• Nuance Named #1 Category Leader for Quality Management & Speech Recognition- Front End Imaging in 2017 Best in KLAS Report

    Client Feedback Demonstrates Nuance PowerScribe 360 and Clintegrity Quality Management are Top Performing Solutions

    BURLINGTON, MA – February 8, 2017 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced it has been named the leading vendor in two categories by the independent research company, KLAS. Nuance ranked #1 for Speech Recognition-Front End Imaging for Nuance PowerScribe® 360 as well as #1 for Quality Management for the third consecutive year. KLAS conducts independent evaluations with healthcare providers on vendor performance recognizing companies like Nuance that excel in helping providers deliver better care as top performers in the Best in KLAS: Software & Services report.

    Quality Management Addresses CMS Reporting
    With quality and core measure reporting becoming more important to how hospitals are measured and reimbursed, Nuance’s leading position in this area is clear with KLAS Category Leader awards for Nuance Clintegrity™ Quality Management in 2014, 2015/2016 and 2017. Clients highly value the technology and the support Nuance provides as they navigate new quality reporting mandates, such as hospital acquired conditions, readmissions and frequent CMS changes that can be difficult to understand and comply with through quality metrics.

    “I find that the personalized service that Nuance gives us provides opportunities to make care delivery better and continuously improve. There’s always something new. There’s always something changing, and they’re always up to date with the changes, and let us know so we can begin working immediately. It’s like they care about our patients as much as we care about them,” said Kris Liwoch, quality data analyst, Shore Medical Center.

    PowerScribe 360 #1 in Front End Imaging
    As the industry’s most trusted and widely used real-time radiology reporting platform, Nuance PowerScribe® 360 provides the rapid and efficient generation of high quality, actionable reports that enable radiologists to reduce patient risks, manage high volumes and transition to Imaging 3.0. PowerScribe 360 supports the shift to value based care, enabling radiologists to more easily demonstrate their value as a core part of the care team for patients. As the #1 solution for speech recognition in front end imaging, PowerScribe 360 clients report higher levels of satisfaction when it comes to overall performance in key areas such as vendor implementation, service and support, and upgrades.

    “Nuance is the 14th largest healthcare IT vendor with a long history of outperforming other companies in the eyes of clients as demonstrated through industry awards from KLAS and Black Book, as well as strong client Net Promoter Scores across all areas,” said Satish Maripuri, executive vice president and general manager of the Healthcare Division, Nuance. “Our clients’ confidence and satisfaction are vital to us and we are honored to receive these awards for delivering on our Mission and driving excellence across our solutions to produce the best outcomes for our clients.”

    “I joined Nuance because of our passion for helping clients improve healthcare,” stated Brenda Hodge, the new senior vice president of healthcare marketing at Nuance. “It will be an honor to receive these KLAS awards at HIMSS17, the largest and most important healthcare IT conference in the US, for delivering innovative solutions and excellent client experiences thanks to the efforts of Nuance teams across the globe.”

    To see more information from the 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report including vendor comparisons, #1 KLAS Category Leader for Speech Recognition — Front End Imaging chart and the #1 KLAS Category Leader for Quality Management chart Additionally, meet us at the HIMSS Convention and Exhibits in Orlando, Feb 20-24 in Nuance booth #2546.

    Nuance provides intelligent systems that support a more natural and insightful approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend more time caring for patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture, improve and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each year helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 global healthcare organizations to drive meaningful clinical and financial outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality and medical imaging solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient care.

    About Nuance Communications, Inc
    Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit nuance.com.

    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 and medical equipment to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS and our reports, visit KLASresearch.com.

    Trademark reference: Nuance and the Nuance logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

    Contact
    Ann Joyal
    Nuance Communications, Inc.
    781.565.4155
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.8.2017

  • Vital to Showcase Enterprise-Wide Modular Imaging Strategy at HIMSS 2017

    Enterprise Imaging Interoperability Solutions to Maximize Existing IT Infrastructure

    Minneapolis,MN – February 8, 2017 –Vital Images, Inc. (Vital), a Minneapolis-based advanced medical imaging and informatics company will feature Vitrea® Modular Enterprise Imaging interoperability solutions at HIMSS 2017 in booth 3969, February 20-23, Orlando, FL. Vital’s modular enterprise imaging solution is a comprehensive, customer-centric and scalable platform for personalized viewing, image management, workflow and resource planning designed for healthcare organizations to revitalize, consolidate and maximize existing healthcare IT infrastructure.

