Emerging Health IT, Eclipsys partner

Emerging Health Information Technology and Eclipsys have entered into an alliance in response to significant regional demand for health IT that promotes more efficient and safer healthcare, reports Business Wire.

Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will team up to provide Eclipsys' software solutions along with implementation services to hospitals and long-term care organistions in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Eclipsys will gain access to Emerging Health's project management, systems implementation, application engineering and systems integration resources to augment its internal activation resources. At the same time, Emerging Health can use its expertise and local knowledge to market Eclipsys' full suite of healthcare solutions in the tri-state area.

CompuMed, a medical technology company providing diagnostic, screening and telemedicine solutions, has entered into an agreement with Osteometer MediTech that enables CompuMed to provide a suite of bone densitometry solutions aimed at the point-of-care market, states Medicexchange.

As a result of this agreement, CompuMed also launched its OsteoCare initiative, under which primary care physicians and other healthcare providers can join the OsteoCare clinical network and access an integrated suite of osteoporosis screening technologies for point-of-care use.

"With our new OsteoCare initiative and the addition of its underlying Osteometer bone densitometers to our OsteoGram technologies, CompuMed can now effectively offer physicians a set of best-of-breed osteoporosis applications at an exceptionally low cost that are easy to use," said Maurizio Vecchione, CompuMed's CEO.

According to Earthtimes, Medsphere Systems, a provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, and Midland Memorial Hospital (MMH), the first commercial facility to implement Medsphere's OpenVista electronic health record (EHR), have been visited by a delegation from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The Royal Hashemite Court's e-Health team is currently exploring EHR solutions for implementation throughout the kingdom's hospital network and visited MMH for a first-hand view of the hospital's OpenVista system, which has been recognised by healthcare IT analysts as a model for EHR adoption.

"With OpenVista, we have put critical patient information literally at the fingertips of doctors and nurses and significantly enhanced patient outcomes. Midland Memorial is truly proud of what we've accomplished in partnership with Medsphere and welcomes the opportunity to share our experience and our success with Jordanian officials," said David Whiles, director of information systems at MMH.