Data management

Thomson Reuters has launched its new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals. Part of the Clinical Xpert suite, the software combines real-time clinical surveillance, mobile access to patient data, and Micromedex reference information. It is designed to help hospital pharmacists identify, perform, and document interventions at the point of care, prevent adverse drug events, and reduce medication costs.

Verizon Business has launched a new platform—the Verizon Medical Data Exchange—that  will enable more than 350,000 physicians to digitally share patient notes by the end of the summer.

Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania has seen significant results since it began an intravenous interoperability pilot study with Cerner in July 2008. Auto programming supported with bar code technology is generating a large amount of electronic data on patients, clinicians, drugs and warnings to analyze for quality improvement, according to a Health Data Management report. And analysis of the data is exposing data and pump programming practices that previously were concealed within the technology or by a lack of end-user awareness.

Needham, Mass.-based Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare (BIDHC) has selected MedAptus' Professional Intelligent Charge Capture technology for its hospitalist group. BIDHC, a network of primary care physicians, will roll-out the Web-based version of MedAptus' Inpatient Edition for the capture of inpatient charges originating at three area hospitals.

CDC has unveiled a new surveillance system to track adverse events in patients who receive blood transfusions.

Some experts think advancements in semantic Web tools and a push for online health records may speed up development of personal online data lockers.

London-based Medical Care Technologies Inc. has begun development of a secure offering called the Cellular-Based Tele-Health Suite, which promises to enable users to easily transmit vital signs data to healthcare professionals via the cellular network.

Dossia Chairman Mike Critelli announced Allviant Corporation’s CarePass technology at the Center for Health Value Innovation (CHVI) event on Feb. 2 in Washington, D.C. CarePass is touted for enabling consumers to control their personal health service communications and transactions by aggregating and delivering context-relevant information via phone, e-mail or text messaging.

A rural health network in Texas is automating its financial activities and sharing clinical data through a community-based EMR with the help of Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.