Allscripts has announced the Application Store & Exchange (ASX) and the Allscripts Referral Network (ARN), two innovations to help hospitals and physician groups share ideas and information to improve care coordination, both inside and outside their organizations. ASX enables Allscripts clients, partners and other organizations to add to the company's open product platform, while ARN makes it easy to deliver seamless electronic patient referrals within the Allscripts client base of 180,000 physicians, 1,500 hospitals and 10,000 post acute care organizations.
Phoenix Health Systems has announced that New Mexico Heart Institute (NMHI) in Albuquerque has renewed its agreement with Phoenix for full IT Outsourcing services for five more years. Phoenix will continue to provide NMHI with IT leadership, project governance, server management, network engineering services, service desk, and enhanced clinical desktop services.
TeraMedica has announced that Froedtert Health, a regional health care organization based in southeastern Wisconsin, has begun installation TeraMedica's Evercore Enterprise Vendor Neutral Architecture (VNA).
Anvita Health has introduced CDSPLUS, an advanced real-time clinical decision support solution that includes all 44 meaningful use (MU) clinical quality measures for eligible professionals, and delivers an at-a-glance in-depth view of the patient's current medical profile. The Anvita Health CDSPLUS solution calculates the MU quality measures at a patient level in sub-second time, or on a population basis in minutes to hours, depending on the patient volume and additional analysis criteria.
Lincor Solutions has announced its partnership with audio-video-IT systems integrator AVNET, which will enable Lincor to offer its revolutionary MEDIVista to hospitals anywhere in North America. MEDIVista enables doctors to easily access patient records and more efficiently manage patient care, while giving patients a variety of entertainment and informational content.
Northrop Grumman has introduced a mobile application available to U.S. military veterans that enables secure access to health information and records from a mobile device. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-developed "Blue Button" capability allows VA patients to download their personal health information through their VA MyHealtheVet account to share with medical providers.
DICOM Grid has announced that its flagship cloud-based medical imaging management platform provided authorized physicians and healthcare facilities with access to more than 2 million imaging studies during its first year of production. The patented, vendor-neutral platform enables secure easy access and sharing of high-fidelity and low-latency images, data and reports to facilitate timely diagnosis, treatment and care collaboration.
Software AG has introduced its HIPAA Link and HL7 eStandard modules. HIPAA Link is a comprehensive and highly scalable solution that allows an organization to receive, parse, and validate all mandated HIPAA transactions and generate appropriate acknowledgements for HIPAA 5010, 4010, and 4010 A1 standards. The HL7 eStandard module facilitates the hassle-free exchange of healthcare data between different systems. It integrates with applications, retrieves needed information, formats and validates it to the HL7 standard, and delivers it to stakeholders inside and outside the organization.
Covisint has announced that more than 50 third-party applications are now available on Covisint AppCloud. AppCloud is Covisint's secure and trusted third-party application marketplace, enabling the quick access to a wide range of software-as-a-service applications for more than 200 integration partners.
Scottsdale Healthcare announced that it is protecting approximately 5,000 mailboxes in the cloud with Proofpoint Enterprise Protection and Proofpoint Enterprise Privacy. The healthcare organization needed spam and encryption technologies that were easy to implement, easy for users, and simple to maintain. Additionally, Scottsdale Healthcare recognized the benefits of Proofpoint's cloud solution for privacy, helping the organization to easily comply with stringent privacy mandates such as HIPAA/HITECH and other regulations.
Capsule has announced it now supports Stryker's new wireless smart bed to connect patient data from Stryker smart beds directly into hospital Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Using Capsule's Enterprise Device Connectivity Solution, featuring the Capsule Neuron platform and DataCaptor software, important data from Stryker's smart beds are automatically integrated into the hospital's EMR, such as weight, bed exit status, iBed Awareness status, side rail positions, possible restraint condition, brake status, bed height, head of bed angle, supine and vascular positions, Braden scores, and workflow protocol information (e.g., patient turns).
