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Medication Mgmt. Vendor Raises $30M

PatientSafe Solutions Inc., formerly known as IntelliDOT Corp. and vendor of a bar code-supported medication administration management system used in about 90 hospitals, has raised $30 million in private financing.

New Hospital Gets OR Dashboards

The new East Cooper Regional Medical Center in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., will implement in its eight operating rooms surgical dashboards displaying procedure data and video.

Security Firms Target HITECH

Information security vendors Axway and Anakam Inc. have partnered to offer a suite of products enabling secure transmission and access of health information.

MedQuist to Acquire Spheris

Outsourced medical transcription vendor MedQuist Inc. Mt. Laurel, N.J., will acquire the domestic business of rival Spheris Inc., while CBay Inc., MedQuist's owner, will buy Spheris' India operations.

Ascension to Offer Online Consults

St. Louis-based Ascension Health will be the first delivery system to offer patients real-time online or telephone consultations with primary care physicians and other clinicians via the services of American Well, Boston.

Articles

User Authentication Strategies

Verifying the identity of clinical system users is a key component of data security.

Getting Devices to Talk to EHRs

Sherman Hospital uses interfacing shortcuts to send data from medical devices directly into the electronic record.

Hitting a Moving Target

Choosing a "standard" for devices that clinicians use to access data proves challenging.

Using Portals as Integration Bridges

RHIO Gives Docs Access to Reports, Images

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