Malaysian Health Informatics Association

Dalarna County Council decided on Take Care as the Health Information System

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:24:56

Koblenz - July 7th 2011: The County Council of Dalarna has completed the procurement of a Health Information System for all primary and secondary healthcare institutions within the county. The award was given to Profdoc Care AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of CompuGroup Medical AG (CGM), for the Health Information System, Take Care.

Take Care will be implemented gradually with 2-3 pilot installations after the summer, 2011. The start of a complete roll-out is estimated to take place before the end of the year, beginning of 2012 and will be completed during 2013.

It feels very good having completed the agreement with Profdoc Care AB, says Staffan Johansson, Chairman of the Steering Committee for the procurement project and responsible for Dalarna County Councilâs Health Information System. We have been working intensely on the procurement during 2010 and had a broad participation from the entire organization both in completing the requirement specifications as well as evaluation of the different tender submissions. Take Care has substantial support from the entire organization which will ultimately result in the successful implementation and deployment of the system.

We are proud and honored that Dalarna has selected Take Care as the future Health Information System, says Martin Williamson, Managing Director of Profdoc Care AB. During the procurement process, the requirements and wishes of the end-users were contributory to the decision criteria. This is indeed gratifying since Take Care has been developed with strong focus on user friendliness. We are convinced that we together with Dalarna County Council will complete a successful implementation and at the same time further the development of our system from a use-centric point of view.

Take Care is today mostly installed within the County of Stockholm spanning across approximately 1,600 clinical units or departments with more than 30,000 users and includes approximately 2.4 million electronic medical records stored within the same database. In addition, Take Care is being used at one University Hospital and one public hospital under Ministry of Health in Malaysia.

MHIA Seminar on Open Source HIS & Medical Imaging

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:20:00

Date : 13 July, 2011, Wednesday

Venue : International Medical University (IMU)
Library Mini Theater, 3rd Floor IMU, Bukit Jalil

Fee : Member - RM10.00, Non-member - RM30.00, Limited to 25 seats only)

Agenda

2:00 : Registration & Networking

3:00 : Welcome address,

3:15 : Implementing Open Source HIS in Sri Lanka, Dr. Denham Pole, Net Com Technologies, Kalutara, Sri Lanka

4:00 : HIS Demo

4:30 : Tea Break & Networking

4:45 : Applied Medical Imaging Informatics (Basic), Dr. Adam Chee

5:45 : Q&A

6:00 : End

International SOS Clinic in Beijing, China, has âgone liveâ with PMO Clinic System from CompuGroup Medical

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:05:42

International SOS â the Worldâs leading healthcare, medical and security assistance company has chosen Electronic Medical Records System and Practice Management Solution from CompuGroup Medicalâs subsidiary in Malaysia

MHIA AGM - 25th June,2011

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:00:00

Dear MHIA Members,

Please be kindly informed that our next AGM is scheduled on 25th June, 2011, details as below:

AGENDA

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010/2011

Date: 25th June 2011 (Saturday)

Time: 10.00 am â 12.30 pm

Venue: Senate Room

International Medical University

Bukit Jalil

1. Presidentâs Speech

2. Minutes of AGM 2008/2009

3. Secretaryâs Report (Annual Report)

4. Treasurerâs Report (Financial Statement)

5. Amendments to Constitution

6. Election of Executive Committee

7. Appointment of Auditors

8. Any other matters (notice given to Secretary 5 days prior to AGM)

9. Closing Address by Incoming President

10. Adjournment

Your attendance and support is much appreciated. Please kindly confirm your attendance by responding to this mailing list giving your name and company.

Thank you.

--
Best Regards,

Brian Bong, CPHIMS, PMP

Dream ends for iSoft with $300m buyout

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:23:44

Nabila Ahmed From: The Australian March 30, 2011 8:51AM

WHEN Gary Cohen's IBA Health agreed to buy troubled British group iSoft in 2007, he had visions of creating one of the largest healthcare information technology providers in the world.

Cohen, who was ousted last year from the company now called iSoft, is infamous for dreaming big but delivering little.

What followed was years of underperformance that has left the share price at 5c, compared with the $1.21 it closed at on the day IBA announced its agreement with iSoft, and debt of about $260 million -- more than four and a half times its current market capitalisation.

This week, the UBS-advised iSoft is poised to be bought out by the New York-listed CSC.

It's believed IT services giant CSC, which is iSoft's biggest customer, could finalise a more than $300m takeover deal for the company as early as today. ISoft is a major supplier to the British government, which is in the midst of a pound stg. 12.7 billion ($20bn) overhaul of the National Health Service's IT systems. (CSC subcontracted iSoft to carry out the work before the IBA buyout.)

The deal is expected to allow lenders including Barclays, Westpac, Bank of Ireland, Santander, Clydesdale and KfW Bankengruppe to recoup their loans and pay back major shareholder Oceania Capital Partners (formerly Allco Equity Partners) which holds about $40m in convertible notes.

