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Deloitte Consulting LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP, has acquired Recombinant Data Corporation, an analytic and data warehousing solution provider. The acquisition underscores an increasing importance given to clinical information in transforming the healthcare industry.

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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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A recent survey conducted by Nuesoft Technologies finds that 96% of healthcare professionals are concerned about the bearing the migration to International Classification of Diseases version 10 (ICD-10) may have on their practices.

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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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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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Surgical Information Systems (SIS), a perioperative systems vendor, has found majority of the hospital executives and surgeons expressing confidence in information technology solutions for achieving overall success in the operating room.

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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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3M Health Information Systems, a provider of health IT solutions and services, has announced the inclusion of an analysis tool and consulting services into its International Classification of Diseases – Revision 10 (ICD-10) transition planning solutions suite. This has been designed to assist providers in estimating the ICD-10 transition’s financial impact on each, diagnosis related [...]

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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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