Search Tag: EMR

ICU Management

Icu-customised-lab-value-ranges-reduce-false-positive-alerts

2014 29 Sep

Early detection and response to abnormal laboratory values is crucial in critical care. However, traditional electronic medical record (EMR) interfaces mark laboratory tests as abnormal based on standard reference ranges derived from healthy, middle-aged adults. This yields many false positive alerts with subsequent alert-fatigue when applied to complex...Read more

IT Management

Agfa-healthcare-icis-vna-for-two-major-dutch-academic-hospitals

2014 18 Jul

Enterprise imaging solution, ICIS, will connect departments across the Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum, with expansion to the Amsterdam Academisch Medisch Centrum in the near future.     VNA features a workflow engine and updated universal viewer that indexes medical images as part of the medical record. ICIS enterprise imaging solution...Read more

IT Management

Implementing-electronic-medical-records-what-do-users-think

2014 17 Jun

Implementing electronic medical records (EMR) in a healthcare organisation is a major innovation, which does not always run smoothly. Although barriers to, and facilitators for, implementation have been researched, their relative importance to end-users has not been clearly understood. Recently published research in Implementation Science found that...Read more

IMAGING Management

Agfa-healthcare-s-icis-to-image-enable-hospital-group-s-emr

2014 27 Mar

ZNA hospital group in Belgium extends Agfa HealthCare’s ICIS to integrate all medical images onto a single cloud-based platform All relevant images will become part of the patient record, regardless of source, leading to an image-enabled EMR Solution will integrate all medical images from different departments and facilities, whether DICOM...Read more

IT Management

Accenture-survey-reveals-english-patients-interest-in-digital-medical-records

2013 08 Nov

A recent Accenture survey of over 9,000 consumers in nine countries shows that only 16% of consumers residing in England say they have full access to their electronic medical records. By stating they would be willing to switch doctors in order to gain access to their electronic medical records (EMR), 42% of English support the growing trend toward...Read more

ICU Management

Welch-allyn-technology-provides-connectivity-between-diagnostic-devices-and-emr

2013 04 Jun

Welch Allyn Connex(R) Vital Signs Monitor 6000 Series (Photo: Business Wire) Welch Allyn, a leading medical diagnostic device company that specializes in helping clinicians improve patient outcomes, has been working with Epic to connect several of its vital signs devices, monitors and ECG units to Epic’s Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system...Read more