But Oceania -- which bought into the company in late 2007 at 80c a share -- and iSoft's other shareholders including Maple-Brown Abbott and Orbis are unlikely to receive much more than the 5c a share the stock last traded at. Shares in iSoft had a bit of a run before being suspended from trading last Thursday, rising from 3c earlier last week.

Nabile Ahmed writes the Abacus column.

Source : http://www.theaustralian.com.au/austr ... ry-e6frgakx-1226030527556

Medical records online by 2015

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:46:40

By V. Shankar Ganesh and Farhana Abd Rahman
news@nst.com.my
http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/Me ... ordsonlineby2015/Article/

2011/02/22

SERDANG: At least 20 government hospitals nationwide will be able to serve patients faster by 2015 when medical records are accessible online. Patients will have shorter waiting time and faster diagnosis of illnesses as the nationâs healthcare system and medical data of both outpatients and inpatients are computerised.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the multi-million ringgit computerisation programme began last year.

âWe have to create an electronic database of all patients by converting their records, now in hardcopy.

âWhen stored online, the hospitals can share this information, thereby speeding up medical services.â He said electronic records of X-rays and computed axial tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans would also be made available immediately to doctors in any of the hospitals.

He said the availability of online medical records was expected to help doctors in âreferral cases, comments and diagnosisâ.

Liow said the computerisation covered major hospitals in the states, followed by smaller hospitals and clinics.

To date, the Serdang and Putrajaya hospitals had completed computerising medical records of patients and Kuala Lumpur Hospital is in the midst of doing so.

Speaking after launching Astroâs initiative in offering free satellite TV programmes to 56 paediatric wards in the country yesterday, Liow said the first phase of computerising medical records was expected to be completed by 2015 as hospitals independently retrieved their records.

âAfter 2015, when at least 20 hospitals have completed digitalising medical records, the ministry will set up the online network for all the hospitals to be connected with a common database.â Liow could not give the exact cost of the computerisation programme but said RM5 million had been allocated annually just to digitalise the records of the paediatric clinics and wards at Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

However, having a common database for medical records has raised concerns as patient privacy and confidentiality need to be safeguarded.

The electronic records, therefore, are expected to have a high level of security software and protocol protecting them.

On Astroâs initiative, Liow said this would enhance the learning experience of children during their healing and treatment process. Under the programme, Astro will provide for free 15 channels under its Kampus Astro package to the paediatric wards. Liow said 350,000 paediatric patients would benefit from the service annually for the next three years. Astro chief operating officer Henry Tan said the initiative, under its Astro Kasih banner, would see decoders and satellite dishes provided free to hospitals.

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Bintulu Hospital HIT implementation getting ready to go live

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:57:44

Brian Bong, 22 December, 2010

HIT implementation in Bintulu Hospital, Sarawak is in the final system testing phase. The hospital IT systems are expected to go live first quarter 2011.

The systems currently implementing are:

1. Profdoc Hospital Information System
2. Profdoc Laboratory information System
3. Celastra Radiology Information System
4. PACSphere Picture Archiving and Communication System

The implementation started about 2 years ago. The ICT contractor for this project is Peransang Jati Sdn Bhd.

HIMSS Analytics names first Korean Stage 7 hospital

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:11:37

November 22, 2010 | Kelly Mehler, Social Media Editor

SEOUL, South Korea â Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale. It is the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve the Stage 7 designation, and the only hospital in Asia to do so.

The EMR Adoption Model provides a leadership guide for IT adoption in healthcare. The higher the stage, the more advanced the IT application coverts to. Stage 7 represents a totally paperless environment.

Only 1 percent of US hospitals rank at the Stage 7 achievement level on the EMRAM. At this stage, care coordination across the hospital is improved using EMR, developing better health information exchanges, and data warehousing for population health improvement.

The Seoul National University Bundang Hospital reached Stage 7 with:

Â· Almost all medical orders entered by physicians.

Â· Ninety percent of physicians enter patient health information into the EHR, using structured templates that generate data, allowing clinical decision support for clinical guidance.

Â· Efficiency gained through automation, such as relying on only four transcriptionists to support 910 inpatient beds and over 4,000 outpatient visits per day.

Â· The Medical Imaging department is fully digitized producing 1.2 terabytes of data per month for 70,000 radiologic exams per month.

Â· The Closed-Loop Medication Administration (CLMA) process has the highest level of patient safety for bar-coded medications through RFID technology

Â· The hospital uses clinical data warehousing for developing over 250 quality clinical indicators and 98 critical pathways.

Â· A Health Information Exchange exists between the hospital and 36 private clinics in its region.

"The Seoul National University Bundang Hospital is an excellent example of healthcare IT adoption to improve the quality and efficiency of care while improving patient and employee satisfaction," said John P. Hoyt, executive vice president of Organizational Services at HIMSS. "We congratulate the hospital and its information technology team for creating this environment for its patients, employees and medical staff."

HIMSS Analytics is beginning to collect data on electronic health record implementation from all hospitals in Korea. More information on Stage 7 recognition is available on the HIMSS Analytics website.

