• Vocera & Rock Health Connect Industry Leaders to Transform the Healthcare Experience

     Vocera & Rock Health Connect Industry Leaders to Transform the Healthcare Experience Event Assembles Healthcare Providers & Digital Health Companies to Identify & Test Innovative Technologies

    SAN JOSE, CA – April 28, 2015 /GLOBE NEWSWIRE/ — Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading provider of intelligent, real-time communication solutions for healthcare and other mission-critical mobile environments, today announced it will co-host an Innovation Showcase with Rock Health, a seed and early stage venture fund that supports companies building the next generation of healthcare technologies. Rock Health’s quarterly Innovation Showcases bring together leading digital health companies with potential customers and partners. This event is designed to connect leading healthcare provider organizations with digital health entrepreneurs to identify, test and accelerate the adoption of emerging innovations that engage patients, improve outcomes and elevate the healthcare experience.

    The Innovation Showcase will take place at Rock Health in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 5. Participating providers represent healthcare executives setting the next standard in care delivery, including members of Vocera’s Experience Innovation Network, an international group of chief experience officers, physicians, nurses and other industry leaders. During the event, these thought leaders will have a unique opportunity to view, evaluate and partner with a variety of startups including Ambient Clinical Analytics, CellScope, Ginger.io, Mango Health, Omada Health, Smart Patients and Tonic Health.

    “The Innovation Showcase is an opportunity for leading providers to review and measure the effectiveness of new technologies that can dramatically transform healthcare delivery,” said Malay Gandhi, managing director of Rock Health. “Hosting this event with Vocera allows us to bridge gaps between digital healthcare companies and leading healthcare providers.”

    The Innovation Showcase coincides with Vocera’s eighth semi-annual Chief Experience Officer (CXO) Roundtable on May 6 and 7 in San Francisco, which will feature additional patient-centered technologies and solutions that meet the Quadruple Aim of improving population health, elevating patient-centered care, and reducing costs while restoring joy to the practice of medicine.

    “If we truly want to catalyze healthcare transformation and create market differentiation, it is critical to accelerate the adoption of innovative technologies that engage and empower patients,” said Bridget Duffy, MD, chief medical officer of Vocera and co-founder of the Experience Innovation Network. “The Innovation Showcase is the ideal forum to bring together technology entrepreneurs, patients and providers, and challenge them to go faster to design the next standards of care for the nation.”

    Posted 4.29.2015

  • Epic & Cerner Rated Highest for Usability, with MEDITECH Making the Most Progress

    KLAS report examines acute care EMR usability progress over the past two years

    OREM, UT – April 29, 2015 — Epic continues their industry-leading usability performance, Cerner’s customers are making the most usability progress, and MEDITECH distinguishes themselves as having made up the most ground. The latest KLAS report on EMR usability charts product performance over the past two years. The report, entitled Physician Leadership Weighs In on Acute Care EMR Usability, compares usability performance in the acute care EMR market segment.

    As part of this report, KLAS interviewed physician leadership at 110 healthcare organizations across the country. In addition to collecting data about the usability of the various modules (physician documentation, CPOE, medication reconciliation, problem lists and CDS), KLAS asked these leaders to give perspectives on three overarching aspects of EMR usability: productivity, effectiveness and user interface. The results were then compared to usability performance metrics from KLAS’ last usability report two years ago to create a holistic view of each of the product’s progress since 2013.

    “It is not surprising to hear physicians say that EMRs are better at enhancing their effectiveness than their productivity,” said Jonathan Christensen, report analyst. “What is surprising is how much improvement still needs to be made in areas like physician documentation and, in light of meaningful use pressures, how much some modules lack adoption.”

    For access to the report, you can download the myKLAS app  or visit KLAS online. The report is available to healthcare providers and vendors. Providers receive a significant discount off the standard retail price or can receive a complimentary summary report in exchange for a survey about one of their current suppliers.

    Posted 4.29.2015

  • Survey Reveals Data Analytics as Major Focus but Confusion Point for Healthcare IT Leaders

    PITTSBURGH,PA – April 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — In the third annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc., a leading healthcare information technology (HIT) consulting firm, a majority of respondents (41 percent) pointed to data analytics and business intelligence as the biggest topic in health IT for 2015. However, most (51 percent) showed confusion toward what healthcare data to actually collect and how much. The survey was conducted at the 2015 Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference held recently in Chicago, Illinois.

