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10/23/2008
HIMSS Fall Technology Conference HIMSS Midwest Area Chapters 2008 Annual Fall Technology Conference
October 23-24, 2008, Lombard, IL
The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center
"Virtual Information Technology: Keeping IT Real"
www.2008FallTechnologyConference.com
iTech Automation will be demonstrating their brand new Patient Tracker system on hand held PDT units provided by Honeywell Imaging and Mobility. This tracking system incorporates bar code wristbands, staff ID badges, medication administration and attendance scheduling all custom designed through iTech Automation. Stop by the booth for a live software demonstration anytime on Thursday, October 23, 2008.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry’s membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
10/20/2008
ARMA International ARMA International October 20-23, 2008 - Las Vegas, NV
http://www.arma.org/conference/2008/index.cfm
iTech Automation will be exhibiting new bar code and RFID automation systems for records tracking, saving time and money on lost or misplaced documents. We welcome you to stop by our booth to meet us in person and see our latest records management solutions.
ARMA International is a not-for-profit professional association and the authority on managing records and information.
10/2/2008
Niceware Announces New LabelClinic ISBT-128 Print Server Release MILWAUKEE, WI, October 1, 2008 – Niceware® Healthcare is excited to announce the release of LabelClinicTM Print Server version 2.5. LabelClinic is an on-demand database and printing software that conforms to the ISBT-128 standard for blood product identification from the International Council for Commonality in Blood Banking Automation, Inc. (ICCBBA).
The LabelClinic Print Server enables blood banks in regional collection centers and hospital transfusion services to integrate critical blood product database tables and label printing with their blood bank information systems, including access to the 6000 blood product codes in the ICCBBA database. In addition, small hospital transfusion services can deploy LabelClinic as a stand-alone software solution along with a thermal printer and FDA approved label media. In both the integrated and stand-alone deployments, LabelClinic is printer agnostic and enables the user to select any model of thermal printer they choose, or use existing printers instead of the requirement to purchase specialized printers.
LabelClinic Print Server version 2.5 brings a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to blood labeling through a web service interface. The web services of LabelClinic enables requests to ICCBBA database tables translated for use per the ISBT-128 standard as well as all label formats within the ISBT -128 and ABC Codabar standards. Implementing the web services interface gives simple access to the rich functionality of LabelClinic such as blood product database queries, label printing, dynamic print previews and more.
"The release of LabelClinic version 2.5 with a web services interface moves the LabelClinic product into the realm of enterprise applications with SOA," said Lee Patty, Vice President of Marketing at Niceware. "This demonstrates Niceware's dedication to evolving LabelClinic to provide a complete blood labeling software solution from the desktop to the global enterprise."
About Niceware Healthcare
Niceware® International, LLC is a leading publisher of barcode and RFID software for healthcare and the automatic identification and data collection (AIDC) industry. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Niceware is uniquely positioned to deliver high quality, feature rich software products combined with industry leading support and services to our valued partners.
Niceware Healthcare is a business unit of Niceware International, LLC that operates with the philosophy of "Patient Safety through Positive Identification." Niceware Healthcare is responsible for delivering flexible, high-performance software solutions to the healthcare industry to facilitate the positive identification of patients, blood and laboratory specimens
8/7/2008
Mistakes to Cost Hospitals
To boost quality and cut costs, insurer won't pay for medical errors called 'never events'
By Bruce Japsen | Chicago Tribune reporter
In health care, the customer isn't always right.
But now Illinois patients are getting a little more clout. Signaling an industry-wide shift toward more consumer-friendly practices long common in other businesses, the state's largest health insurer will soon begin refusing to pay for bad service.
If a hospital commits a serious error—such as leaving a sponge in a patient's chest after open-heart surgery or causing a prolonged illness by mixing up a patient's medication—Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois says it will no longer pay the claim.
The idea is that forcing hospitals to absorb those costs will create an incentive to improve quality of care in a business where money typically rolls in regardless of patient outcomes and customers often feel lost in a complex, impersonal system. Employers, consumers and taxpayers are increasingly demanding that providers of medical care be held more accountable, particularly as the costs of health insurance continue to rise.
6/23/2008
Thomson Elite User's Conference iTech Automation will be demonstrating records management solutions at the Thomson Elite User's Conference, specifically designed to improve records tracking efficiencies for Thomson Elite customers.
Thomson Elite is a premier provider of financial, practice and knowledge management systems to the legal industry and other professional services markets including accounting, engineering, marketing services, management and IT consulting.
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