St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, is pleased to again participate in the Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Session (APHRS), which is being held this year in conjunction with the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society (JHRS) and the Japanese Society of Electrocardiology (JSE) in Fukuoka, Japan.
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale. It is the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve the Stage 7 designation, and the only hospital in Asia to do so.
AMIA, the U.S.-based association for informatics professionals, has launched a nonprofit, wholly owned subsidiary called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics.
A Seattle-based company that has built and is operating 13 hospitals in Asia is poised to grow by 18 more in Malaysia, India and Vietnam by the end of 2011, and it could serve as inspiration across the United States on how to do more with less.
Meta Health Technology, a New York-based developer of health information management solutions, has announced that Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, has licensed the company's patient chart abstracting software - the company's first contract in Asia.
Microsoft and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) have partnered to launch a Microsoft Health Users Group (MS-HUG) in the Asia-Pacific region, providing regional healthcare organizations and technology partners with access to an online forum to facilitate the development of healthcare solutions.
Orion Health has joined The Alliance for Clinical Excellence (ACE), a global industry alliance launched at the regional HIMSS Healthcare IT Conference in Kuala Lumpur designed to address the global demand for predictive, evidence-based metrics to determine the cost-benefit equation that helps evaluate the deployment of IT systems.
GE Healthcare announced today in Asia the release of Centricity PACS Web Diagnostic (WebDX), a new Web-based diagnostic viewer, best of breed application that is tightly integrated to Centricity RIS/ PACS, which bring comprehensive detailed patient history to a single patient folder. The new Web Diagnostic solution uses the powerful engine from PACS IW, which has received the prestigious 2008 Best in KLAS -- PACS award.
The Nortel Networks Corporation, North America's largest developer of telephone equipment and services, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
It was initially devised as a method of leg lengthening for those with congenital growth abnormalities or trauma to the lower limbs. However, since it was introduced in 2001, Fitbone surgery (http://www.singaporemedicine.com/leadingmedhub/leadingmedhub1.asp) has without much fanfare, slipped into the realm of cosmetics.
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