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MoreEpocrates, best known for its online drug reference database, now also offers physicians free access to disease diagnosis and treatment information via the Internet.
Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pa., will implement electronic ambulatory health records software for employed and community physicians.
The Regence Foundation in Portland, Ore., has awarded three grants totaling $195,000 for initiatives to improve the quality of care. The foundation is the grant making organization of The Regence Group, which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
Chartscape LLC, a Los Angeles-based vendor of electronic health records software for physician practices, has integrated its application with clinical decision support software.
Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia, is providing physicians with compact discs loaded with clinical information about their patients with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, heart failure, coronary disease, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The stock price of Eclipsys Corp. rose slightly in morning trading on July 31 after the Atlanta-based hospital software vendor beat investment analysts expectations for the second quarter of 2008.
Ochsner Health System will use Web portal technology from Carefx Corp., Scottsdale, Ariz., to provide 15,000 users, including 1,500 physicians, with access to clinical data from multiple databases. The New Orleans-based system has seven hospitals and 33 clinics throughout southeast Louisiana.
ECRI Institute, a Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based research firm, has published an evaluation of two software systems that use radio frequency identification technology to track surgical sponges.