Software Company Helps Healthcare Organizations Meet Clinical And Business Challenges
InfoSys, Inc. (Schaumburg, Ill) a leader in healthcare information technology and a pioneer in the use of Microsoft platform technologies has changed its name to CareVoyant, Inc. The software company’s new name reflects its exclusive focus on the healthcare provider marketplace and its evolution as a developer of next-generation technology solutions based upon a predictive, management-by-exception framework.
Using the service-oriented architecture inherent in the new Microsoft “Longhorn” SQL Server database, it incorporates notification, reporting, and analysis services technology that pushes and pulls key clinical and administrative performance indicators to and from specific healthcare workers.
Analysis services use OLAP technology to perform advanced clinical and financial modeling, reporting services presents on-demand information across multiple end-user environments and notification services prompt specific workers to address significant clinical and business events.
Developed through a full in-house initiative its solutions integrate healthcare computing across vertical (clinical, financial, and administrative) and horizontal (ambulatory, therapy, long-term care, home care, equipment) lines. By continuously monitoring the real-time status of patient records within a single application, the software enables providers of all sizes to consolidate their IT infrastructures, streamline workflow, reduce costs, comply with regulations and make better and faster decisions.
For more information, visit http://www.carevoyant.com.
New CMS Guideline Calls For Suspension Boot
The Heelift Suspension Boot, created by DM Systems, Inc., is more important than ever. In August 2007 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it would stop reimbursing hospitals for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers in October 2008. The Heelift Suspension Boot plays a major role in taking the pressure off of hospital staff, through reducing the incidence of preventable pressure ulcers.
For more information, visit www.dmsystems.com. Staph Infection Prevention Offered Through Healthcare Provider
Ansell Limited (Ansell Healthcare), a global leader in barrier protective healthcare products, advises healthcare practitioners and all other healthcare personnel to take specific precautions in efforts to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA is the bacterium invulnerable to first-line antibiotics that can cause life-threatening infections. The following are standard yet vital precautions developed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
1. Hand Washing
• Wash hands immediately after gloves are removed, between patient contacts, and when otherwise indicated in order to avoid transfer of microorganisms to other patients or environments.
2. Gloves
• Wear gloves manufactured with proper barrier protection materials when touching blood, body fluid, secretions, excretions, and contaminated items. Put on clean gloves just before touching mucous membranes and non-intact skin.
• Change gloves between tasks and procedures on the same patient after contact with material that may contain a high concentration of microorganisms.
• Remove gloves promptly after use, before going to another patient. Wash hands immediately to avoid transfer of microorganisms to other patients or environments.
3. Masks, eye protection, and face shields
• Wear a standard surgical mask and eye protection or a face shield to protect mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth during procedures and activities that are likely to generate splashes of sprays.
4. Gowns
• Wear a gown that is appropriate to the task, to protect skin and prevent soiling or contamination of clothing during procedures and patient-care activities when contact with blood, body fluids, secretions or excretions is anticipated.
According to Ansell, the only effective way to decrease communicable infections is through utilizing both hand-washing and medical glove donning in the proper manner.
For more information, visit www.ansellhealthcare.com.
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