Premier Diagnostic goes to Internet platform
Premier Diagnostic Imaging, the only full-service outpatient medical imaging center between Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn., is moving to an Internet platform. The center has selected technology from Ottawa-based Mitel, including the Mitel 3300 IP Communications Platform, Mitel Customer Interaction Solutions, Mitel Teleworker Solution, Mitel Your Assistant Softphone and Mitel IP phones. After considering a hybrid system, Premier chose a combined solution of Mitel IP products and applications and a network by ProCurve Networking by HP.
Marshfield Clinic marks e-prescribing milestone
Marshfield Clinic’s Medications Manager electronic prescription software program has surpassed the one million-prescription milestone. Many physicians at the Marshfield, Wis. Clinic write electronic prescriptions using tablet PCs that are being rolled out across the Marshfield system. The wireless tablets transmit data to Marshfield Clinic’s electronic medical record. Electronic prescriptions are printed and handed to the patient; sent by FAX to a pharmacy outside of the Marshfield Clinic system; or sent electronically to a Marshfield Clinic pharmacy.
Clinical trial data online at improved portal
To improve further public access to pharmaceutical industry clinical trial data, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) launched the second stage of the IFPMA Clinical Trials Portal. The portal was developed with IBM. It is the first Internet search engine constructed to link to on-line information about ongoing and completed clinical trials sponsored by research-based pharmaceutical companies worldwide
ABIM offers inside scoop on quality improvement
The American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation has developed a DVD that explains the attitudes of physicians who were early adopters of quality improvement and what impact it has had on their practices. Copies of the DVD, “Putting Quality Into Practice: Physicians in Their Own Voices,” are free. The ABIM Foundation, in collaboration with the National Quality Improvement Association, interviewed 39 physicians in solo and small group practices.
