Quantros, of San Francisco, and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have established a new agreement to enhance the usability of standards for quality measurement (ISO 9001:2000) and environmental management (ISO 14001:2004) by the healthcare community. The standards are now a component of Quantros’ Accreditation & Compliance Excellence (ACE) application.
Misys Healthcare Systems of Raleigh, N.C. has announced an agreement with iMedica under which Misys will license iMedica’s electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) solutions as the foundation of a new group of physician offerings targeted for small practices.
Transcend Services, Inc. of Atlanta, which has developed Internet-based speech-recognition enabled, voice-to-text systems for the healthcare industry, has announced that it has joined the MTSO Alliance Program sponsored by eScription, Inc., a medical transcription software company.
Plateau Systems, an Arlington, Va.-based provider of talent management software, content and services, has announced a strategic partnership with CourseAvenue, a provider of learning content authoring systems, to make its eComply for Healthcare Series available through iContent.
Kaba Workforce Solutions of Miramar, Fla. and the Intellisys Corporation have entered into an agreement authorizing Kaba to resell a combined solution that includes Kaba’s AutoTime workforce management suite technology and Intellisys’ NexTrak absence and leave management solution.
Agfa Healthcare has announced that the Palmer College of Chiropractic has acquired six computed radiology solutions, consisting of four CR 35-X systems and two CR 30-X systems, for installation at Palmer’s imaging facilities in their outpatient clinic centers in Davenport, Iowa, Port Orange, Fla. and San Jose, Calif.
The First Consulting Group has entered into a contract with NYCLIX, Inc., a New York City-based regional health information organization, to use FCG’s FirstGateways technology to provide the technical infrastructure for NYCLIX’s health information exchange services.
Nashville-based Aegis has been selected by the Greenville Hospital System to provide tools to link the system’s services and programs with the specific health-related needs of employers and their workforce in and around the Greenville County, S.C. area.
Cedara Software, a Toronto-based subsidiary of Merge Healthcare, has announced that Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, Calif. has licensed its MergeCOM-3 DICOM Toolkit for use in Varian’s medical imaging applications.
InRoomMD of Charlotte, N.C., which offers concierge-style healthcare services including 24-hour in-room physician visits, prescription replacements, specialist referrals and access to emergency care direct to consumers by subscription and as a benefit to groups insured by traditional or travel healthcare policies, has announced a partnership with Houston-based for-profit healthcare provider University General Hospital Systems.
HealthAlliance Hospital of Leominster, Mass. has announced that its Soarian workflow management solution from Siemens Medical Solutions will be made wireless through devices supported by Richardson, Texas-based InnerWireless’ medical-grade Wireless Utility system.
Chicago-based Allscripts has announced that Southwestern Medical Clinic, a multi-specialty group practice with 53 physicians and 13 mid-level providers in eight locations across Berrien County, Mich., has selected the company’s electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) solution.
Mobile Aspects of Pittsburgh has announced that DMC Harper University Hospital in Detroit will implement the company’s iRISupply RFID-enabled inventory management system to store, track and manage the use of high-cost devices and supplies supporting cardiology services.
Curbside M.D. of Los Altos, Calif. has launched Curbside Communities, a professional social online network for physicians.
Atlanta-based M2SYS Technology has announced a partnership with Gnosis Medical Services of Charlottesville, Va. to provide a biometric fingerprint solution for patient identification in developing countries.
ForeSee Results of Ann Arbor, Mich. has announced that its online customer satisfaction management solution will be used by the Memorial Health System, a community-owned medical center in Colorado Springs, Colo., to deliver service and information to Website visitors, patients and job seekers.
San Diego-based BidShift, a provider of online staffing solutions for healthcare providers, has recently implemented its Web-based program at Bayhealth Medical Center in Dover, Milford and Middletown, Del., the first healthcare system in the state to offer the program.
The Echelon Corporation of San Jose, Calif. has announced that its networking technology, used to create and manage automation systems, has been incorporated into the Spectra i.Net sound masking system from the Lenore Acoustics Corp. Spectra i.Net uses Echelon’s i.LON Internet server platform to allow remote connectivity to the system to make adjustments to the masking sound level and as a means of integrating the system to existing LonWorks-based building automation systems.
