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professionals acting in over 90 countries. It is a Fortune 150 company. CSC installed and operates the healthcare system for the UK’s National Health Service, which covers 35 million people. The Leading Edge Forum of CSC gives clients access to a knowledge base and global network of thought leaders whose focus is on the realistic use of IT. CSC has major offices in Asia, Europe and Australia, but its headquarters are in Falls Church, Va.
8. Siemens Healthcare Siemens
Healthcare has
more than 30,000 employees internation- ally. For the past 130 years, Siemens has been a medical innovator. Every day, Sie- mens performs over 215 million healthcare information transactions. In 2010, Siemens Healthcare invested approximately 5.1 per- cent of its global revenue in research and development, which produces an average of five patents daily. Siemens Healthcare’s headquarters are in Malvern, Pa.
9. CareFusion
CareFusion is a San Diego-based company that has 14,000 employees worldwide. CareFusion serves surgery centers, hospitals, long-term care facilities, insurance provid- ers, outpatient and ambulatory clinics, and governments that when combined include more than 25,000 customers. CareFusion provides services in transforming health IT into actionable intelligence, advancing respiratory care, decreasing costs for proce- dural solutions, medication management, and infection prevention.
10. Keane Keane is an IT services firm that employs 12,500 people worldwide, 5,000 of whom are in North America. Keane has offered IT services since 1965. Its headquarters are in Boston, but Keane has offices in Europe, Asia-Pacific and India. Keane is an NTT Data Company. Keane’s healthcare software is installed in hundreds of U.S. hospitals and thousands of post-acute care facilities.
11. Cerner Corporation Cerner Corporation employs over 7,000 employees and licenses their IT services to over 9,000 international facilities. Cerner Corporation has been working in health- care since 1979. Cerner ranked number 14 in the “2010 Training Magazine Top
www.hispanicengineer.com HOSPITAL IT TOOLS WORTH WATCHING
In this day and age of advanced information technology, health care profes- sionals need exactly those tools that can help them achieve agility and respond to the health care needs with accuracy. Doctors and health care organizations need tools that can help analyze the patient’s data to gain more insight to solve their problems. This exact precise need mandates the need for devices and tools to help them communicate, analyze and monitor patients. Let us look at some of the solutions that are currently in the market and how health care providers are using them to respond aggressively to their needs.
Springfield Clinic, the second largest clinic in Illinois, implemented the Allscripts Enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) system on Mo- tion Tablet PCs running Windows XP, Tablet PC Edition. EHR is a system that integrates all the patient information reports, test results, digital images and all correspondence that is related to the patient into one single electronic patient record that is accessible anytime to any physi- cians in the Springfield clinic network. This not only simplified the patient information but also expedited and reduced lot of paper work and storage cost.
Wisconsin Health Information Exchange has implemented a Unified Intelligence System that integrates clinical, administrative, research, and financial data, and delivers it through customizable user interfaces. This system is called Microsoft Amalga system [3]. More information on Microsoft Amalga system can be found here.
Microsoft HealthVault is another system that is designed to put you and your family in control of your health information. Users will get a free HealthVault account that helps them collect, store and share information with family mem- bers. It also gives users a wide choice of applications and devices to help man- age their health and fitness.
Lots of technology companies are taking the initiative and driving several cru- cial projects that can shape tomorrow’s health care technologies. This is par- ticularly happening because there is knowledge gap between Health care ser- vices and how technologies and devices can support each other. For example, IBM and University of Florida have come together to develop a middleware software system that can help doctors monitor the patient’s health. They are primarily using open standards to build this smart device. Last I know, the project is still underway and offers a great promise to millions of people across the world.
A doctor who practices general medicine in rural India agrees that the demand for greater technology synergy with Health care is needed, but cautioned that personal communication between a doctor and a patient is very important and should not be replaced by smart devices. They only should help doctors treat a patient effectively and accurately.
Technological solutions should be carefully thought out and needs lot of re- search. There is a recent Dutch study published in the June 25 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association talks about the effects of elec- tromagnetic interference (EMI) from RFID devices on hospital equipment [8]. But with good synergy and lot of research, we will see lot of new hope and promise.
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