Bedside Point of Care (BPoC)

Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse delivered the opening keynote address at HIMSS10 on Monday morning. His core message: It is critical that healthcare providers embrace and make full use of the technological advances of the 21st century--especially wireless communication technology.

Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Validus Medical Systems, Inc. has developed a bi-directional mobile software solution for hospital systems that is being touted as "a giant leap forward for healthcare IT."

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.

Alexandria, Va.-based Surescripts is reducing what pharmacies, pharmacy vendors and pharmacy benefit managers pay for e-prescribing.

Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7, thanks to a new home-to-hospital program.

Coming on the heels of Apple’s iPad announcement, Motion Computing, which introduced its first mobile tablet device for healthcare in 2007, is gearing up to unveil a new product in the weeks ahead, most likely at HIMSS10 in Atlanta.

Motion Computing, a provider of integrated mobile computing offerings, has rolled out new peripherals designed specifically for the C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA) and rugged F5 Tablet PC.