    To that end, Vital is announcing the launch of two new solutions within the modular strategy: Vitrea VNA connect deployment and Olea PulseTM, powered by Olea Medical®. The Vitrea VNA connect deployment a fully aware monitoring and retrieval technology allowing for centralized access to images that are in disparate PACS. Engineered to support multi-site and unaffiliated entities, a wide range of capabilities are available including patient matching, DICOM data alignment, pre-fetch and distribution. Olea Pulse is a fully automated CT/MRI post-processing solution with automatic and instant report delivery by email to enhance confidence and productivity.

    Vital will also demonstrate a work in progress predictive financial analytics application that helps healthcare leaders see the future financial success of their imaging businesses and receive prescriptive recommendations for achieving revenue and cost saving opportunities.
    “With the recent close of Vital’s acquisition of Karos Health, Vital is rounding out a robust, customer-centric imaging and informatics solution-set to enable healthcare interoperability,” says Jim Litterer, President and CEO of Vital Images. “Vital is excited to offer one modular solution to give CIOs globally the ability to adapt and grow their service delivery without disrupting existing investments.”

    About Karos Health
    Karos Health is focused on elevating the quality of patient care by enabling the sharing and storing of clinical information. Karos’ Rialto platform empowers healthcare enterprises to enable cross-community access to information, facilitating collaboration between healthcare providers and patients. Karos’ EasyViz is a breakthrough product for image display, delivering diagnostic quality imaging information when and where needed. Rialto and EasyViz are based on open standards that ensure safe and secure handling of patient health information and is backed by a team with decades of experience in healthcare interoperability. For more information about Karos, visit karoshealth.com.

    About Olea Medical
    Olea Medical®, a provider of advanced MR and CT imaging post-processing, designs and markets a suite of innovative medical imaging applications, Olea Sphere®, significantly improving diagnostic process and follow- up assessment. The company has established a strong credibility, through the domestication of cutting-edge technology, and partnerships with leading institutions worldwide. With proprietary Bayesian algorithms and optimization methods applied to medical imaging, today Olea Medical® is the recognized leader in standardized, vendor-neutral, advanced MR quantitative and qualitative image post-processing. Covering both morphologic and functional imaging, Olea Medical® post-processing solutions bring complex mathematics into clinical practice for easy access to accurate and robust biomarkers for enhanced diagnostic confidence and response-to-treatment assessment. More information at www.olea-medical.com.

    About Vital Images, Inc.
    Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group company, is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and enterprise informatics solutions to help healthcare organizations deliver exceptional care while optimizing resources across multi-facility organizations. The company’s solutions are scalable to meet the unique needs of hospitals and imaging centers and are accessible throughout the enterprise anytime, anywhere. For more information, visit vitalimages.com or join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube.

    *Vitrea is a registered trademark of Vital Images, Inc. Marks not owned by Vital Images, Inc. are the property of their respective holders.
    *Vitrea VNA is manufactured by Karos Health.
    *Olea Pulse is manufactured by Olea Medical.
    *Olea Pulse is the offline processing service of Olea Sphere v3.0.

    Posted 2.8.2017

  • It’s in Their DNA: Avera Health Uses Pharmacogenomics, MEDITECH EHR to Drive Precision Medicine

    WESTWOOD, MA – February 7, 2017 — When a 2013 study suggested that pharmacogenomics, the study of how genes affect an individual’s response to medication, could be used to improve the quality and safety of patient care, MEDITECH customer Avera Health (Sioux Falls, SD) made the commitment to transform paper-oriented workflows at their state-of-the-art human molecular genetics laboratory, Avera Institute for Human Genetics (AIHG). Avera’s IT Committee realized the importance of leveraging their MEDITECH Electronic Health Record (EHR) for pharmacogenomics, and have used a three-phased approach for their improvement project—documentation, ordering, and clinical decision support alerts.

    Avera’s clinical integration team implemented processes that incorporate pharmacogenomics into the clinical workflow, putting valuable genetic information in front of providers at the point of medication ordering.

    In addition, by automating pharmacogenomics into the clinicians’ workflow, Avera has enabled providers to:

    • Order the patient’s optimal pain medication at the outset
    • Reduce medication side effects
    • Improve treatment success
    • Contribute to shorter lengths of stay.

