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Cleveland and WESTPORT, Conn. – December 21, 2011 – As the complexity and demands of radiology services increase, Radisphere (www.radisphere.net) finds that it is meeting the needs of physicians at client hospitals, according to a recent survey. Radisphere, the only radiology provider offering proven levels of accessibility and accountability to community hospitals, announced the findings of an annual medical staff survey. According to the findings:     99% of respondents believe their radiology reports are delivered in a timely manner.     92% of respondents believe the format and content of the final reports they receive are currently meeting their needs for patient care.     90% of respondents trust the radiology interpretations they receive.     86% of respondents say their experience with Radisphere has been positive.     83% said Radisphere’s remote radiologists are accessible and easy to reach. Several findings are in line with a recent KLAS report, which revealed that Radisphere had the highest score in the area of report quality and high marks for final report turnaround times. These marks led to an exceptional level of satisfaction among Radisphere's clients (95 percent). “The hospital medical staff is ultimately the client for our services,” said Radisphere’s Co-founder Dr. Frank Seidelmann. “Understanding how doctors use radiology and how radiologists deliver value to physicians is critical to the future success of radiology.” The survey was conducted between October and November, 2011, and garnered responses from referring physicians associated with community hospitals across the country. The physicians represented a range of departments that consume radiology services, including the Emergency Department, OB/GYN, Surgery, Orthopedics, Oncology, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics. About Radisphere Radisphere (www.radisphere.net), headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and Westport, Connecticut, is raising the levels of accountability, performance, and satisfaction that hospitals and physicians should expect from radiology services. Founded in 2001 by two world-renowned radiologists—Drs. Peter Franklin and Frank Seidelmann—Radisphere works with rural and community hospitals to measurably improve quality and patient care, while managing ... Read more

Dubai —20 December, 2011 — Wave Medical, the leading developer of clinical decision-support information and technology for healthcare professionals, announced today that InterSystems Corporation has incorporated the Wave Medical drug database into its leading TrakCare health information system. “We are dedicated to offering the best available information to optimize patient care and safety,” says Michel Amous, InterSystems Country Manager, Middle East and India.  “We are excited to partner with Wave Medical to provide the most appropriate regional drug information and tools needed for our customers.” The Wave Medical drug data will be a component of the InterSystems TrakCare™ Web-based unified health information system that provides local drug information, dosing, drug interaction and drug-allergy alerts to authorized users. “I am very pleased to partner with an industry EHR leader to help meet the needs of clinicians to maximize safety and efficiency,” says John Wagner, Wave Medical chairman. “We are committed to providing the highest quality drug information and support through this partnership, and this relationship will embed Wave Medical’s drug information and tools directly into the workflow of healthcare professionals.” TrakCare with Wave Medical drug information will fill existing gaps in the industry to provide regional drug names and support the electronic health records initiative throughout the GCC. TrakCare is already working successfully with language and calendar regionalization in many hospitals throughout Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Wave Medical’s reputable clinical and pharmacological content is designed to support clinicians through every stage of the decision support process, increasing safety and accuracy through better-informed patient care. The partnership between Wave and InterSystems will help drive the rapid growth of electronic health records in the GCC. Learn more at wavemedical.com or InterSystemsMe.com. About Wave Medical Wave Medical provides clinical decision support solutions to general practitioners, nurses, emergency doctors and medical students in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Wave Medical’s comprehensive database of medical and clinical content and tools is available for integration within any healthcare system, or via a PC Browser or any mobile device. The Wave Knowledge Base improves clinical performance, easily adapts to any existing healthcare information system and offers the framework for building new systems – providing solutions that span the continuum of the healthcare industry.  Learn more at www.wavemedical.com About InterSystems InterSystems Corporation is a worldwide leader in breakthrough solutions for connected care with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 23 countries.  InterSystems TrakCare™ is a Web-based unified healthcare information system that rapidly provides the benefits of an Electronic Patient Record. InterSystems HealthShare™ is a strategic platform for healthcare informatics, and the creation of an Electronic Health Record on a regional or national scale. InterSystems Ensemble® is a seamless platform for integration and the development of connectable applications.  InterSystems DeepSee™ is software that makes it possible to embed real-time analytics capabilities in transactional applications. InterSystems CACHÉ® is the most widely-used database in clinical applications. InterSystems’ products are used by thousands of hospitals and labs worldwide, including all 17 hospitals on the Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals as rated by U.S. News and World Report. Learn more at InterSystemsme.com. Media contact: Jenna Reynolds Phone: (847) 491-9100 x211 Email: jreynolds@wavemedical.com Jack Dulka Account Executive Shamal Marketing Communications Direct: +971 4 3652713 Fax: +971 4 4278703 E-mail: jack@smc-pr.com Website: ... Read more

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of healthcare IT solutions, announced that its ORBIS system will be used by the Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, a major hospital in Germany. ORBIS will be used to replace the hospital’s HIS and CIS systems. The Städtisches Klinikum is a 1500-bed hospital with 22 departments. Every year, the facility provides care to 57,000 in-patients and 161,000 out-patients. Therefore the hospital is one of Germany’s 'maximum-care hospitals'. Agfa’s ORBIS was chosen after an evaluation process of the available solutions presented by competing companies. Winfried Post, General Manager for Agfa HealthCare, DACH, said "We are very pleased that both our team and our ORBIS system were convincing in the selection process. ORBIS' capabilities as a holistic and highly integrated tool for all hospital processes proved its ability to offer support for all medical, administrative and care processes. By choosing ORBIS, the hospital demonstrates its commitment to being an innovative partner in ... Read more