Source : http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ ... t-korean-stage-7-hospital

KLAS gauges PACS, computed radiography markets

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:09:29

November 30, 2009 | Bernie Monegain, Editor

CHICAGO â The market for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) technology is moving from gold rush to replacement, while computed radiography (CR) is moving into physician practices, according to KLAS.

The Orem, Utah-based company released two reports Sunday in Chicago at the Radiological Society of North America's 95th RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting.

The report on PACS software eidentifies gaps between the scores of the highest- and lowest-performing PACS vendors.

Acute care performance scores showed a 23-point gap, with the top performer, GE Centricity PACS-IW, scoring 88.1, and the lowest performer, Cerner, scoring 65. Also, there is a 15.8-point gap between vendors in the community hospital space and a 14-point gap in the ambulatory market.

INFINITT is the best-performing community PACS vendor with a score of 87.5, and Intelerad is the leader among ambulatory PACS vendors with an 89.2 performance score.

"The New PACS Market: From Gold Rush to Replacement" is the result of more than 1,600 provider interviews covering PACS products for large hospitals, community hospitals and outpatient clinics. The report is the most comprehensive KLAS has ever undertaken, according to the company, and features performance ratings for more than three dozen products.

"In the KLAS scoring system, where a five-point spread is significant, there are huge gaps between the scores of the top-rated vendors and those at the bottom of the pack," said Ben Brown, KLAS' general manager of medical imaging and medical equipment research and author of the study.

New life for computed radiography

While no longer an integral part of large imaging centers, CR equipment is finding new life outside traditional imaging departments in physician practices and outpatient clinics, according to KLAS' "Computed Radiography: Digital Imaging Reaches the Physician Practice."

KLAS interviewed 400 providers about CR vendors, their products and their performance. The study notes that the vast majority of recent CR purchases have been for single-plate equipment, which is well suited for lower-volume, lower-cost deployments at point-of-care settings and physician offices.

"In the past four years, Agfa, Carestream, FUJIFILM, Konica Minolta and Philips have all released new single-plate compact digitizers intended for the outpatient locations," said Kirk Ising, KLAS' director of medical imaging and medical equipment research and author of the study. "These single-plate investments have far outpaced the investments that these vendors have dedicated to multi-plate digitizers."

In contrast to outpatient organizations, the KLAS report notes that the hospital market for CR is flat. Large hospitals continue to move to digital radiography (DR), and community hospitals are replacing their CR equipment and probably won't expand their CR footprint.

The KLAS report divides the vendor performance ratings into multi-plate and single-plate categories. Konica Minolta Xpress Dual Bay is the highest-rated multi-plate product, with a performance score of 91.4, followed by Carestream DirectView 975 and FUJIFILM FCR XG5000. The Agfa CR 30-X product took the top spot among single-plate products, with a score of 89.8, followed by Konica Minolta REGIUS Nano and Philips PCR Eleva S. The report also contains early data on CR products from iCRco and Radlink.

Source : http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ ... adiography-markets?page=0,0

Taiwan hospital upgrades to hi-res PACS displays after spotting unseen kidney stone

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:47:17

November 30, 2010 | Kelly Mehler, Social Media Editor

TAIPEI, Taiwan â Shin Kong Hospital, one of Taiwan's biggest private hospitals, has upgraded its Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) with high-quality medical displays provided by Barco. The hospital's displays have been replaced with a combination of Coronis Fusion 6MP DL, Nio Fusion 4MP, and MDRC-2120 units. The hospital staff was particularly impressed by the new image quality, long lifetime, and after-sales service.

In 2004, a PACS structure was installed in Shin Kong Hospital's Diagnostic Radiology Department, featuring Barco's Coronis 5MP displays, as well as a number of non-Barco medical and commercial displays. The hospital administration reported that five years later in 2009, the Barco displays had outlived the other devices, continuing to produce high-quality images.

In response, Dr. Liang-Kuang Chen, the hospital's chief radiologist, contacted Barco for advisement on a new configuration, centered on the Coronis Fusion 6MP DL. "I am very impressed by the Coronis Fusion 6MP DL," said Dr. Liang-Kuang Chen. "The image quality, brightness and contrast ratio are excellent for multi-modality viewing, allowing us to read chest x-rays, CT and MR images. Furthermore, it is very convenient for us to view both gray-scale and color images on just one screen." ??

During the evaluation process of the new technology, a patient suffering from a kidney stone was brought into the hospital. The displays in use at the time failed to locate the stone. Dr. Chen suggested reading the case on the Barco Fusion 6MP which was on-site for the evaluation. The featured display showed the kidney stone clearly, impressing the radiology department and the hospital's management. The choice to upgrade the dispays subsequently was made.

Shin Kong Hospital decided to purchase a combination of Coronis Fusion 6MP DL, Nio Fusion 4MP and MDRC-2120 displays. All were installed in Q1 2010. This upgraded system is intended to provide the radiology department with higher image quality and optimized brightness and contrast levels on all displays. The arrangement of three different models gives the radiology professionals the flexibility to use the most fitting display specific to each diagnosis.

Source : http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ ... tting-unseen-kidney-stone