    “Avera Health is proud of our efforts in leveraging the MEDITECH EHR to incorporate pharmacogenomics right at the provider’s fingertips for improved workflows and advanced patient care,”Chief Medical Information Officer of Avera Health, Kim Jundt, MD said. “We value our partnership with MEDITECH in providing the highest quality of care to our community.”

    For Avera, one of the most important aspects of preemptive testing was to have an alerting process in place for providers who will treat the patient during future care episodes. Rules created in MEDITECH’s CPOE solution flag the provider based on the results of the patient’s pain genotyping panel. In addition, a “duplicate order” alert informs the provider that the patient has already had pain genotyping, and the once-in-a-lifetime lab test is not needed again.

    “By leveraging the power and clinical sophistication of the MEDITECH EHR, Avera is transforming and improving the quality and safety of patient care,” MEDITECH Associate Vice President of Marketing, Christine Parent said. “We’re proud to partner with this progressive healthcare organization in providing the actionable data needed to impact clinical decision making.”

    For more information on how Avera converted pharmacogenomic results to actionable data for clinical decision making, download MEDITECH’s new case study, “It’s in Their DNA: Avera Health Drives Precision Medicine at the Point of Care.”

    About MEDITECH
    Today, more than 2,400 institutions worldwide use MEDITECH’s clinically-integrated and interoperable EHR to provide healthcare to the communities they serve. Their robust, patient-centered technology spans the healthcare continuum, including unique functional capacity for ambulatory care, acute care, long-term care, rehabilitation services, behavioral health, and home care.

    Contact
    Paul Berthiaume
    Senior Manager, Marketing Communications
    MEDITECH
    781.774.5742
    [email protected]

     

    Posted 2.7.2017

  • Spok Debuts Latest Evolution of Spok Care Connect® with Enhanced Clinical Context, Powerful Integrations

    SPRINGFIELD, VA – February 7, 2017 — Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and the leader in healthcare communications, will demonstrate the latest evolution of its integrated communications platform at the 2017 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, to be held Feb. 19-23 in Orlando. This release of Spok Care Connect® offers new functionality to deliver smarter clinical communications that enable care teams to improve the delivery of patient care.

    Spok Care Connect now gives clinicians the ability to add clinical context to a secure message to aid in decision-making, regardless of what device is used. Spok Care Connect pulls relevant information from a hospital’s admit, discharge, and transfer (ADT) system to include in alerts and alarm notifications. This enables physicians and nurses to be better informed and respond more effectively for their patients.

    For example, when a nurse call is initiated from a patient room, the assigned nurse will also be notified of any relevant patient information, such as allergies or the fact that the patient is a fall risk. This helps them to prioritize and speed response to the patient. This message can also be sent to the clinician’s device of choice: Spok is device-neutral, so there is no need to dictate the type of device each clinician needs to carry.

    “The patient-centric messaging capabilities of Spok Care Connect now allow physicians and nurses to have more clinically relevant information at their fingertips to support care decisions,” said Hemant Goel, president of Spok, Inc. “These new features are a direct result of listening to our customers and translating their feedback into enhanced solutions.”

    Also supporting the Spok Care Connect platform are powerful new integrations with the solutions of Rauland-Borg and QGenda. The Spok suite now includes support for the latest technology from the Rauland Responder® 5 system, which integrates with Spok clinical alerting via SIP protocol. Combined with ResponderSync, the improved connectivity with SIP provides faster notification and alert delivery to clinicians without the need for legacy serial TAP integration.

    Spok’s new integration with QGenda, a provider of cloud-based automated physician scheduling solutions, allows physician on-call schedules to be pushed into the Spok Care Connect on-call schedules. This enables Spok to route messages to both people and third-party systems based on scheduling information that resides in QGenda. Because up-to-date schedules are available to physicians, nurses, operators, and other staff looking to coordinate care around the clock, they can be more productive and spend more time with their patients.

    Other upgrades in the latest version of the Spok Care Connect platform include:

    • Secure Texting: Spok Care Connect features improved reliability and a streamlined registration process for
      the Spok Mobile® secure messaging app, which makes it easier for Spok Mobile customers to roll out
      the solution to large numbers of clinical end users.
    • Hospital Contact Center: Spok console customers are able to update their availability status via
      the Spok Mobile app, which then will apply across the system for all messages they receive. This allows
      busy clinicians to easily update their availability status on the go and enables them to message colleagues
      who are readily available and avoid disrupting those who are with patients or off-duty.
    • Computer Telephony Integration (CTI): Spok Care Connect is now compatible with Cisco
      Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) version 11.0, and it has also received Avaya Aura®
      Application Enablement Services (AES) 7 certification to support seamless integration with these systems.