IMS MAXIMS, a leading company providing healthcare IT solutions, announced that a new investor has joined the company. Thomas Anderson is the investor who will take complete ownership of IMS MAXIMS. Mr. Anderson has a meeting with the company’s CEO, Shane Tickell, where they discussed the future plans for IMS MAXIMS. "IMS MAXIMS has proven software which enables clinicians in the UK and Ireland to deliver the best possible healthcare services to millions of patients." said Mr. Anderson. He added "I have a passionate belief in Irish business and am convinced that IMS MAXIMS has the products, the vision, and the leadership to make a truly significant contribution to improving healthcare in Ireland, the UK, Europe and beyond. I look forward to working with Shane and his team in the years ahead and to IMS MAXIMS going from strength to strength." Dublin-based IMS MAXIMS had experienced some financial instability as its previous parent company underwent several financial difficulties. However, with a new investor coming to the company, hopes are high that IMS MAXIMS will regain its position as a leading healthcare IT company. "Thanks to this new investment we are better placed than ever for growth and success. It's excellent news for IMS MAXIMS and its customers that we have secured the backing of someone with Thomas Anderson's business skills and commitment to Irish enterprise." said Shane Tickell. He added "He has a clear appreciation of the quality of our existing products and of the excellence of our R&D, which will allow us to expand by offering new advanced software solutions to clients in the public and independent sectors, at home and ... Read more

The French Ministry of Health has recently started a new project “Region sans Film”, or filmless region, to deliver healthcare IT applications, such as PACS and RIS, to one of the most populated regions in the country, the Ile de France. A new consortium has been established between Orange and GE Healthcare. The consortium will be handing the delivery of healthcare IT solutions to hospitals and other healthcare facilities in the region. Since nearly 50% of hospitals in France still use film-based medical imaging scans, “This is an enormous breakthrough for the region” as Bernard Algayres, General Manager of GE Healthcare IT eHealth, EMEA, said. Mr. Algayres added “Faster diagnostic turnaround times and access to patient images by GPs are only the beginning. In future phases of this project, we’re going to build digital bridges across areas that now present great divides. It’s a very exciting initiative.” GE will implement its Centricity PACS at 30 hospitals during the first stage of Region sans Film project. Naima Mezaour, CIO of Institut Gustave Roussy Oncology Hospital, welcomes the new project saying that it helped the hospital in reducing costs. She explained “We made an evaluation before subscribing to the archiving service, which demonstrated a real financial advantage compared to maintaining an archive in house. This even takes into account the migration costs of more than 800,000 studies from our legacy local ... Read more

Zotec Partners, a leading provider of medical billing and radiology information systems, has recently announced it was selected as an outsourced billing provider by Overlake Imaging Associates (OIA), PC. The latter is a sub-specialist radiology practice located in Bellevue, Wash. The practice offers consulting services for patients of Overlake Hospital Medical Center (OHMC). OIA selected Zotec Partners to provide its solution for radiology billing after an extensive evaluation process. Dr. Mark Pfleger, president of Overlake Imaging Associates, PC, said “Once we decided on an outsourced solution, we looked for industry-leading software and front-running radiology revenue cycle management expertise. Zotec Partners’ client references and experience in the Seattle area made bringing them on as our billing services provider an easy decision. The depth of the company’s radiology revenue cycle management expertise was something we could not replicate on our own, and neither could another billing services provider.” On the other hand, T. Scott Law, president and CEO of Zotec Partners, said “As the dual impacts of decreasing physician reimbursement and the rising number of consumer-driven, high-deductible health insurance plans lead to mounting pressures in the marketplace, radiologists need a consistent and cost effective billing solution they can trust. Our proven track record of success with sub-specialist radiology practices assures that OIA will ultimately garner every collectible dollar at a lower cost of ... Read more

During the recently-held RSNA 2011, a podium presentation was carried out to discuss the advantages of using cloud-based solutions for sharing medical images. The presentation was conducted by Mark D. Kovacs, M.D. and Michael A. Trambert, M.D. Dr. Kovacs is a Radiology Department resident at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Dr. Trambert is the Lead Radiologist for PACS Reengineering for the Cottage Health System and Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara, Calif. The presentation included reviewing data from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (VCU). The latter has been one of the early facilities to use cloud-based medical data sharing solutions. VCU has been using eMix™, a well-known medical image sharing system. The presentation also discussed the technical obstacles experienced with using older medical image sharing software. The lecturers then highlighted how the new solutions are offering data sharing capabilities with limited costs. Dr. Trambert said “We found that cloud-based data sharing has essentially solved all the problems with prior methods of sharing electronic medical information – and in the simplest, most efficient way possible,” He continued “Unlike CDs, when information is transferred in the cloud, you can be certain the information will arrive on time, and that the files can be opened. This also means there is no need to take redundant images. That better protects patients and is a huge benefit for the healthcare economy.” eMix, as an innovative solution, provides a lot of interesting features. For instance, Zero Footprint Viewer, allows the receiver of an eMix package to carry out a full review of the transferred images on computer or mobile systems. Another feature is EMRconnect™, which enable medical facilities to automatically send medical reports to the ... Read more

In a recent announcement, Microsoft and GE Healthcare mentioned that they will establish a new healthcare IT joint venture. The latter will be concentrating on providing interoperable platforms for better management of patients, especially those with chronic conditions. The new venture will start with acquiring various currently-used healthcare solutions. Microsoft will be offering its experience in creating healthcare IT systems. GE, on the other hand, will concentrate on providing software solutions for clinical administrative workflows. The new venture will offer several healthcare IT solutions including electronic health records (EHR), radiology information systems (RIS), in addition to various other solutions. Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft, said in a recent statement "Combining Microsoft's open, interoperable health platforms and software expertise with GE's experience and healthcare solutions will create exciting opportunities for patients and healthcare providers alike," Dr. Brandon Savage, GE’s chief medical officer, said "With this platform, it makes everybody have access to a common set of tools, a comprehensive set of patient information so that people with the greatest insight on how to improve care have very little barriers to making a difference in healthcare," Nate McLemore, general manager of Health Solutions Group in Microsoft, said "Third parties can create applications that leverage that platform, and individuals can create use cases and share them among a user community," One of the main existing solutions that will be added to the new venture is Amalga. The latter is a health intelligence platform that permits doctors to access the medical history of their patients. Two other solutions will be added to the new venture by Microsoft, Vergence and expreSSO. Vergence is a single sign-on and context-management program. expreSSO, on the other hand, is a single sign-on application. The new venture is expected to be active by early 2012. The company’s CEO will be Michael J. Simpson, vice president and general manager at GE Healthcare ... Read more

