HIMSS holds annual conference in New Orleans
Approximately 25,000 people traveled to New Orleans to attend the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) from February 25 to March 1 in New Orleans. Fujitsu was one of over 850 exhibitors, showcasing a wide variety of mobility, imaging and biometric security solutions.
Our innovative mobile solutions decrease operational costs and paperwork while improving the quality of patient care. Tablet PCs such as the lightweight P1610 and the convertible T4215 keep healthcare workers on the go. Our PRIMEQUEST™ servers and ETERNUS™ storage solutions help manage the heavy IT requirements for critical data processing and storage. The Fujitsu award-winning scanners help healthcare organizations reduce the significant costs associated with paper records, while our PalmSecure™ biometric authentication solution offers secure data and identity management for healthcare. Fujitsu offers innovation for collaboration; contact us today to see what we can do for you.
According to HIMSS literature, HIMSS “is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare… HIMSS represents more than 20,000 individual members and over 300 corporate members that collectively represent organizations employing millions of people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to ensuring quality patient care.”
For more information about HIMSS in general, visit the HIMSS website.
For information about the conference, go to the HIMSS07 website.
Initiative launched to provide free electronic prescribing to all physicians in America
On January 16, a coalition of the nation's most prominent technology companies and leading healthcare organizations (including Aetna, Allscripts, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Sprint Nextel, SureScripts, WellPoint, and Wolters Kluwer Health) announced a national initiative to provide free electronic prescribing for every physician in America. The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI) is the first nationwide effort to improve patient safety by offering a solution to the medication errors that harm millions of people each year. Preventable medication errors injure at least 1.5 million Americans and claim more than 7,000 lives each year, according to a July 2006 study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. In an effort to reduce these errors, the IOM has called on all of the nation's physicians to adopt electronic prescribing by 2010.
"While medication errors and adverse drug events can be common and serious, electronic prescribing is clearly a tool that can dramatically reduce errors and improve patient safety," said Nancy W. Dickey, currently President of the Health Science Center and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at the Texas A&M University System and formerly President of the American Medical Association. "Yet despite the many benefits of electronic prescribing, physician adoption is still modest. The situation calls for a solution that will overcome the barriers many physicians face in adopting this life-saving technology." To read the entire press release about this important initiative, go to the Allscripts news page here.
Fujitsu solutions widely adopted in healthcare industry
Fujitsu is a leader in providing cost-effective, service-enhancing mobile solutions for hospitals, clinics and visiting nurse associations. Using our innovative solutions, healthcare practitioners can decrease operational costs and paperwork while improving the quality of patient care. Fujitsu has the widest selection of Tablet PC products in the market. Our tablet experience is based on more than 15-years of tablet product design, engineering, and manufacturing.
And if you need customized solutions and special applications, Fujitsu works with a wide network of integrators and application partners that can provide you with expert advice and guidance to build solutions for your healthcare organization. Our wide network of resellers also provides local service and support to keep your applications running smoothly at all times.
Along with our mobile computer and software solutions, Fujitsu also offers a wide variety of related hardware such as high-reliability servers and storage that meet the mission-critical requirements of today’s business environments.
The Fujitsu website has a detailed section that is dedicated to the healthcare industry. On the site, you’ll find a variety of case studies, products, events, and more – all geared towards providing solutions for the healthcare professional. The Fujitsu Healthcare page can be found here.
Scanner technology being used to archive medical information
HealthCare remains a paper-intensive and minimally automated and digitized industry. CBS Market watch reported that an estimated 90% of all patient information remains on paper. Widespread efforts are currently in process to scan paper records into electronic format.
Inherent problems associated with paper-based patient records include:
- A sizeable amount of money associated with healthcare is spent for administrative costs. The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 31 cents of every healthcare dollar is spent on administrative costs.
- Paper-based files are often lost or misfiled. As a result, physicians see patients an estimated 40% of the time without a completed chart.
- Physicians and staff spend a tremendous amount of time maintaining paper-based patient records.
- To remain competitive, HealthCare providers are looking for technology that can help them to improve overall healthcare, improve the accuracy of diagnosis, and expedite transaction processing.
- If the Health Care Quality Modernization, Cost Reduction and Quality Improvement Act is approved, it will mandate that all U.S. patient records be in an electronic format by 2011.
- Worldwide the healthcare industry is looking for technology that can establish on-line clinical repositories to enable rapid access to shared information that can help find cures for prevalent medical conditions.
To read the entire whitepaper about how these issues are being addressed by scanning, go to the HealthCare Document Imaging Trend Report.
Article emphasizes importance of PRIMEPOWER in the “Real World”
In an article recently posted on the ServerWatch website entitled “Server Snapshots: Fujitsu in the Real World”, author Drew Robb discusses how Fujitsu servers are used to consolidate the data centers of one of the nation's leading diversified providers of business information and related products and services. According to the article, “First American Real Estate Solutions (FARES) is using Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers to consolidate multiple data centers into two main facilities. In addition to simplifying IT management and improving overall disaster recovery (DR) capabilities, the consolidation has resulted in long-term cost savings and streamlined compliance processes.”
The article continues: "Fujitsu plays a key role in providing the reliability and scalability that our mission-critical business units require," says Evan Jafa, CTO of the First American Corporation, the parent of FARES. "Serving our financial services customers, who are concerned with compliance, security and cost savings, was among the primary drivers for consolidating our many data centers into two central data centers with a single, consistent infrastructure."
To read the entire article about how PRIMEPOWER and the TRIOLE strategy contribute to the company’s success, go to the ServerWatch link.
Addressing the thermal requirements of high-end servers
In the special “Innovative Manufacturing and Engineering” issue of the Fujitsu Scientific & Technical Journal (FSTJ), one of the white papers discusses in detail the cooling technologies developed for Fujitsu high-end servers. The paper describes the cooling methods at several different levels: server cabinet level, system board level, and CPU package level. In the paper, author Jie Wei describes “the thermal design and development methodology of Fujitsu’s high-performance server PW2500”.
Mr. Wei also details “cooling technologies and challenges in dealing with high-performance microprocessors having a high-density and asymmetric power dissipation. With the trend towards miniaturization, high performance, and high-density packaging, there will be continuing challenges in developing high-performance, high-efficiency thermal solutions. The industry faces a critical need to enhance conventional cooling technologies and develop more aggressive and cost-effective cooling technologies.”
To read the entire text of this fascinating article, go to the FSTJ website and select “15. Thermal Management of Fujitsu’s High-Performance Servers”. While you’re visiting the website, be sure to read any of the other articles that may pique your interest.