    Spok will have team members as well as several customers available to discuss the Spok Care Connect platform at HIMSS17 in booth 2671. Spok Care Connect will also be featured in the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase™. In addition, company executives will be available to meet with participating hospital CIOs at the CHIME/HIMSS CIO Forum, Feb. 18-19 at the Hyatt Regency Orlando.

    To schedule a meeting with Spok at HIMSS17, visit spok.com/HIMSS.

    About Rauland Responder®
    Rauland Responder critical communication solutions enhance overall communication and workflow within a hospital – patient-to-staff, and staff-to-staff. Responder helps staff deliver the best possible patient care, with fast, direct communication, flexible integration, intelligent call routing and real-time reporting. Responder helps gather data real-time for easier decision-making, optimized workflow and enhanced patient care and satisfaction, with an enhanced open architecture that integrates to a variety of wireless phones, pagers and location systems.

    About QGenda
    QGenda is the leading provider of automated healthcare workforce management software. Since its launch in 2006, QGenda has grown to serve more than 1,500 customers in over 30 medical specialties across 5,000 hospitals. The subscription-based automated scheduling software is used by practice groups, hospitals, academic medical centers, and enterprise health systems to build optimal schedules for clinicians and medical staff to provide the best possible care. QGenda is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. For more information, please visit QGenda.com.

    About Spok
    Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), headquartered in Springfield, Va., is proud to be the global leader in healthcare communications. We deliver clinical information to care teams when and where it matters most to improve patient outcomes. Top hospitals rely on the Spok Care Connect® platform to enhance workflows for clinicians, support administrative compliance, and provide a better experience for patients. Our customers send over 100 million messages each month through their Spok® solutions. When seconds count, count on Spok. For more information, visit spok.com or follow @spoktweets on Twitter.

    Spok is a trademark of Spok Holdings, Inc. Spok Care Connect and Spok Mobile are trademarks of Spok, Inc.

    Contacts
    Jill Asby
    952.230.5363
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.7.2017

  • Saint Francis Healthcare Partners Selects Orion Health’s Precision Medicine Platform

    Saint Francis Healthcare Partners Selects Orion Health’s Precision Medicine Platform to enable high-quality care coordination across the continuum

    HARTFORD, CT & SCOTTSDALE, AZ – February 7, 2017 — Orion Health™ has signed a new agreement with Saint Francis Healthcare Partners (SFHCP), a growing network of more than 1,000 independent health care providers serving over 100,000 patients in Connecticut.

    Saint Francis Healthcare Partners—the physician hospital organization (PHO) and accountable care organization (ACO ) for Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (Trinity Health – New England)—will deploy Orion Health’s Amadeus precision medicine platform, which leverages open-data technology to capture, store and align patient information from multiple providers and insurers. In addition, SFHCP has purchased Orion Health’s Coordinate and Amadeus Analytics products to ensure the timely delivery of incisive patient information to health care professionals.

    “The personalized health solution will enable SFHCP to proactively share patient information and treatment plans across the care continuum,” said Suzanne Cogan, Vice President, Orion Health. “This is an important step in the PHO/ACO’s journey from population health to precision medicine.”

    “SFHCP requires a robust IT infrastructure that scales across the many venues of care in which patients are seen,” added Cogan. “Orion Health’s solution will enable greater collaboration between SFHCP’s partners and other trusted healthcare providers in the patient’s circle of care, such as hospitals and insurers.”

    SFHCP’s Chief Medical Informatics and Quality Officer, Sudeep Bansal, M.D., M.S., said the PHO/ACO chose Orion Health following a competitive selection process because of its single suite of synergistic products that enable in-depth analysis and interoperability at both a population and an individual patient level.

    “Orion Health is the only software provider with a truly integrated population health management technology stack that was built organically,” Dr. Bansal said. “The company’s technology is built on modern architecture that will evolve and adapt to meet the rapidly changing business and health care climate in which we operate.”

    He added: “The platform is flexible, so that it can be adapted to different health care delivery models. In addition, the data analytics capabilities allow us to identify high-risk patients, which allows us to intervene earlier, enhance preventive care and improve the quality of care we deliver.”

