Highlights: ? Health systems need to make better use of data held within the system. ? Evidence should be based on application in practice as well as on pure research in controlled environments. ? Commercial sector service industries have a … Continued
MediView Provides Customers Online Planning, Reporting and Analysis Solutions from Benefit Informatics – April 30, 2007 In a very competitive benefits administration market, Third Party Administrators seek every technological advantage to offer their clients cutting-edge administrative services. Many are turning … Continued
Conclusions: The physician/pharmacist Co-DUR has better sensitivity at detecting potential adverse drug events than the pharmacist-only DUR. Pharmacists also have opportunities to double-check prescribed drugs when doctors do not voluntarily modify pop-up alerts. Further comprehensive study will be needed to … Continued
Conclusion: Quality metrics were validated by a panel of international DCM experts. Therefore, we expect that the metrics, which constitute essential qualitative and quantitative quality requirements for DCMs, can be used to support rational decision-making by DCM developers and clinical … Continued
Making Patient Care Safer: Lake Hospital System First in Ohio to Implement Automated Medication Dispensing Technology – April 23, 2007 Getting the right medication to the right patient at the right time seems a pretty straightforward proposition. However, the medication … Continued
Cedara Software and Varian Medical Systems Announce Licensing Agreement Treatment – May 9, 2007 Cedara Software, developer of medical software technologies for the global healthcare market, today announced its licensing agreement with Varian Medical Systems, giving Varian exclusive global rights … Continued
Conclusions: Users have continued to make suggestions about their needs and requirements, and the EHR system has evolved to optimize ease of use and special functionalities for particular groups of users and particular subspecialties. Based on our experiences and the … Continued
Discussion: These two use cases proved the feasibility of opening public health data on the internet, and highlighted difficulties: SDMX, a full-featured solution, encouraged harmonization and reusability, sustainability, but required complex developments and tools; OData was much simpler to implement … Continued
Conclusion: The rate of HIS adoption in Japanese medium and large hospitals is high compared to small hospitals and clinics, and this is attributable to the fact that the Japanese government placed the target for HIS adoption on key hospitals … Continued
Conclusion: The analytical concept of information infrastructure proves useful in dismantling a local/global separation, as it supports an empirical strategy of tracing out the concrete manifestations of how, where and when the “local” and the “global” are interdependent. (Source: International … Continued