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Article: Premier Healthcare Alliance to Offer Members Mobile Technology to Improve Obstetric Safety, Communication.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- September 29, 2009
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The Premier healthcare alliance has contracted with AirStrip Technologies™, L.P. to offer its 2,200 hospitals members a mobile healthcare information technology (HIT) solution to improve obstetrical (OB) care, patient safety and communication among healthcare providers (see also Premier Inc.).
Premier's Purchasing Partners division is the first group purchasing organization to offer AirStrip OB™, which provides obstetricians and nurses with real-time, remote access to fetal and maternal waveform data, such as fetal heart rate and maternal contractions. This information can be accessed on mobile devices using cell phone connections, such as a ...