ADVISORY/Bridge Bedside Scanning System, Patient Safety -- Focus of HIMSS Book Award, Educational Session, Media Briefing and More.Business Editors & Health/Medical/High-Tech Writers HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2003 Annual Conference ADVISORY...for Sun.-Thurs. (Feb. 9-13) SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003 MedPoint(TM) -- Attendees at the 2003 HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Founded in 1961, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a healthcare industry membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of medical informatics technology and management systems. ) meeting -- scheduled for Feb. 9-13 -- will have ample opportunity to learn more about MedPoint(TM), Bridge Medical's award-winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles" barcode-enabled point-of-care (BPOC BPOC Bar Code Point of Care BPOC Bedside Point of Care BPOC Barcode-enabled Point of Care (technology/device) BPOC Bell Point of Contact BPOC Beef Promotion Operating Committee BPOC Before Proceeding on Course ) patient safety software. Some of these are detailed below. All events are at the San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. unless otherwise noted.
HIMSS `Book of the Year' focuses on safety at the point of care
WHAT: HIMSS/CHIME Awards Banquet: HIMSS Book of the Year
WHEN: Feb. 11; reception at 6:30, dinner at 7 pm.
WHO: Bridge SVP/COO Russell "Rusty" R. Lewis will accept
an award for The Impact of Information Technology on
Patient Safety on behalf of his co-contributors -- "a
veritable `who's who' of patient safety experts," in the
words of HIMSS President/CEO H. Stephen Lieber. Nationally
recognized patient safety leader Gordon Sprenger; medical
informaticist Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD; Georgetown
University Medical Center transfusion medicine director S.
Gerald Sandler, MD, FACP, FCAP; and Bridge BPOC experts
Mary Michael Brown, RN, MS, Jamie Kelly, Barbara
Trohimovich, RPh, and Michael Yang, MD, MS, are among the
contributors.
WHERE: Hotel del Coronado Crown Room, San Diego.
MORE: First released at the HIMSS summer meeting in Las
Vegas, the book was edited by Lewis, and is "designed to
keep healthcare information technology professionals
abreast of the latest patient safety issues," says Lieber.
"The book demonstrates BPOC technology's impact on patient
safety."
Adds Lewis: "All the contributors are avid advocates of
technology's power to transform the current hospital
environment into one where patient safety is a given not a
goal. Spiraling healthcare costs, nursing and pharmacist
shortages, regulatory initiatives, and other pressures,
make patient safety an essential business strategy."
See http://www.bridgemedical.com/lewis2.shtml for details
on the book.
`Real-world' benefits and limitations of BPOC
WHAT: HIMSS Session #76: "Using Barcode Technology To Improve
Patient Safety."
WHEN: Feb. 11; 1-2:15 pm
WHERE: Room 6F.
MORE: Lewis will explore positive identification using
barcodes, error-reduction applications and results from
multiple hospitals, and real-world benefits and
limitations of barcoding systems.
Hummel on MedPoint
WHAT: HIMSS Vendor Product Session featuring John Hummel
on Bridge barcode technology.
WHO: Hummel is CIO and senior vice president of
information technology at Sutter Health, an award-winning
26-hospital health network in Northern California that's
implementing MedPoint. His work spearheading integration
of numerous technologies throughout Sutter was recently
recognized by Computerworld.
WHEN: Feb. 10; 4:30-5:15 pm
WHERE: Room #11B.
MORE: "Our information technology taskforce concluded
MedPoint was the BPOC system best equipped to meet all our
clinical and technical criteria," says Hummel. "Bridge has
optimized its implementation process so that hospitals can
deploy this sophisticated technology quickly, affordably
and painlessly. The product's open technology and
successful interface history were also major
considerations. Extensively tested by hospitals around the
country for years, MedPoint is perfect for hospitals that
require their IT vendors to be team players."
About HIMSS Based in Chicago Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. , the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society provides more than 12,000 individual, and 100 corporate members, leadership in healthcare for the management of technology, information and change through services, education and networking opportunities, and publications. On the Net: HIMSS Conference site: http://conference.himss.org/ASP/education.asp. About Bridge Founded in 1996, Bridge Medical, Inc. -- an AmerisourceBergen AmerisourceBergen NYSE: ABC is a Chesterbrook, PA based Drug Wholesale company that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001. They provide drug distribution and related services designed to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes, distribute a line (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ) company -- is headquartered in Solana Solana is the Spanish word for the sunny side of a mount or valley. It can refer to:
Learn more about Bridge and MedPoint at a HIMSS Media Briefing, Feb. 10 at 11:30 am, Room 14B (Exhibit Hall, Mezzanine Level Mezzanine level The period in a company's development just before it goes public. ) or at HIMSS Booth 3349. On the Net: Bridge Medical site: http://www.bridgemedical.com MedPoint is a trademark of Bridge Medical Inc. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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