    Wayne Oxenham, President-North America at Orion Health, said the company’s solutions are future-proofed to assist health care providers and insurers in making the transition to precision medicine, also known as personalized health care.

    “The Amadeus precision medicine platform is appealing to a wide range of health care providers and insurers; this will be the sixth significant US deployment since we launched the platform last year,” Oxenham said. “It is exciting that SFHCP has chosen to enhance the platform with value-added products that will greatly increase its ability to deliver better health outcomes for the growing number of patients in its care.”

    About Orion Health
    Orion Health is a technology company that provides solutions which enable healthcare to over 100 million patients in more than 25 countries. Their end-to-end solution—featuring integration tools, their massively scalable Amadeus data platform with real-time analytics, and applications for care management and patient engagement—enables population and personalized healthcare around the world. Orion Health facilitates interoperability within and among payer, provider and pharma organizations, governments and health information exchanges, and helps physicians, patients and researchers improve healthcare outcomes. The company employs over 1,200 people globally and is committed to continual innovation. For more information, visit orionhealth.com.

    About Saint Francis Healthcare Partners
    Saint Francis Healthcare Partners is a Physician Hospital Organization and ACO, which is a joint venture between a community of exceptional physicians and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. SFHCP is a proud member of Trinity Health – New England which also includes Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital in Hartford, Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs, Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury and Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is a vehicle through which the clinical and related economic interests of patients, providers and payers become aligned. Throughout its 20-year history, the organization has been noted for its clinically integrated network of over 1,000 healthcare providers. For more information visit sfhcp.org.

    Media Contacts
    Saint Francis Healthcare Partners
    Gina Munson
    860.714.5776
    [email protected]

    Amendola Communications for Orion Health
    Marcia Rhodes
    480.664.8412, ext. 15
    [email protected]

     

     

    Posted 2.7.2017

  • Impact Advisors Earns High Marks from 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services Report

    Services provider ranked number two Overall IT Services Firm, Wins Clinical Optimization Category Leader Award

    CHICAGO, IL – February 7, 2017 — Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, has received a Best in KLAS or Category Leader distinction over nine consecutive years. Among the awards earned by Impact Advisors this year, clients rated the firm favorably in the following categories:

    • #2 Overall IT Services Firm, with a higher overall score than 2016
    • #1 Clinical Optimization Firm
    • #2 HIT Advisory Services
    • #2 HIT Enterprise Implementation Leadership

    KLAS is a research firm that independently monitors vendor performance through the active participation of thousands of healthcare organizations. KLAS uses a stringent methodology to ensure all data and ratings are accurate, honest and impartial. Impact Advisors will be recognized on February 19 at the Best in KLAS Awards Ceremony at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, FL.

    “At Impact Advisors, our primary mission is to empower our clients by providing a broad range of services and solutions with exceptional quality and value,” said Peter Smith, Chief Executive Officer and CoFounder of Impact Advisors. “It’s a tremendous honor to be recognized by KLAS, as it represents the collective voice of our clients. We are incredibly grateful for their ongoing support.”

    The Best in KLAS Overall IT Services Firm ranking is reserved for those firms that have a minimum of three separate IT services that meet the minimum “KLAS Konfidence” level in three separate market segments. Impact Advisors ranked number two on the list, having earned above average or well above average rankings in four of the six ranking categories.

    The Category Leader designation is reserved for vendor solutions that lead select market segments in which at least two products meet a minimum level of KLAS Konfidence.” Impact Advisors was ranked number one in the Clinical Optimization Services category and number two in both the HIT Advisory Services and HIT Enterprise Implementation Leadership categories.

    For a full list of Best in KLAS winners, visit klasresearch.com.

    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 and medical equipment to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS and our reports, visit KLASresearch.com.

    About Impact Advisors
    Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare information technology consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Our comprehensive suite of patient access, clinical and revenue cycle services span the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards including Best in KLAS® for nine consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit impact-advisors.com.

    Media Contact
    RoseAnn Haedt
    Chartwell Agency
    815.742.0573
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.7.2017

  • Cascade Medical Imaging Selects Sectra as Its Enterprise Imaging Vendor

    SHELTON, CT – February 6, 2017 — International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that Cascade Medical Imaging, LLC (CMI) has purchased Sectra Enterprise Imaging for Radiology. This solution will offer scalability for growth and provide a single platform for all clinicians to access patient images and information.

