HIMSS: HP announces Healthcare Alliance program

HP launched a new healthcare affiliate program that combines offerings from independent software vendors with hardware from HP at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) conference last week

Members of the HP Healthcare Alliance program displayed their joint offerings in the exhibit hall. Some of the collaborative tools on display at HIMSS included MedWeb’s PACS viewer on the new HP Slate 2 and its virtual PACS tools on HP Mobile Workstations and Status Solutions’ situational awareness and response assistant (SARA) tool powered by HP workstations.

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