Nationally integrated system to connect public hospitals for more efficient, safer care McKesson has recently announced the successful deployment of its market-leading medical imaging solution at the first four of 35 hospitals in Ireland as part of an exclusive partnership with the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE). Beaumont Hospital, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Sligo General Hospital and Waterford Regional Hospital are among the first to roll out McKesson's Horizon Medical Imaging picture archiving communications system (PACS) and radiology imaging system (RIS) as part of HSE's National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) initiative. NIMIS is the world's largest integrated medical imaging project designed to move Ireland to advanced digital technology. Using McKesson's solutions will help ensure that all 3.5 million radiology studies performed each year in Ireland are available to clinicians at any time and in all locations for greater efficiency, safety and more accountable patient care. When NIMIS is complete, Ireland will have one of the most advanced and integrated radiology IT infrastructures in the world. “PACS and radiology information systems (RIS) are at the heart of the modern radiology department,” explained Niall Sheehy, M.D., lead radiologist for NIMIS. “NIMIS will bring PACS/RIS to all public hospitals in Ireland and enable electronic image-sharing between them.” Not only have the hospitals already experienced a significant reduction in radiology report turnaround times -- from up to two weeks to 30 minutes -- but the project also is the foundation for a national image archive. Like many countries, Ireland had already begun the steps toward automation. In fact, one quarter of Irish hospitals have a PACS system where images are captured, stored and examined. However, without a centralized architecture, all existing PACS in Ireland acted in isolation with no sharing of images or patient data between facilities. Patients transferred or sent for second opinions required film packets or images stored on CD. With McKesson's Horizon Medical Imaging, a single solution is being deployed across the country to link all public hospitals and standardize care through a central database that will serve as a national image archive. As a result, when patients are examined at any public hospital or outpatient clinic in Ireland, their entire imaging history will be immediately available to the clinical team, minimizing errors and accelerating decision-making. McKesson also is implementing 3D and advanced visualization, research tools and electrocardiography for cardiology that integrate with Horizon Medical Imaging. In addition, a voice recognition system will permit immediate digital dictation, transcription and distribution of radiologists’ reports. “With McKesson and representative hospitals from across Ireland, we invested the time upfront to create a central design methodology that standardized our implementation process,” said Neil O’Hare, professor and HSE NIMIS project lead. “This methodology helped to ensure success at each of our go-lives and allowed us to deploy the multiple sites in a short period of time.” In addition to technology, McKesson offers a wide range of industry-leading services designed to help radiologists maximize the value of their image management solutions. For example, its storage service provides full disaster recovery with archiving in a single solution, helping providers eliminate expenses associated with storage, administration costs and hardware obsolescence. “Imaging deployments can be complex and costly, but that isn’t the case with McKesson,” added O'Hare. “With McKesson, we get a digital imaging solution that is not just for radiology but includes specialties such as cardiology, vascular surgery, obstetrics and mammography.” McKesson will roll out Horizon Medical Imaging at the remaining hospitals over the next twenty months. Five hospitals in the Northeast region will round out the first phase of implementations. The second phase will include Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Naas General Hospital and St Luke’s Hospital in Dublin. “McKesson has extensive experience in delivering fully-integrated, interoperable solutions to help optimize medical imaging operations and streamline workflow across the care continuum," said Kevan Torgerson, president, Enterprise Medical Imaging, McKesson Provider Technologies. “We are excited to join HSE in bringing the future of healthcare delivery to the people of Ireland.” About the Health Service Executive The Health Service Executive (HSE) was established in January 2005 as the single body responsible for meeting Ireland’s health and social care needs. The HSE provides thousands of services to young and old, in hospitals, health facilities and in communities across the country. The largest employer in the State, the HSE employs more than 65,000 staff in direct employment and a further 35,000 staff are employed by voluntary hospitals and bodies funded by the HSE. Irish Government Turns to McKesson to Revolutionize Medical Imaging Delivery across the Country. As the primary vendor leading a consortium of third party partners, McKesson participates on the HSE NIMIS Governance board, a team responsible for executive decisions that ensure a successful project deployment. With McKesson in this role, NIMIS benefits from a streamlined communications process, assured responsibility and accountability. This is a distinct advantage to successful implementation. About McKesson McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 15th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better. We partner with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. For more information, visit http://www.mckesson.com. Media contact: Yancey Casey ... Read more

DICOM paper-print solution saves film costs and improves communication with referring physicians and patients Rochester, N.Y., December 6, 2011.  aycan, a recognized worldwide leader in medical imaging, announced today the successful installation of two additional aycan xray-print solutions at Frederick Memorials’ healthcare facilities in Frederick, Maryland.  Since 2007, aycan has installed a total of six systems for the healthcare system. Frederick Memorial chose aycan xray-print, a vendor neutral DICOM paper-print solution, to replace film printers in all of its six healthcare facilities to help improve communication with referring physicians and patients and reduce costs. Compatible with PACS and modalities using the DICOM 3.0 standard, the aycan xray-print solutions fit seamlessly into Frederick Memorials’ existing workflow. “In addition to the tremendous cost savings, aycan’s expert knowledge of DICOM, the very smooth integration, and excellent continued service and support are the reasons we chose them again to replace our remaining film systems,” said Brian Petrie,  PACS Administrator at Frederick Memorial.  “Since our first aycan xray-print installation in 2007, we have achieved well over 70% savings in our annual film costs as well as improving communications with our customers.” aycan xray-print prints images on plain paper in color or black and white at less than 10 cents per sheet. Customers replacing film with paper also achieve additional savings through the elimination of expenses associated with the special handling, storage, and transportation of film. “Hospitals and imaging centers are seeking inexpensive ways to produce non-diagnostic prints of sufficient quality that physicians can use for treatment planning and consultation with colleagues and patients,” said Frank Burkhardt, aycan Director, North & Latin American Operations. “aycan xray-print meets that need, allowing health care professionals to easily and cost effectively print, share, review, annotate, and store high-quality images.” aycan xray-print hardware and software are optimized for medical imagery, and features, such as Presentation Look-Up Tables (PLUT), are easily accessed to set defaults and adjust image-quality output settings such as brightness, gray scale, and contrast for each modality. Introduced in 1996, aycan xray-print has over 2,000 customers worldwide. ABOUT aycan With a focus on vendor neutral integration and service, aycan is a worldwide provider of solutions for archiving, viewing, and printing medical images and information that improve workflow efficiency and drive down costs.  aycan works with other industry innovators such as Apple, Xerox, MedQ, and EIZO whose quality products are part of their solutions. aycan supports customers worldwide with European headquarters in Wuerzburg, Germany, and U.S. headquarters in Rochester, New York. The company is privately held. Learn more at www.aycan.com ABOUT Frederick Memorial Health Care System Frederick Memorial Health Care System, located in Frederick County Maryland, was established in 1901 with the opening of Frederick City Hospital. Since then it has grown into a state-of-the-art healthcare facility with one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the state of Maryland.  Frederick County is the second fastest growing county in Maryland with an estimated population of more than 233,000. Learn more at www.fmh.org Media Contact Dennis van Keken (585) ... Read more

