Press Releases

CHICAGO, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Geneia, a company of experienced healthcare change agents creating analytic and technology solutions to improve healthcare, today announced that Hashim Zaidi, MD was chosen the grand prize winner in the Geneia Joy of Medicine Challenge. 

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- There are more than 200,000 deaths per year in the United States due to preventable patient care errors, making it the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. The Joint Commission attributes 80% of these errors as associated with miscommunication during patient hand-off.  

June 8, 2015; San Jose, Calif and Yokohama, Japan -- Zoeticx, Inc., the developer of medical software that bridges the gap between medical data and quality patient care, today announced its entry into the rapidly growing 150 billion Asia-Pacific healthcare markets, a dynamic medical landscape with an accelerated evolution driven by innovation and opportunities expected through 2020.

PLANO, Texas, June 8, 2015 – Dell Services today announced that it has achieved MEDITECH READY certification – one of only nine North American vendors currently READY-certified. The certification enables Dell Services to further equip healthcare customers with integrated and secure IT solutions, resulting in overall patient care improvement. 

RICHMOND, VA (June 8, 2015) –Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc. (HDL, Inc.) has updated its myHDL Physician App to support use with Apple Watch. The iOS app, which was released for iPhone and iPad in March 2015, now allows the company’s provider partners to view and manage patient cases from their wrist, on all models of Apple Watch. 

ATLANTA, GA--(Jun 3, 2015) - Care providers at Georgia's school clinics will be able to remotely access student health information from pediatricians and other providers to deliver better onsite care now that Georgia Partnership For TeleHealth (GPT) has joined Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN). 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—June 3, 2015—To help hospital organizations and physician practices convert systems, reports and records into the language of ICD-10, 3M has released a new version of the 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool, which has been expanded to include Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) and other HCPCS codes.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- National Endeavors, LLC, announces a new, comprehensive and low cost option for potential Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) applicants. 

MORRISVILLE, N.C., June 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Study Connect(TM), a new mobile app from Merge eClinical, allows eClinicalOS (eCOS) users to perform a wide array of clinical trial management functions from their iOS-based mobile devices.

BERLIN, Germany, 2 June 2015: Denmark emerges as the number one country to start an mHealth business according to a survey conducted by research2guidance in partnership with HIMSS Europe.

West Palm Beach, FL - June 2, 2015 – Comvest Partners, with co-investor Mosaic Health Solutions, today announced it has completed the acquisition of McKesson Corporation’s Care Management business, which will be renamed AxisPoint Health (“the Company”). 

NEW YORK, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Precision Advisors (www.precisionadvisors.com), a Precision for Medicine Company, announced the findings from its 2015 Digital Trends Study of 145 managed care executives. The study concludes that decision makers are aware of the concepts of big data and predictive analytics, but are not equipped to fully implement them. 

SALT LAKE CITY, May 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare data warehousing and analytics, today launched Health Catalyst Academy, an immersive educational offering designed to help health systems build the internal capacity to exponentially improve their clinical quality and operational efficiency. 

When comparing the average premiums of exchange-only health plans to health plans sold simultaneously on-exchange and off-exchange, HealthPocket found that the exchange-only health plans were not as competitive on price. This trend of higher premiums was observed across the bronze, silver, and gold health plan categories of Affordable Care Act health insurance. 

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill., May 20, 2015 -- Challenges and opportunities created by the Affordable Care Act are prompting two-thirds of companies to consider altering their pre-65 retiree health strategies over the next few years, according to a new Aon Hewitt survey. Of those, 35 percent are favoring sourcing health coverage through the public exchanges under a defined contribution approach. Twenty-eight percent are considering eliminating pre-65 retiree coverage and subsidies altogether. 

Health eCareers, the healthcare industry's online career hub, is connecting short-staffed healthcare organizations with job seekers looking for the flexibility of short-term assignments through SHIFT, a new mobile and online tool dedicated exclusively to temporary and shift work in the healthcare industry.

HIMSS Europe has signed a national partnership agreement with Nectics to improve the level of digital maturity in healthcare organizations across Italy. 

Xerox (NYSE: XRX) today announced its acquisition of Healthy Communities Institute (HCI), a Berkeley, Calif.-based company with a leading cloud platform that puts socioeconomic and community health information at the fingertips of hospitals, public health agencies and community coalitions. 

Alpha II, LLC, a leading developer of software platforms, software as a service and publications that support the healthcare revenue cycle, announced today that it has been qualified by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Registry for the 2015 PQRS program year. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14 — Creating rapid, secure access to imaging data by on-site and off-site users is a major goal of informatics professionals attending the SIIM (Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine) conference held this year from May 28-30.

San Diego, Calif., May 12, 2015 – San Diego resident Sue Diaz wishes the electronic exchange of information vital to a patient’s care had been in place several months ago. She tells the story of rushing a friend suddenly stricken by an apparent seizure to a nearby hospital. When they arrived, the woman was semi-conscious, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Her husband had gone fishing that morning and couldn’t be reached.