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www.HealthcareITNews.com December 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 33 NEWSBRIEFS MEdWoRxx uNvEIlS MaNagEMENt SyStEM Toronto-based Medworxx has announced the launch of its Learning Management System (LMS), designed for use by healthcare software vendors to help ensure that their clients use their products effectively. Greenway Medical Technologies of Carrollton, Ga., has announced that it will adopt the Medworxx LMS to help the more than 600 physician practices using Greenway technology. Philips to sell its MedQuist shares New Jersey company loses three directors over plans to sell. By BernIe MonegaIn, Editor MOUNT LAUREL, NJ – MEta phaRMacy SyStEMS RElEaSES ENtERpRISE EMaR Meta Pharmacy Systems, a Floral Park, N.Y.-based supplier of comprehensive medication safety information systems, has released MetaCare Enterprise EMAR, a Web-based, point-of-care medication administration system designed to monitor and reduce medication errors through the use of barcode technology. MetaCare EMAR identifies and verifies the patient, searches for medications ordered for that patient and cross-checks for possible allergies and interactions. Subsequent scanning verifies the correct drug, dose, route of administration and schedule. Three members of MedQuist’s board of directors resigned Nov. 9, just days after majority shareholder Royal Philips Electronics N.V. announced it planned to auction its shares of the healthcare company. N. John Simmons Jr., Richard H. Stowe and John H. Underwood, all independent board members (meaning they are not also employed by MedQuist), left the board. The company said the directors resigned because they were at odds with Philips about how to proceed with its plans to sell MedQuist. The board members questioned the role of a committee of independent directors in evaluating whether a sale is in the best interest of MedQuist shareholders, the company said. MedQuist officials are moving to replace the three board members. The company plans to hold an annual meeting of shareholders within 30 days, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. MedQuist also recently submitted its application for listing on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The company’s common stock has traded on the over-the-counter “Pink Sheets” market under the symbol “MEDQ .PK” since June 16, 2004, the date on which its common stock was delisted from auCTIon see page 34 CENTRICITY SHOWCASE – A General Electric representative portrays fictional cardiology patient Gerald Quest, age 77, during a recent demonstration of GE Healthcare’s Centricity Healthcare Community IT showcase at company headquarters in Barrington, Ill. The production illustrated how an electronic medical record (EMR) travels through the healthcare continuum, including the emergency room, radiology, surgery, inpatient care, discharge and home. “EMRs are jump-starting IT,” explained Vishal Wanchoo, GE Healthcare’s CEO. “Data has to be harnessed and performance has to be measured. If you can’t increase quality, you can’t improve.” SIlvERlINk toutS SuccESS at MIdWESt’S MEdIca Silverlink, a Burlington, Mass.-based provider of automated call services, is touting its successful installation at Medica, a health insurance company serving 1.3 million people in the Midwest. According to Silverlink, welcome calls performed by the company for Medica increased member satisfaction while decreasing costs by 90 percent; inception-to-response member satisfaction communication time was reduced by more than 75 percent, enabling the company to respond to members in less than 48 hours on average; and there was a 32 percent increase in coordination of benefit administration communication efficiency. What are consumers most concerned about when it comes to their personal health? 1% 3% 4% 11% Symantec enters the healthcare It market By erIC WICklund, Managing Editor 14% 49% 18% e ● Connect: GraPHS 1207 SouRCE: LIFECARE, INC., oCT. 24, 2007 MycaREtEaM uNvEIlS NEW dIaBEtES MaNagEMENt tool MyCareTeam, Inc. of Alexandria, Va. has launched My Diabetes Connector, a diabetes management software application that allows diabetics to download their blood glucose readings from their blood glucose meter online. The application can store data from multiple meters, is compatible with other applications like Micorsoft’s new HealthVault, and can be configured to allow access by healthcare providers and other family members. The new tool is endorsed by the American Diabetes Association. More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: VeNDorS 1207 ROO to add videos to HealthCare.com site By erIC WICklund, Managing Editor ● Going by the agesold adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, the ROO Group has been selected by HealthCare. com to add health-related video content to the Web site. With offices in New York, London and Australia, the sixyear-old ROO Group, Inc., a subsidiary of the ROO Media Corporation, provides online video solutions for content providers, advertisers and Web sites through its ROO Video Exchange platform, which can NEW YORK – simultaneously service multiple video channels. “Our partnership with ROO is another step forward in our commitment to provide the best healthcare content to our users,” said Jose Vargas, president and chief operating officer of Miamibased HealthCare.com. “The incorporation of streaming video content will more fully engage users while allowing them to see first-hand experiences through video testimonials and stories which often can convey a vIdeo see page 35 A company known for keeping home computers and business networks free of viruses and other threats is wading into the healthcare market with a full suite of services. The Symantec Corp. of Cupertino, Calif. has announced the release of the Symantec Healthcare Provider Solution, a suite of products, services and information tools designed to help healthcare providers manage and protect critical information. “There’s so much noise out there about security,” said Gary Sevounts, senior director of healthcare industry solutions for Symantec. “Hospitals are not in the business of security, but nowadays they have to be awareof security concerns.” During a November interview at the Gartner Healthcare Summit in Doral, Fla., where Symantec announced the release, Sevounts pointed out that many large hospitals and healthcare providers now deploy MIAMI – some sort of security package for their online information. While that protection encompasses informaGary Sevounts tion within the hospital’s IT environment, it might not extend to data coming into and going out of the campus – to remote doctors’ offices, laboratories and other locations. “Our strength is in the infrastructure,” he said. “When a hospital deploys an EMR, they have to have that infrastructure in place.” Sevounts says Symantec can help healthcare providers by protecting those IT connections inside and outside the physical environment, storing and managing data, automating all policies regarding security and compliance and cataloguing and indexing all e-mail inquiries. He said the company had already had several healthcare customers, and developed its new seCurITy see page 34 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthCare.com http://HealthCare.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8216

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