Taking Medical Records to Heart
MIAMI, FL - Imagine technology that would allow you and your family to immediately and easily access your child's medical information - including surgical photos and information about hospitalization - all at the touch of a button. At the Congenital Heart Institute at Miami Children's Hospital, that technology is already in place.

Saving Even More Lives Through Data Technology
MIAMI, FL - Miami Children's Hospital is a national leader in utilizing information technology to enhance care and safety. In fact, Miami Children's Hospital was a finalist for a recent Hospital & Health Network's Innovator Award for a revolutionary new system that has boosted the ...

Now We’re Talking
FRAMINGHAM, MA — In this era of high-tech medicine, computers can be found everywhere from the medication trolley to the operating room, but busy practitioners are often not in a position to use keyboards and mice. Sometimes the better option is to use a sophisticated interface that has evolved over millions of years — the human voice ...

Miami Children's puts medical records online
DEERFIELD BEACH, FL — Miami Children's Hospital is the first hospital in Florida, and possibly the nation, to give patients online access to their medical records, thanks to a program developed by a local business...

Electronic Medical Record System Improves Physician Efficiency in the ICU
MIAMI, FL - When I first arrived at Miami Children's Hospital in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Patient Notes were being written by hand. Hand written notes are very prone to error, due to the inconsistency of format, and the illegibility of ...

Weak Speech Recognition Leaves Customers Cold
NEW YORK, NY — Recently, a potential Amtrak customer called the company's automated phone system to get fare information. Here's how the conversation went...

New Operations in Speech 
SOMERS, N.Y. — Miami Children's Hospital, a world leader in pediatric health care, has a medical staff of more than 650 physicians and over 2,000 employees. The hospital specializes in all aspects of pediatric medical care from birth through adolescence. Although the hospital draws children with very specific needs from all over the world, it is also the only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children in South Florida...

IBM® and Teges Corporation Partner to Provide Pediatric ICU with Software 
SOMERS, N.Y. — IBM announced it will provide Teges Corporation, a developer of Web-based information for Intensive Care Units, with IBM WebSphere® software that can enable doctors making their rounds to enter or access patient information using speech, a keyboard or handwriting via handheld, slate tablet PCs. IBM's software works with an integrated clinical information system that provides physicians and other healthcare providers instant access to patient data through a Web interface...

Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
Interview with Christine L. White, President and CEO of Teges Corporation regarding market trend and future of the company....

GAINESVILLE, FL - Technology from Teges Corporation enables researchers at the McKnight Center for Traumatic Brain Injury Studies to track patient outcomes in real time by connecting them at the bedside, laboratory and ICU. They can capture, organize, and analyze patient information at any time, regardless of their geographic location.

Integrating technologies improves infant survival rates
Combining clinical information systems with point-of-care diagnostics has led to a 74% reduction in infant mortality rates amongst highest-risk groups, and a 63% drop in deaths overall, according to data presented at the 4th World Congress on Paediatric Intensive Care by Miami Children’s Hospital...

Teges Corporation and i-STAT Corporation (Nasdaq:STAT) today announce that the integration of two technologies has led to dramatic improvements in patient care of infants who have undergone congenital heart surgery.

PDAs will play an important role in clinical care, but their reach is still an unknown 
The industry has its eyes on a new generation of PDA pilot tests and rollouts - as clinicians look for practical benefits, and vendors search for profit...

FOR THE DOCTOR'S TOUCH, HELP IN THE HAND
Doctors and nurses are increasingly using hand-held organizers instead of clipboards to record patient information in hospitals; information is sent by wireless modem to servers elsewhere in the hospital and is accessible through a password-protected...

UTILITY PLAYERS: PDAS STEP UP TO THE PLATE
Personal digital assistants aren't a home-run product for many doctors, but they appear to have at least gone beyond the role of pinch hitter. Studies show that while doctors have taken to PDAs in large numbers....

PDA-VILLE
Like all professionals, doctors are interested in how PDAs can help them in their practice. But most are still sitting on their hands. Initially, handheld computers—especially Web-enabled devices—seemed to be a perfect tool for doctors...

SAVING LIVES WITH PDAs
NEW YORK - Doctors and hospitals seem to use personal digital assistants mainly for billing and keeping schedules. But Redmond Burke, a Miami heart surgeon, sees the devices as life-saving tools that allow him...