Emdeon, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of revenue and payment cycle management solutions, has launched the U.S. Healthcare Efficiency Index, designed to establish a national reference for tracking and measuring the transition from a paper- and phone-based system to an electronic one.
Global Med Technologies, Inc. of Denver has announced that its European subsidiary, Inlog S.A., has licensed the company’s EdgeTrack transfusion software – marketed as “Hemo Serveur” in France – to 21 Assistance Publique – Hospitaux de Paris (AP-HP) hospitals, representing 23,000 patient beds.
Orion Health, of Santa Monica, Calif., has announced that the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, based in Juneau. has selected the company’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to help its different electronic health record, radiology, pharmacy, laboratory and business programs communicate with one another.
Nuance Communications has integrated its RadWher for Radiology speech reporting solution with DeJarnette PACSware Intelligent Router. In addition, the company has launched RadPort for Radiology 2.0 and Veriphy 3.0, the latter a critical test result management (CTRM) solution designed to enable healthcare providers to compley with the Joint Commission’s accreditation requirement for the communication of critical patient test results. Also, the company has announced a reseller agreement with Amirsys to integrate Nuance’s PowerScribe for Radiology with Amirsys’ STATdx Premier on-demand radiology reference system.
TriCipher, the Los Gatos, Calif.-based developer of strong authentication solutions, has announced that its MySignatureBook digital signage solution has been certified as compliant with the SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard.
IBM has unveiled the Healthcare Image and Information Grid (HIIG) framework, a combination of imaging and information archiving technologies designed to provide complete and timely access to imaging and diagnostic information at the point of care.
Motorola has announced the implementation of its T2 power broadband system to enable three French hospitals managed by leading European healthcare provider Generale de Sante to deliver voice, data and video services.
Agfa Healthcare has integrated Median’s Lesion Management Solutions (LMS), providing advanced clinical applications for CT oncology to radiologists, into the company’s IMPAX platform. In addition, the company has been selected by King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes in the UK as the provider of choice for its Radiology Information Systems (RIS), Picture Archiving and Co0mmunications Systems (PACS) and Computed Radiography (CR) solutions. The company also announced that it has received U.S. Air Force approval for its IMPAX 6.3 and IMPAX Data Center products. In addition, the company has announced that ProHealth Care of Wisconsin has acquired 10 DX-S CR Systems for three facilities, Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital and the D.N. Greenwald Center in Mukwanogo.
McKesson Provider Solutions of Atlanta has announced that The Nebraska Medical Center, the premier academic hospital for the University of Nebraska’s medical school in Omaha, will replace its existing picture archiving communications system (PACS) with the company’s Horizon Medical Imaging and information management solution.
Perot Systems has announced that the Kingdom of Jordan has selected the company to manage the pilot deployment of VistA, an open-source clinical and healthcare information management system, at two hospitals and a clinic in the nation’s capital, Amman.
TeraRecon, Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of advanced visualization software, has unveiled intuition UNLIMITED, a flexible licensing program designed for Aquarius intuition software assets.
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (CPSI) of Mobile, Ala. has announced the 100th sale of its ImageLink picture archiving and communications systems (PACS).
Health Support Systems, Inc. of San Francisco has made available free health campaign materials for employers and organizations to use to promote health awareness among employees or members.
Carestream Health of Rochester, N.Y. has announced that Israel’s Clalit Health Services has awarded a $25 million contract to the company to deploy its PACS, RIS and central archiving solution across all of Clalit’s hospitals and imaging centers through Carestream’s wholly owned subsidiary Algotec.
Healthline Networks, a San Francisco-based provider of health information services, has been named the exclusive search and advertising partner to myOptumHealth.com, the new consumer health Web site from United Health’s OptumHealth business.
ZONARE Medical Systems, Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. has announced a new echocardiography release for the z.one ultra system, incorporating Zone Sonography technology, image quality and improved performance and features for use in hospitals and bedside studies.
DexCom, Inc. of San Diego has announced that it has received CE Mark approval for the SEVEN seven-day continuous glucose monitoring system, enabling commercialization of the system in the European Union, Asia and Latin America.
