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PinnacleHealth installs RADREX-i Wireless DR X-ray system from Toshiba
Offering its clinicians more flexibility while improving patient safety and workflow, PinnacleHealth installed a RADREXTM-i Wireless digital radiographic X-ray system from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. PinnacleHealth utilizes the system for a variety of general exams, including orthopedic, pediatric and bariatric imaging. Source: PinnacleHealth installs RADREX-i Wireless DR X-ray system from Toshiba
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The Iowa Clinic installs Aquilion PRIME 80 CT system, upgrades Aquilion 64 with VeloCT from Toshiba
Lowering radiation dose and ensuring patient safety in an outpatient setting, The Iowa Clinic installed an Aquilion PRIME 80 CT system and upgraded its Aquilion 64 with VeloCT from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. As a result, The Iowa Clinic has significantly lowered dose while maintaining the image quality needed for accurate diagnoses. Source: The…
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Health IT: Content and social marketing
Content Marketing is all the rage for today’s marketers. In Health IT it’s a great way to do demand generation. White papers, webinars and case studies are the way to the hearts of those professionals on the front lines in hospitals, clinics and large hospital systems or, as they now say, accountable care organizations and medical…
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mHealth: Patient Engagement’s Knight in Shining Armor (Infograph Inside)
Take your cell phone out of your pocket, stare at it, and put it back. It doesn’t really matter what kind of phone it is, whether it was a smartphone, a dumb phone, or a phone that has an average IQ, that little thing is going to change how patients engage with their healthcare provider.…
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The Promise of Mobile: Connecting to Underserved Populations
For a growing number of healthcare organizations, mHealth is being used to engage, serve, educate, and improve the health of socioeconomically disadvantaged patients. Whether it’s simply by texting people tidbits of information or monitoring how much medication a patient is taking, providers are finding meaningful ways to connect to the underserved. If it hasn’t arrived…
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Leapfrog Group Launches Tool to Calculate Hospital Error Costs
The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare-purchaser organization focused on patient safety and value, has launched a new online tool that allows purchasers to calculate how much they spend annually on unnecessary costs due to medical errors that occur within general acute care hospitals. The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare-purchaser organization focused on patient…
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Saint Vincent CIO—Why the Patient Portal Sells Itself to Patients
At Saint Vincent Health System, the patient portal is just another cog in the machine. It’s another mechanism that helps the Erie, Pa-based, 427-bed tertiary care and teaching center carry out its overall strategy of patient-centered care. In this Q&A, CIO Richard Ong explains how the portal keeps patients connected with their practitioners day and…
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Senate hearing: EHRs still falling short
Developing an effective framework for driving healthcare quality improvements proves a multifaceted, complex endeavor, and although EHR systems can play a positive role in the task, much of the technology still misses the mark. This was just one of several concerns put before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Wednesday. read more
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OneHealth Solutions signs strategic alliance with New Directions Behavioral Health
OneHealth Solutions, Inc., the leading behavior change platform company improving health outcomes and the cost of care for patients, providers, payers and employers, has entered into a strategic alliance with New Directions Behavioral Health, one of the fastest growing behavioral health care companies in the nation, to expand services into eHealth, mHealth and social networking…
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LodgeNet Healthcare becomes SONIFI HEALTH Solutions
LodgeNet Healthcare, the leading provider of integrated patient engagement solutions, announced today that post-acquisition, it has been rebranded as SONIFI HEALTH Solutions.