    CMI consists of a partnership with Central Oregon Radiology Associates and St. Charles Health Systems to deliver imaging services in numerous facilities located throughout central and eastern Oregon. Services offered include General X-ray, MRI, CT, Nuclear Medicine, PET-CT, Ultrasound, and a full complement of Women’s Imaging including screening/diagnostic mammography and Breast MRI.

    “A major factor for choosing Sectra was their high system uptime rates and strong physician satisfaction rankings in KLAS. Our radiologists enjoyed the enterprise wide system to distribute images quickly and efficiently across a very large geographic area. This will result in increased efficiencies for our business and referring physicians while providing swifter results for our patients,” says Barry Nielsen, CEO of Cascade Medical Imaging and Central Oregon Radiology Associates. The multi-year contract includes Sectra PACS for diagnostic radiology, Sectra Breast Imaging PACS for mammography workflow; and Sectra Business Analytics for measuring and improving the performance of radiology operations. Sectra PACS is optimized for high production environments and designed to shorten report turnaround times, enhance result distribution workflows, and improve communication between radiology and referring clinicians.

    “With our proven success of delivering high availability and scalable systems, we believe our vision is aligned well with CMI of providing exceptional patient care,” says Mikael Anden, president of Sectra North America.

    Sectra’s complete enterprise imaging offering is modular and supports the most image-intense departments—radiology, pathology, cardiology and orthopaedics. Being built on the same technical platform, customers can easily extend a departmental solution to create a comprehensive VNA and enterprise image management solution without major investments or the replacement of existing components.

    About Sectra
    With more than 20 years of innovation and 1,700 installations, Sectra is a leading global provider of imaging IT solutions that support healthcare in achieving patient-centric care. Sectra offers an Enterprise Image Management solution comprising PACS for imagingintense departments, VNA and Cross Enterprise Workflow solutions. Read more about Sectra and why Sectra PACS is ‘Best in KLAS’, sectra.com.

    About Cascade Medical Imaging, LLC
    Cascade Medical Imaging, LLC was formed in 2001 as a joint venture with St. Charles Health Systems and Central Oregon Radiology Associates, PC. 21 Board Certified radiologist physicians specialize in providing a wide-range of imaging services in both inpatient and a comfortable, outpatient environment. For more information, visit cascademedicalimaging.com.

    Posted 2.6.2017

  • Vocera Communication System Earns Additional DoD Certification for Interoperability & Security

    SAN JOSE, CA – February 2, 2017 — Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, today announced it has earned additional interoperability and security certification by the Department of Defense (DoD) for its latest software release and wearable communication badge. The Vocera Communication System met stringent criteria of the DoD Unified Capabilities (UC) Approved Products List (APL), which allows DoD facilities to purchase and operate UC systems over DoD network infrastructures. This certification is essential to the expansion and deployment of Vocera solutions in US Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) facilities around the world.

    The UC APL was established to maintain a single consolidated list of products that have completed information assurance certification and interoperability testing approved by distributed testing centers, including the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) in Fort Meade, Maryland. This round of JITC certification testing adds the Vocera B3000n badge, which utilizes both the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz Wi-Fi spectrum and provides even better voice recognition. Latest speech engine updates and functionality enhancements in the Vocera software platform also met compatibility and security protocols for JITC certification as did the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Telephony Gateway added to the Vocera platform.

    “Our extensive list of security certifications provides valuable assurance to the DoD and our other healthcare customers that the Vocera Communication System meets extensive interoperability requirements needed to deliver efficient care and protect sensitive patient information,” said Arun Mirchandani, senior vice president of products at Vocera. “We are proud to deliver secure and reliable communication solutions to the DoD and care teams in the US and across the globe.”

    As part of the DoD UC APL certification process, products must pass interoperability and functionality testing to ensure compliance and compatibility with other vendors. The testing also verifies that the platform and product comply with Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIG).

