CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW Corporation and a leading provider of technology products and services to healthcare organizations, has announced the results of the IT Checkup, a survey of more than 500 IT and clinical healthcare professionals from across the United States. The study reveals that hospitals with stronger IT infrastructures enjoy significantly better performance and results from their clinical applications than providers who deploy applications without concurrent investments in infrastructure.
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Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO®) is proud to announce a completely revised version of their online presence. The new website is available now, found at www.e-imo.com, and displays a shift in company focus towards their market leading suite of Clinical Interface Terminology (CIT) products, especially the flag ship IMO® Problem ÍITЙ. IMO's robust, user-friendly vocabularies contain user-specific and familiar words or phrases; allowing clinicians, information management professionals and patients alike to find and record the terms they need quickly and easily. CIT also cross-links to standardized vocabularies such as SNOMED® CT, MeSH and UMLS; which strengthens IMO’s plan for supporting ICD-10-CM as adoption increases.
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Chicago, and Irvine, CA - March 16, 2009 - Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) and interoperable health solutions, and Accenx, a leading provider of health information exchange (HIE) solutions, today announced that Accenx will offer fully managed, remote hosting of Initiate PatientT for healthcare customers. The first customer for the joint solution is OhioHealth, a family of 15 hospitals, 20 health and surgery centers, home-health providers, medical equipment and health service suppliers throughout a 46-county area.

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