    “Organizations feel they need to jump on the big data bandwagon, yet they approach this emerging issue reactively versus proactively,” Shane Pilcher, vice president of Stoltenberg Consulting, said. “Healthcare IT leaders should instead focus on collecting smart healthcare data, monitoring what data they’re saving and concentrating on the quality, quantify and validity of data needed to answer future questions for organizations.”

    Completed by project managers, CIOs, IT directors and consultants, the survey also revealed that a majority (34 percent) felt that the lack of buy-in across their healthcare organizations was the largest barrier to IT initiatives, including data analytics and achieving meaningful use.

    “Ultimately data analytics is only as good as the data being analyzed. Therefore, adoption is critical among all users along the data collection pathway,” Pilcher said. “Identifying early wins in decreasing cost of care and increasing overall patient outcomes is essential to developing confidence and buy-in for an organization’s data analytics program.

    For a complete look at the survey results, please click here or visit www.stoltenberg.com.

    Posted 4.29.2015

  • Zynx Health & Meritage ACO Co-Present Using Mobile Tools to Create Virtual Caregiver Huddle

    MEDIA ADVISORY

    LOS ANGELES, CA – April 27, 2015

    WHAT:
    Siva Subramanian, PhD, senior vice president of mobile strategy, Zynx Health and Andrea Kmetz, RN, director of care management and quality assurance, Meritage Medical Network and Meritage Accountable Care Organization (ACO), will co-present “Using a Mobile Tool to Create a Virtual Caregiver Huddle” (Session 401) at the 17th Annual National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) Congress April 29 – May 1 in Austin, Texas. The session highlights how Meritage ACO in North California, with the help of ZynxCarebook™ mobile technology, implemented initiatives including evidenced-based care guidance aimed at improving care coordination within the larger care community. Zynx Health is the newest member of the NPSF Patient Safety Coalition.

    TIME/PLACE/REGISTER:
    Friday, May 1, 9:45 am – 10:45 am Central at JW Marriott Austin, Austin, Texas.  Click here for registration.

    PRESENTATION TOPIC:
    Healthcare organizations have historically depended upon an unreliable patient handoff and discharge process, placing patient care quality and safety at risk while increasing costly readmissions. Subramanian and Kmetz will explain how bringing all interested professionals, both within the hospital and beyond, together at the precise, care-crucial moment helps providers deliver exactly what patients need. Meritage ACO used ZynxCarebook to create a Mobile Care Navigation Network that allows the organization to hold “Virtual Caregiver Huddles” among the provider community spread across a 2,600 square mile area encompassing Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties. The vastly improved care team communication and collaboration has helped the organization decrease readmissions, lower length of stay, and avert adverse events. Simultaneously improving communications and coordination of care transitions, while infusing the entire process with evidence-based best practices, is highlighted.

     

    About Zynx Health
    Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality, improve care coordination, and decrease variation across an individual’s health journey. Thousands of hospital organizations and providers “dare to be better” with Zynx Health’s innovative solutions based on rigorous and tested methodologies that improve performance in clinical practice. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX.

    Posted 4.27.2015

  • Zynx Health Enhances Secure Text Messaging & Usability in ZynxCarebook

    Mobile app ensures HIPAA & other government standards compliance for clinicians sharing patient data & other confidential information

    Los Angeles, CA – April 23, 2015 — As clinicians increasingly expand their use of text messaging to communicate within and across care settings, concerns about upholding compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other government rules are also increasing. Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care coordination solutions, is addressing these issues with the release of an enhanced secure messaging application within the ZynxCarebook™ mobile coordination platform. The enhanced messaging application can be implemented independently or as a component of ZynxCarebook.

    The enhancements, which were first unveiled at last week’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s Annual Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS15) in Chicago, improve the ability of physicians, nurses and other clinicians to exchange patient data or other confidential information while remaining in compliance with HIPAA, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, and other relevant industry standards.

    Healthcare professionals who need to share electronic protected health information (ePHI) to coordinate care have increasingly gravitated toward text messaging over the past few years because of its familiarity and ability to provide constant connectivity. According to Pew Research, 81 percent of all Americans send and receive text messages on their mobile phones. Pew also notes that texting is currently the leading activity on mobile phones.

