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California doctors jon remote monitoring project
Selected southern California physicians will participate in a special project involving the remote monitoring of patients with diabetes. The physicians will be part of XTend Medical Corporation’s Medical Disease Management Program, which intends to initially target 500 diabetes patients. Using XTend Medical’s Eocene transmitter, patients will be able to take their glucose readings and transmit the encrypted results to participating physicians via telephone.
New Web site for American College of Physicians
The American College of Physicians has launched its redesigned Web site - www.acponline.org - to provide internal medicine physicians and related subspecialists with easier access to ACP information on clinical topics, practice management tools, continuing medical education and other resources. The site includes the latest evidence-based clinical guidelines, clinically-based quality improvement programs and background information about common healthcare topics related to internal medicine.
Pennsylvania practice builds community-based EHR
Medical Associates of Erie, a multi-specialty group practice with 12 sites in northwestern Pennsylvania, is working with a vendor to provide community-based electronic health records throughout Erie County. MAE will implement the iSuite 3.5 ambulatory EHR software package from Wichita, Kan.-based MedAppz. The group practice employs 21 physicians in six specialties. The physicians in the group are also instructors and professors at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Chicago physicians deploy authentification software
Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, a multi-site primary care practice affiliated with Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital, plans to implement authentication software across 15 of its clinics. NMPG will install the IAM Suite from Redwood City, Calif.-based Encentuate. Guy Fuller, NMPG’s IT director, emphasized that the practice was attracted to the software’s enterprise single sign-on capabilities and private desktop offering, which will enable Northwestern physicians to maintain individual desktops on the same workstations.