Verizon Wireless and Zipit Wireless, a pioneer in next generation connected platform solutions, have introduced the Zipit Enterprise Critical Messaging Solution, a two-way paging system available exclusively from Verizon Wireless. The solution consists of a unique messaging device, a cloud-based hosted environment and a communications infrastructure designed to meet the needs of pager customers including those in the healthcare industry. The device operates on Verizon Wireless’ nationwide 3G network and Wi-Fi networks to provide the broadest possible coverage to ensure that messages get delivered.
VitalHealth Software has announced the beta testing availability of VitalHealth EHR for Practices version 1.8, the latest version of its electronic health record (EHR) solution for small practices. This version offers a range of new features and functionality upgrades designed to meet meaningful use requirements. The company also announced that it is broadening its beta program for the product, inviting small practices across the nation to use the latest version of the EHR and provide feedback for on-going enhancements to the product.
Agilex has announced that it is a recipient of a VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2) award from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It was selected to lead a project at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center that will extend core capabilities of the VistA electronic health record (EHR) system to mobile devices. This project will serve as a pilot for VA to evaluate strategies and technologies for providing clinicians with secure, on-demand access to clinical information via smart phones and tablets.
Kronos Incorporated has announced that Grady Health System, one of the largest public hospitals in the U.S., is saving time and money by staffing more effectively with its mobile scheduling application. Part of the next generation of workforce management solutions from Kronos, the mobile application allows managers to instantly engage with employees to fill open shifts quickly using a variety of mobile devices.
VisionShare has announced that it has renamed itself ABILITY Network and introduced additional services designed to enable healthcare professionals to improve patient safety, provide better patient care, and navigate the changes associated with healthcare and payment reform. As ABILITY, the company will continue to leverage that existing network to provide services that will increase the quality of patient care, improve patient safety, and reduce the cost of providing care by decreasing length of patient stays and helping prevent unnecessary, redundant tests and treatments not addressed by current technologies.
MedeAnalytics has issued its Accountable Care Organizations Technology Framework. The framework enumerates and describes the technology components needed for both Medicare and commercial ACOs. It is based on public policy analysis, input from providers and payers currently developing ACOs, and extensive market research, including literature review and nationwide focus groups involving many payer and provider organizations which are leaders in the ACO area.
Oneview Ltd has announced a Joint Venture and Operating Agreement with CliniLinc, Inc., a United States based healthcare company. CliniLinc, Inc. is a health and medical information systems, solutions and technologies company, specializing in the development and delivery of integrated healthcare solutions for hospitals, physicians, and a broad base of medical and clinical environments.
Health Language has launched LEAP I-10 (Language Engine Access Portal I-10). LEAP I-10 is an affordable, easy-to-use, scalable solution that simplifies the conversion from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM. It provides organization-specific, actionable intelligence gleaned from real-world migration simulations based on the organization's actual data.
SeeMyRadiology.com has introduced an extended Web API (application programming interface) for its popular Internet-based, real time medical image sharing platform. The first of its kind in the healthcare IT industry, the new interface provides secure access to all functionality and data within the site and offers third party developers broad possibilities to integrate and leverage the power of SeeMyRadiology.com’s image management and sharing capabilities within their applications.
idOnDemand has debuted its mobile device access solution. The latest feature to idOnDemand’s managed identity service allows authorized users to securely gain access to hospital and patient data from their mobile device or tablet computer by simply touching their ID card to the device and entering a PIN. For the first time, one identity card can be used for building access, visual identification and to securely gain access to patient data and clinical systems.
Covisint has announced its partnership with HealthShare Montana, a non-profit statewide initiative focused on the exchange of healthcare information. The partnership offers Montana health providers secure access to patients' medical and administrative information at the point of care.
Motion Computing has announced that the Motion C5v Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) is now available with the Intel Core i3 processor. This new option makes a lower entry price point available for healthcare organizations that require the durability, integrated features and ergonomic design of the C5v, but do not need the advanced systems management capabilities of the Intel i5 or i7 vPro processors.
