In this Issue:
Clínica Las Condes Chooses Cerner to Automate Hospital Operations
GE Healthcare IT Unveils Centricity PACS-IW
Doctations Partners with PSC Info Group
TCS Healthcare Fully Launches AcuStrat, a Dynamic Data Mining and Population Management Tool
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Clínica Las Condes Chooses Cerner to Automate Hospital Operations
Clínica Las Condes, a private, 220-bed hospital in Santiago de Chile, will be the first in Latin America to implement a suite of Cerner Millennium® healthcare information technology (HIT) solutions. The technology will help Clínica Las Condes streamline operations in multiple areas of the hospital, while improving care for the more than 372,000 patients the hospital provides treatment for each year.
Clínica Las Condes will be replacing its existing HIT products with Cerner Millennium solutions that will be used to automate nursing and physician documentation; operations in the emergency, pharmacy, surgery and registration departments; and medication-administration processes. These solutions operate on the Cerner Millennium architecture, a unified HIT computing platform that helps health professionals elevate safety, quality and efficiency.
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GE Healthcare IT Unveils Centricity PACS-IW
GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, today introduced a new version of Centricity PACS, the first major solution to derive from GE's Dynamic Imaging. Providing an intuitive platform for radiologists, the solution has made significant strides to improve performance, interface navigation, and ergonomic design.
The recent installment of GE's Centricity PACS-IW expands acclaimed Web-based PACS technology and delivers additional innovative tools aimed to sustain flexible IT models for outpatient imaging centers, virtual radiology practices, physician offices, and hospitals.
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Doctations Partners with PSC Info Group
Doctations, Inc., developer of the DoctPatientNetwork.com, an Internet-enabled Healthcare System providing doctors and patients with the comprehensive services required to run a medical practice and manage personal medical information, respectively, and the PSC Info Group, a worldwide leader in data management, printing and mailing technology and online solutions, announced they have entered a technology partnership.
The Doctations end-to-end solution provides physicians with the opportunity to reduce overhead, to increase clinical productivity and to improve the quality of care they deliver by integrating “best-of-breed” internet services which are provided at reduced cost to providers. Combining Doctations online medical system with PSC Info’s DATAExpress Healthcare service enables medical offices to provide on-demand electronic statement capabilities through a secure method to automate processing, printing and mailing patient statements, letters and other time sensitive patient communications. Practice managers can now rely on the PSC services to further reduce overhead, logistical and staff management time and focus more of their energies on improving quality of care delivered by their medical organizations.
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TCS Healthcare Fully Launches AcuStrat, a Dynamic Data Mining and Population Management Tool
TCS Healthcare Technologies, an medical management software applications developer, announces the launch of AcuStrat, version 3.0. AcuStrat serves as a data mining and population management tool. AcuStrat helps automate and standardize care management processes in a wide array of health care settings.


