GE Healthcare has launched Centricity Enterprise Orders and Pharmacy, the latest release of the integrated Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) and Pharmacy system. The product integrates CPOE, pharmacy verification and dispensing and nursing documentation in consolidated workflows across areas of care. In addition, the company has unveiled Centricity PACS-IW version 3.7.1, its first major solution to derive from GE’s Dynamic Imaging. Finally, the company has unveiled LOGIQ E9, an ultrasound system for radiology and vascular applications that fuses ultrasound images with images from other imaging modalities, including CT and MR.
CareView Communications, Inc. of Plano, Texas has announced the successful deployment of the CareView System at SouthCrest Hospital in Tulsa, Okla.
Henry Schein Medical Systems, a Boardman, Ohio-based developer of electronic medical records and practice management software systems, has announced that Integrated Health Systems of Alabama (IHSA) has selected the MicroMD EMR product to support its network of seven community health organizations, which represents 42 Alabama-based primary care delivery centers and 71 healthcare providers.
Cerner, based in Kansas City, Mo., has announced that Clinica Las Condes, a private, 220-bed hospital in Santiago, Chile, will be the first in Latin America to implement a suite of Cerner Millennium healthcare information technology services.
McKesson has announced that its newly redesigned AcuDose-Rx automated medication cabinets, operating on version 6.8 of the Connect-Rx software platform, completes integration from the loading dock to the bedside and allows nurses to dispense medications faster and report more efficient workflow.
SXC Health Solutions of Lisle, Ill. has signed two contracts for its HealthCare Information Technology Group in support of the state of South Dakota. SXC will be providing software licenses and implementation services to Client Network Services, Inc. for the state’s new Medicaid Management Information System and will provide the state with State Maximum Allowable Cost (SMAC) list design, development and management to support the state’s Medicaid pharmacy program.
Thomson Reuters has announced that Mercy Merced Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., part of the Catholic Healthcare West system, will use the company’s Clinical Xpert CareFocus product to identify high-risk patients within the active hospital census.



