Princeton, New Jersey, June 24, 2015 – OpenLegacy, the open source-based legacy integration platform provider, today announced the availability of its eSuite Integration Platform, which makes it easy for enterprises to integrate their back-end systems of record with mobile, Web or cloud applications through a set of standard APIs. 

SEATTLE – June 23, 2015 – Summit Imaging, a technology-focused ultrasound medical equipment support company, today announced the release of Summit Imaging Mobile, the mobile version of its comprehensive online support portal. Summit Imaging Mobile is the first mobile application to give clinical engineers full service ultrasound support, allowing them to submit support cases, connect directly to an equipment expert, and order new parts from wherever they are so they can get their facility’s machines back up and running in the shortest amount of time. 

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) launched HHS emPOWER Map, an interactive online tool that aims to aid community health agencies and emergency management officials in disaster preparedness as they plan ahead to meet the emergency needs of community residents who rely on electrically powered medical and assistive equipment to live independently at home.

Twenty-nine percent of U.S. broadband households own a connected health device—up from 27 percent a year ago—while 12 percent of broadband households own multiple connected health devices, according to research conducted by Dallas-based research and consulting firm Parks Associates.  

GEORGETOWN, Texas, June 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Live at the national AHIMA LTPAC conference in Baltimore today, Collain Healthcare, an LG CNS Company, introduced the LG CNS Care Cloud, a technology ecosystem for population health management, to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve the patient, caregiver and provider experience.

Los Angeles, June 22, 2015 - Zynx Health™announced today the release of an exclusive integration between ZynxOrder® and Paragon® Hospital Information System release 13 from McKesson that makes order set management easy through automated content synchronization. This intuitive solution eliminates common integration challenges including time-consuming file-based uploads. 

BRUSSELS – 22 June 2015 – The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR*) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS**) have renewed their cooperation agreement to progress their common goal of improving the use of information and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

The draft fiscal year 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill would increase funding for the National Institutes of Health by 3.6 percent, it would eliminate the Health & Human Services’ Agency for Health Research on Quality (AHRQ).