    However, traditional text messaging applications are inherently nonsecure and noncompliant under the HIPAA security rule. This lack of security creates a significant liability for hospitals and other healthcare providers, as a single unsecured text message about a patient could result in fines as high as $50,000.

    “Communicating quickly and effectively is critical to ensuring high quality care coordination and collaboration among care team members across the continuum,” said Siva Subramanian, Ph.D., senior vice president of mobile products at Zynx Health. “Texting fits very easily into clinicians’ workflows, which is why its use is rapidly growing. ZynxCarebook provides that extra level of security and protection necessary for providers to meet regulatory compliance while guaranteeing the usability that led them to choose to communicate via text in the first place.”

    The mobile application, available on iOS and Android, offers new security controls such as employee personal identification number (PIN) lock and active directory auto-synchronization designed to ensure that all messages sent within the app are delivered to an approved recipient and protected in accordance with healthcare regulations. Additional usability features include secure group messaging and segregated alerts, which categorize messages as patient-related or other. These capabilities promote more effective care team communication, yielding faster messaging response times, improved care transitions and patient throughput, and reduced discharge time.

    “At ValleyCare we are working to bridge the chasm of traditional communication by implementing a mobile communication platform so we can communicate in real time when necessary,” said Carlos Gracia, M.D., medical director of clinical informatics at ValleyCare Health System in Pleasanton, Calif. “If physicians are busy, they should be empowered to respond promptly and effectively. Otherwise, long-standing problems such as errors, communication issues and care delays will continue. That status quo is not acceptable and can no longer be tolerated in healthcare.”

    To learn more about ZynxCarebook, visit zynxhealth.com or schedule a live demo.

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    About Zynx Health
    Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality, improve care coordination, and decrease variation across an individual’s health journey. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX.

    About Hearst Health
    Zynx Health is part of the Hearst Health network, which also includes FDB (First Databank), MCG and Homecare Homebase, and Hearst Health International. The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 84 percent of discharged patients, 174 million insured individuals, 35 million home health visits, and 4 billion prescriptions. Extensions of the Hearst Health network include Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab. To learn more, visit hearsthealth.com

    Posted 4.23.2015

  • athenahealth, Epic & Medfusion Most Effective at Helping Drive Patient Portal Adoption

    KLAS report examines increasingly important patient portal segment

    Orem, UT – April 23, 2015 — athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion are the most effective vendors at helping their customers drive patient portal adoption, with all three vendors having over half of their customers report that at least 20% of patients have accessed the portal-a number well beyond the meaningful use bar of 5%. These findings and more are included in the recent KLAS report entitled “Patient Portals 2015: Adoption beyond Meaningful Use.”

    As part of this report, KLAS interviewed 186 healthcare provider organizations to determine which vendors have proven to best meet current needs while also developing solutions for a more strategic tomorrow. The report analyzes three flavors of portals: enterprise, ambulatory and EMR agnostic. The focus of the report is to examine product performance, vendor guidance and other factors that impact providers’ ability to achieve success with patient portal adoption.

    “Value-based care is forcing patient portals to evolve from being merely tools for reactive regulatory compliance to becoming valuable instruments that allow patients to proactively engage in their own care,” said report author Coray Tate. “Providers report that vendor guidance and functionality that patients find useful, such as billing and self-scheduling, are the most effective ways to encourage portal adoption among patients.”

    For access to the report, you can download the myKLAS app or visit KLAS online. The report is available to healthcare providers and vendors. Providers receive a significant discount off the standard retail price or can receive a complimentary summary report in exchange for a survey about one of their current suppliers.

    About KLAS
    KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. Follow KLAS on Twitter.

    Posted 4.23.2015

  • Wolters Kluwer, Huntsville Hospital Pilot Study on Reduction of Sepsis Mortality & Morbidity

    April 9, 2015 — Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that the preliminary findings of its joint study with Huntsville Hospital in Alabama to reduce the morbidity and mortality of sepsis will be presented during HIMSS15 in Chicago. The presentation, “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Combating Sepsis,” will take place on April 14 from 4-5 p.m. in room W192. Stephen Claypool, MD, of Wolters Kluwer (Booth #8103) and Joycelyn Craighead of Huntsville Hospital will discuss how using POC Advisor™ reduced sepsis-related mortality by 53 percent and 30-day readmissions by 30 percent.