November 28, 2011—Chicago—Medspira, the innovative medical device company, announces a collaboration with Philips Healthcare to offer Medspira’s Breath Hold™ interactive breath control monitoring system as an option for Philips’ BrightView XCT SPECT/CT systems.  Developed by Mayo Clinic physicians, Breath Hold™ is a user-friendly system that enables patients to easily and consistently reproduce a breath-hold reference point to help maintain a consistent breathing pattern during imaging exams and other medical procedures. According to Jody Garrard, Senior Product Marketing Manager of Philips Healthcare, “A significant number of SPECT/CT studies involve the chest and abdominal organs and are often affected by respiratory motion. Providing respiratory feedback during a CT exam has the potential to reduce motion artifacts in the CT image without compromising the SPECT/CT workflow.” “We believe Medspira Breath Hold will help enhance SPECT/CT exams,” said Ryan Gruening, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Medspira.  “The device provides a simple, unobtrusive way for patients to use biofeedback to control their own breathing, and for the operator to know if the patient is complying with their breath hold instructions, at a relatively affordable cost for the medical facilities. We are extremely excited about this new SPECT/CT application for our device and our partnership with such a prestigious firm as Philips Healthcare. Breath Hold is growing rapidly in use for a full range of medical imaging procedures involving the lungs and upper abdomen.” Breath Hold provides a way to promote predictable breath-hold and breathing patterns with greater control over respiratory motion and is non-intrusive and comfortable for patients.  The device is a significantly more cost effective alternative to traditional reactive breath control technologies.  It will enable a far greater number of sites to effectively address the problems of motion due to inconsistent patient breathing during certain imaging procedures. Combining an expandable bellows system and pressure sensitive transducer tube, Breath Hold is wrapped around the patient’s chest or stomach and measures changes in abdominal girth due to patient respiration. For breath-hold monitoring, a reference point, typically either an inhale or exhale, is selected.  After selection, the central monitor light communicates when patients have reached their respiratory target, while additional lights visually alert them if they stray from their desired hold position. To support a reproducible shallow respiratory pattern, patients work to keep their breathing within a central group of lights. Medspira makes the benefits of clinically inspired medical devices available to all healthcare professionals and their patients. About Medspira Since 2009, Medspira has worked with leading medical institutions to develop and market medical devices that provide cost effective diagnosis and treatment for a variety of conditions. Its highly focused distribution model addresses United States and worldwide markets. Products are produced in partnership with world-class, FDA approved and ISO 13485 registered manufacturing facilities.  Medspira was originally formed through the acquisition of product lines and technologies developed by Mayo Clinic. The company also maintains close relationships with major research organizations to track products that will fulfill its mission to bring important tools to more physicians, clinics and patients. Media contact: Jeanne-Marie Phillips HealthFlash Marketing 1234 Summer Street Stamford, CT   ... Read more

November 28, 2011—Chicago—Claron Technology announces the introduction of an iPad and iPhone app for its family of Nil medical image viewers. Nil viewers-- which include both a diagnostic version introduced this year at RSNA and referring physician offering-- run on any device within a Web browser. Now, Claron offers even greater convenience for Apple technology users with a free Nil app available at the Apple Store. The new Nil iPhone/iPad product will provide complete access to all the functionalities of NilShare and NilRead, including side-by-side viewing, arrangement and comparison of multiple series/multiple studies. Series can be linked and viewed synchronized. The new Nil app also will support two new advanced viewing protocols for  PET-CT or PET-MR  data fusion and for optimized viewing of enhanced MR and  CT studies. “The NilRead viewer will now be easy to find on the Apple Store,” says Claudio Gatti, co-founder and co-CEO of Claron. “This introduction combines the flexibility of Nil’s Web approach to image viewing, with the established online and mobile markets provided by the iOS platform. Users will be able run the viewer from Claron Nil servers or enter their own private server address.” Claron’s Nil viewer is a web-based software solution that allows clinicians to securely visualize 2D and 3D imaging studies anywhere a Web browser is available with no application download. It is compatible with Windows, Apple, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Nil supports viewing from both local and cloud-based archives, allowing ease of access and high performance. Since its introduction at RSNA 2010, Nil has been integrated with the technologies of a growing number of partners in various imaging markets. The iOS app offers a complementary option to increase the ease of access to Nil on mobile devices. This product introduces Claron’s new family of Nil apps for all the major mobile platforms.  It will be demonstrated at Claron booth at RSNA 2011 and available on the Apple app store by the end of the year. About Claron Technology, Inc Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to giant device and IT vendors such as Philips, McKesson and Medtronic, deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com. Media Contact: Jeanne-Marie Phillips HealthFlash ... Read more

