2003
- December 10, 2003
PDAs to Help Local Doctors
Corpus Christi Caller-Times - November 4, 2003
PatientKeeper Signs Nine Major Hospital Clients & Establishes New Partnerships
MobileInfo - November 2003
Healthcare Informatics
PatientKeeper Adds Partner - September 2, 2003
PDAs, PatientKeeper Team Up to Capture Lost Revenue
Health-IT World - August 19, 2003
PDAs Help Boost Hospital Revenue
Mobile Health Data - August 19, 2003
PatientKeeper Picked by Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mass High Tech - August 1, 2003
How Mobile Technology Can Help Solve the Nursing Shortage
iHealthBeat - July 28, 2003
PatientKeeper Wins Best Medical Application
CBS Newswatch - July 24, 2003
IBM and PatientKeeper Collaborate to Bring Wireless Solutions to Hospitals
PDA Live - July 22, 2003
IBM to Push Wireless
Health-IT World - July 21, 2003
IBM To Market PatientKeeper's Point-Of-Care Software
PDA Cortex — The Journal of Mobile Informatics - July 21, 2003
IBM to Resell PatientKeeper Applications
Health Data Management - July 17, 2003
Raleigh Hospital Adds Mobility
Health Data Management - July 15, 2003
A Doctor's PDA ... New System Helps Doctors Keep Patient Information Cose at Hand
The Baxter Bulletin - July 7, 2003
Hand-Held Health Care: Technology We Can't Ignore
Advance for Healthcare Information Professionals - July 2003
PatientKeeper, MedQuist Align
Advance for Healthcare Information Professionals - Winter 2003
Power in Your Hands - Why You Should Be Using a PDA
Humana's Your Practice - February 18, 2003
Hand-Held, Transcription Vendors Team Up
Health Data Management
December 10, 2003
PDAs to Help Local Doctors
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Information on patients will be in docs' pockets. Doctors hope to save time, improve accuracy and shorten hospital stays by using personal digital assistants to share information at the three Christus Spohn Health System facilities.
November 4, 2003
PatientKeeper Signs Nine Major Hospital Clients & Establishes New Partnerships
MobileInfo
PatientKeeper, a leading provider of mobile computing solutions for healthcare, announced today that orders for mobile enterprise solutions increased for the third straight quarter as healthcare providers recognize clinical and financial benefits from mobile computing. The Boston-based software firm said that during the third quarter of 2003, it added nine major hospital accounts and established several key partnerships.
November 2003
PatientKeeper Adds Partner
Healthcare Informatics
PatientKeeper Inc., Boston, a provider of mobile computing solutions, has partnered with Scheduling.com, Los Gatos, Calif., a provider of access management solutions. The companies will offer scheduling and other access-management services via the PatientKeeper Platform, which connects mobile devices with existing hospital information systems.
September 2, 2003
PDAs, PatientKeeper Team Up to Capture Lost Revenue
Health-IT World
Physicians know that clerical work is neither their forte nor their charge. As such, the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston wasn't completely surprised to learn it was missing 20% of the inpatient charges for which it should have been billing.
August 19, 2003
PDAs Help Boost Hospital Revenue
Mobile Health Data
Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital will use the PDA-based charge capture . Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital will use the PDA-based charge capture suite of applications from Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. Physicians can use the mobile software on PDAs running the Palm OS or Pocket PC operating systems to initiate automated billing. To do so, they check off on their mobile hardware diagnosis codes and services performed. The charge capture software features customized tools, such as a counter that displays the number of bills a physician has issued that day, and other alert features.
August 19, 2003
PatientKeeper Picked by Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mass High Tech
"The whole purpose [of the PDAs] is to really empower and to make the workflow efficient for the caregiver," Asif Ahmad, vice president and chief information officer for Duke University Health System, said. The PDAs now give more than 300 caregivers in DUHS immediate, wireless access to patient data.
Brighton-based PatientKeeper Inc. has been selected by the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital to supply mobile software for Palm OS and Pocket PC handhelds to physicians.
August 1, 2003
How Mobile Technology Can Help Solve the Nursing Shortage
iHealthBeat
The well-documented nursing shortage is a problem that all health care organizations face daily. To improve nurses' productivity and satisfaction, some hospitals have turned to technology as one potential solution. Dr. Dennis Mihale, medical director for mobile application provider PatientKeeper, says the real return on investment for mobile technologies will come from the nursing department.
