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SureScripts, the ePrescribing network owned by the large pharmacy chains, announced that it will be providing medication history and patient formulary and eligibility information later in the year. SureScripts will use technology from Initiate software, a vendor of enterprise master patient index software, which will integrate information from the various pharmacies on the network. SureScripts is important for ePrescribing's advance as it gives a network for application vendors to "plug …

Despite the fact that patient "handoffs" are common as patients move from doctor to doctor within the healthcare system, few clinicians have formal training in the finer points and possible pitfalls involved. A team led by Indiana School of Medicine professor Richard Frankel found that the safest form of transfer is a "face-to-face" meeting which, of course, rarely happens anymore. Frankel argues that handoffs represent a little noticed but real risk, posing the potential for serious …

Logical Images says that the New York Department of Health has invested $200,000 in Visual Dx, its computerized database of photographs of smallpox and other diseases in various stages and on different skin types. Visual Dx is an image-based software system that allows doctors, nurses and other first responders to identify bioterrorism-related illnesses and other common or unusual afflictions. The system allows clinicians to enter a list of symptoms, medical history and exposure that …

Children's Hospital Boston said it is expanding its forward-leaning "Clinician's PDA project", a pilot project that gives physicians access to Pocket PCs equipped with wireless access. The hospital launched a one-year pilot in October of 2004, providing 150 of the devices to doctors at its main campus. Children's says the experiment was a success and that it is expanding the program to include 1,400 clinicians working with it's system. Vendor Skyscape is providing medical reference …

Cambridge Consultants announced it has partnered with Royal Philips Electronics on an upgrade of the IntelliVue wireless patient tracking system. Unlike earlier versions, which had limitations in both range and in the number of patients they could track, the system allows healthcare providers to track thousands of patients over wide areas. The system permits bidirectional communication between clinicians and patients equipped with transponders.

- see this press release from Cambridge Consultants