Siemens’ Soarian key to healthcare IT accolade and offers efficiency potential to UK The implementation of an electronic patient record system based on Soarian® Clinicals and Soarian® Health Archive from Siemens Healthcare has been cited as a key reason for the first hospital in Europe to be honored with Stage 7 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM)1.  The distinction was made by an international auditing panel of CEOs and executives from other hospitals and HIMSS Analytics Europe in recognition of the hospital’s successful transition to completely paperless procedures from patient admission to discharge. The accolade was awarded to a German hospital, the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), which had previously achieved Stage 6 of EMRAM in February 2011. The implementation of the electronic patient record system based on Soarian Clinicians and Soarian Health Archive allows for seamless exchange of digital patient data.  Information can be transferred across systems from other healthcare providers to relieve administrative burden on staff, which helps lead to more efficient treatment. UKE has also been recognised for this project with a win of the new ‘Visionary Hospital’ category award at the recent “MEDICA EXCELLENCE AWARD 2011”2. “As the National Health Service continues to look for greater levels of efficiency, NHS Trusts across the United Kingdom must look to a broad range of solutions, including technology, to improve and maintain patient care standards,” states Peter Whitfield, IT Solutions Business Development Manager at Siemens Healthcare UK.  “The implementation of Soarian Health Archive and Soarian Clinicals solutions as a basis for an admission-to-discharge electronic patient record system at this European hospital, and its subsequent accolade from HIMSS Analytics Europe, acts as a blueprint for how hospitals here in the UK can achieve similar levels of streamlining in healthcare practice.” “The electronic patient file, based on the hospital information system Soarian Clinicals and Soarian Health Archive, is a major contributor to the efficiency of our clinical and administrative processes. It’s a milestone in healthcare,” said Dr. Peter Gocke, Head of IT at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. “The University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf is an example of how healthcare can be transformed by IT.  Patients now receive faster and better quality care supported by IT systems,” said Uwe Buddrus, CEO of HIMSS Analytics Europe. Soarian Clinicals allows healthcare organizations to take a holistic view of patient care processes, from beginning to end across hospital departments. It utilises a key differentiator, Healthcare Process Management, enabling healthcare professionals to proactively manage each step in the best practice care pathway determined by the organisation while allowing adaptability to an individual patient’s care plan based on their unique care needs. Soarian Health Archive is a comprehensive archiving and document management platform offering high interoperability with hospital IT solutions, even from those supported by other healthcare IT providers. In addition, various system interfaces are compatible with Soarian Health Archive such as HL7, FTP, DICOM and XML, reinforcing the cross-platform functionality of the Siemens Healthcare solution. The combination of patient record archiving functionality and integrated search facility makes Soarian Health Archive a powerful tool to manage digital patient data providing a single view of comprehensive patient information. It allows clinicians to archive other information, including emails and other documents, and can receive files in a number of formats including TIFF, Microsoft Word and PDF.  Additionally, Soarian Health Archive includes functionality to convert data to a number of formats suitable for archiving. 1. The European EMRAM was adapted to the individual needs of European health institutions. It is based on the American EMRAM, developed in 2005 by HIMSS Analytics to evaluate the progress and benefits of the electronic patient record in the HIMSS Analytics database. Hospitals have the opportunity to test the implementation and use of information technology applications and to measure progress in eight stages (0 through 7). The goal is for all hospitals to achieve Stage 7, which represents a highly developed environment for the paperless electronic patient record. 2. University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf won the MEDICA Excellence Award 2011, ‘Visionary Hospital’ category on 17 November 2011 for paperless working across the organisation, supported by Siemens’ innovative Soarian Clinicals and Soarian Health Archive solutions. MEDICA, the world's largest fair for medical technology, launched the prize for the first time this year. It has been awarded under the patronage of Daniel Bahr, German Federal Minister of Health. Invited to the gala event was the top management of all participating players, key opinion leaders in the medical industry as well as top-class representatives of trade, economic and regional media.    About Siemens Healthcare The Siemens Healthcare Sector is one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, medical information technology and hearing aids. Siemens offers its customers products and solutions for the entire range of patient care from a single source – from prevention and early detection to diagnosis, and on to treatment and aftercare. By optimising clinical workflows for the most common diseases, Siemens also makes healthcare faster, better and more cost-effective. Siemens Healthcare employs some 51,000 employees worldwide and operates around the world. In fiscal year 2011 (to September 30), the Sector posted revenue of 12.5 billion euros and profit of around 1.3 billion euros. For further information please visit: www.siemens.com/healthcare. For more information or images please contact: Georgina Wright / Jon Wilcox Media Safari T:   01225 471202 E:  jonw@mediasafari.co.uk Siemens Healthcare Laura Bennett T:   01276 696374 E:  laura.bennett@siemens.com W: ... Read more

