The MidSouth eHealth Alliance: use and impact in the first year.

The MidSouth e-Health Alliance is a health information exchange that has been in use in the Memphis, Tennessee region since May, 2006. This health information exchange took two years to develop from the time it was initially conceived. Following on the work done by the Indianapolis project, the MidSouth e-Health Alliance focused initially on implementations in emergency departments throughout this region.

A regional health information exchange: architecture and implementation.

The MidSouth eHealth Alliances health information exchange in Memphis, Tennessee provides access to data on almost 1 million individuals. The effort is the product of a comprehensive, integrated approach to technology and policy that emphasizes patient-centered use, low-cost, flexibility, and rigorous privacy and confidentiality policies and practices It is used in emergency departments and other major clinical settings. This paper provides a high-level overview of the system and its use.

[Prevention and treatment of bacterial infection by the recombinant human granulocytic colony-stimulating factor in newborns].

An impact on the immune system is a principally new trend in optimizing the prevention and treatment of neonatal sepsis. The purpose of the case study was to investigate the clinical efficiency of neipogene. The study comprised 33 mature newborns with respiratory pathology and perinatal CNS lesion, who were at the artificial lung ventilation (ALV).