Integration and Interoperable Systems 4251
May 1, 2007
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Integrated Intelligence by LifeScan Inc. (Milpatis, CA), a Johnson & Johnson company, is a system of tools and processes that improves and refines the capture, transformation, and application of information to enhance clinical decisions for glycemic care. Showcased at this year's HIMSS conference, the system will incorporate the company's OneTouch DataLink Web and OneTouch DataLink Wireless, as well as the company's Tight Glycemic Control (TGC) program. OneTouch DataLink Wireless supports wireless communications between OneTouch Flexx meters and OneTouch DataLink workstations to enhance decisions, streamline processes, and help improve work flow. Using single-point control, flexibility, and cost-efficiency.
GE Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, UK) and Volcano Corp. (Rancho Cordova, CA) have partnered at multiple sites to implement the world's only fully integrated intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and cath lab system, the Innova IVUS. The system combines GE Healthcare's Innova all-digital x-ray cath lab imaging system with Volcano's s5i IVUS imaging system. Innova IVUS enables seamless and automatic data exchange between the IVUS system and Innova, allowing for simplified patient data transfer and advanced archiving.
AeroScout Inc. (San Mateo, CA), a provider of Wi-Fi-based active radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions, offers the AeroScout T3 tag, a feature-rich asset-tracking tag with a new streamlined shape and low power consumption. Philips Medical Systems (Andover, MA) has incorporated AeroScout's technology into its new asset-tracking solution, a turnkey solution used for locating hospital assets and improving efficiencies. The asset-tracking solution is designed around hospitals' existing 802.11 wireless infrastructure, allowing hospitals to leverage investments they have already made in their wireless technology.
Cardinal Health has launched a point-of-care offering to help hospitals reduce medication errors. Nurses and other clinicians can use a single application to monitor orders for their patients, determine the location of medications, preprogram pumps for IV infusions, verify the accuracy of medications administered, and document to the hospital's existing IT systems. This is made possible through the seamless information flow among Cardinal's Care Fusion bedside verification (pictured), Pyxis MedStation units, and Alaris system IV pumps. The point-of-care technology enables clinical data to flow from the hospital pharmacy information system through a single Cardinal Health interface. The system will also support reporting to other information technology systems in the hospital.
Carestream Health Inc. (Rochester, NY) offers the Carestream Digital Dashboard, which provides system administrators with a convenient way to monitor equipment performance, storage utilization, and user volumes for picture archiving and communications systems (PACS). PACS administrators can use the digital dashboard to verify that devices are operating and communicating on the network without leaving their desks. A simple red-yellow-green display gives immediate feedback regarding the status of any monitored device. An integrated, product-specific menu enables the launching of frequently used tools with a single mouse click. The dashboard also makes it easy to track the number of concurrent users for a device, the number of read and unread imaging studies, as well as the status of other tasks.
Earlier this year, McKesson (San Francisco) launched the Horizon Anatomic Pathology solution, a system designed to help pathologists improve work flow and diagnostic processes. The system is integrated with the Horizon laboratory information system and is built on the Horizon architecture, McKesson's enterprisewide common platform and architecture. Work flow is enhanced through McKesson's Virtual Slide Tray. The system displays clinical pathology results, the number of slides in the case, stains, gross description, and case status on a single visual screen. The system also enables pathologists using the application to pull relevant clinical images directly from the health system's medical imaging or picture archiving and communicaitons system.
The HeartStart MRx defibrillator-monitor by Philips Medical Systems (Andover, MA) unites the company's monitoring technologies with its HeartStart defibrillator in a single lightweight device. The monitor-defibrillator has the capability to network with the Philips' IntelliVue clinical network, enabling the MRx to serve as a wireless transport monitor-defibrillator or cardiac bedside monitor-defibrillator with built-in pacing, synchronized cardioversion, and defibrillation capabilities.
The Symbiq infusion system by Hospira Inc. (Lake Forest, IL) is a state-of-the-art medication management system that combines ease of use, reliability, and advanced technology. The device utilizes Hospira MedNet safety software to apply institution-defined drug dosing limits to improve patient safety. The integrated drug library design helps institutions to ensure that clinicians apply institutioin-defined limits in all program sequences, thus maximizing compliance with the safety software. The Symbiq pump has a built-in wireless communication enging module (Wi-Fi 802.11b), enabling it to integrate with institution information systems.
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