Press Releases

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK) will release financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2016 on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, following the market close at approximately 4:00 PM Eastern Time (1:00 PM Pacific Time). The company has scheduled a conference call for 5:00 PM Eastern Time (2:00 PM Pacific Time), during which John Hammergren, chairman and chief executive officer, and James Beer, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will review these results.

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of its Gold Sponsorship with The Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA), Zotec Partners (Zotec), a leading provider of revenue cycle management services for emergency medicine physicians and emergency department practices, announces it will provide guests with three unique experiences during the 2016 EDPMA Solutions Summit.

WALL TOWNSHIP, NJ (PRWEB) APRIL 12, 2016 - HCS, a leading provider of clinical and financial healthcare information systems to more than 6,000 client locations, today announced that the Quitman, GA-based Presbyterian Homes of Georgia (PHG) has gone live with Interactant Order Entry and Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR) components. The life plan community (LPC) has been live with Interactant Revenue Cycle, Financial, and Insight modules along with EMR components since the summer of 2013.

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of its Platinum sponsorship with Becker’s Healthcare, Zotec Partners (Zotec), a leading provider of revenue cycle management services for health systems and multi-specialty groups, announces it will provide guests with three unique experiences during the 2016 Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting.

TIFTON, Ga., April 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tift Regional Health System (TRHS) has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care, to implement an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management system across its acute and ambulatory facilities.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 11, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- North Memorial Health Care, an Accountable Care Organization named a Best Hospital on Healthgrades 2015 Americas 50 Best Hospitals list, provides comprehensive access to imaging critical to patient care by enlisting Vital Images, Inc.’s, (Vital’s) VitreaView® enterprise viewer software. Integrated with its Epic EMR and EpicCare Link, VitreaView software is aimed to support relationships between referring physicians, clinicians and patients, with fast access to patient imaging.

(San Jose, CA)—April 11, 2016—Zoeticx, Inc. has been named as one of the highest ranked middleware Electronic Health Record (EHR) integrators in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by Black Book Research in the first quarter of 2016. The survey, in association with its annual interoperability survey  of 2,012 provider Health Information Exchange (HIE) users and 2,300 payer HIE users, along with 4,100 prospective HIE users, finds that payers are accelerating private HIE executions while providers are evaluating HIE replacements, middleware and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources(FHIR) options.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, and Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), one of the largest hospital management companies in the nation, have entered into an agreement to implement Cerner’s clinically driven Millennium Revenue Cycle™.   

New York, NY (April 6, 2016) – Spreemo, a leading healthcare platform providing evidence-based quality metrics and predictive analytics to facilitate high-quality patient care, has named Aleksandar Beric, MD, as its Senior Medical Advisor and Director of Neurophysiology. Currently Director of Clinical Neurophysiology at NYU's Hospital for Joint Diseases, Dr. Beric will help oversee Spreemo’s clinical research and quality-focused efforts in neurophysiology and electrodiagnostic testing.

NEW YORK, April 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Fitango Health announced today at the UNOS Transplant Management Forum in Indianapolis the release of FitangoTx, its transplant-focused care management platform for patients in the community setting. 

(Omaha, NE) Ensocare, a leading provider of technology-enabled care coordination solutions, announced today that it has partnered with OpenPlacement to provide hospital patients nationwide the ability to use consumer tablet technology at their bedside to connect with post-acute care providers prior to being discharged.

WALL TOWNSHIP, NJ (PRWEB) MARCH 31, 2016 - HCS announced today their client’s full preparedness for quality reporting under the LTCH CARE Data Set Version 3.00, a new set of required measures for LTCH (Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals) effective April 1, 2016.

WINCHESTER, Va. – Datalux Corporation introduces two new 24-inch medical all-in-one computers - the Datalux IPIX LT24 and the Datalux Alpha AC24.

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE (NYSE:GE) announced today the appointment of four new Company officers. Effective April 4, 2016, GE will have 190 officers globally who lead large revenue-generating businesses or are in critical technology or functional roles, helping to drive growth.

Siemens Healthcare has launched a range of new MR applications to help hospitals reduce the time needed for MR imaging within neurology. It is estimated that 20 to 25 per cent of all MR examinations are neurological, with the number expected to grow in 20161. The applications have therefore been designed to help organisations increase patient throughput in order to maintain an efficient workflow. 

PHOENIX and SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash., March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Next IT Healthcare, the leader in patient engagement, has chosen ClearDATA as its partner in safeguarding digital healthcare solutions, one of the fastest-growing niches in the healthcare industry. ClearDATA will host Next IT Healthcare's Alme® virtual health coach platform in a HIPAA-compliant cloud environment with unlimited scalability and security that exceeds HIPAA compliance mandates. The partnership is aimed directly at healthcare organizations seeking to engage patients online without compromising their security and privacy.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (March 7, 2016) vRad (Virtual Radiologic), an affiliate of MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD) and the leading national teleradiology services and telemedicine company, today announced that it will showcase insights and best practices learned from a successful ICD-10 transition of 2,100+ client facilities during a live webinar on March 9, 2016 at 12:00 pm CT. 

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare announced today the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has selected the company’s Centricity Practice Solution as the official electronic medical record (EMR) to be used by the medical teams of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This marks the first time that all athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games will have their health interactions managed by an electronic medical record. The announcement was made at the 2016 Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare today announced two large systems integrators (SIs) and seven leading-edge independent software vendors (ISVs) are planning to move their innovative digital solutions to the new GE Health Cloud. Designed exclusively for the healthcare industry and resting on the shoulders of GE’s industrial-strength Predix™ platform, the GE Health Cloud will ultimately connect more than 2 million imaging machines worldwide, including 500,000 GE Healthcare devices.

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today the release of UpToDate® MobileComplete™ for mobile enterprise users. With this new capability, users can download comprehensive clinical content from UpToDate to their mobile device for offline access. 

SAN FRANCISCO & TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK), a leading international healthcare services and information technology company, and Katz Group, one of Canada’s largest privately-owned enterprises, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Rexall Health from Katz Group for $3 billion CAD ($2.2 billion USD*, or approximately $1.9 billion USD* net of the present value of incremental cash tax benefits).