Press Releases

Press Releases

Italy-based GKSD Investment Holding and the World Economic Forum signed a partnership in Geneva to enhance global health and well-being.

Many healthcare workers are running out of money between paychecks and find It challenging to pay bills on time. Over 8 in 10 say it would be helpful to be paid more frequently 

 

 

Single-use Cervical Rotating Biopsy Punch from Innovia Medical designed for obtaining cervical biopsies during gynecological procedures;

 

88% positive response from doctors to DTR Medical®’s Cervical Rotating Biopsy Punc

 

 

Orthoscan announced the End of Life (EOL) plan for its Orthoscan FD, FD-OR, Mobile DI (MDI), and FD Pulse Mini C-Arms. 

When using this service, patients have the ability to upload and share data without limitations. From radiology CDs to PDFs or JPG files, patients can use their smartphone connected to the Patient Image Exchange app and upload images, share lab results, immunizations records, nurses’ notes, dental images and much more.

 

ATLANTA-- Clinigence, a next-generation clinical business intelligence technology provider, today announced it will offer Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) reporting capabilities to users of Spring Medical Systems’ SpringCharts electronic health record (EHR) system. This new capability is an extension of the current alliance between the vendors, which provides Clinigence’s clinical reports to SpringCharts EHR users.

Philadelphia, PA, June 06, 2013 -- Pharmaceutical companies now have access to a better supply of data through EMRs, and HIEs, as well as more Government sponsored Big Data initiatives than ever before. The downside is that with so much information, many companies are finding it difficult to leverage all of the information available to them.

ATLANTA, June 4, 2013 --  Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: STRM), a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise content management, business analytics, computer assisted coding (CAC) and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) solutions for healthcare providers, announced today that it has entered into a joint marketing agreement with Patientco, the industry's most innovative provider of patient financial engagement solutions, with the intention to increase net revenue for healthcare providers by accelerating patient payments.

Ozark, MO, June 04, 2013 -- HealthMEDX, the leading provider of LTPAC EMR solutions, has announced the General Availability of the HealthMEDX Pharmacy Exchange, a bi-directional interface between HealthMEDX Vision and Omnicare, utilizing the NCPDP SCRIPT 10.6 standard.

June 03, 2013 -- dashboardMD, a leading provider of business intelligence reporting solutions for healthcare, is further expanding its healthcare dashboards and intelligent reporting solutions through a strategic partnership with Henry Schein MicroMD®, a provider of proven and cost-effective practice management (PM) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems.

BATON ROUGE, LA, June 03, 2013 - Louisiana residents enrolled in UnitedHealthcare’s employer-sponsored, MedicareDirect and Evercare/SecureHorizons Medicare Advantage health plans now have access to care provided by Medistar Home Health.

Santa Fe, NM, May 31, 2013 - Patient engagement leader, Seamless Medical Systems today announced it has closed $2 million in early stage funding.The financing will support Seamless Medical’s growth strategy in three main areas: integration of their patient engagement platform with leading electronic medical records companies, expanding market penetration and accelerating product innovation and future platform updates.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-- The Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority has selected Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, as its partner in building a statewide community shared services (CSS) platform. The Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority is an independent state agency that works to meet federal requirements for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) in Pennsylvania.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 30, 2013 -- HIMSS Analytics, a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), recently honored SuccessEHS client ARcare for achieving Stage 6 on the EMR Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM). The second highest level of the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM, Stage 6 requirements include advanced uses of health information technology. These requirements include demonstrated use of electronic physician documentation, clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry, closed-loop medication administration and other advanced functionalities.

MONTVALE, N.J. and ROCHESTER, Mich., May 29, 2013 -- PDR Network®, the leading distributor of FDA-approved patient drug safety and support services for electronic health record (EHR) and e-prescribing (e-Rx) platforms, today announced a strategic partnership with OPTIMIZERx Corp. (OTCBB: OPRX), the industry innovator in developing and delivering digital patient financial support technology within the e-prescribing workflow. Under the agreement PDR will bring to market OPTIMIZERx's patent solution for e-Coupons in EHR workflow to the parties' extensive combined EHR network.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Healthcare providers will have access to a new continuum of technology management solutions across the “big three” health providers in a community -- clinic, hospital and post-acute care facilities -- with Healthland’s acquisition of American HealthTech (AHT).