Pascal Metrics, Inc. of Washington has announced that its patient safety culture and risk management services will be offered to hospitals and healthcare systems.
Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz. has launched the Zicam Cold & Flu Companion mobile application for the T-Mobile G1 Android-powered phone. The same mobile application will be released for the iPhone in mid-December.
The Good Data Corporation, a Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of on-demand (SaaS) collaborative business intelligence solutions, has announced its first customer agreement with Intelimedix LLC, a supplier of business intelligence solutions for health insurers.
MedCommons has announced the integration of its HealthURL applicance with EMC’s Open Systems Archive Solution for healthcare organizations, which provides a modular DICOM-compliant management platform that aggregates and reconciles patient information into a patient-centric archive.
WoundMatrix, Inc., a Chadds Ford, Pa.-based provider of digital wound care measurement and outcome tracking software, has changed its name to Aceos, Inc. and launched a new Web site and logo.
NetMotion Wireless of Seattle has announced the availability of its new Mobile Analytics Module, which provides historical and granular detail on the status of mobile deployments across any wired or wireless network.
Ingenious Med, the Atlanta-based developer of the IM Practice Manager software platform, has named S. Hart Williford its new CEO. A senior vice president at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Ga., he has held management positions at the VeriSign Corporation, IBM, AT&T and the Digital Equipment Corporation.
Same Day Transcriptions, based in Cherry Hill, N.J., has announced that it will offer free Web-based medical transcription services to new clients for one month through the end of the year.
Merge Healthcare of West Allis, Wis. has released version 3.0 of its Cedara xPipe software toolkit, designed to fully automate the image processing tasks performed by CR and DR X-ray consoles. In addition, the company has launched the eFilm Software Exchange, an online community that empowers organizations to develop, distribute and sell applications related to the company’s eFilm Workstation diagnostic imaging software. Also, the company has launched Cedara WebAccess, a new solution created with IBM that allows doctors, radiologists and other medical professionals easier access to medical images.
WebMD has announced a collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use the FDA as a consumer health information resource on WebMD.com and as a contributor to WebMD the Magazine. In addition, the company has repurchased 640,930 shares of WebMD Class A Common Stock for approximately $12.8 million from the former owners of Subimo, LLC, which was acquired by WebMD in December 2006, and has paid the former owners of Subimo approximately $2.8 million in cash pursuant to the terms of the previously completed acquisition.
ITelagen, Inc. of Jersey City, N.J. has announced that New York’s Manhattan Physician Group has completed its implementation of an integrated electronic medical record with support from the company.
Bridgehead Software has released the latest version of PACStore, its long-term archiving solution that’s designed to consolidate data from disparate PACS systems.
Inphonite, LLC, a Tucson, Ariz.-based provider of automated messaging solutions for physicians’ offices, has announced that OB/GYN Associates of Southern Indiana has significantly improved its productivity and kept appointment rates by using the ReminderPro automated messaging system.
FalconStor Software, Inc. of Melville, N.Y., has released a new file-interface data deduplication system along with enhancements and support for high-performance connectivity to its Virtual Tape Library (VTL) software.
InforSense, based in London and Cambridge, Mass., has announced a partnership with the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust and King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry for use of the InforSense Translational Research Solution for Alzheimer’s disease studies.
The Astaro Corporation of Wilmington, Mass. has announced that its flagship product, the Astaro Security Gateway, is now certified on the Intel Modular Server platform through the Intel Enabled Server Accreditation Alliance (Intel ESAA) program.
Medegen, an Ontario, Calif.-based provider of infusion therapy medical products, has prevailed in its appeal of an earlier ruling in a patent infringement case filed against ICU Medical. The case has been returned to a lower court.
Pharmacy OneSource, Inc. of Bellevue, Wash. has launched the SPEAK Initiative, designed top focus public and industry attention on medication safety awareness.
AMICAS, Inc. of Boston has announced that St. Paul Radiology of St. Paul, Minn. has selected the company’s radiology and medical image and information management solutions. The company also announced a partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati.
