Elsevier has partnered with Medical Education Technologies (METI), a manufacturer of medical simulation and health care learning tools. The companies will collaborate on a health care education product that combines Elsevier's nursing education content with METI's human patient simulators. Elsevier and METI will combine METI's human patient simulators integrated with Müse, a medical trainer's simulator operating software, with Elsevier's current suite of nursing simulation products, including Sim Chart, a new simulated EHR and charting system, and Simulation Learning System (SLS), an online toolkit that helps instructors and facilitators effectively standardize and incorporate medium to high fidelity simulation into their nursing curriculum.
 
HP Enterprise Services and Healthways announced the signing of a 10-year, $380 million applications and technology services outsourcing agreement to support growth and expand value to Healthways’ customers. With this agreement, HP will provide Applications Development and Applications Management services to further accelerate the transformational development of the well-being improvement company’s applications and technology infrastructure. As a result, Healthways’ mission-critical application, EMBRACE, will be able to support an increasing volume of customers and increasing market demand for multiparty integration.

Karos Health announced an agreement with Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Repository Services (HDIRS) to deploy Rialto Connect, which enables seamless sharing of diagnostic information between providers. HDIRS is an independent corporation responsible for operating a shared diagnostic imaging repository (DIR) that enables storage and retrieval of diagnostic images and corresponding reports. It is the second largest DIR in Canada, servicing 37 healthcare facilities with a combined annual volume of 3 million imaging exams.

TriageLogic announced it has processed 500,000 patient calls through its expanding network of customers using the company’s Nurse Triage On Call services. TriageLogic’s line of products falls into two areas – a services unit that offers nurse support through multiple call centers and a software unit that develops nurse triage systems both for after-hours and daytime use. TriageLogic’s array of products and services provide physicians, hospitals and clinics a way to standardize patient care management across multiple offices, including offering “after-hours” nurse triage support.
 
Awarepoint Corporation announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company Patent No. 7,941,096 for a wireless interaction-based tracking system that helps hospitals enhance their patient safety, improve quality of care, and drive better financial outcomes. The patented technology can: detect interactions between people and objects (tag-to-tag communication); determine the location of the interaction; and send that information to a platform to drive compliance and quality reporting.

SkinofMine.com has launched in beta, offering a a low cost, minimal-wait, private dermatological solution to patients across the country through a smart phone or computer. Aimed at the nearly 45 million uninsured and 100 million underinsured Americans, the site offers consultations on skin conditions like acne, wrinkles, spider veins and moles.

FormFast announced an expansion of its partnership with Prime Healthcare Services, the largest for-profit hospital system in California. All 14 facilities managed by Prime Healthcare Services and its affiliates now leverage FormFast’s document management workflow for increased efficiency within the organization’s medical records, revenue cycle and patient registration processes.
 
Cinterion and TZ Medical announced the launch of Aera-CT, a lightweight and cost effective mHealth heart arrhythmia monitoring device. Equipped with the Cinterion MC75i module, the Aera-CT is expected to be commercially available in North America later in, 2011 followed by rolling launches throughout the world. The Cinterion-enabled Aera-CT improves the ability to rapidly detect heart arrhythmias during normal day-to-day activities and over long periods of time. Designed for ease-of-use and comfort, the discreet device is placed on the patient with as few as three electrodes.
 
Proofpoint announced that Adventist Health, a leading West Coast healthcare provider with 17 hospitals and more than 130 clinics and outpatient facilities in California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, has deployed Proofpoint Enterprise Privacy and Proofpoint Enterprise Protection cloud-based solutions to 18,000 employee mailboxes. Adventist Health is now able to protect its employees against spam and malware, ensure patient privacy and confidentiality, and comply with stringent HIPAA, HITECH, ePHI and other government regulations.
 
Summit Healthcare announced that it will be showcasing its MEDITECH 6.0 migration best practices at the 2011 International MUSE Conference next week. Summit Healthcare also announced that its customer, Beaufort Memorial Hospital, has recently completed its full migration to MEDITECH 6. Beaufort is the latest milestone in a long list of successful MEDITECH 6.0 integration engagements in which Summit has provided its expertise for interface management, data migration and dictionary maintenance to ensure successful, streamlined and secure migrations.

Alma Lasers has announced the launch of its new iPixel series of innovative pixel modules for aesthetic fractional laser resurfacing. The two new modules—the iPixel CO2, and the iPixelEr—each feature Alma’s roller-style technology which delivers fast, safe treatments with great maneuverability and versatility.  This innovative design allows the physician to glide the laser along the patient’s skin smoothly, delivering precision and an effective ablative treatment in a fraction of the time.

Integrated Document Solutions announced that AbbaDox Rad, its mobile DICOM image viewing application for the iPad, is now available in the iTunes App Store. The app is supported on the back-end by a sophisticated architecture and the AbbaDox portal, allowing it to quickly stream images from a diagnostic imaging source to the iPad’s rich interface. In addition, AbbaDox Rad features standard PACS tools, such as window leveling, zoom, pan and annotations and retains no confidential patient information on the device itself.

EXTENSION, INC. announced that it has expanded its suite of solution offerings to include Device Messaging as a standalone solution. EXTENSION Device Messaging includes features such as non-SMS text-based messaging, individual or group messaging/texting, pre-defined or custom messaging/texting, interactive messaging, and more.


4medica announced that it will showcase the interoperability of the company's Integrated Health Record solution with Alcatel-Lucent's TeleHealth Manager and My Teamwork applications at MEDITECH'S 2011 International Medical Users Software (MUSE) Conference. During the four-day conference, 4medica and Alcatel-Lucent will conduct demonstrations showing how their solutions facilitate compliance with Stage 1 meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) and enhance the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of care for hospitals using MEDITECH's Health Care Information System.

UltraSPECT announced a multi-year distribution agreement with nuclear pharmacy network UPPI LLC for exclusive leasing and/or non-exclusive sale of UltraSPECT’s cardiac and bone imaging applications in the US. Ushering molecular imaging into a new age of precision and efficiency, UltraSPECT’s growing product line utilizes the company’s innovative Wide-Beam Reconstruction (WBR) technology to enhance the performance of gamma cameras and PET scanners.

RealMed announced the integration of its capabilities with Epic. The integration provides Epic billing software clients with seamless access to RealMed’s powerful claims editing and error management tools from within the same interface used for processing claims today. The result is cleaner claims and fewer rejections by the health plans, speeding the critical payment process for the physician practice.

HEALTHeSTATE announced the CCHIT status for its EMR has changed from “pre-market” to “Fully Certified." As part of the certification process, HEALTHeSTATE also achieved a usability score of 5 stars out of 5. LibertasMD, the nation's premiere multi-brand EMR marketplace, will be exclusive distributor of the HEALTHeSTATE product. This new certification demonstrates LibertasMD’s dedication to value and continual improvement for physicians.

meridianEMR announced that it will partner with CDW Healthcare to deliver all of the technology components and services required for a urology or general surgery practice to successfully achieve meaningful use at the lowest total cost to physicians.  The net result will be less time worrying about the technology and more time focused on the transformation involved with EHRs.

BeyondTrust has made its PowerBroker Desktops more powerful, introducing new usability enhancements and features that help users easily configure user rights on a task-by-task basis without granting administrator access.