Verint Systems, Inc., a Melville, N.Y.-based provider of analytic software-based solutions for workforce-enterprise optimization and security, has announced that St. Joseph’s Hospital has deployed its Nextiva Enterprise networked video solution to enhance security across four locations on its Tampa, Fla. campus.
Salt Lake City-based Allegiance has announced that Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. has implemented its PatientVoice Web-based tool, part of a larger on-demand enterprise feedback management solution platform offered by Allegiance, to help capture and manage patient feedback.
Automated Document Solutions of Dallas, a document-scanning contractor in the healthcare market, is teaming up with Dallas-based DocuData Solutions and Spectrum Information Services of Santa Ana, Calif. to create one document management company.
Paradigm Multimedia of Portland, Ore. has announced that it has teamed up with AG Neovo, an LCD manufacturer, to deliver 19-inch LCD-TV services to the healthcare field.
Carestream Health of Rochester, N.Y. has announced that Medical Tronik Montreal Ltd. has become the exclusive supplier for the company’s digital medical imaging and information technology solutions in Quebec, Canada. In addition, the company has debuted a preconfigured version of its Kodak Carestream RIS that enables small to medium-sized hospitals to achieve desired workflow efficiencies.
GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with Irving, Texas-based Novation, the healthcare contracting services company for national healthcare alliances VHA, Inc. and the University Health System Consortium, for GE’s advanced radiology and cardiology image and information technologies.
Amcom Software of Minneapolis has announced the general availability of Smart Center 4.1.6.2, a central relational database platform that supports mission-critical communication within the enterprise.
Laserfiche, a Long Beach, Calif.-based provider of electronic document management systems, is partnering with CompONE Services Ltd. of Oklahoma City, Okla. to offer a hosted version of its document management solution.
Fortinet, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of unified threat management solutions, has unveiled the FortiGate 60B and the FortiWifi 60B, two multi-threat security appliances designed for enterprise branch offices, retail outlets and small businesses.
Mile High Technologies for Healthcare, LLC of Castle Rock, Colo. has announced that it has been hired by Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania to provide application integration consulting services and training for the hospital’s staff.
Pittsburgh-based Premier Technologies has announced the launch of E-SAFE Technologies, which it describes as an end-to-end IT consulting partner providing strategic, forward-thinking information management solutions to companies in healthcare and other areas.
Stockholm, Sweden-based Sectra has announced that it has been selected by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to provide PACS products and services. The five-year deal allows the company to supply products and service support to Bellevue Hospital Center, King’s County Hospital, Lincoln Medical & Health Center, Harlem Hospital Center and the Metropolitan Hospital.
Salt Lake City-based RemedyMD, Inc. has announced that, starting Sept. 1, it will offer free licenses for its electronic health records and practice management software to its ambulatory practices and their patients.
Microsoft has announced that Novant Health, an 800-physician, not-for-profit healthcare provider in North and South Carolina, will implement the company’s Azyxxi health enterprise platform.
Apollo Health Street, an India-based provider of healthcare outsourcing solutions, has announced the acquisition of Zavata, Inc., an Atlanta-based business process outsourcing and enterprise support solutions company.
MedX, a Conshohocken, Pa.-based provider of enterprise workforce acquisition and international hiring, has launched a new medical technologist recruiting and immigration service.
Solstice Medical, LLC, a Fort Wayne, Ind.-based medical device asset management company and provider of advanced RFID and software solutions for the medical industry, has announced an alliance with Magellan Technology, a Sydney, Australia-based provider of high-frequency RFID technology.
Geonetric, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has announced that the BroMenn Healthcare System, headquartered in Bloomington-Normal, Ill., has selected the company to help design a new Web presence.
MedPlexus, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of Internet-based administrative, financial and clinical software and services for physician practices, has announced the general availability of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) suite of solutions, which include practice management software, electronic health records and a browser-based patient self-service portal. The solution includes SaaS-enabled services for billing, front-office call management and practice audit and accounting services.
