Morning Headlines 2/15/13
QPID Launches EHR Search Engine
QPID, an EHR search engine, analytics, and real-time reporting tool for EHRs, launches appropriately enough on Valentine’s Day. The venture is a Massachusetts General Hospital spinoff and will be led by CEO Mike Doyle, formerly of Medsphere.
North Memorial’s use of Health Catalyst technology reduces its rate of elective pre-39 week deliveries by 75 percent in just six months, from 1.2 percent to 0.3 percent of all births.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center will implement TeraMedica’s Evercore Clinical Enterprise Suite to archive radiology and cardiology images across the health system.
Perinatal clinical decision support vendor PeriGen appoints Thomas J. Garite, MD as chief clinical officer. He is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of OBGYN.