    Sepsis is the most common cause of death in hospital critical care units, annually claiming an estimated 8 million lives worldwide, including 258,000 in the U.S. Hospitals spend an estimated $20 billion annually fighting sepsis, making it the country’s single most expensive condition to treat. As a result, hospitals nationwide are following the example set by Huntsville Hospital and making reduction of sepsis severity and mortality a top priority.

    “Lessening sepsis severity and lowering mortality rates is a significant aspect of Huntsville’s long-term quality improvement strategy, so the decision to partner with Wolters Kluwer on this potentially life-saving pilot study was easy,” said Craighead, Director of Quality, Huntsville Hospital. “Importantly, our clinical staff embraced the opportunity to have a hand in developing a highly effective approach to combating sepsis, largely because they were already familiar with and trusted the medical evidence and decision support tools that would drive the program.”

    “Clinician engagement was imperative to the success of this pilot study,” added Claypool, Vice President of Clinical Development and Informatics, Wolters Kluwer, Clinical Solutions, noting that early diagnosis and treatment are elusive because sepsis initially presents subtly and shares common symptoms with multiple illnesses. “Physicians and nurses alike needed to be able to fully trust that alerts were triggered only when a patient was septic. That is why it was vital for us to spend time creating hundreds of disease-specific rules, which ensured that the alerts triggered were highly sensitive and specific, as well as patient-specific and evidence-based.”

    Central to the pilot study was POC Advisor, a unique cloud-based point of care platform that addresses complex clinical challenges like sepsis by leveraging the electronic health record (EHR) investment a healthcare organization has already made. Built on the proven Sentri7® surveillance infrastructure, POC Advisor uses the patient data within the EHR to help detect escalating conditions early and pushes to clinicians patient-specific, evidence-based alerts with very high sensitivity/specificity via mobile and other computing devices—all with the goal of improving clinical outcomes and lowering costs.

    This is accomplished by integrating key functionality from several Wolters Kluwer clinical decision support (CDS) and other leading products including UpToDate®; Lexicomp®; Medi-Span®; ProVation® clinical content, powered by Lippincott Nursing Solutions and UpToDate; Language Engine®; and Wolters Kluwer Surveillance Engine. The addition of change management to build and refine clinical protocols, provide education on the latest evidence and treatments, and enable governance to ensure process changes remain sustainable completes the solution.

    “The Huntsville Hospital study epitomizes our commitment to reducing sepsis morbidity and mortality and improving patient care worldwide,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Clinical Solutions, Wolters Kluwer. “POC Advisor has demonstrated that comprehensive CDS technology has the power to drastically improve patient outcomes and clinician performance. Wolters Kluwer is proud of its continued success in CDS innovations that support clinicians with evidence-based knowledge and revolutionize patient care.”

    Learn more about POC Advisor and Wolters Kluwer at booth #8103 during HIMSS15 in Chicago April 12-16 at the McCormick Place Convention Center.

    About Wolters Kluwer
    Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer’s market leading information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever more dynamic world.

    Wolters Kluwer reported 2014 annual revenues of €3.7 billion. The group serves customers in over 170 countries, and employs over 19,000 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Wolters Kluwer shares are listed on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).

    For more information about Wolters Kluwer products and organization visit www.wolterskluwer.com, follow @WKHealth or @Wolters_Kluwer on Twitter, like them on Facebook, follow them on LinkedIn, or follow WoltersKluwerComms on YouTube.

    Posted 4.17.2015

  • ZynxCare Best in KLAS Solution Offers New, Evidence-Based Guidance to Better Manage the Effects of Cancer Across the Continuum

    Focused interdisciplinary plans of care address holistic needs of cancer patients specific to pain management plus issues derived from varied treatments

    Los Angeles, CA – April 15, 2015 — While there is ample clinical evidence detailing the different forms of therapies used against cancer, relatively little attention is given to helping patients cope with the disease’s devastating ancillary effects – and the treatments for it. Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care coordination solutions, announced today it is filling that void with the release of a new cancer content module rounding out its Best in KLAS–rated ZynxCare® solution. The module offers the interdisciplinary care team a holistic approach to the treatment of cancer patients across care settings.

