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Mumbai-based Jaslok Hospital has chosen Singapore-based Napier Healthcare Solutions’ next generation mobile electronic health records platform, Napier EHRm, for meeting its management requirements and help their staff (over 1,100) deliver services more quickly and efficiently.

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Current healthcare reforms, patient safety trends, and competition for referring physicians have made enterprise-wide sharing of images more important than ever. Washington-based Wenatchee Valley Medical Center (WVMC) has selected Merge Healthcare’s Merge PACS™ and iConnect® Enterprise Archive to upgrade their legacy PACS system and allow providers to access patient data and images on a real-time [...]

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have initiated the Hospital Readmissions Reduction (HRR) Program that reduces reimbursements to hospitals that have an increased readmission rate. Aligning with this initiative of lowering avoidable readmissions, UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) has roped-in Informatica Corporation, a data integration software provider, and MedCPU Inc., a provider of [...]

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West Yorkshire-based Airedale National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust has awarded a three-year contract to Accenture and TTP for deploying a hospital system that will enable physicians to access 1.1 million patient records.

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CareFusion to showcase innovative technologies at HIMMS AsiaPac12 Singapore, 17 Sept. 2012 – Mount Elizabeth Novena has opened its doors as the first, new private hospital to be built in Singapore in more than 30 years, and it is the first to implement innovative medication and supply management technologies that will enhance patient safety and [...]

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With an intent to streamline inpatient coding and billing processes, High Point, NC-based Cornerstone Health Care has chosen Professional Charge Capture (Pro) solution from Boston, MA-based MedAptus®.

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Regional Extension Center (REC), HealthInsight has announced that Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging Centers is the first imaging center within the HealtHIE Nevada to go live with eHealth Image Exchange™, a service by eHealth Global Technologies (eHGT) that allows the seamless sharing of diagnostic images.

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In an attempt to enable seamless flow of patient information from skilled nursing facilities to physicians at a regional health information exchange (HIE), Bellevue, WA-based Caradigm, and Pennsylvania’s Keystone Beacon Community (KBC), have developed the MDS-to-CCD Transformer. This data-sharing capability facilitates data exchange even in the absence of an EHR.

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Plymouth, MA-based Jordan Hospital has chosen dbMotion’s interoperability platform to enable the local medical fraternity to provide a single comprehensive record of a patient to caregivers, a critical factor for the success of the Greater Plymouth Health Information Network (GPHIN).

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Hospitals & Health Networks (H&HN), a publication of the American Hospital Association (AHA), has announced more than 200 Most Wired hospitals, based on a survey that analyzed IT utilization at healthcare organizations across four areas: infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical integration (ambulatory/physician/patient/community), and clinical safety and quality (outpatient/inpatient hospital).

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