BellSouth Provides Innovative Communications Solutions for Florida Hospital
February 24th 2004ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- HIMSS healthcare tradeshow -- As part of its initiative to address the growing needs of healthcare providers in the Southeast for secure and cost effective connectivity, BellSouth is delivering innovative voice and
Omnicell Co-Sponsors HL7 / IHE Joint Demonstration at HIMSS
February 23rd 2004ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continuing its leadership in patient safety, Omnicell, Inc. will co-sponsor a live demonstration of interoperability technology at the 2004 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition being held February
Sprint, palmOne Join Forces to Provide Mobile Healthcare Solutions
February 23rd 2004ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint and palmOne, Inc. announced today an agreement to develop end-to- end mobile enterprise solutions targeted at healthcare organizations. Under terms of the agreement, the companies will leverage the secure
Dartmouth Hitchcock Goes Live With InterSystems' CACHE 5 Database
February 23rd 2004CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- InterSystems Corporation today announced that Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) has implemented a revenue cycle solution from IDX Systems Corporation that is built on the post-relational CACHE database.
Kryptiq Unveils New Solution for Managing Healthcare Insurance Contracts
February 23rd 2004ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- (HIMSS Conference & Exhibition) -- Kryptiq Corp. announced today that it has released a contract management solution aimed at helping medical insurance payers better manage their contracts with medical care
Sprint Joins Mobile Healthcare Alliance (MoHCA) Board of Directors
February 23rd 2004ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint announced today that it has joined the Board of Directors for the Mobile Healthcare Alliance (MoHCA), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the adoption of mobile technologies to support the
ZyDoc(R) Speech Recognition Modules Widely Disseminated Though Medical Industry
February 23rd 2004ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 2004 HIMSS Conference, ZyDoc announced evidence confirming the impending widespread adoption of speech recognition in the medical industry incorporating ZyDoc specialty specific vocabularies. Multiple
MedPlus Announces Availability of ChartMaxx(R) Solution on Certified Linux Platform
February 23rd 2004CINCINNATI, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- MedPlus, a leading provider of clinical connectivity and data management solutions for healthcare organizations and clinicians, announced today that it has begun to offer its ChartMaxx(R) electronic patient record
Kryptiq Introduces New Physician Office Web Portal
February 23rd 2004ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- (HIMSS Conference & Exhibition) -- Kryptiq Corp. announced today that it has released a new Web portal designed to improve communication between physicians and their patients. CareCatalyst(TM) is the first
At HIMSS, PatientKeeper Demonstrates a Day in the Life of a Mobile Physician
February 23rd 2004ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- PatientKeeper(R), a provider of healthcare computing solutions, announced today that it will demonstrate its broad portfolio of market -- leading mobile computing solutions at the Annual HIMSS Conference and
Survey says security and patient safety top concerns
February 23rd 2004Over 300 of the country's healthcare executives said that increasing patient safety through the use of electronic medical records and improving system security were their most pressing concerns regarding healthcare IT. More than 700 hospitals
DoD showcases IT arsenal at HIMSS
February 23rd 2004The Department of Defense bivouacked this week at the HIMSS meeting to demonstrate its IT expertise, including its Composite Health Care System II (CHCSII), probably the largest electronic medical records systems in the world. It is expected to be fully
Outsourcing is hot. Don't get burned.
February 23rd 2004Outsourcing IT operations offers some decided advantages, but it needs to be approached cautiously with solid metrics to measure performance, presenters said during a HIMSS education session Monday.The lure of dealing with merely one vendor can be