Dossia, the open-source personal health record service developed by a group of Fortune 500 employers, recently announced that the Dossia Health Management System has been deployed at six of its founding member companies – leading to sharp uptick in patient engagement.
Gartner has ranked Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health number one in its third annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25. Cardinal ousts med-surg supplier Owens & Minor, which dropped to fifth place.
More than 40 healthcare organizations will benefit from more than $1 million in Cardinal Health Foundation awards aimed at boosting care and efficiency.
3M Health Information Systems has introduced a new mobile application for the BlackBerry and other Windows mobile smartphones designed to facilitate physician diction.
Electronic health record vendors - among them Allscripts, Ingenix, IBM, Cardinal Health - have announced EHR loans and guarantee deals in recent weeks.
Cardinal Health has signed a five-year exclusive distribution agreement with Patient Safety Technologies to co-market the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System.
Executives at CareFusion, the clinical and medical products subsidiary of Cardinal Health, have hit upon a unique means of publicizing the company as it prepares for its spinoff later this year.
The Cardinal Health Foundation awarded $1 million in grant funding for new IT-related programs to improve patient safety at 35 hospitals, health systems and community health clinics across the country.
The decision by CMS to discontinue reimbursement for hospital-acquired infections, the rise of statewide infection reporting initiatives and tougher standards from insurance companies are driving rapid growth for infection control surveillance software, according to a new report from research firm KLAS.
The Cardinal Health Foundation has awarded a total of $1 million in grant funding for new IT-related programs to improve patient safety at 35 hospitals, health systems and community health clinics across the country.
Keane, Inc., based in Boston, has completed an electronic medical record implementation at Capital Health, a two-hospital, 589-bed regional health network based in Mercer County, N.J.
One of the nation's largest electronic health record vendors is teaming up with a major healthcare distributor in an effort to convince solo and small-practice physicians to adopt healthcare IT.
The Ohio State University, Cardinal Health and Ohio Third Frontier today announced a collaboration that will invest more than $10 million to help shape the future of the medical diagnostic industry, combining Ohio State's Wright Center of Innovation in Biomedical Imaging research capabilities and Cardinal Health's manufacturing and commercialization expertise for molecular imaging agents.
Cardinal Health said last month it would cut as many as 1,300 jobs as it prepares to spin off its Clinical and Medical Products divisions into the CareFusion Corporation.
Infologix, a Hatboro, Pa.-based provider of enterprise mobility solutions, has announced that Gwinnett Medical Center in suburban Atlanta has deployed the company's Care Team Communications system in its emergency department.
Picis has been selected by the Department of Veterans Affairs to implement the Picis Preop Manager, Anesthesia Manager and PACU Manager software suites at the New York/New Jersey Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN 3), which comprises five medical centers.
Cardinal Health announced plans Tuesday to cut as many as 1,300 jobs as it prepares to spin off its Clinical and Medical Products divisions into the CareFusion Corporation.
