Press Releases

 August 12, 2014 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, GREEN BAY, Wis.--Healtheway, the non-profit, public-private collaborative that supports the eHealth Exchange, and IOD Incorporated, a leading provider of integrated health information management (HIM) solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems and clinics, today announced that IOD PRISM 6.2 is now recognized as an eHealth Exchange validated system.

NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2014-- Phreesia, the leader in healthcare point of service, is the first certified partner to support integrations with Allscripts EHR and Allscripts PM products as part of the Allscripts Developer Program to offer clients enhanced functionality for Allscripts' clinical solutions.

August 11, 2014 -- The global healthcare workforce management systems market is expected to grow at a double digit CAGR during the forecast period of 2014 to 2019 and is estimated to be worth $1,453.8 million by 2019.

OMAHA, Neb.--Avantas, a leading provider of strategic labor management technology, services and strategies for the healthcare industry, today announced that the Penn State Hershey Medical Group has saved more than $800,000 in one year since implementing Avantas’ consulting services and healthcare enterprise labor management solutions.

Albany, NY, August 12, 2014 -- Health informatics is defined as the knowledge, skills and tools that enable the information to be collected, managed, used and shared for supporting the delivery of healthcare services and promoting health. Health informatics is one of the fastest growing segments of information technology and computer science.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – August 12, 2014 – DataMotion™, an experienced health information service provider (HISP) with the industry’s leading record of customer deployments and Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) attestations, today announced that the MEDITECH Solutions Group within Dell has added DataMotion Direct secure messaging to its industry-leading portfolio of services.

DENVER, Aug. 6, 2014--More than 70 providers at the Boulder Medical Center, a multispecialty group that also operates an urgent care clinic, are now using health information exchange, in addition to an advanced electronic medical record system, to coordinate care for more than 200,000 annual patient visits.Through CORHIO's secure electronic network, Boulder Medical Center doctors are now receiving laboratory results from hospitals and labs around the state without having to wait for faxes or other paper-based methods of communication. This is reducing patient wait times, helping doctors make faster and more accurate clinical decisions, and saving staff time previously spent tracking down patients' medical records.

DALLAS, August 7, 2014--According to the new market research report "Medication Management Market by Systems (CPOE, CDSS, Automated Dispensing, Assurance Systems), Services (Medication Analytics, POC Verification, ADE Surveillance), Mode of Delivery (On-Premises, Web-Based, Cloud-Based) - Global Forecast to 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, analyzes and studies major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Rest of the World (RoW).

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 11, 2014-- ClearOne (NASDAQ: CLRO), a global provider of audio and visual communication solutions, announced Ideal TeleHealth, a telemedicine and remote wellness multi-solutions provider, has selected ClearOne's Spontania Media Collaboration Service Platform for its services.  Ideal TeleHealth will integrate the Media Collaboration Service Platform directly into several of their eHealth workflow services currently under development to provide telehealth consultation, care coordination, biometric telemetry, and more.

Scottsdale, AZ, August 08, 2014 -- NCPDP, the not-for-profit pharmacy standards development organization, announced today the deadline to submit a proposal for the NCPDP 2015 Annual Technology & Business Conference is September 1st. The national conference draws more than 700 attendees from across the healthcare industry, including technical, business and executive representatives from health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, retail and independent pharmacies, long-term care providers, healthcare consultants, technology vendors, manufacturers, wholesale drug distributors, database management organizations and others.

PITTSBURGH & MIAMI--CareCloud, the leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records (EHR), and medical billing software and services, today announced it has partnered with Iron Bridge Integration (IBI) to leverage Pub Hub, IBI’s public health clearing house. This integration further enables clients using CareCloud’s EHR, CareCloud Charts, to more easily report clinical data to state registries. The expansion of CareCloud’s platform allows its clients to more easily submit public health information such as immunizations, syndromic surveillance, cancer cases and electronic reportable labs.

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Aug. 7, 2014--The first MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics in Nebraska are opening this week inside select CVS/pharmacy stores. Two clinics opened yesterday in Lincoln and one is opening today in Omaha.  A third clinic in Lincoln and three more clinics in the Omaha area will open later this month.

NEW YORK--Aetna (NYSE: AET) and NYUPN Clinically Integrated Network, LLC (NYUPN) today announced an accountable care collaboration that is designed to improve patient care and lower health care costs. Effective July 1, NYUPN and its more than 1,800 clinical faculty and health care professionals affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center and University Physicians Network (UPN) began working more closely with Aetna to ensure improved care coordination and care quality. Aetna will financially reward NYUPN for quality health outcomes for approximately 24,000 members in both commercial and Medicare Advantage plans.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6, 2014--Practice Fusion, the nation's largest cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform, today announced the acquisition of Ringadoc, an innovator of next-generation patient-doctor communication tools. This acquisition gives Practice Fusion a springboard for entry into the telemedicine market, an industry expected to swell to $4.5 billion in 2018.

BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 5, 2014--Today, Access My Records, Inc. announced its patent-pending technology to provide hospitals, HIEs and healthcare software vendors with a "low-touch" solution to "auto-create" a patient portal originated from standardized HL7 patient documents (structured CCDs or unstructured CDAs)  sent over Secure Direct Messaging.

Boston, MA, July 30, 2014 – As the nation grapples with growing physician shortages across the country, The Physicians Foundation and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) today launched a new innovative tool to help policy makers, physicians and health systems better plan where to practice and what type of practitioners will be needed in order to meet the growing utilization of healthcare in the United States.

Lexington, MA, July 30, 2014 -- Imprivata® (NYSE: IMPR), a leading provider of authentication, access management and secure communications solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that Imprivata OneSign® is the most widely selected single sign-on (SSO) solution amongst U.S. hospitals using McKesson Paragon or Horizon electronic medical records (EMR) systems with a 51 percent market share (an increase of about 11 percent in the last 12 months), according to HIMSS Analytics data.

DUBLIN--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/n7nkh8/home_healthcare) has announced the addition of the "2014 Report on the International Home Healthcare (Web - Based, On - Premises, Cloud) Software Market - Forecast to 2018" report to their offering.

Needham Heights, MA- July 23, 2014 -- DoseSpot, an industry leader in e-Prescribing integration platforms for medical and dental software, today announced that Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians on smartphones and tablets, has completed Surescripts certification through DoseSpot.

July 28, 2014 -- The “Medical Robots Market by Type (Surgical Robot, Rehabilitation Robotics, Telemedicine, Assistive Robots, Orthotics, Prosthetics, Radio Surgery, Exoskeleton) & Application (Orthopedic, Neurology, Laparoscopy) - Global Forecasts to 2018” analyzes and studies the major market drivers and restraints in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Rest of the World.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--Imagine dealing with two illnesses simultaneously – one behavioral, the other physical. It’s a reality for many. Sixty eight percent of adults with mental health conditions also have medical conditions, according to the American Psychological Association, impacting the healthcare system with high human and financial costs.