    About Vocera
    Vocera Communications, Inc. offers the most robust clinical communications system in healthcare. Vocera delivers secure, integrated and intelligent communication solutions that enable care teams to collaborate more efficiently by delivering the right information, to the right person, on the right device, in the right location, at the right time. Vocera solutions provide hands-free voice communication, secure text messaging, patient engagement tools, and integrated clinical workflow with EHRs, nurse call systems, physiologic monitors and ventilators. These solutions help improve operational efficiency, quality of care, safety and satisfaction across the continuum of care. In addition to technology solutions, Vocera drives thought leadership and new standards in care to elevate patient, family, nurse and physician experiences via the company’s research collaborative, the Experience Innovation Network. Vocera is led by President and CEO Brent Lang and is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in San Francisco, Tennessee, Indiana, Canada, India, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Robert J. Zollars is the Chairman of the Board. For more information, visit vocera.com and @VoceraComm on Twitter.

    The Vocera logo is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. Vocera® is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. registered in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their respective owners.

    Contact
    Amendola Communications for Vocera
    Tara Stultz
    440.225.9595
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.2.2017

  • Pursuit Healthcare Advisors Named to Healthcare Tech Outlook’s “10 Most Promising Population Health Management Solution Providers – 2017”

    FREMONT, CA— February 2, 2017 — Pursuit Healthcare Advisors has been announced as one of the top 10 Population Health Management Solution Providers by Healthcare Tech Outlook magazine.

    “We take pride in honoring Pursuit Healthcare Advisors for providing innovative solutions that are revolutionizing the way [healthcare] industries are serving in the Population Health Management arena,” said Alex D’Souza, Managing Editor of Healthcare Tech Outlook.

    Pursuit Healthcare Advisors (Pursuit) offers services and solutions for today’s challenging healthcare IT environment. “Pursuit’s Population Health services are at the forefront of solving major regulatory demands and shifting payor models that face healthcare organizations,” says Cyndi Vely Cahill, Managing Partner at Pursuit. “We are so grateful that our efforts to help deliver the business and clinical outcomes that ensure engaged patients who are provided optimal care, are being recognized by Healthcare Tech Outlook.”

    To read more, click here.

    About Pursuit Healthcare Advisors
    Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, LLC (Pursuit) is focused on fostering a supportive and educational environment as well as creating opportunities for employees to make a difference where they work. Pursuit is pleased to work with some of the most forward thinking organizations to help data become usable information – and have secure access to that information in a dynamic and mobile delivery. Together they help health enterprises, clinicians and patients achieve success in this environment thereby improving care delivery, business performance and health outcomes. It’s simple, at Pursuit, it’s all about Ü. For more information, visit pursuithealthcare.com.

    About Healthcare Tech Outlook
    Published from Fremont, California, Healthcare Tech Outlook is a print magazine, which features CIOs, ITVPs, CTOs and other decision makers sharing their insights and perspective on healthcare industry. A panel of experts, technology leaders and board members of Healthcare Tech Outlook magazine has finalized the “10 Most Promising Population Health Management Solution Providers – 2017” and shortlisted the best vendors and consultants in the healthcare industry. For more info, visit healthcaretechoutlook.com

    Posted 2.2.2017

  • Health Catalyst Congratulates Allina Health on Earning Healthcare Informatics Innovation Award

    Minnesota health system recognized for development of a healthcare delivery innovation center to improve cardiovascular outcomes & realize $75 million in savings

    SALT LAKE CITY, UT – February 2, 2017 — Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare data warehousing and analytics, today congratulated Allina Health on winning first place in the prestigious 2017 Innovator Awards, presented by Healthcare Informatics magazine, recognizing the nation’s most innovative healthcare organizations.

    The annual Innovator Awards recognize leadership teams from hospitals, medical groups, integrated health systems, and other healthcare organizations that have effectively deployed information technology to improve clinical, administrative, financial, or organizational performance.

    Allina Health, a 13-hospital, 61-clinic integrated delivery network (IDN) that includes three large cardiac care centers, earned its recognition by deciding to take on one of the most daunting tasks for any health system—the overwhelming financial and human burden of cardiovascular (CV) disease. To optimize CV care, Allina Health established the Minneapolis Heart Institute Center for Healthcare Delivery Innovation (MHI-HDI) in pursuit of triple aim goals—removing waste, underpayments, and inconsistent charting and coding. MHI-HDI’s priorities included implementing process improvements related to supply chain, overutilization, clinical practice and clinical documentation.