    “Cancer care content is consistently a top request from our clients,” said Nan Hou, PhD, RN, deputy clinical editor at Zynx Health. “We created this module to ensure that healthcare organizations have access to the highest quality clinical evidence and plan of care so they can customize and individualize the content to meet the needs of this growing population.”

    This module addresses the interdisciplinary management of common conditions associated with cancer and cancer treatment, such as esophageal irritation, a lack of energy, and general body pain. The content covers treatment of physiological symptoms as well as related side effectsThe content also goes beyond the physical to focus on psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual issues deemed critically important to ensuring patients become and remain engaged in their own treatment. The goal is to expand the focus from simply treating the disease to helping the whole person in order to improve care across a patient’s entire journey.

    Previews of the new cancer care content have garnered praise from hospitals. McLaren Port Huron Hospital in Port Huron, Mich., a recipient of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer’s Outstanding Achievement Award, is eager to integrate the content into its new cancer center as part of its outpatient survivorship program. “This is a highly comprehensive plan of care specifically tailored to survivors and current patients with cancer,” said John Schweihofer, RN, nurse manager of McLaren Port Huron’s oncology unit.

    Bill Arnold, RN, nursing informatics manager from Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y., agrees that the usefulness of Zynx Health’s new cancer care content will be significant. “With our increase in patients receiving chemotherapy, this content will be of great help in developing our plan of care,” he said.

    Carolyn Richardson, MSN, MBA, RN-BC, regional nursing officer at Zynx Health adds, “The treatment of cancer poses overwhelming challenges to the U.S. health system, among them rising costs and short- and long-term physical and mental health issues. We’re excited to introduce this cancer content module which we strongly believe will greatly improve the healthcare experience and hopefully the ultimate goal of better outcomes.”

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    About Zynx Health
    Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality, improve care coordination, and decrease variation across an individual’s health journey. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX.

    About Hearst Health
    Zynx Health is part of the Hearst Health network, which also includes FDB (First Databank), MCG and Homecare Homebase, and Hearst Health International. The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 84 percent of discharged patients, 174 million insured individuals, 35 million home health visits, and 4 billion prescriptions. Extensions of the Hearst Health network include Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab. www.hearsthealth.com

    About Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation
    The ECMC Corporation includes an advanced academic medical center (ECMC) with 602 inpatient beds, on- and off-campus health centers, more than 30 outpatient specialty care services and Terrace View, a 390-bed long-term care facility. ECMC is the regional center for trauma, burn care, behavioral health services, transplantation, and rehabilitation and is a major teaching facility for the University at Buffalo. Most ECMC physicians, dentists and pharmacists are dedicated faculty members of the university and/or members of a private practice plan. More Western New York residents are choosing ECMC for exceptional patient care and patient experiences-the difference between healthcare and true careTM.

    About McLaren Port Huron
    McLaren Port Huron is a 186-bed not-for-profit community hospital that provides a full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient health care services to residents in St. Clair and Sanilac counties in Michigan including specialized centers accredited or certified for breast health services, orthopedics, stroke care, bariatric surgery, wound healing, cancer care, inpatient diabetes care and sleep medicine. Committed to making a positive difference in the health of our communities since 1882, McLaren Port Huron has been recognized repeatedly for clinical excellence and patient safety by nationally renowned organizations known for their measurements of hospitals and health care systems.

    Posted 4.17.2015

  • ZynxCare Best in KLAS Solution Offers New Evidence-Based Guidance to Better Manage the Effects of Cancer

    Focused interdisciplinary plans of care address holistic needs of cancer patients specific to pain management plus issues derived from varied treatments

    Los Angeles, CA – April 15 2015 — While there is ample clinical evidence detailing the different forms of therapies used against cancer, relatively little attention is given to helping patients cope with the disease’s devastating ancillary effects – and the treatments for it. Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care coordination solutions, announced today it is filling that void with the release of a new cancer content module rounding out its Best in KLAS-rated ZynxCare® solution. The module offers the interdisciplinary care team a holistic approach to the treatment of cancer patients across care settings.

    “Cancer care content is consistently a top request from our clients,” said Nan Hou, PhD, RN, deputy clinical editor at Zynx Health. “We created this module to ensure that healthcare organizations have access to the highest quality clinical evidence and plan of care so they can customize and individualize the content to meet the needs of this growing population.”

