Inc., the Salt Lake City-based health information exchange (HIE) company, has announced iNexx, its new “Health 4.0” platform, which bridges systems, networks and people to create a care model that keeps the patient as the focus at all times. iNexx connects cloud services, bricks-and-mortar clinical, administrative, and financial networks, local applications such as PMS and EMRs, and the community of people that care for the patient. With a store of Medicity-developed and third-party partner apps, providers can collaborate and coordinate care in a secure professional social network and achieve meaningful use of health information technology rapidly and cost-effectively.
GE Healthcare has introduced Qualibria, its new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets. The result of a multi-year collaboration between GE, Intermountain Healthcare and the Mayo Clinic, Qualibria gives clinicians more control over patient outcomes by bringing together real-time data from existing IT systems and comparing these data against shared baselines of evidence-based best practices.
Phytel, of Dallas, a leader in physician-led health improvement has announced that the Riverside Medical Group, a 350-doctor practice based in Newport News, VA has adopted Phytel’s Proactive Patient Outreach to help improve patient outcomes and ensure that all of its patients receive recommended preventive and chronic disease care. The large multi-specialty group initially provided Phytel’s service to 47 of its primary-care physicians, starting last August. It recently added three endocrinologists and plans to roll out the service to 50 more providers in the near future.
eClinicalWorks, of Westborough, Mass., maker of ambulatory clinical systems, announced an option of on-demand deployment of the eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) system and complimentary eClinicalWorks solutions. This will remove the wait time for installation by allowing self-activation of the EMR/PM system and add-on services including Patient Portal, Enterprise Business Optimizer (eBO), eClinicalWorks P2P, eClinicalMobile and eClinicalMessenger.
Evolute Consolidated Holdings has acquired Denver-based MidTech Partners, in a move designed to further expand Evolute’s offerings to the healthcare industry. Evolute will now have offices in Kirkland, WA, Denver, and New York, with staff throughout the US, all focused on Microsoft platform solutions facilitating integration and compliance management in areas such as Chronic Condition Management, HIPAA 5010, care team collaboration and business process automation.
ThingMagic, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., a leading developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, has announced that its enterprise class Astra UHF Readers have been deployed at the new Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center in Burbank, Calif. The Astra readers are included as part of an innovative RFID solution designed to reduce patient anxiety and improve the workflow between clinicians, patients and administrators.
Proofpoint, Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., the leading provider of SaaS and on-premises email security, email archiving, and data loss prevention solutions, announced that University Hospital of Zurich (USZ), one of the largest and most important teaching hospitals in Europe, has deployed the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway email security appliance to provide inbound threat protection and secure file transfer capabilities for 7,000 user mailboxes.
Cellular Specialties, Inc. (CSI), of Manchester, NH, has announced that Florida’s Lee Memorial Health System has chosen CSI products and solutions to ensure reliable, in-building wireless service throughout two facilities.
Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), of Charlotte, NC, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc. has announced the availability of Amelior 360° Hand Hygiene, a unique, auto-id hand hygiene monitoring solution for meeting stringent hand hygiene compliance requirements.
Praxis Electronic Medical Records, of Canoga Park, Calif., has selected MedUnity, an innovator with the first public Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE), as Its Exclusive HIE and Fax Services Provider for the forthcoming Praxis 5.
PositiveID Corporation of Delray Beach, Fla. has announced that it has entered into a partnership with FIS, one of the world’s largest providers of banking and payments technology, to launch the company’s next generation Health Link personal health record. The new Health Link, which is now live, will be interoperable with Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health, as well as numerous electronic medical records systems in use throughout the country.
Zynx Health, based in Los Angeles, which provides evidence- and experience-based clinical decision support, announced the successful deployment of ZynxOrder and ZynxCare at Metro Health Hospital in Wyoming, MI. Metro Health used ZynxOrder and ZynxCare to customize evidence-based order sets and plans of care, and to improve adherence to standardized content and guidelines.
Emergisoft, of Arlington, Texas, is pleased to announce the release of Emergisoft EC Forms Digital Solution, a powerful application that provides physicians with a portable electronic, customizable, template-style physician documentation modality that converts the template choices and notes into a narrative natural language chart. The solution is designed specifically for physicians and is distinct from the hospital’s EHR, allowing emergency physicians to document in a way that is most comfortable for them.
TeleHealth Services, of Raleigh, NC, which manufactures healthcare grade televisions and on-demand interactive patient education solutions, has announced an extended partnership with Alegent Health of TK. Building upon an existing relationship, Alegent has chosen TeleHealth Services as their interactive patient education and entertainment partner in the health system’s unprecedented “Generation Patient” enhancement initiative.
