Valdosta, GA, April 24, 2014 -- Azalea Health, a leading provider of cloud-based healthcare solutions and services, successfully hosted its first annual Hackathon on April 19, 2014 at Valdosta State University. Brothers, Alan Sifuentes and Jacob Sifuentes from VSU, took first place in the competition for developing a website for a patient / doctor question and answer forum.

April 24, 2014 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,SAN ANTONIO--AirStrip, the leading provider of mobile healthcare solutions that drive clinical transformation, has announced an agreement with Texas Health Resources to deploy AirStrip ONE® throughout the health system. The AirStrip ONE platform will give clinicians seamless access to disparate data systems from multiple vendors, allowing them to interact with patient information both within and outside of the hospital using mobile devices. 

Kearney, NE, April 28, 2014 -- PHYND Technologies has been awarded a grant from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development to compare and analyze how much hospitals currently spend on managing health care provider information versus using the PHYND provider information management (PIM) platform.

Google is seeking patents that detail ways to fit a camera into a contact lens without dramatically increasing its thickness.

Healthcare providers in Georgia are leveraging interoperability and portability of health information to improve population health outcomes and reduce historical disparities in care.

San Francisco, CA, April 22, 2014 -- In December 2012, 37 Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN) were awarded more than $18 million to expand the use of heath information technology. Now, one of those networks, the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP), is proudly sharing its progress. The organization partnered with i2i Systems, a leading population health management (PHM) solution provider that is also the PHM solution of choice for 12 other HCCNs.

Dublin, Ohio, April 23, 2014 – Updox, the industry leader for physician connectivity and CRM solutions for health care, announced the organization became a founding member of Carequality, a new initiative dedicated to accelerating progress in health data exchange among multi-platform networks, healthcare providers, electronic health record (EHR) vendors and health information exchange (HIE) vendors.

BURLINGTON, Mass.---Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announced today the immediate availability of Nuance PowerShare™ Network, the industry’s largest cloud-based network for securely connecting physicians, patients, government agencies, specialty medical societies and others to share essential medical images and reports as simply as people exchange information using social networks. Nuance PowerShare Network promotes informed and connected physicians and patients who can instantly view, share and collaborate while addressing patients’ healthcare needs.