Md. Provider Extends Data Access

HDM Breaking News, January 13, 2004

Western Maryland Health System in Cumberland will make its information systems accessible to authorized clinicians via PDAs and the Internet. The two-hospital delivery system uses information systems from Westwood, Mass.-based Medical Information Technology Inc. and will implement the emPOWERnet Web portal from Park City Solutions of Midway, Utah. Further, software from Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. will enable PDA access to patient demographic and test result data, patient lists, and other information useful when making patient rounds. Iatric Systems, Boxford, Mass., will supply the middleware to provide bi-directional access to Meditech systems data. Terms of the vendor contracts were not disclosed.

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