July 28, 2003
PatientKeeper Wins Best Medical Application
Handango Honors the Best in Mobile Software with the Handango Champion Awards
CBS Newswatch
"The Handango Champion Awards is a rare opportunity to shine a spotlight on the exceptional developers and outstanding applications in the mobile software market," said Laura Rippy, chief executive officer of Handango. "We're thrilled to be able to recognize their achievement. We're also honored that such an elite panel of judges agreed to give their time to help recognize these companies whose work has made our lives more productive, portable and fun."
July 24, 2003
IBM and PatientKeeper Collaborate to Bring Wireless Solutions to Hospitals
PDA Live
IBM and PatientKeeper, Inc. have announced a significant expansion of wireless capabilities to help hospitals enhance patient care, reduce medical errors, and increase the job satisfaction of physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
July 22, 2003
IBM to Push Wireless
Health-IT World
IBM said it will push the wireless portfolio of PatientKeeper, bringing added marketing muscle from the computer giant to the world of healthcare. IBM said it plans to market and resell PatientKeeper's mobile platform, which is designed to give physicians the ability to view and add to an electronic patient record and access clinical decision-support information wirelessly via PDA. The move will integrate PatientKeeper into Big Blue's Wires and Mobility Solutions initiative, and it strengthens an existing relationship between the two companies. PatientKeeper now runs on IBM's WebSphere.
July 21, 2003
IBM To Market PatientKeeper's Point-Of-Care Software
PDA Cortex — The Journal of Mobile Informatics
IIBM and PatientKeeper, Inc. today announced a significant expansion of wireless capabilities to help hospitals enhance patient care, reduce medical errors, and increase the job satisfaction of physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
July 21, 2003
IBM to Resell PatientKeeper Applications
Health Data Management
IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y., will market and resell point-of-care software from Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. in an agreement designed to help the two vendors' wireless capabilities. The software includes wireless applications for electronic medical records, decision support and charge capture.
July 17, 2003
Raleigh Hospital Adds Mobility
Health Data Management
Raleigh (N.C.) Community Hospital will use hand-held clinical applications from PatientKeeper Inc., Boston. The 500-physician hospital, part of the Duke University Health System, chose the mobile software because it could integrate with its legacy information systems, says CEO Jim Knight.
July 15, 2003
A Doctor's PDA — New System Helps Doctors Keep Patient Information Cose at Hand
The Baxter Bulletin
As oncologist Dr. Bruce White makes his hospital rounds, he carries the medical records for all his patients in the palm of his hand, available at a keystroke. He's one of seven doctors and a nurse practitioner at Baxter Regional Medical Center testing the Cerner Millennium Mobile system that puts patient information into a Palm Pilot personal digital assistant (PDA). (Millennium Mobile is powered by PatientKeeper.)
July 7, 2003
Hand-Held Health Care: Technology We Can't Ignore
Advance for Healthcare Information Professionals
If knowledge is power, then one of medicine's most powerful tools is hand-held devices, or personal digital assistants (PDA). This new technology is saving lives, improving care and lowering costs.
July 2003
PatientKeeper, MedQuist Align
Advance for Healthcare Information Professionals
PatientKeeper, a provider of mobile computing solutions based in Boston, extended its agreement with Marlton, N.J.-based MedQuist to incorporate MedQuist's medical transcription capability to PatientKeeper mobile solutions. Representing a customer base of more than 50 percent of the nation's hospitals, MedQuist's extension of its transcription offerings will deliver high-demand functionality to PatientKeeper's hospital and health system customers.
Winter 2003
Power in Your Hands - Why You Should Be Using a PDA
Humana's Your Practice
Dennis Mihale, M.D., medical director of PatientKeeper, which provides a mobile computing solution for health care providers, further emphasized the patient safety benefits of PDAs. With all the information a doctor needs — drug interactions, contraindications, lab results and vital signs, PDAs are doing perhaps 80 percent of the double- and triple-checking for safety. "When doctors use technology, medicine is much better," he said.
February 18, 2003
Hand-Held, Transcription Vendors Team Up
Health Data Management
PatientKeeper Inc., a Brighton, Mass.-based vendor of hand-held computing devices and software for physicians, will offer medical transcription services from MedQuist Inc., Marlton, N.J. Under the partnership, physicians using PatientKeeper can dictate patient notes into the hand-held device and transmit the voice files to MedQuist transcriptionists either wirelessly or through a synchronization cradle. The physicians can dictate while reviewing clinical information on the hand-held if the dictation service is used in concert with PatientKeeper's clinical application suite of software. MedQuist touts a customer base of more than half of the nation's hospitals.