    This module addresses the interdisciplinary management of common conditions associated with cancer and cancer treatment, such as esophageal irritation, a lack of energy, and general body pain. The content covers treatment of physiological symptoms as well as related side effects. The content also goes beyond the physical to focus on psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual issues deemed critically important to ensuring patients become and remain engaged in their own treatment. The goal is to expand the focus from simply treating the disease to helping the whole person in order to improve care across a patient’s entire journey.

    Previews of the new cancer care content have garnered praise from hospitals. McLaren Port Huron Hospital in Port Huron, Mich., a recipient of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer’s Outstanding Achievement Award, is eager to integrate the content into its new cancer center as part of its outpatient survivorship program. “This is a highly comprehensive plan of care specifically tailored to survivors and current patients with cancer,” said John Schweihofer, RN, nurse manager of McLaren Port Huron’s oncology unit.

    Bill Arnold, RN, nursing informatics manager from Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y., agrees that the usefulness of Zynx Health’s new cancer care content will be significant. “With our increase in patients receiving chemotherapy, this content will be of great help in developing our plan of care,” he said.

    Carolyn Richardson, MSN, MBA, RN-BC, regional nursing officer at Zynx Health adds, “The treatment of cancer poses overwhelming challenges to the U.S. health system, among them rising costs and short- and long-term physical and mental health issues. We’re excited to introduce this cancer content module which we strongly believe will greatly improve the healthcare experience and hopefully the ultimate goal of better outcomes.”

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    About Zynx Health
    Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality, improve care coordination, and decrease variation across an individual’s health journey. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX.

    About Hearst Health
    Zynx Health is part of the Hearst Health network, which also includes FDB (First Databank), MCG and Homecare Homebase, and Hearst Health International. The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 84 percent of discharged patients, 174 million insured individuals, 35 million home health visits, and 4 billion prescriptions. Extensions of the Hearst Health network include Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab. www.hearsthealth.com

    About Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation
    The ECMC Corporation includes an advanced academic medical center (ECMC) with 602 inpatient beds, on- and off-campus health centers, more than 30 outpatient specialty care services and Terrace View, a 390-bed long-term care facility. ECMC is the regional center for trauma, burn care, behavioral health services, transplantation, and rehabilitation and is a major teaching facility for the University at Buffalo. Most ECMC physicians, dentists and pharmacists are dedicated faculty members of the university and/or members of a private practice plan. More Western New York residents are choosing ECMC for exceptional patient care and patient experiences-the difference between healthcare and true careTM.

    About McLaren Port Huron
    McLaren Port Huron is a 186-bed not-for-profit community hospital that provides a full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient health care services to residents in St. Clair and Sanilac counties in Michigan including specialized centers accredited or certified for breast health services, orthopedics, stroke care, bariatric surgery, wound healing, cancer care, inpatient diabetes care and sleep medicine. Committed to making a positive difference in the health of our communities since 1882, McLaren Port Huron has been recognized repeatedly for clinical excellence and patient safety by nationally renowned organizations known for their measurements of hospitals and health care systems.

    Posted 4.15.2015

  • Zynx Health’s Evidence-Based Care Coordination Expert Grant Campbell to Speak at AONE 2015

    Media Advisory

    LOS ANGELES, CA – April 14, 2015

    WHAT:
    Grant Campbell, MSN, RN, Senior Director of Nursing Strategy and Informatics at Zynx Health™ and an expert in the use of evidence-based best practices to standardize care coordination, will present “Don’t Drop the Baton! Improving Care Transitions with Evidence-Based Content and Mobile Technology” at the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) 2015 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

    TIME/PLACE/REGISTRATION:
    Friday, April 17, 11:30 a.m. Pacific, Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

    PRESENTATION TOPIC:
    Healthcare organizations have historically depended upon an unreliable patient hand off and discharge process, placing patient care quality and safety at risk while increasing costly readmissions. Calling upon his 25 years of experience as a staff nurse, educator and leader in critical care settings, Campbell will discuss how organizations use evidence-based content and mobile technology solutions to improve this process.

    Using real-world examples, Campbell will: show nurses how they can employ evidence-based content to re-engineer pre- and post-discharge care processes to deliver better outcomes; demonstrate how a mobile care coordination tool can support effective real-time communication among a vast array of on-the-go caregivers; and recognize how this improved care communication can lead to improved results, including reductions in readmissions and length of stay.

