Healthcare IT News - September 2008 - (Page 44) 44 Healthcare IT News September 2008 ■ new products assigns each patient a unique enterprise identifier. Smart I/X works to create a longitudinal view of clinical and financial data for sharing patient records, tracking patient populations, monitoring quality of care indicators, producing accurate billing statements and connecting to HIEs. www.HealthcareITNews.com phiLips eLectronics Launches handheLd uLtrasound sYsteM ANDOVER, MA – Royal Philips Electronics announced the launch of its handheld ultrasound system, the Philips CX50 CompactXtreme. The new ultrasound system provides cardiologists with clear diagnostic data at the bedside. The CX50 CompactXtreme features Philips’ PureWave transducer, which improves penetration in difficult-to-image patients and reduces clutter so clinicians can view fine structures in detail. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: Products 0908 new cherrY KeYBoard is easier to cLean PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WI Portable suitcase now includes digital stethoscope. diGitaL stethoscope incLuded in teLeMedicine “suitcase” EDEN PRAIRIE, MN – American TeleCare, Inc. (ATI), a Minnesota-based provider of telehealth solutions, has announced that NuPhysicia, LLC has incorporated ATI’s CareTone Ultra digital stethoscope into its B3Zero, its portable suitcase for telemedicine. The B3Zero, which offers physicians portable, live-video telemedicine, was developed by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and is marketed by NuPhysicia LLC. ATI’s CareTone Ultra will enhance the company’s offering by providing a stethoscope that can transfer high-quality, realtime auscultation sounds from the hearts, lungs and abdomens of remote patients. – Cherry Electrical Products, a technology supplier headquartered in Wisconsin, has introduced its new J84-2120 Series washable keyboards, which offer a NEMA 4 rating, providing protection against dirt and moisture. The J84-2120 keyboard features backlit keys and an integrated pointing device in an easy-to-wipe package that measures 11.4” wide by 6.4” high. Cherry’s J84-2800 allows for quick and easy sanitation, ensuring that infection control procedures can be carried out without disruption to patient care and without costly hardware downtime. aBsoLute ‘s data recoVerY tech oFFers GeoLocation tracKinG VANCOUVER, CANADA – Absolute Software Corp., a Canadian provider of computer theft recovery, data protection and secure asset tracking, announced the availability of geolocation tracking for its solutions. Geolocation will allow IT asset managers to track GPS-enabled laptops in the field to within 10 meters (33 feet) and view reports on their location using Google Maps technology. Using embedded GPS receivers from popular manufacturers, Computrace acquires latitude and longitude location information from remote computers for display in Absolute’s Web-based IT asset management portal. ● QuadraMed reLeases new identitY ManaGeMent soLution RESTON, VA – The QuadraMed Corp., an IT ad index 3M Health Information Systems 41 Allscripts Healthcare 23 Artromick 16, 45 Cardinal Health 5 CPHIMSS 32 Dictaphone Corporation 24 Elekta/Impac/CMS 28 Emdeon Business Services 39 EnovateIT 12 GE Healthcare 48 HIMSS Analytics 33 HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo 37 HIMSS09 36 HITN Recruitment Advertising 43 Hospira 15 Howard Industries 45 Hyland Software 17, 19 InnerWireless 18 InterSystems 2 HITN Job Spot 40 LG Electronics 21 Lionville Systems 45 MediNotes 8 Omnicell 4 Orion Health 6 Research in Motion/Blackberry 47 Rubbermaid Medical Solutions 45 Samsung Electronics 7 Sentillion 27 Snomed International 26 Sonitor Technology 44 Sony Electronics 13 Sprint 9 Streamline Health 20 T-System 35 Tele-Tracking Technology 8 Verizon Wireless 25 provider based in Reston, Va., has released its Smart Identity Exchange (Smart I/X), an identity management solution that helps hospitals and health information exchanges (HIEs) in their efforts to identify, reconcile and manage patient records. Smart I/X is both an enterprise master person index (EMPI) and a record locator/ reconciliation solution. The solution uses a probabilistic algorithm to analyze all records stored in an organization’s MPI systems, cross-references and reconciles them, then NursINg Continued from page 43 patient’s treatment and plan of care; medication errors and lack of patient supervision when caregivers are tied up in handoffs. Scott Overholt, chief marketing officer for the White Stone Group, says the company’s automated hand-off system complies with a Joint Commission set of standards developed in 2006. “A hospital with a daily census of 200 patients may have 600 to 1,000 hand-offs a day,” Overholt said. “OptiVox monitors and archives each hand-off, which ensures the competency levels are there.” Waterbury, Conn.-based St. Mary’s Hospital has been using OptiVox for nearly two years and the system has drastically changed the nursing staff ’s habits, said Michelle Godin, a nurse and director of patient care. “The nurses have become believers and it has really changed our perspective,” she said. “Historically we’ve spent too much time tracking down people at shift change. With the new system, it takes 15 minutes to leave detailed reports on each patient. 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