Wavelink Corporation has announced it is expanding its device management offering for healthcare applications. Wavelink Avalanche enables healthcare organizations to secure and manage all the mobile devices on their network to allow caregivers better, faster access to data while helping maintain HIPAA compliance.
eClinicalWorks and BayCare Health System, the largest community-based health system in the Tampa Bay area, have announced that they have partnered to provide eClinicalWorks’ comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) solution to BayCare’s approximately 3,000 physicians.
Optimal Solutions has announced that Blodgett Hospital, a Michigan based patient care facility, has contracted with it to install eVideon Healthcare; a complete IP-based interactive television system. The installation will replace Blodgett’s current RF analog television distribution system.
Healthcare Productivity Automation has announced it is demonstrating its new real-time management dashboard for its Health Mason automation solutions. The dashboard offers a powerful new way for Health Mason users to obtain instant updates and data analytics of all system activity in real time.
Orion Health has announced its partnership with Logicworks, a provider of high availability and private cloud hosting solutions, to provide the highest standard of security for organizations using the Orion Health Health Information Exchange SaaS model. The partnership allows Orion Health to offer HIEs the maximum security of patient data and ensure efficient operational progress using Logicworks’ solution, which will help them to achieve cost effective patient outcomes.
Gemalto has announced that the Seattle Children’s Hospital has implemented its Protiva security solutions, including the Strong Authentication Server, two factor authentication devices and technical support services, to securely access its servers, networks and VPNs. It will equip 4,500 clinicians and IT administrators with Gemalto’s convenient portable multifactor authentication capability.
EDIMS has announced the release of EDIMS QuickNav. The electronic health record solution automates ED documentation, order entry, patient tracking and charge capture while enabling facilities to deliver higher quality care efficiently and cost effectively.
Novell has announced the Novell Sentinel Healthcare Solution Pack, a unified solution for healthcare organizations to manage overlapping and cumbersome compliance requirements related to security monitoring. Healthcare providers will have the policies and controls needed to lay the foundation for a comprehensive compliance solution to addresses a broad assortment of regulations. To accomplish this, Novell partnered with CynergisTek, an IT security consultancy and solutions firm with more than a decade of service to the healthcare industry.
Practice Fusion has launched iPad access, teaming with with LogMeIn, the remote access software company, to bring iPad access to the Practice Fusion community. The iPad solution is an affordable, secure and easy way for medical professionals to stay connected on the go.
DICOM Grid has announced that its flagship cloud-based medical imaging management platform provided authorized physicians and healthcare facilities with access to more than 2 million imaging studies during its first year of production. The patented, vendor-neutral platform enables secure easy access and sharing of high-fidelity and low-latency images, data and reports to facilitate timely diagnosis, treatment and care collaboration.
Advanced Technical Support has introduced ReadyDock:UV. Tested by microbiologists at Yale-New Haven Hospital, ReadyDock:UV provides chemical-free disinfection via germicidal light for the Motion C5v Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA).
MobileAccess has announced a teaming agreement with Philips Healthcare and introduced the EC560 Solution for Philips. The EC560 Solution will enable interoperability between the MobileAccess2000 distributed antenna system (DAS) and the Philips Smart-hopping WMTS 1.4 GHz network. The open MobileAccess wireless platform is a robust and complete wireless infrastructure solution for integrated wireless medical telemetry systems (WMTS), making it a good partner for Philips' patient monitoring solution.
Status Solutions has announced a strategic partnership with Stryker, a manufacturer of medical patient handling equipment for hospitals, emergency and rescue operations. Status Solutions has recently entered into a partnership with Stryker, initiating integration discussions between both organizations’ product management and development teams. Stryker and Status Solutions are in the process of defining and developing an integration to drive alerts from Stryker’s smart bed wireless system to SARA’s robust alerting engine.
QuadraMed has announced the general availability of QuadraMed Access Quality Manager (AQM), a rules-based, workflow-driven registration audit tool that enables hospital registrars to identify and correct patient data errors occurring during the initial registration process.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Riverside Community Hospital has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding. ProVation MD replaces dictation and transcription and allows physicians to efficiently document procedures at the point of care. Available for a full range of medical specialties, it streamlines the coding and billing process and enhances compliance by producing complete, coding-ready and image-enhanced procedure notes.