Provides Increased Speed and Accuracy of Diagnostic Reads with Prior Exam Information and Timeline Availability November 27, 2011—Chicago—CoActiv Medical, the leading digital image management provider, introduces at RSNA 2011 the innovative CoActiv EXAM-Jacket™, a digital representation of the traditional "film jacket". Since CoActiv EXAM-PACS® is completely paperless and filmless, EXAM-Jacket fulfills the need to provide the diagnostic radiologist with all documents and other information that in the past would have been placed in the file jacket along with the prior films. As soon as the radiologist selects and launches an exam in the CoActiv EXAM-VIEWER™, a digital array of thumbnail listings of all prior exams instantly appears on the viewer screen. EXAM-Jacket provides instant complete information for all prior exams, including full patient name, exam date and time, full exam description, accession number, ordering physician name, and number of images. Also immediately available for every exam is the prior Report Impression, as well as the complete diagnostic radiology report, with just a simple mouse click. The reading radiologist can select a prior for comparison with the current exam with just a click which instantly launches an additional viewer window, automatically splitting the monitor screen into two equal windows and locating the selected prior directly next to the new exam. Selecting and clicking on any additional priors will automatically subdivide the screen into three or even four equal viewing windows per monitor, allowing for the simultaneous viewing of up to four exams at one time, per monitor. With multiple monitors, EXAM-Jacket allows for up to eight exams with two monitors or up to twelve exams with three monitors. Viewer re-sizing can be accomplished with a double-click, instantly filling one of the viewer windows with a full image of one exam, one series, or only a single image from any one of the multiple exams. Any viewing windows can easily dragged and dropped anywhere on any of the monitors to allow easy side-by-side comparisons of any of the open exams, and a right-click in the EXAM-Jacket timeline display will automatically return all open viewer windows to their original positions.  Auto re-scaling is possible at any time by just closing one or more of the open priors and the displays will automatically re-scale the monitor screen to maximize exam sizes for the remaining exam windows. As with all previous versions of EXAM-PACS, multiple exams of the same type (MRI, CT) can be automatically synching so that scrolling one will scroll all appropriate exams. CoActiv has also added a new viewer feature with EXAM-Jacket of built-in discrepancy indications. This notification will indicate if any of the displayed exams does not agree with the original exam or any of the other priors regarding Patient Name or Date of Birth. Since the displayed prior list is based on the Medical Record Number (MRN), all exams for the same patient will be presented even if the Patient Name changed due to marriage or other reasons. Because CoActiv EXAM-PACS allows facilities to scan and attach virtually any type of file to any exam, this permits any of the attached files from any of the open exams to be immediately viewed, including prescriptions, insurance cards, drivers licenses, technologist or ER physicians notes, or even voice clips. Virtually any images, files or other information that was previously in the old "film jacket" is now instantly available digitally to the physicians. Like all CoActiv EXAM-PACS upgrades and enhancements, EXAM-Jacket is available free of charge to all current EXAM-PACS facilities. About CoActiv CoActiv Medical™ is a leading healthcare software and IT systems provider offering a full line of PACS, digital image and data storage services and related solutions for hospitals, imaging facilities and medical practices of all sizes. CoActiv’s EXAM-PACS® family of web-based PACS solutions provide leading edge, affordable and scalable image management with sophisticated tools that cater to the needs of radiologists as well as a full range of other imaging specialists.  Available as both enterprise server-based and cloud-based solutions, EXAM-PACS is designed for easy integration into imaging facilities of any size. Comprised of modular software components, EXAM-PACS enables any site to customize a solution to meet their specific needs and budgets or to add advanced functionality to an existing PACS solution. EXAM-PACS includes EXAM-FILER® CD-burning solution; vendor-neutral, cloud-based HIPAA-compliant, offsite/online EXAM-VAULT® QUAD-REDUNDANT ARCHIVING®; patent-pending EXAM-SENDER® referring physician system; EXAM-3D® advanced, multi-modular 3D color reconstruction and visualization; EXAM-NET™ teleradiology suite and EXAM-BROWSER™, a revolutionary fully cloud-based, zero-footprint universal DICOM viewer that enables anywhere, anytime review of medical images on any PACS from any platform, including iPhone, iPad, and all Android and other tablets and smartphones.  EXAM-PACS includes such premium features as support for breast specific gamma imaging (BSGI) and storage of non-DICOM data such as prescriptions, reports and surgical plans in patient files.  Complementing this is CoActiv’s family of EXAM-RIS® solutions scaled for imaging facilities of every size site and budget.  Contact CoActiv at (877) 262-2848; ed.heere@coactiv.com; www.coactiv.com. Media contact: Molly McDougall CoActiv Medical Ridgefield, ... Read more

High Definition Volume Rendering® to become standard for web-based and mobile device viewing Palo Alto, California, November 27, 2011 – Fovia Medical, Inc., a global leader in volume rendering technology, and DR Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare enterprise imaging and information management solutions, announced today that DR Systems will enhance its product offering by incorporating Fovia’s High Definition Volume Rendering® technology across its Unity and zero-download v|Series product lines, including both web-accessible and mobile device-accessible advanced image processing and viewing. Deployment of Fovia’s HDVR® server-side software will enable DR Systems to deliver high quality, high performance 3D imaging throughout its web- and mobile-based architecture.  By standardizing its various radiology offerings using Fovia’s award-winning HDVR® Connect software development kit, DR Systems will provide fully integrated, advanced visualization to its entire customer base, while simultaneously meeting the changing demands of the market through Fovia’s flexible and highly customizable thin-client solution. “DR Systems has designed a uniquely simple and widely accessible user experience for advanced image processing driven by automated user preferences,” said Murray Reicher, M.D., DR Systems’ Chairman and co-founder.  “Until today, 3D and advanced image processing has often not fit into the routine workflow of the mainstream radiologist.  ”Fovia's HDVR® Connect helped us solve that problem, so that DR Systems could automate presentation of MPRs, MIPs, color volumes and other advanced techniques via the web to all caregivers.” Ken Fineman, Chief Executive Officer of Fovia, stated, “We have built a strong relationship with DR Systems during the HDVR integration and are very impressed with their focus on innovative radiology products. DR Systems’ widely recognized remote unified solution will provide a game-changing, streamlined experience for radiologists, and we are thrilled that our natively integrated HDVR will be showcased in such a robust offering.” Fovia and DR Systems will be at RSNA 2011, November 27 – December 1 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.  Fovia will be in Booth #4714, South Building, Hall A, and DR Systems will be in Booth #2822, South Building, Hall A. About Fovia, Inc. Fovia has developed High Definition Volume Rendering®, a CPU-based, advanced visualization technology platform that delivers unparalleled quality, performance, scalability and flexibility. Fovia’s innovative HDVR® solution successfully overcomes the inherent limitations of other currently available imaging technologies, thereby enabling local, enterprise-wide and web-based volumetric rendering with affordable, off-the-shelf computers. Fovia’s flagship product, HDVR® Connect, is a software-only, advanced visualization solution that includes all of the key attributes required by today’s vendors and their customers: performance, quality, scalability, anytime/anywhere image access, cost-effectiveness and flexibility. With HDVR Connect, OEM vendors can deliver unrivaled image quality and uncompromised performance, both locally and remotely, in 2D, 3D and 4D advanced volume visualization applications. For additional information and to learn more about commercial, academic or research licensing, visit www.fovia.com. Contact Information: Fovia, Inc. Shay Kilby P: 866.3D.FOVIA or 415.290.1717 F: 650.618.2797 E: shay.kilby@fovia.com About DR Systems, Inc. DR Systems is the leading independent provider of enterprise imaging and information management systems for integrated healthcare networks, hospitals, and diagnostic imaging centers.  Rated #1 Overall PACS by KLAS in 2001, 2006, 2007, 2010 and currently rated #1 in the 2011 PACS trend report, DR Systems provides an array of RIS, PACS, CVIS, Reporting, Peer Review, Breast  Care Tracking, Meaningful Use, and Information/Image sharing solutions.  For more than 19 years, the company has provided products and services that lower operational costs while streamlining and improving clinical care.  DR Systems now serves over 600 hospital and imaging center clients. For more information, call 800-794-5955 or ... Read more

