AstroNutrition Health & Fitness Blog

RFID tags on medication introduced in US: "US regulators the Food and Drug Administration have released guidance for the attachment of RFID tags to drug packaging in order to ensure 'that the drugs available in the United States are among the safest in the world.'

'Radio Frequency Identification technology is an innovative response to the challenge of counterfeit drugs,' said Health and Human Secretary Tommy G Thompson. "

Physician Micro Systems, Inc. (PMSI) the creator of the Practice Partner line of electronic health record, practice management system, and computerized physician order entry software applications for ambulatory care practices received the InvestMed 2004 Award of Distinction for Most Complete Fully-Integrated Clinical System.



InvestMed's 2004 Annual Medical Software Comparison Matrix provides corporate and reseller information and compares and scores the practice management features, appointment scheduler features, electronic medical record features, HIPAA features, and KLAS scores of 20 medical software vendors. Please see the attached press release for more information.



Link: www.pmsi.com

A head's up for two nursing sites that have been brought to my attention.



www.nursetown.com is a nuring portal website with information about nursing jobs in hospitals, travel nursing jobs, RN jobs, LPN jobs and resources regarding nurse employment.



www.travelnursingusa.com is a site specialising in travel nursing jobs for the USA travel nurse.

Microsoft Develop Standard Clinical Systems Interface For NPfIT: "The NHS is to benefit from a �40 million development effort by Microsoft Corporation to develop a health specific user interface for clinical systems which will improve patient care and safety across the NHS, it was announced today."

Electronic medical records are taking root locally: "In New York's Hudson Valley, more than 600,000 patients are blazing a trail with a new regional medical-information network that lets area hospitals, doctors, labs and pharmacies share medical records securely over the Internet. "