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May 21, 1999

Installations

• Computer Associates (CA; Islandia, NY) reported that the TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (ICHR; West Perth, Australia) has selected CA’s Ingres II relational database to manage its collection of child health data. ICHR was established in 1990 by professors Fiona Stanley and Lou Landau. The Western Australian Maternal and Child Health Research Database has contributed to breakthroughs in the understanding of major disabling childhood conditions such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida. ICHR is using Ingres II to store a wide range of information to enable research in cerebral palsy, sudden infant death syndrome, birth defects, asthma prevention and other important child health areas.

• Heartlab (Westerly, RI) has received a network order from the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) for its DICOMview network, allowing cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons to quickly access diagnostic quality digital angiograms from any location in the hospital. The system consists of a large Windows NT server and 10 network connected review stations, and it receives images through a network connection to nine GE Medical Systems DLX digital cath labs. The system allows instantaneous access to several thousand diagnostic cases stored on the DICOMview Enterprise Server and under-five minute access to up to 80,000 cases from the DICOMview Image Archive, an automated storage library.

• HealthMagic (Denver) has been selected to license its Health Compass OnSite lifelong health record to StayHealthy.com (Sierra Madre, CA). StayHealthy.com said it intends to integrate the HealthCompass Internet system, after a review period, with its line of home monitoring devices, which will non-invasively monitor consumers and will integrate the results into the lifelong health record. HealthCompass also will be available on the company’s web site, www.StayHealthy.com. Health Compass OnSite is a personal health management tool that allows consumers to develop a lifelong health record for themselves and their family members on the Internet. The record includes personal and demographic information, healthcare contacts, information on allergies, immunizations, office visits, tests, treatments, assessments, health histories, as well as a personal health journal. In addition to the Health Compass OnSite lifelong health record, applications such as risk assessment, self-care and interactive health tools are available to enhance the personal value of the record. HealthMagic is a web-based information management tools company.

• Medical Information Management Systems (Nash ville, TN) said that Pekin Hospital (Pekin, IL) has launched its PEARL product as the hospital’s computer-based patient records (CPR) solution. The PEARL clinical management system assists in maintaining patient care at lower cost. Using the system, patient events can be tightly monitored and medical errors prevented at the point of care. "The PEARL system allows us the capability to provide real-time clinical information to our staff anywhere in our company. This will provide for improved patient quality care while reducing clinical cost. We found that the automated clinical workflow incorporated in the PEARL system to be unsurpassed," said Bob Moore, CEO of Progressive Health Systems, of which Pekin Hospital is a component.

• Shared Medical Systems (SMS; Malvern, PA), said Rahway Hospital (Rahway, NJ) has selected it as outsourcing provider to provide all areas of information technology across Rahway Hospital’s organization. Kirk Tice, chief executive officer of the hospital, said, "We are leveraging our outsourcing agreement with SMS in order to better meet the strategic and operational information management needs of our health organization." SMS’ Out sourcing Division provides health organizations with options to more strategically manage IT, ranging from management of selective functional areas to full IT outsourcing, including management of all operations and remote computing through SMS’ Information Services Center.

• Traveling Software (Bothell, Washington) reported that LapLink Professional was chosen to provide communications and data to the Everest Extreme Expedition ’99, E399, (see Healthcare InfoTech, April 30, 1999). LapLink Professional’s Xchange Agent allows the health science team of climber-physicians to relay data between the base camp in Nepal and Yale University. E399’s mission is to push the limits of equipment and technology that will accompany astronauts to the International Space Station and explore approaches to healthcare delivery here on Earth. The 15-member E399 team of climber-physicians will operate at altitudes of 17,500 ft. and higher for more than five weeks. LapLink Professional’s Xchange Agent allows the health-science team to relay mission-critical research data between the camp in Nepal and the base team in the U.S. Once the data reaches Yale, LapLink will again be used to distribute the data to a team of research scientists.