(November 25, 2011 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada) RamSoft will demonstrate support for breast tomosynthesis in PowerServer 5.1 at RSNA 2011 – Lakeside Center, Booth # 600. Support is fully integrated into all versions of PowerServer 5.1 that support mammography so your radiologists are not dependent on a dedicated mammography workstation to review breast tomosynthesis studies. Breast tomosynthesis is a 3D imaging technology that acquires images of a stationary breast from multiple angles during short scan. The images are then transferred to the PowerServer 5.1 where the slices are reconstructed into a 3D volume. The advantage of breast tomosynthesis over traditional 2D breast imaging is that reconstructed tomosynthesis slices reduce or eliminate the problems caused by tissue overlap and structure noise. Mammography is supported in PowerServer 5.1 RIS/PACS, PACS, Tele Plus/Lite and our Gateway Mammo Viewer. The embedded mammography technology allows you to view all forms of breast imaging (MRI, ultrasound, tomography and x-ray) from a single client interface. PowerServer 5.1 combines the mammography-specific image management and reporting tools previously available only in dedicated mammography workstations with the flexibility of a multi-modality radiology solution. PowerServer 5.1 also includes a Complete Certified EHR specifically for our PowerServer RIS/PACS and Tele Plus which allows radiologists to qualify for Meaningful Use grants by using software specifically designed for radiology. This Complete EHR/EHR Module is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by an ONC-ATCB in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments. “Meaningful Use grants allow an imaging facility to purchase a complete solution from RamSoft that includes diagnostic viewing of all types of breast images,” says Vijay Ramanathan, President and CEO of RamSoft. About Ramsoft RamSoft., a Canadian IT software and services company with over 16 years experience, is dedicated to developing and delivering cost effective RIS, PACS and Teleradiology solutions for its clients in the U.S. and around the world. The company’s goal is to enable imaging facilities, radiology centers, and ambulatory and acute-care practices to continue offering superior patient care while improving workflow efficiencies. RamSoft, Inc. offers a wide range of affordable and feature-rich solutions such as the PowerServer™ Series of PACS, RIS/PACS, Teleradiology, and patient information management systems. For more information, visit ... Read more

RamSoft’s PowerServer 5.1 is a Certified Complete EHR designed for Radiologists who wish to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid’s Meaningful Use Incentive programs. Incorporated into our PowerServer RIS/PACS and Tele Plus Products, it boasts many new features to make MU data collection easy. PowerServer 5.1 includes integrations to an e-prescribing solution for allergy and prescription management and Microsoft HealthVault so patient data can be shared with patients within days of their appointments. All MU data fields are available from the Patient Registration screen so data can be collected at the first point of entry and accessible any time it requires review. Our system is able to collect data on patient problems, immunizations, lab results and even schedule patient reminders. Additionally, our system can maintain data on race/ethnicity, smoking status and language. Microsoft HealthVault is an online repository where people can store and organize their healthcare data and share it with authorized caregivers. PowerServer 5.1 transfers all patient data to Microsoft HealthVault so patients can access the same reports their referring physicians receive. Providing patients with access to their electronic medical records when and where it is needed is an important aspect of the Meaningful Use and PowerServer 5.1 satisfies this requirement with just a simple click in the patient record. Emergency Access gives reading physicians with the ability to provide temporary access to a fellow radiologist for the purposes of secondary evaluation and consultation. Create customized email templates that automatically send a link with temporary access to a patient study. About Ramsoft: RamSoft a Canadian IT software and services company with over 16 years experience, is dedicated to developing and delivering cost effective RIS, PACS and Teleradiology solutions for its clients in the U.S. and around the world. The company’s goal is to enable imaging facilities, radiology centers, and ambulatory and acute-care practices to continue offering superior patient care while improving workflow efficiencies. RamSoft, Inc. offers a wide range of affordable and feature-rich solutions such as the PowerServer™ Series of PACS, RIS/PACS, Teleradiology, and patient information management systems. RamSoft PowerServer 5.1, Complete Ambulatory EHR, is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified by an ONC-ATCB in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments. PowerServer 5.1, available in RIS/PACS and TelePlus models was certified on October 7, 2011. For more information, visit www.RamSoft.com. About MicroSoft HealthVault Microsoft HealthVault offers a central repository for health information that individuals can gather from across the spectrum of healthcare. The HealthVault platform supports a growing ecosystem of connected, user-friendly applications, so individuals can keep a comprehensive, up-to-date record of their health information in a place where they can view and share it with whomever they choose. For more information, visit: ... Read more

Brussels, 24 November 2011 – The vision of the IT Future of Medicine (ITFoM) project to build a personalized patient model, a “virtual patient”, will be presented at the FET Flagship Midterm Conference and Exhibition in Warsaw on 24-25 November 2011. Recent breakthroughs in gene sequencing technology have been marked by a drastic reduction in time and cost. This allows the possibility that within a few years we will be able to sequence the genome of each patient, providing a basis for truly personalized medicine. A model that would integrate physiological, anatomical and life style data from individual patients should be able to simulate and predict all processes in the human body, enabling physicians to identify personalized prevention schedules, therapies and potential effects on individual patients. Using such a model, physicians will be able to prescribe a drug that will work and avoid those that would only cause side effects. The ITFoM project aims to create such a personalized computer model. Using the genome and other –omics data in conjunction with clinical data of individuals to build a “virtual patient”, this model will revolutionize modern health care by providing the opportunity for the practitioner to choose the optimal treatment for each individual and predict future health risks. The potential benefits are enormous in terms of reducing healthcare costs as well as for each individual patient: identification of efficient drug combinations on an individual basis; substantial advances in disease prevention and treatment; better data access and use for health professionals, healthcare systems, and researchers. The individualized predictive model approach presents a huge challenge for ICT development because of the amount of data produced and needs to be integrated in modern healthcare planning. Such data-rich medicine also requires fundamental advances in the computational sciences. Academic groups from a range of research backgrounds have joined forces with their industry-based colleagues in making ITFoM a reality. The ITFoM project will present outcomes and achievements of the past six months at the FET Flagship Midterm Conference and Exhibition in Warsaw. Amongst others, third generation sequencing technology will be presented by Life Technologies at the ITFoM’s exhibition booth. The huge amount of data generated by sequencing methods and other lab technologies will be analyzed and fed to the new model approach. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics will show first results of the predictive modeling approach in the treatment of cancer. In addition, the perspective on how this novel approach could be implemented in health care systems of the future will be demonstrated by the ITFoM partner HealthSolve. The company has developed an easy-to-use system for nurses supporting care for elderly people in residential homes, e.g. monitoring physiological state, drug distribution etc. Additional information about ITFoM is available at ... Read more