Connexall, the Toronto-based developer of integrated communications software, has announced its strategic partnership with Voalté, of Sarasota, Fla., a leading developer of innovative point-of-care communications software on the iPhone and other smartphone platforms.
Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), of Nashville, which helps leverage complete data across clinical settings to aid decision-making and improve patient outcomes, announced that its CareAlign technology was selected by Tennessee-based Cumberland Pediatrics Independent Practice Association.
AFC Industries, the College Point, NY manufacturer of ergonomic medical and technical furniture, debuted the PC 910 Point-of-Care Cart at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Atlanta this week. The PC 910 is designed to support long-term computer use across multiple shifts by accommodating today’s all-in-one computers.
Guard RFID Solutions Inc. of Delta, BC, has entered a distribution agreement with Virtual Doxx Corporation of Gaithersburg, MD to provide its next generation RFID platform to the company’s government and commercial customers. Virtual Doxx’s client base includes the US Department of State, US Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Defense, State of Massachusetts Court System, John Hopkins and Coca Cola.
gloStream, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based maker of gloEMR, gloPM and gloSuite has announced that it will integrate Microsoft Office 2010 into gloEMR upon the general availability of the new Office suite. The announcement was made during the HIMSS Conference. gloStream solutions are built on the .NET Framework, leverage the power of Microsoft SQL Server and come standard with Microsoft Office embedded within the application. The outcome for gloStream’s physician clients are solutions that are powerful, familiar, easy to learn and use, and fully customizable.
athenahealth Inc., of Watertown, Mass., a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices has announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with U.S. Bancorp and its subsidiary, Elavon, to launch a new Integrated Payment Processing service that will include a new Credit Card Plus (CCP) solution for athenahealth physician clients nationwide. The comprehensive payment processing service has been designed to streamline patient paper check and credit card transactions to enable an improved and secure checkout process for physicians and their patients.
GE Healthcare has announced the launch of its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform – an infrastructure offering that includes expanded services for health information exchange, a clinical portal and a patient health management system. Showcased this week at HIMSS, the new platform is designed for international as well as domestic customers and can be adapted for regional markets in either hosted or deployed models.
Viztek, of Garner, NC, a single-source digital imaging specialist, has introduced a fully cloud-based, pay-per-use offering to its popular family of Opal PACS solutions for radiology and orthopedic departments. These new virtual solutions provide the same advanced features and functionalities synonymous with the Viztek name, while capitalizing on the benefits of today’s ultra-fast Internet technology and popular cloud architecture.
SourceMedical, the Wallingford, Conn.-based provider of ambulatory surgery, specialty hospital, and therapy application software, has announced plans to deliver a hosted application specifically for ambulatory surgery center (ASCs). Viewed as a critical part of helping ASCs leverage technology to respond to economic and reimbursement challenges, while improving service to patients and physicians, Source Medical’s Vision and Vision EHR are the first number of new products are in development that will leverage the benefits of a web based environment.
CoActiv, the Ridgfield, Conn.-based enterprise image and data management specialist has launched its advanced EXAM-PACS web-based PACS. The company has announced a cloud-based option that will enable secure, anytime, anywhere live access to its EXAM-PACS application and PACS images and data over the Internet. At the same time, it debuts a unique mobile Apple iPhone/ iPad technology that can connect via a virtual private network (VPN) over an airline WiFi connection to enable secure medical image review in the clouds at 30,000 feet.
Royal Philips Electronics has announced collaboration with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and advanced clinical decision support offerings that drive efficiency and effectiveness at the point of care. Working together, the companies aim to integrate technologies that will yield faster delivery of meaningful health information, further improve healthcare efficiency and productivity, and reduce development and infrastructure costs.
GE Healthcare has announced that customers of its eHealth Information Exchange (HIE) will be able to view reports on healthcare quality at the provider level, state level and information exchange level based entirely on information collected from participating HIEs and providers later this year. This planned capability will allow organizations to gain greater insight into the quality of care they provide and serve as a foundation for quality improvement.
ARAMARK Healthcare, of Philadelphia announced it has been chosen by Provena Health System to provide clinical technology services for the 1,500 bed, six hospital system serving Illinois and Indiana.
TCS Healthcare Technologies, the Auburn, Calif. maker of medical management software applications, has released its latest version of the Acuity Advanced Care (ACUITY) platform. TCS currently supports over 35 diverse and dynamic customers through its health IT applications. Alicare Medical Management (AMM), a TCS customer for the past 12 years, will be one of the first TCS customers to upgrade to the most recent version of ACUITY 5.5.
Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. of Chesterfield, Mo., announced that it has added U.S. Bank Healthcare Payment Management (HPM) to its slate of client solutions. HPM is a Web-based, peer-reviewed payment tool designed to help hospitals and other healthcare providers increase revenue, reduce bad debt and improve processes.