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July
31, 2007 - Awarix is proud to be part of McKesson
McKesson
Corporation (NYSE:MCK) today announced the signing of a definitive
agreement to acquire Awarix, Inc., one of the first companies
to offer an enterprise patient care visibility system.
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January
2007 - Alabama Hospital Speeds Cleaning with Visual System
The
EVS staff at St. Vincent's Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama,
wanted a more efficient way to do thier work and to help the
hospital improve capacity management. With the installation
of a patient care visibility system from Awarix, they were
able to do just that. Click
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December
2006 - Solving Hospital Capacity Problems, Beyond Band-Aids
After
trying to improve patient throughput via increased physical
and staff capacity in emergency departments and
operating rooms, hospital administrators then realize that
they must actually begin to focus not just on increasing
upfront capacity but on getting patients discharged from the
hospital more efficiently as well. Click
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September
2006 - Awarix Awarded Outstanding IT Enabling Solution for
Healthcare Enterprises
Frost
& Sullivan selected Awarix as the recipient of the 2006
North American Healthcare Information Technologies Enabling
Technology of the Year Award for providing a solution that
enhances communication and visibility across healthcare organizations
and effectively solves deep capacity problems. Click
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July
2006 - Advance for Health Information Executives
SAMC
uses Awarix to manage capacity more effectively by taking
information from existing clinical systems and from location
systems whereby radio frequency identification (RFID) technology
is used to track patient locations. Then touch-screen data
entry creates a synthesized single view, increasing awareness
of patient care status in real time across the enterprise.
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July
2006 - Advance for Nurses
When SAMC discovered Awarix's enterprise patient care visibility
systems, they knew they were onto something. These systems
provide all staff members — nurses, management, facilities
staff members and others — with around-the-clock, real-time
information about patient location, test results, patient
safety issues (i.e., fall risk, oxygen status) and expected
discharge time.
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July
2006 - Executive Housekeeping Today
Capacity
management has become an increasing concern for hospitals
nation wide. South Alabama Medical Center has actively taken
on the challenge of dealing with capacity through the implementation
of Awarix's patient care visibility system. Click
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April
2006 - Health Data Management
CIO's have a long list of short term I.T. needs. For the most
part I.T. projects keep CIOs busy, but one tends to breed
another. CIOs look to build off successful information technology
projects by adding more tools to gain efficiencies and improve
care processes.
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March
2006 - Successful Installation in Germany
Awarix announced it's first international deployment at newly
opened Barmbek Hospital, a digital Hospital of the Future,
in Hamburg, Germany.
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March
2006 - Patient Safety and Quality
A patient care visibility system takes information from existing
systems and makes it more readily accessible at a glance.
Patient care visibility is achieved by deploying large screen
displays using LCD panels and projectors in every nursing
unit with views of bed control and physicians’' lounges,
and also with enterprise desktop access.
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November
2005 - Birmingham Business Journal
Patient tracking software replaces traditional manual white
boards with plasma screens and liquid crystal display projectors,
providing a map of the actual nursing floor that details every
single room and what is happening in a privacy-sensitive way.
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October
2005 - Health Data Management
RFID technology has assumed the mantle of the latest and greatest
I.T. RFID systems compromise radio frequency readers- hand
held devices or mounted receivers similar to wireless access
points and RFID tags that contain microchips and antennas.
RFID tags, unlike bar codes can be read even if they are hidden
from sight.
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October
2005 - Patient Safety
One of the
early applications of RFID in hospitals has been patient locator
systems. Awarix makes a system to track patient movement using
RFID technology.
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October
2005 - Health Data Management
Hospitals
use RFID systems to track patients and monitor when they arrive
and leave differnet departments. The RFID system is integrated
with a patient management system that collects data from various
information systems and provides an on-screen virtual floor
plan of the facility.
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September
2005 - Birmingham Medical News
St. Vincent's is the flagship digital hospital for Ascension
Health, the nations largest nonprofit health system.
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June
2005 - HFMA
The St. Vincent's throughput committee was chartered to implement
process changes, technology solutions, and measurement instruments
to improve enterprise patient through put.
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April
2005 - The Birmingham News
The Awarix technology uses data St. Vincent's already collects
electronically, such as the computerized prescription system
and synthesizes the information from various programs into
a single visual format.
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November
2004 - Mobile Health Data
Using RFID to maximize resource utilization,streamline patient
flow and increase staff efficiency.
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November
2004 - Healthcare IT News
The electronic whiteboard brings together information from
clinical, admissions and discharge, transportation and location
systems in map displays.
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