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www.HealthcareITNews.com March 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 31 NEWSBRIEFS WoltERS KluWER HEaltH INvEStS IN logIcal ImagES Wolters Kluwer Health, the Conshohocken, Pa.-based healthcare arm of Dutch information services and publishing giant Wolters Kluwer, has added visual aids to its clinical decision support services with the recent acquisition of a minority interest in Logical Images. Logical Images, based in Rochester, N.Y., produces VisualDx, visual clinical decision support software for use in healthcare settings. The VisualDx system will be integrated with Wolters Kluwer Health’s Clin-eguide clinical decision support tool. IBM sees analytics as next ‘megatrend’ By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor ORLANDO, FL – 3N, mEdWoRxx oFFER EmERgENcy RESpoNSE SyStEm Glendale, Calif.-based 3n (National Notification Network) is joining forces with Medworxx, of Toronto, to launch a mass notification-enabled emergency readiness solution for hospitals. 3n’s InstaCom hospital incident command system will be integrated with the Medworxx Emergency Readiness System to provide hospitals with a platform from which to manage emergency plans from inception through planning, training and execution. The system will allow hospitals to conduct master risk assessments, highlight potential failure points and prepare scenario plans to anticipate and alleviate those risks. IBM officials believe hospitals and other healthcare providers are starting to get a handle on their IT needs. But they might not know what to do with all that data they’re accumulating. With that in mind, IBM unveiled its new portfolio of healthcare IT solutions during the HIMSS08 conference and show last month in Orlando. IBM’s Enterprise Health Analytics is a complete set of services, infrastructure and tools designed to provide healthcare providers with the means nec- essary to transform data into actionable results. “I believe that health analytics is going to be the most significant megatrend that we’re going to be seeing in healthcare IT since electronic medical records,” said Ivo Nelson, IBM’s vice president for Global Healthcare Providers. “It’s going to create a whole new category within healthcare IT … and we’re at the front end of it.” Nelson said the healthcare IT field is heavily populated with transactional software vendors, and the prevalence of those IT tools has created an “explosion aNalyTICs see page 33 PHOTO COuRTESY uNIVERSITY Of SYDNEY WILDLIfE WORLD Technicians in Sydney, Australia, prepare Petra, a 13-year-old koala from Sydney Wildlife World, for a CT scan using a Philips CT scanner. Petra is the first koala in Australia to be diagnosed using the Philips CT scanner. The scan will be used by veterinarians to determine the extent of a fungal disease in her nasal cavity associated with eucalyptus. Unless treated, the disease is always fatal. Microsoft drops Azyxxi for new Amalga line By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor The Azyxxi product line might rack up a load of points on the Scrabble board, but its time has come and gone for Microsoft. The tech giant recently rolled out the Amalga family of health enterprise systems, REDMOND, WA - a healthcare IT portfolio that encompasses the former Azyxxi and Hospital 2000 product lines and creates a single brand of healthcare enterprise software. “We’re starting to build out a family of products,” said Sean Nolan, chief architect of Microsoft’s HealthVault. “It makes sense to group related products under one brand.” Derived from the Latin word “amalgama,” which means “to bring together different elements,” Microsoft’s Amalga family of products consists of the following: • Microsoft Amalga, the new version of aMalga see page 33 atRomIcK’S caRtS to uSE mcKESSoN SolutIoNS Atromick, a Columbus, Ohio-based developer of medication management and IT solutions, has announced an exclusive referral agreement with McKesson Automation, Inc. a division of McKesson. Through the agreement, Atromick’s AcuDose-Rx automated dispensing cabinets on a mobile medication cart will be equipped with McKesson’s CarePoint Connect to integrate the hospital’s barcode point-of-care (BPOC) system and Pharmacy Information System (PIS) for use at the patient’s bedside. Are healthcare executives SATISFIED with the security of SENSITIVE DATA? A poll of 150 healthcare IT security executives taken between Jan. 28 and Feb. 15, 2008, indicates roughly 85 percent are satisfied with the overall security of sensitive information in the healthcare industry. Philips restructures healthcare division By CHIp MEaNs, Web Editor ORLANDO, FL - 2% 13% 17% 67% cERNER, HIll-Rom joIN FoRcES oN INtEllIgENt HoSpItal BEdS The Cerner Corporation has announced a strategic relationship with Hill-Rom, an operating company of Hillenbrand Industries, to integrate the Cerner Millennium healthcare computing platform with Hill-Rom intelligent hospital beds. Plans call for the integration of Hill-Rom’s systems, such as VersaCare and Total Care, with Millennium’s global device connectivity architecture to allow the bed to collect data, such as patient weight, bed rail position and head elevation. More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: VeNDorS 0308 e ● Connect: GraPHS 0308 SOuRCE: KRC RESEARCH/HEALTH INfORMATION TRuST ALLIANCE Royal Philips Electronics will restructure its healthcare informatics division to align its entire portfolio of patient monitoring and clinical information solutions. The restructuring aims to strengthen Philips’ healthcare strategy and increase information management for providers, officials with the company said. And it will enable the company to better address enterprisewide concerns, as opposed to simply department-by-department needs. “We looked at a healthcare and how we structure our business, and we’ve seen how the CIO is playing a much stronger role in the decision-making process,” said Martha Dolan, director of clinical care for Philips. “There’s no more selling department by department (Hospitals) don’t do that anymore. Things have to be simplified.” Philips’ clinical information rEsTruCTurE see page 33 Center for Community Leadership seeks 3rd site Misys-backed group sees good results so far in New Haven, Conn., and Tampa, Fla. By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor ORLANDO, FL – With communities of interconnected healthcare providers slowly gaining momentum in New Haven, Conn. and Tampa, Fla., the Center for Community Health Leadership is now looking for a third site to launch its dream of interoperability. The center, sponsored by Raleigh, N.C.-based Misys Healthcare, recently opened its grant application process, inviting potential host ● communities to apply for part of the $10 million set aside in 2006 for EHR software and services. The deadline for applications is April 15. “It’ll be interesting to see what applications come in,” said Leigh Burchell, the center’s director, during an interview last month at HIMSS08 in Orlando. “I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of communities that want to do this.” Burchell pointed out that whereas New Haven’s project, approved in early 2007, is being spearheaded by the Saint Raphael Health CoNNECTEd see page 33 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8890

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