RIS Worklist can drive third-party PACS or be launched by third-party PACS SAN DIEGO - DR Systems will be exhibiting its highly rated and flexible Unity™ v|Series RIS - along with the full complement of modular Unity CVIS, PACS, and Reporting options - at RSNA 2011. The new RIS is both desktop and server virtualization-capable, and can be accessed from pre-existing PACS or RIS workstations plus a wide range of mobile/non-mobile computing devices. The Unity v|Series RIS is now available for use with any third-party PACS, and employs industry-standard methods for single sign-on and exam synchronization. A multi-site practice can employ a single unified DR Systems Unity v|Series RIS worklist to launch and drive one or more PACS, or can launch the DR Systems Unity v|Series RIS/Reporting system from a third-party PACS. "This RIS fills a pressing need in radiology," said Murray Reicher, M.D., DR Systems' board chairman and co-founder. "Many institutions are looking to replace a legacy RIS in the most cost-effective way possible, without incurring new costs for workstation hardware. The Unity v|Series RIS enables them to do this with the high level of functionality, value, and customer satisfaction for which DR Systems is known. Thus, a facility may replace a collection of vendors with one unified system and save money from the opening day." Unity v|Series RIS features include:     Integrated reporting suite. Comprehensive digital dictation and speech recognition reporting solution. Includes the ability to map data from DICOM structured reports into exam reports, eliminating duplicate data entry and streamlining workflow.     Patient forms linked to exam types. RIS automatically presents the appropriate forms for the scheduled procedure.     Peer review. Exceeds ACR and Joint Commission accreditation requirements, ensures continuous quality improvement of patient care, and provides integrated peer review functionality. Includes physician-specific metrics.     Critical results tracking. Tools for continuously monitoring and improving the timeliness of critical results reporting.     Mammography reporting/tracking. Supports MQSA workflow and data gathering requirements. DR Systems will be showing other new and enhanced products at RSNA, including:  Unity v|Series Z-3D, a zero-download, web-accessible advanced imaging processing feature;  Unity v|Series ZDA, a zero-download, remote physician viewing software allowing viewing from mobile devices such as smart tablets and smart phones.  Unity v|Series PACS in a virtualized configuration. Also at RSNA, DR Systems will also be demonstrating its eHR - Meaningful Use of Medical Imaging EHR. eHR is designed to qualify radiologists for the maximum federal incentive payments available for meaningful use (MU) of electronic health records. In addition, the company will be demonstrating two new features of eMix, its vendor-neutral, cloud-based service for sharing medical imaging studies and reports. DR Systems will be at Booth #2822 in South Building, Hall A. RSNA 2011 will be held Nov. 27 - Dec. 2 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. About DR Systems, Inc. DR Systems is the leading independent provider of enterprise imaging and information management systems for integrated healthcare networks, hospitals, and diagnostic imaging centers. For more than 19 years, the company has helped over 600 hospitals and imaging centers lower their cost of operation by improving management of patient information, eliminating ancillary IT systems and interfaces, and increasing workflow speed, while also providing better clinical quality and patient care.For more information, call 800-794-5955 or visit www.drsys.com. Contact: Gregory Dennis, (802) 462-3280 Dowling & Dennis Public Relations E-mail: Greg@DowlingDennis.net Douglas Dill, (858) 200-8716 DR ... Read more

23rd November 2011, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest hospitals in the country, has successfully deployed System C’s Medway Maternity software to handle over 10,000 births a year. Some 650 clinicians and 50 support staff are successfully using the software to record all clinical outpatient, delivery and postnatal activity.  These figures include around 120 midwives working in the community, who will use digital pens to collect assessment and booking information and enter it directly into Medway. Lucy Kean, obstetric service lead for NUH, said the deployment was an ambitious one, with all users across both Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen’s Medical Centre campuses going live simultaneously during busy antenatal clinics. “The staff have taken to the system very quickly and we are already reaping the benefits of more complete electronic records, such as being able to determine when women have been seen at hospital and what has happened to them”, Dr Kean said.  “As we move forward with the new system the benefits will continue to build, moving us eventually to a paper-light, if not almost paperless, system". By the end of the first day, Medway Maternity had been used to record almost 80 antenatal assessments. Details of over five thousand booked patients and their alerts were migrated from the Trust’s 20-year old maternity system. Staff also chose not to migrate antenatal booking information but had started to pre populate their system with currently booking information in preparation for their go live. As well as having clear and concise functionality supporting hospital activity, Medway Maternity also captures full in-depth patient care information to support the hand-held records.  All users have easy access to regularly updated electronic clinical guidance materials relating to local and national standards. The software is interfaced to the Trust’s PAS and results reporting software. In addition, there are a number of feeds to other downstream systems, including neonatal, fetal medicine and GP systems. The next phase at Nottingham includes the roll out of System C’ s community module using digital pen technology to capture bookings and ante- and postnatal assessments and feed them back to the hospital’s maternity electronic patient record. Midwives will also be able to view CTG activity for surveillance and archiving. Dr Ian Denley, senior vice president of System C, said: “A lot of hospitals have bought Medway Maternity recently, and it is particularly good to see the software being used successfully at one of the country’s busiest maternity units”. For more information, please contact: Nicky Willmore Director of Communications, System C 01622 691916 07711 371772 About System C Healthcare: System C Healthcare (www.systemc.com), specialises in the design and development of clinical patient management and business intelligence software, and provides systems implementation and consulting services to the health and social care sectors. System C is a subsidiary of McKesson Corporation, which currently ranks 14th on the FORTUNE 500. McKesson is a global healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient ... Read more