Bayfront Medical Center Selects CareFocus From Thomson Reuters Corporation as Its Clinical Surveillance Solution. Bayfront Medical Center has selected Clinical Xpert CareFocus from Thomson Reuters as its clinical surveillance solution for improving Core Measures outcomes and patient safety indicator (PSI) scores while also supporting infection control and pharmacy intervention initiatives. CareFocus (formerly MercuryMD) uses real-time data to identify patients deemed 'at-risk' based on pre-set criteria. Using hospital-defined clinical profiles, CareFocus continuously monitors patients' laboratory results, vital signs, medications, diagnoses, and a host of other clinical data elements. When patients meet a specific profile's criteria, CareFocus automatically notifies clinicians--via mobile and desktop devices--so they can intervene immediately.

The European Union's executive has launched an anti-trust probe into news group Thomson Reuters Corporation, to investigate whether its real-time business data feeds may be set up to keep competitors out of the market. If found guilty, the company could face a heavy fine and be forced to change its system. The commission's concerns have been raised by Reuters' use of its RICs, short codes which identify securities and the markets on which they are traded. The codes allow clients to follow in real time the evolution of share prices. But the commission fears that the Reuters system might block clients from comparing the RICs with equivalent codes used by other news suppliers. If that were the case, 'customers may potentially be 'locked' in to working with Thomson Reuters because replacing RICs by reconfiguring or by rewriting their software applications can be a long and costly procedure,'.

Thomson Reuters Corporation announced the newest release of Clinical Xpert(TM) CareFocus, a clinical surveillance solution that enables hospitals to identify at-risk patients in real-time and respond immediately to improve clinical quality and reduce total cost of treatment. This upgrade is available to current CareFocus customers at no additional cost. CareFocus 2.0 contains several powerful enhancements that improve clinical quality and efficiency. New features include forms capture, e-mail and text notifications, and additional searchable data elements and pre-configured profiles that target Patient Safety Indicators and Never Events (those eventsthatnevershould occur such as serious disability associated with a medication error).