CARROLLTON, Ga.-- Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., which delivers innovative information solutions for healthcare providers, has been granted two new U.S. patents related to electronic quality-of-care data liquidity. Both patents cover the receipt and transmission of data from multiple electronic health record (EHR) systems, accessible directly or over the cloud, including data distributed across a vast patient population. Such data liquidity supports improved care coordination, quality, safety and cost-effectiveness.

Collegeville, PA, May 23, 2013 -- With yet another Health IT innovation, DataTrade Solutions, Inc (DTS) recently released iCoder MD, a mobile charge capture application that is designed to work on any smartphone. iCoder MD is a web-based application that is designed to replace the paper procedure and diagnosis slips that doctors use to record charges while making rounds at a hospital, nursing home, or any other outside location away from their primary office’s electronic health record (EHR) and electronic practice management (EPM) applications. iCoder MD allows a doctor to use their smartphone to quickly submit charges to a administrative, back-end website that his/her billing staff will access to securely receive billing information while away from the primary office.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-- PracticeMax, a national provider of medical practice management and technology services, today announced it has acquired ABC Medical Management (ABC) of Phoenix, Arizona. Under the direction of its President and Founder, Rick Jacobs, ABC has been a leading provider of billing and practice management services for anesthesia and pain management specialists for over 20 years.

VALDOSTA, Ga., May 21, 2013 -- ClientTell, an enterprise-class notifications company, today announced that its ReminderManager patient communication solution has joined the Greenway Medical Technologies Online Marketplace as a certified API solution for users of Greenway's PrimeSUITE platform.

ARLINGTON, Va., May 21, 2013  -- The mHealth Summit is pleased to announce that the 2013 Call for Presentations is now open and will close on June 7, 2013. 

SAN FRANCISCO -- CareCloud, a leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records (EHR), and medical billing software and services, and QuantiaMD, the largest social learning and collaboration platform serving more than 170,000 validated physician members, today announced the findings of the first Practice Profitability Index (PPI). The announcement took place at the inaugural HealthBeat 2013 Conference, sponsored by VentureBeat in San Francisco. The PPI was created and launched as part of a partnership between the two companies and was designed to provide a voice to US physician practices regarding issues impacting the financial and operational health of their practices.

PITTSBURGH, May 21, 2013 -- Net Health, the leading provider of clinical solutions for outpatient specialty care, announced today the acquisition of Integritas, Inc., a provider of integrated clinical EMR and practice management solutions for the growing urgent care, occupational health, and hospital employee health markets.

Santa Rosa, CA, May 20, 2013 -- A pioneer and leading provider of Population Health and Business Intelligence solutions, i2i Systems announced today that the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award-winning Southcentral Foundation (SCF) selected i2iTracks as their population management solution. SCF will utilize i2iTracks to help them meet their Meaningful Use (MU), Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and Uniform Data System (UDS) requirements – a welcomed solution to managing the demands associated with growing population data.

LEXINGTON, Mass.-- Imprivata®, a leading global provider of healthcare IT security solutions, today announced the availability of a new report from HIMSS Analytics that outlines the data access and workflow efficiency challenges Canadian hospitals face as they continue to implement electronic health record (EHR) systems. Titled “Streamlining Workflows and Access to Patient Data in Canadian Hospitals,” the study, commissioned by Imprivata, specifies how EHR adoption can impact workflow efficiency and data access, and identifies single sign-on (SSO) technology as one of the solutions to streamline access to clinical systems and patient information. Imprivata is available to discuss the findings of this study and to demonstrate the features and benefits of Imprivata OneSign® in booth #108 during e-Health 2013 Conference (May 26-29, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).

Asheville, NC May 16, 2013 -- DoctorDirectory, a leading marketing solutions company serving healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical industry clients, asked their community of HCPs to submit questions for a series of peer surveys. After collecting the submissions, the questions were divided up into separate surveys and sent to HCPs across the United States. Results from the EHR study were recently published.