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• Clinitec International (Horsham, PA) said that Daughters of Charity Information Services (DCIS) has selected Clinitec’s NextGen Electronic Medical Records System as one of the systems DCIS will support within the healthcare practices and institutions that comprise or are affiliated with the Daughters of Charity National Health System (DCNHS). DCIS provides information systems and solutions to DCNHS, a network of approximately 50 Catholic hospitals with more than 12,600 beds nursing homes, rehabilitation clinics, medical practices, outreach centers and psychiatric wards in 12 states. NextGen is an electronic medical records system designed to improve quality, reduce risk, cut costs and increase revenues.
• Dendrite International (Morristown, NJ) said that Solvay Pharmaceuticals (Marietta, GA) will upgrade its sales force automation system to ForcePharma, Dendrite’s newest sales force effectiveness software. Solvay also will use ForceAnalyzeRx from Dendrite, a business analysis tool for sales managers and sales representatives. Dendrite reports that its products are being used by more than 40,000 sales representatives and their managers in more than 150 major corporations in 17 countries.
• Oracle (Minnetonka, MN) said that Allina Health System (Minneapolis) is moving its information management systems to the Oracle8 database, an enterprise-wide solution designed to deliver scalability and improved performance to Allina’s applications. The product’s Internet computing architecture will allow the healthcare provider to respond more rapidly to patient needs by distributing services such as stay-well programs to patients in outlying areas. According to Allina, the improved performance has made its data activity warehouse response time 10 times faster than previously. Additionally, Allina now will be able to distribute its healthcare applications to small clinics in remote locations throughout four states.
• The Patient Communicator software produced by Outcome (Austin, TX) is being implemented by Sulzer Orthopedics (also Austin) to collect surgical outcomes data for accreditation, quality care documentation and clinical process/patient care improvement in the orthopedic specialty area. Patient Communicator software connects physicians and their patients securely via Internet or local network. Users can send and receive messages, review educational or wellness information and input data about their current health status, health risks, ongoing chronic disease condition or their satisfaction with recent treatments, data which historically has been extremely fragmented.
• Siemens DirX MetaHub directory from Siemens Information and Communication Networks (Boca Raton, FL) has been selected by Digital Medical Systems (Burlington, MA) for its information networks connecting medical providers with healthcare organizations, patients and payers. DirX MetaHub manages and stores digital certificates used to identify authorized users within a public key infrastructure, providing DMS clients with efficient, secure access to confidential patient information over the Internet. DMS says it is implementing a secure solution with DirX MetaHub for a leading physician practice management firm.
• ThinkMed Expert from ThinkMed (Milwaukee) has been adopted by Wellmark (Des Moines, IA), formerly known as BlueCrosss BlueShield of Iowa. ThinkMed Expert is a physician-developed population health management software allowing a clinical user to search, analyze, filter and report on data by disease category, co-morbidity, severity, level of risk, employer group and so on, with the intention of targeting case, disease and other medical management initiatives. Wellmark covers 1.7 million lives in Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Illinois and Wisconsin.
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