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2007 | 2006

E-Health Trend Watch

Issue 8, February 23, 2007

• Companies to provide health data

  Thomson Micromedex in Greenwood Village, CO, and A.D.A.M., Inc., in Atlanta, a provider of consumer...

• TMA creates committee to review rating program

  The Texas Medical Association (TMA) has named a committee to review Blue Cross and Blue Shield of...

• Hospice receives $600,000 technology grant

  Alive Hospice, Inc., in Nashville,TN, will receive up to $600,000 of products and services from...

• Disgruntled worker hacks computers

  Hsun Lin, a computer administrator upset about the possibility of losing his job, planted an...

• 3M acquires SoftMed

  3M in St. Paul, MN, has completed its acquisition of SoftMed Systems in Silver Spring, MD, an...

Issue 7, February 16, 2007

• Surgery suite uses technology to communicate and access patient information

  Saint Joseph Mercy Health System has opened the doors to its $42 million, 60,000-square-foot...

• Guilty plea in theft of medical information

  Isis Machado, 23, of Miami Lakes, FL, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit...

• HIMSS task force defines 'pharmacy informatics'

  The recently established Pharmacy Informatics Task Force has developed an official definition of...

• Texas hospital goes paperless

  Memorial Hermann Sugar Land (TX) Hospital is the first hospital in the Houston area to use...

• Missouri launches drug price Web site

  The state of Missouri has launched a Web site called MoRx Price Compare. The site, created by...

Issue 6, February 9, 2007

• Computer stolen from Emory University

  Emory University in Atlanta has sent letters to 38,000 patients who have been treated for cancer at...

• Hospital begins using electronic monitoring system in ICU

  The intensive care unit (ICU) at the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, NC, has started...

• Lockheed to acquire IT provider

  Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, MD, has agreed to acquire Fairfax, VA-based Management Systems...

• Free Web site stores mammogram history

  A new Web site called MyNDMA (National Digital Medical Archive) allows users to store their...

• Missouri releases report on hospital-acquired infections

  The Missouri Department of Health released a report that discloses the rate at which patients...

Issue 5, February 2, 2007

• MOST, LLC, changes name to iSALUS Healthcare

  MOST, LLC, of Indianapolis, which develops and hosts an Internet-based healthcare and business...

• Former VA police officer pleads guilty to identity theft

  A federal court judge sentenced James Richter, a former Veteran's Administration (VA) police...

• 3M to provide Mayo Clinic with RFID devices

  St. Paul, MN-based technology firm 3M has won a contract to provide Mayo Clinic of Rochester, MN...

• Adobe Acrobat flaw allows attacks on computers

  Computer security researchers have found a vulnerability in Adobe Reader Software, according to an...

• Ohio lags behind other states in development of IT

  According to a report by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, the state lags behind neighboring...

Issue 4, January 26, 2007

• Keane introduces electronic charting solution

  Keane, Inc., of Melville, NY, a provider of business technology services, announced the...

• New tool to improve cross-cultural awareness

  Aetna of Hartford, CT, announced that it is offering healthcare providers free access to the...

• Hospital debt sees increase in 2007

  Healthcare analysts say bad debt stemming from uninsured and underinsured patients is undercutting...

• Medical records access seen as way to improve quality

  Americans want to have electronic copies of their medical records and believe having greater access...

• AHA announces support for FDA system

  In a letter to the Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American...

• Canadian Obesity Network launches new online tool

  The Canadian Obesity Network (CON), a project funded by the Canadian government, announced the...

Issue 3, January 19, 2007

• Governors to oversee HIT efforts

  The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices announced the leadership of the...

• Medical videos to be syndicated

  Broadband Enterprises of New York City and The HealthCentral Network of Arlington, VA, announced...

• Internet medical appointment service to expand

  Santa Monica, CA-based Doctors-Direct.com, an online service that helps patients schedule medical...

• Medsphere announces contract with Indian Health Services

  Medsphere Systems Corporation of Aliso Viejo, CA, announced a contract to expand and deploy its...

• Governor Pataki announces $52 million in grant funding

  More than $52 million will fund advanced health information technology (HIT) initiatives in New...

Issue 2, January 12, 2007

• Workgroup focuses on privacy

  The American Health Information Community (AHIC) should create policies to require consumer...

• UC Davis to expand telecommunications network

  The University of California Davis School of Medicine announced a $35 million plan to expand the...

• Foundation launches health record project

  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, NJ, launched a program called Project HealthDesign...

• Geonetric publishes annual survey in e-health report

  Geonetric of Cedar Rapids, IA, has published a study that looks at the current state of the...

• Correlation between EMRs and improved quality of care

  A joint white paper from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and...

Issue 1, January 5, 2007

• CCHIT expands certification to some specialties

  The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) announced that the U.S...

• Five large employers to give workers EMRs

  Five of the nation's largest employers plan to give their workers their own electronic medical...

• Wisconsin hospital employee charged with identity theft

  The patient liaison at a Wisconsin hospital faces felony charges after allegedly using protected...

• Michigan considers identity theft bill

  Michigan may become the latest state to require business and government agencies to notify victims...

• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP identifies top seven health industry trends of 2007

  PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute released a report titled The Top Seven Health...

Issue 50, January 2, 2007

• OBTV helps doctors monitor obstetric patients

  Doctors and nurses at Baptist Medical Center Nassau's maternity suite in Amelia Island, FL, have...

• Memphis hospital to install $2.9 million brain-mapping machine

  LeBonheur Children's Medical Center in Memphis, TN, won permission from the state to purchase and...

• McKesson to acquire Per-Se Technologies

  McKesson Corporation of San Francisco and Per-Se Technologies, Inc., of Atlanta have announced that...

• Clinical IT gaps persist between small and large physician practices

  The proportion of physicians reporting access to IT for each of five clinical activities increased...

• Web-based education resource launched for infection prevention measures

  A new online educational resource leads physicians and hospital administrators to a single source...