations and pharmacies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For DrFirst, the acquisition provides 60,000 physician clients the ability to easily identify and refer their patients to the latest clinical trials and
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King’s College Hospital London to Implement Cerner’s Millennium EHR & Revenue Cycle
dbai. The overall aim of the Cerner implementation will support UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda, a national program developed to advance national priorities and achieve a world-class health care system. Cerner EHR Implementation DetailsThe Cerner Millennium EHR will be implemented across King’s Dubai, a 100-bed, multi-specialty hospital set to open in 2018 at the heart of the premium community, Dubai Hills Estate, and two multi-specialty clinics. The EHR is designed to support an individual’s
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CAE Healthcare Unveils First Mixed Reality Ultrasound Simulation Solution
CAE Healthcare announced the release of CAE VimedixAR, an ultrasound training simulator integrated with the Microsoft HoloLens, the world's first self-contained holographic computer. The announcment marks CAE Healthcare as the first company to bring a commercial Microsoft HoloLens application to the medical simulation market.VimedixAR delivers an unprecedented simulation-based training experience, allowing learners to interact and move freely within a clinical training environment that is
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Harris Corporation Unloads Government IT Services Business for $690M in Cash
Private equity firm Veritas Capital has agreed to acquire Harris Corporation’s government IT services business for $690 million in cash. The transaction is subject to regulatory review and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2017.Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, Harris’ government health IT business helps healthcare organizations achieve better patient outcomes by increasing interoperability, making clinical and administrative workflow more
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Penn Medicine Launches Center for Digital Health to Probe “The Social Mediome”
Penn Medicine has launched a Center for Digital Health to probe “the social mediome” -- a way of collectively describing people or groups based on their digital data merged with their health record data. To lead the newly Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health efforts, Penn Medicine has appointed Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP as the Associate Vice President for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Director. New areas of research focus for the Center for Digital Health include
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Stanford Researchers Develop Deep Learning Algorithm to Diagnose Skin Cancer
Computer scientists at Stanford have created a deep learning algorithm to visually diagnose skin cancer that matched the performance of board-certified dermatologists, Stanford News reports. According to a recent paper published in the Jan. 25 issue of Nature, the final product based on a database of nearly 130,000 skin disease images was tested against 21 board-certified dermatologists and successfully matched the performance of the dermatologists in diagnosing the most common and deadliest
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Optimum Healthcare IT Lands Apotti Finland Contract to Provide Epic Consulants
Healthcare IT staffing and consulting services firm Optimum Healthcare IT has been selected by Apotti in Finland to provide specialized Epic Consultants to support the Epic EHR implementation in the area’s 29 hospitals. The Apotti project is a co-operation between the local governments of Helsinki and the surrounding regions of Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, and Kauniainen, and the hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS).The goal of the Apotti project is to create a unified healthcare program that
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