Cabinet NG, a Huntsville, Ala.-based document management and workflow solutions provider, has released CNG-ONLINE, a comprehensive and flexible hosted document management solution.
Belgian-based medical imaging solutions provider Barco has unveiled the MDRC family of clinical review displays. The company has also announced contracts with Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn. and GE Healthcare of Australia for its Coronis Fusion 6MP DL display system, and with the Netherlands to supply Coronis display systems for a country-wide mammography screening project.
Matrox Graphics, Inc. of Montreal has announced that Quest International, Inc. will be shipping Matrox Xenia Series display controller boards with a variety of medical LCD displays from AlphaView LCD, NEC and Totoku.
InteGreat, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based MED3000, has entered into a 14-year application service provider (ASP) contract with the WVVA HealthCare Alliance to provide electronic medical records systems for physicians in the network, which serves parts of Virginia and West Virginia.
ikaSystems, a Southborough, Mass.-based provider of Web-based technologies for healthcare payer organizations, has announced that WellMed Medical Management, Inc. of San Antonio, Texas, will license the company’s ikaEnterprise for Medicare suite of applications for Medicare process automation and intelligence management.
Healthsense, Inc. of Mendota Heights, Minn. will take part in a study by Quinnipiac University to determine if seniors monitored by the company’s wireless sensor technology at the Masonicare healthcare and retirement community in Wallingford, Conn. are able to remain independent for longer, delay being admitted to a hospital or nursing home, and better attend to their basic daily needs.
Logicalis, a Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based provider of high-performance technology, has announced a strategic relationship with Compressus to help develop that company’s imaging management and routing software for healthcare.
Sentry Data Systems of Deerfield Beach, Fla. has launched HealthBIT, a healthcare business intelligence platform for hospitals.
Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. has announced the installation of its 700th Vantage MR system at Comanche County Medical Center in Comanche, Texas.
Xceedium, Inc. has announced that its GateKeeper secure remote administration technology will be implemented at Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
MedeFinance, based in California, has announced that its Mede International, Ltd. subsidiary will establish a data center in the U.K. to support its expanding client base of NHS Trusts.
Intel has announced that The American Medical Alert Corp., a provider of healthcare communication services and advanced home health monitoring technologies, has signed a market channel partner agreement to provide the Intel Health Guide as part of its portfolio of health and safety monitoring systems (HSMS) offerings.
NetLearning, a Clifton Park, N.Y.-based provider of integrated e-learning solutions for healthcare training, compliance and competency management, has launched version 7.1 of its Learning Administrator solution, which includes Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 1.2 certification.
VMware, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has announced that St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in New York has deployed the company’s management and virtualization suite.
NaviSite, Inc., an Andover, Mass.-based provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions, has upgraded and expended its PeopleSoft environment at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Conn.
Aperio Technologies, Inc. has introduced SecondSlide, a service for sharing digital slides (whole slide images) from multiple sources and for multiple purposes.
Velos, Inc. of Fremont, Calif. has announced that the University of Kansas Medical Center will deploy Velos eResearch over a two-year period to support the institution’s clinical research programs.
Cardinal Health of Dublin, Ohio has announced that the Texas Hospital Association and its marketing subsidiary, HealthShare, have endorsed MedMined services as an effective tool to combat HAIs, improve patient care and reduce infection-related costs.
RadarFind, based in Morrisville, N.C., has announced that Mary Washington Hospital, part of Fredricksburg, Va.’s MediCorp Health System, will implement the company’s Real Time Location System (RTLS) for tracking the status of its mobile medical equipment.
The Zix Corporation has announced a partnership with UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group company, to bring ZixCorp’s e-prescribing capabilities to physicians in Texas.
CDW Healthcare has announced that the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, based in Rockville, Md., will use the company’s information and technology solutions to improve patient satisfaction and speed the delivery of vital information to its caregiver staff.
The Devon International Group of King of Prussia, Pa. has announced a new company, Devon Robotics, as the exclusive distributor and licensee of Health Robotics’ CytoCare robot in North America and the Caribbean. The automated robotic system is used for the safe preparation of hazardous, patient-specific cancer therapy medications and intravenous admixtures.
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