Siemens, Zynx Health strengthen evidence-based nursing

Siemens Medical Solutions and Zynx Health Inc., a subsidiary of The Hearst Corp. and a developer of electronic evidence-based knowledge products, has inked an agreement that supports evidenced-based nursing.
   
Under the agreement, Siemens will incorporate Zynx Health's nursing evidence into Siemens clinical applications, with special emphasis on established nursing performance measures, their impact and associated process issues, Siemens said.    

Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

Trimed Popup
Trimed Popup