US-based nonprofit integrated health system Scripps Health has chosen Wolters Kluwer Health's order set authoring and management solution to provide its clinicians with evidence-based order sets at the point of care. The ProVation Order ...
If you recently checked out of a hospital there's a good chance you'll be heading back soon, quite possibly through the emergency room door. Nearly 10 of every 100 hospital patients enter the emergency room within 30 days of their ...
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Yes, for several reasons. First, unless you were tested for the flu virus it's possible that your symptoms actually stemmed from the common cold, sinusitis, or some other respiratory illness. And even if you're certain you had the flu, this ...
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A: Until other much-needed changes occur, you should only use a medication from a compounding pharmacy if no other FDA-approved product is available, say our medical advisers. Compounding pharmacies create individual, customized drugs. They ...
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Memorial Health System in central Kansas, US, has ordered Carestream's Web-enabled Vue PACS and its vendor-independent Vue Motion viewer. Vue PACS delivers integrated advanced visualization, 3D post processing, lesion management, ...
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Sagent Pharmaceuticals has announced the temporary importation of 8.4% Sodium Bicarbonate Injection, USP into the US market from Australia-based Phebra. The temporary arrangement is to address the present critical shortage of non-FDA ...
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MCLEAN, VA, November 06, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- QuarterLine Consulting Services (QuarterLine), a small business specializing in healthcare subject matter expertise to Federal and State Government customers, today announced the ...
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The economic picture that Gartner's head of research, Peter Sondergaard, painted at his firm's recent Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando was upbeat in a surprising way. While Gartner isn't significantly raising its global IT growth ...
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Sound Physicians Chairman Edward G. Murphy, MD will share key opportunities and challenges for providers and hospitals considering forming an ACO and the role of hospitalists in that delivery model at the 3rd National Accountable Care ...
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IT managers in businesses and governments are taking steps to ensure that the Summer Olympics do not bust networks or budgets. The opportunity for problems is there. The Olympics will be live streamed, and London's time difference means ...
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Cornwall County Council has voted in support of an IT outsourcing and telehealth partnership with BT after rejecting a controversial plan to privatise a much broader range of council services. After councillors threw out their executive's ...
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Medical Center of the Rockies has chosen Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation medical software for use in gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding in its GI labs. ProVation Medical Software includes ProVation MD, ProVation ...
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Lima Memorial Health System (LMHS) has renewed its contract agreement with a radiology provider, Radisphere. Under the renewed contract, Radisphere will provide its radiology services to LMHS till 2015. LMHS senior vice ...
Geisinger Health System has purchased Mazor Robotics' Renaissance surgical guidance system for spine procedures. Michael Suk will oversee the Renaissance system's clinical and academic orthopedic program at Geisinger while Meagan ...
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Rochester General Health System has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVationOrder Sets. ProVation Order Set, which is powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is designed to provide flexible integration into clinical processes to ...
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