New Health IT Products and Tools 2015

Health IT ProductsThere are new and improved products for health information technology being developed everyday. The following are announcements and launches of upgraded or new health IT products recently publicized.

SCOTTeVEST Tech-Enabled Clothing Reinvents the Lab Coat for the 21st Century
SCOTTeVEST (SeV) (@scottevest) is well known for incorporating gadget friendly pockets into their stylish clothing line. While many customers may use a SCOTTeVEST for travel, the company has had a strong following with doctors and medical professionals since it was founded in 2000. Until now, SCOTTeVESTs were strictly off-duty clothing for MDs, but that has changed with the launch of SeV’s new Lab Coats available for men and women. The same multi-pocket, gadget-oriented engineering philosophy behind SeV’s outerwear line has been applied to redesign the lab coat for the first time since its invention in the 1800s, with the incorporation of 16 purposeful pockets.

medQ Introduces their Q/ris 3000 Structured Report Module
medQ, Inc. (@medq_inc), a leading provider of EHR driven workflow solutions for radiology announced the introduction of their new workflow productivity step, DICOM Structured Reporting. The Q/ris 3000 Structured Report module provides users the capability to set up specific structured reporting tables and have these tables be automatically populated with data direct from modality. The program has the capability to receive DICOM SR data from all modalities; including; US, Mammography, DEXA, CT and MRI. These data can be reviewed for completeness and accuracy, modified on line by the technologists, and then forwarded to be automatically included in the radiologist’s report. Specialty data, such as, contrast and radiation dosage can also be automatically downloaded for inclusion into the patient record and final report.

ITUS Med Introduces Patient Data Security App
In a move to make the protection of patient data easier and more secure, ITUS Med (@ITUSMed) has launched a new compliance software solution to provide end-to-end encryption of patient healthcare information in an easy-to-use app. The ITUS Med solution provides patients and healthcare facilities with maximum security for protected healthcare information that extends to all communications and transactions between facilities, physicians and patients. ITUS Med protects patient data all the way to the end user’s device for keyboard-to-keyboard security, for full compliance with the security element of Meaningful Use II.

FDB Releases Web API Solution to Enable Fast, Reliable and Secure Access to FDB Drug Knowledge in the Cloud
First Databank (FDB) (@FDB_US), the leading provider of clinical drug knowledge that improves medication-related decisions and patient outcomes, announced the general release of the FDB Cloud Connector™, a web API solution that effectively delivers FDB’s vast drug knowledge through high performing and highly available web services that are easily integrated into today’s mission-critical healthcare applications from client-server to mobile.