Facilities choose MercuryMD mobile information systems

Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Ill., has selected MercuryMD's mobile information system enabling physicians to have anywhere, anytime access to patient information via mobile devices equipped with MData Mobile. The nation's fifth largest children's hospital, Columbus Children's Hospital in Ohio, has also chosen MercuryMD's MData Enterprise mobile information system. Both facilities also will deploy MData CareFocus, a product that assists hospitals in prospectively identifying their high-risk patient populations, and automatically delivers clinical information about these patient populations to physicians' mobile devices.

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