    Also during AONE April 15 to18, Zynx Health will demonstrate two solutions in its booth #1316: ZynxCarebook™ secure message and mobile care team coordination platform for patient transitions, and ZynxCare®, which delivers actionable, evidence-based plans of care that help providers to strategically coordinate patient- and family-focused care, reduce care disparities, and prevent avoidable and unnecessary readmissions.

    INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY:
    Grant Campbell, MSN, RN, Senior Director, Nursing Strategy and Informatics – Zynx Health
    Pre- and post-event interviews can be arranged. Click here for Campbell’s photo.

    About Zynx Health
    Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality, improve care coordination, and decrease variation across an individual’s health journey. Thousands of hospital organizations and providers “dare to be better” with Zynx Health’s innovative solutions based on rigorous and tested methodologies that improve performance in clinical practice. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX (855.367.9969).

    Posted 4.14.2015

  • Lexmark Launches New Brand & Logo (Previously Perceptive Software)

    LEXINGTON, Ky., April 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

    • Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK), a global technology leader, today introduced the company’s new corporate brand and logo. The rebranding reflects both the evolution of the company as well as its vision for the future.
    • Since being spun out of IBM in 1991, Lexmark has been a recognized and lauded leader in imaging and output solutions that help people and organizations improve processes and reduce their costs. Lexmark’s award-winning imaging and output technology has continued to evolve as the world becomes more digital and connected.
    • Today, the company sells its products and services in more than 170 countries, and is recognized as a leader in managed print services (MPS) by many of the technology industry’s leading market analyst firms. Lexmark has also acquired and integrated several strategic software companies since 2010, further expanding the company’s breadth of offerings to include innovative software solutions.
    • Lexmark’s rebranding represents its successful and ongoing transition to a company well beyond its hardware heritage. Today the company competes in key growth markets that include MPS, intelligent capture, enterprise content management, healthcare content management, financial process automation and enterprise search – all focused on helping Lexmark customers connect employees to the most relevant information at the moment they need it.
    • The new Lexmark logo evokes the clarity, value and durability of the traditional Lexmark diamond, evolving to an aperture, which represents the broader offering – a portal to insight, a means of focus. The green palette is fresh, vibrant and approachable, representing Lexmark’s strength, focus on sustainability and growth as well as our commitment to earning “customers for life.” The new typeface lends a modern, clean look and features angles that precisely reflect the aperture.
    • Lexmark’s new tagline is, “Open the possibilities”. This tagline invites customers to engage with Lexmark to open up greater opportunities for success with our broader technology and solutions portfolio.
    • While the brand, tagline and logo have changed to better represent what the company is today, Lexmark’s value proposition remains the same – our combination of key technology ownership, exceptional customer engagement and deeper industry expertise remains unique, and enables us to develop long-lasting and rewarding customer relationships.
    • Perceptive Software will go to market as Lexmark, while its software products will continue to use the Perceptive name, such as Perceptive Content, Perceptive Intelligent Capture and Perceptive Search.

    Supporting Quotes

    “It has never been a more exciting time than now to be an employee of Lexmark, and this new brand and logo reflect our enthusiasm and focus on connecting our customers’ information silos and automating their business processes,” said Paul Rooke, Lexmark’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Our brand transformation better represents where the company is today and our vision for the future.

    “Lexmark remains committed to creating ‘customers for life’, as has been the case for the past 24 years, but this new representation of Lexmark clearly shows that we are changing as a company by expanding our technology offerings, pushing into new markets, and providing a ‘true north’ for employees as the company continues to evolve and innovate,” Rooke added.

    Supporting Resources

    • To learn more about Lexmark’s new corporate brand and logo, click here
    • For more information about Lexmark imaging solutions, click here
    • For more information about Lexmark enterprise software solutions, click here

     

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    About Lexmark

    Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) creates enterprise software, hardware and services that remove the inefficiencies of information silos and disconnected processes, connecting people to the information they need at the moment they need it. Open the possibilities at www.Lexmark.com.

    Lexmark, the Lexmark logo and Open the possibilities are trademarks of Lexmark International, Inc., registered in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Access the new logo here.

    SOURCE Lexmark International, Inc.

