Mobile Healthcare software news: May 14 - 26, 2006

May 22, 2006 -- (MobileVillage) -- Below is a roundup of recently announced mobile healthcare news.

Global Works Systems released its One Look calendaring solution, which integrates and consolidates patient scheduling data with existing personal and departmental data in the user's IDX, Exchange, or Outlook calendar. One Look lets Outlook users access all critical scheduling information on one screen, from their home or office PC, laptop, or PDA. The software distinguishes between personal and professional appointments, allows for review of essential patient information regarding a scheduled visit,, and integrates group schedule data to let providers and staff to coordinate schedules.

Global Works Systems offers practice management systems, clinical systems, and hospital-ambulatory integration. For more information, see global-works.com.

Misys Healthcare Systems announced its newest releases of Misys EMR, Misys Tiger and Misys Vision. Misys EMR 8.0 enables physician practices to access and incorporate patient medical information that is generated outside their practice. Misys Vision 8.0 is an enterprise practice management system for medium and large practices that shares a single, integrated database with Misys EMR. The new releases includes a suite of patient management, administrative and reporting applications. With the February 2006 acquisition of Payerpath, Misys has also added a state-of-the-art Web-based application that processes health claims. Misys Tiger 8.0 is a practice management application for small and mid-sized physician practices. Tiger 8.0 offers product enhancements including anesthesia billing and integration with Misys PatientLink, the new patient portal for both physicians and patients. For more information, see misyshealthcare.com.

USBMIS added another PDA reference, the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Review, for Palm and Windows Mobile handhelds. The reference is authored by Sara J. Cuccurullo. For details, see usbmis.com.

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Global Care Quest (GCQ) has entered into an agreement with Los Angeles-based Century City Doctors Hospital to integrate the facility's critical care medical systems and make the information available to physicians via smartphones, PDAs and other mobile devices.

Under the agreement GCQ will build its mobile Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS Mobile) into the hospital's IT structure to allow doctors in the Intensive Care Unit, OR, and Emergency Department to review patient data on handhelds and smartphones over wireless networks and high speed cellular systems. In the first phase physicians will have mobile access to patient X-Rays and CT-scans as well as realtime vital signs from bedside monitoring equipment. Long term, GCQ will enable the doctors to access all of their patient information systems via handhelds. The ICIS mobile system will be piloted initially by 10 Century City physicians and eventually extended to as many as 150 doctors at the facility, according to the company.

In December of 2005 GCQ completed a more extensive pilot at UCLA Medical Center where the company provided mobile and desktop access to critical care patient information including labs, rounding notes and nurse charting systems, as well as X-Rays, CT Scans and realtime vitals. More than 1,000 physicians at UCLA worked with ICIS during that program.

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