Press Releases

COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 26, 2015 -- With the explosion of payment-card data breaches last year, Experian Data Breach Resolution has enhanced its award-winning active fraud surveillance and identity theft resolution product, Experian's ProtectMyID®, by collaborating with BillGuard, a leading card fraud monitoring mobile application.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jan. 27, 2015 — The organization connecting Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for nearly one million patients at 11 different health care facilities in Georgia, is growing. In the past six months, the number of data sources providing information through the GRAChIE network has grown by 450 percent.

Princeton, NJ, January 19, 2015 -- Atlas Systems Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed a deal with US based Technology Solutions company for their Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution upgrade.

LONDON, Jan. 27, 2015 -- The growing use of clinical and non-clinical information systems, including patient administration systems, scheduling and billing, is fuelling the demand for electronic health record (EHR) technology in Europe. EHR and ePrescribing are now priority areas in digital health acrossEurope, accounting for 30 percent of total healthcare IT spending in the region.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (January 26, 2015) – Appistry, Inc., a leading provider of tools, software, and services that enable healthcare institutions to practice genomically enhanced medicine, today launched a cloud-based system for conducting patient-centered translational research.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 26, 2015-- Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Agate Resources, Inc., a diversified holding company that offers an array of healthcare products and services to Oregon residents. Agate is based in Eugene, Oregon.

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2015-- Cloud based technology helps in the maintenance and management of a large amount of data stored in a centralized database that can be accessed when needed. It saves a rather significant amount of infrastructural costs.

EDINBURG, Texas--The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine have been awarded a $2,880,342 grant over three years by United Health Foundation to help support the Colonia Integrated Care Program: VIDAS (Valley Interprofessional Development And Services). 

ARLINGTON, Va.--The State Health Innovation Plans developed by 25 states – with federal government support – reveal a variety of emerging approaches to healthcare reform that will likely take root and grow more broadly around the United States, according to a new report by Accenture (NYSE:ACN).

BOSTON, Jan. 21, 2015 -- A survey of U.S. consumers found that 64 percent of Americans are willing to have doctor visits via video telehealth. The nationally projectable survey of 2,019 Americans age 18+ was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of American Well® in December. The survey uncovered key factors important to consumers when it comes to telehealth:

FISHKILL, N.Y., Jan. 22, 2015-- MedAllies' Universal Direct Network is now live with 3,561 health care organizations, reaching 52,056 individual providers as of January 16.

ATLANTA and SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21, 2015-- The healthcare market is crowded with fragmented technologies that cannot stand alone to improve efficiencies for providers – from new devices and apps to in-office systems.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. and PONCE, Puerto Rico, Jan. 20, 2015  -- NeoDeck Holdings, Puerto Rico's leading provider of healthcare management solutions, today announced it has partnered with DataMotion, an accredited health information service provider (HISP) supplying email encryption solutions for clinical and non-clinical exchange of protected health information (PHI). 

IRVING, Texas--HMS, Inc., (“HMS”) a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:HMSY), today announced that the company has saved the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) nearly $65 million to date through its dependent eligibility verification project, resulting in the removal of 8,940 ineligible dependents from health plans. 

DENVER--Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals, today announced the 261 recipients of the 2015 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ (DHA-CE).

Princeton, NJ, January 19, 2015 --  Atlas Systems Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed a deal with US based Technology Solutions company for their Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution upgrade.

Washington, DC, January 14, 2015 -- John Glaser, PhD, has recently joined the Board of Directors of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). Glaser joins an esteemed group of directors that provides guidance for the association, which has a mission to promote professional, ethical and equitable improvement in healthcare delivery through telecommunications and information technology.

DUBLIN--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fq7rld/us_hospital) has announced the addition of the "US Hospital Information Systems Overview and Outlook, 2013-2020" report to their offering.

Long Branch, NJ, January 19, 2015 -- Sensato will host Hacking Healthcare 2015, on March 24-26 2015. Hacking Healthcare 2015 is unique in that it is a cyber-security conference exclusively focused on healthcare information technology, presented by healthcare technologists for healthcare technologists.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14, 2015 -- Practice Fusion, the #1 cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) for doctors and patients, announced the results of a recent collaboration with Merck & Co. Inc. 

NEW YORK--ProHEALTH Care Associates, LLP, and UnitedHealthcare are collaborating to improve care coordination and provide enhanced health services to more than 35,000 local residents enrolled in UnitedHealthcare’s employer-sponsored health plans, including Oxford Health-branded plans.