    For further information:

    Investor Contact: John Morgan, (859) 232-5568, [email protected]

    Media Contact: Jerry Grasso, (859) 232-3546, [email protected]

    Posted 4.14.2015

  • Lexmark Healthcare to Debut at HIMSS 2015

    Convergence of leading software brands under Lexmark banner heralds new approach for unifying disparate patient content within core healthcare applications

    Lenexa, KS
    April 08, 2015

    News Facts

    • Lexmark (NYSE:LXK) will debut its new healthcare banner, Lexmark Healthcare, at the 2015 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Chicago, April 12-16. Lexmark Healthcare encompasses the leading healthcare software brands Lexmark has acquired, including Perceptive Software, Acuo, PACSGEAR, GNAX and Claron Technology.
    • At HIMSS, Lexmark Healthcare will showcase healthcare content management, an innovative and strategic approach that allows healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) to securely capture, manage, view and share vital information with the core clinical and business applications they already use every day.
    • Healthcare content management helps healthcare providers achieve new levels of interoperability and patient-centric care by securely connecting patient content, including medical images, photos, videos and documents, for accessibility at the point of need. Lexmark Healthcare solutions complete the patient record with this critical information, empowering healthcare professionals to make more informed decisions that contribute to improved clinical outcomes and enabling HDOs to optimize existing technology investments and prepare the enterprise for future growth.
    • Lexmark’s full array of healthcare content management solutions, capable of being implemented together or separately to integrate with a HDO’s existing applications, will be featured at HIMSS 2015, including:
      • Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) for standards-based access to medical images and clinical content across the enterprise
      • Document Management for capturing and integrating business and clinical documents and forms with core applications to optimize workflows
      • Enterprise Viewing for medical images and clinical content via a fully-interactive, zero-footprint diagnostic viewing experience across all devices in the continuum of care
      • Enterprise Image Connectivity for capturing clinical documents, photos and video to share with the EMR and beyond, including mobile devices
      • Open Image Exchange for the secure, cloud-based sharing and exchange of medical images and documents between HDOs through the use of standards-based technology
      • Managed Print Services for a best-practices approach to print output management in the healthcare enterprise
    •  “Developing an Enterprise Imaging Strategy with VNA” is one of 12 HIMSS15 education sessions offered in collaboration with CHIME. At 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15 (Room N426), Lexmark Healthcare’s Larry Sitka will team with a customer to describe how their healthcare organization developed a vendor neutral archive strategy to eliminate imaging silos and create an interoperable infrastructure to streamline image access across 60 healthcare facilities.
    • Lexmark Healthcare and Allscripts have established a long-term strategic partnership. Lexmark is now the standard clinical enterprise content management (ECM) solution for the Allscripts EHR platform. At HIMSS15, Barry Gutwillig, director of global healthcare channel management, Lexmark Healthcare, will present “Make Your EHR Smarter – Image Enable It” in the Allscripts Theater.
    • Lexmark’s Acuo VNA is recognized by IHS as the world’s number one independent vendor neutral archive solution. Data derived from the Definitive Healthcare database confirms Lexmark as the market leader among “hospitals employing vendor neutral archives.”
    • Lexmark Healthcare is positioned as a “leader” in Gartner’s most recent Magic Quadrants for enterprise content management, enterprise search and managed print services.
    • Lexmark’s enterprise image connectivity solutions are used by half of all U.S. hospitals.
    • One hundred percent of U.S.-based HIMSS Stage 7 healthcare systems use Lexmark Healthcare products and solutions.
    • If you are attending the conference, look for Lexmark Healthcare under our new logo at booth number 968.

    Supporting Quotes

    “Lexmark Healthcare represents the breadth of our offerings to the healthcare industry as we help provider organizations connect information silos to become more interoperable and achieve peak performance,” said Todd Hamblin, chief marketing officer, Lexmark. “We know that health systems are challenged with exponentially growing volumes of clinical and business content. Departments and information are disconnected from each other and patient content is scattered across and beyond the enterprise, making it difficult for healthcare professionals to make informed decisions, both clinical and business. Lexmark Healthcare uniquely brings this disparate information together within the EHR and other core applications.”

    Supporting Resources

    About Lexmark

    Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) creates enterprise software, hardware and services that remove the inefficiencies of information silos and disconnected processes, connecting people to the information they need at the moment they need it.  Open the possibilities at www.Lexmark.com.

    Posted 4.13.2015
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