    In recognizing Allina, the magazine’s judges cited the health system’s groundbreaking progress in the use of data and information technology to rework CV care processes to achieve significant clinical improvements and $75 million in cumulative cost savings. The savings reflect annual improvement between $2 and $12 million over a four-year period. Specific results from the initiative include:

    • Reduction in over-utilization:
      • A 62 percent reduction in troponins ordered over third order after 24 hours
      • A 96 percent reduction in creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) orders
      • An annual reduction of 886 units of blood given a to CV surgery patients
      • A 400-day reduction in length of stay (LOS) for heart failure (HF) patients.
    • Reduction in clinical variation and increased use of best practices:
      • A 41 percent increase in use of a standardized Atrial fibrillation protocol
      • 511 more high-risk percutaneous cardiac intervention (PCI) patients received closure devices to
        prevent bleeding risks
      • 481 additional patients received heart failure (HF) care coordination
    • Consolidated CV supply spend across the health system to obtain more advantageous volume pricing
      with supply chain vendors
    • Improvements in capturing patient acuity to enable more thorough coding and billing

    “Cardiovascular disease accounts for nearly one out of every three deaths in the United States, and it comes with significant costs,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “The dramatic results from Allina Health’s initiative demonstrates the power of leveraging data and analytic resources to optimize cardiovascular care in terms of improving care quality, access to care, and removing unnecessary waste and underpayment.”

    The MHI-HDI Center leveraged the existing infrastructure of Allina Health’s enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and cardiology participation in national registries to uncover data insights that would identify key areas for clinical improvement. Allina Health discovered opportunities related to: HF; acute myocardial infarction (AMI); lab test utilization; community health trends; LOS and use of intensive care unit (ICU) beds; PCI and bleeding complications; blood utilization; and atrial fibrillation (A-fib) treatment.

    Allina Health has subsequently launched 42 clinical transformation programs with plans to continue the expansion.

    About Health Catalyst
    Health Catalyst is a mission-driven data warehousing, analytics and outcomes-improvement company that helps healthcare organizations of all sizes perform the clinical, financial, and operational reporting and analysis needed for population health and accountable care. Their proven enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 70 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. For more information, visit healthcatalyst.com, and follow them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

    Media Contact
    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications
    916.346.4213

    Posted 2.2.2017

  • OnBase by Hyland Wins 2017 KLAS Category Leader Award

    OnBase receives top spot as the best healthcare document management & imaging solutions three years in a row

    CLEVELAND, OH – February 2, 2017 — OnBase by Hyland, a single enterprise information management platform, was selected as the 2017 Category Leader for Document Management and Imaging (DMI) by independent research and insights firm KLAS. For three consecutive years, OnBase was ranked as the best healthcare DMI software product according to the 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report, an independent ranking based on customer feedback from healthcare information technology providers.

    “Hyland’s healthcare partners have once again ranked OnBase as the top software solution in the DMI segment, demonstrating our steadfast dedication to delivering outstanding customer service and success,” said Susan deCathelineau, vice president, global healthcare sales and services at Hyland. “It’s an honor to be recognized for our efforts to support the connected healthcare enterprise and hold the top tier healthcare document management and imaging solution.”

    OnBase scored 88.1, outranking three other vendor solutions in the DMI category. The Category Leader Award ranking is based on five key performance categories of sales and contracting, functionality and upgrades, implementation and training, service and support, and general. Category Leaders earn top honors among competitors for supporting healthcare professionals to provide better patient care and lead select market segments in which at least two products meet a minimum level of KLAS Konfidence.”

    Healthcare organizations and providers across the globe are leveraging OnBase as a single platform to centralize clinical and business content that tightly integrates with more than 500 applications, including Epic, TriZetto, Meditech, Cerner, Allscripts, McKesson, Lawson, PeopleSoft and more. Staff and clinicians are able to securely access more complete records and in turn provide better patient care and service in a faster and more cost-efficient manner.

    “The Best in KLAS report celebrates and recognizes vendors who have made significant strides to improve healthcare while addressing changes like payment reform and the shift to population health. The KLAS team applauds your efforts and acknowledges your commitment to innovation and achievement,” said Adam Gale, President of KLAS. “As the years go by, we are continually humbled by the number of providers who share their experiences with us; they make all our reports, especially our Best in KLAS report, possible.”

    More than 1,800 healthcare organizations and payers use OnBase as an instrumental solution in facilitating patient care and revenue cycle workflows as well as sharing and protecting critical patient information. To learn more, visit OnBase.com/Healthcare.

    About OnBase by Hyland
    OnBase is a single enterprise information platform for managing content, processes and cases deployed via mobile, on-premises or in the Hyland Cloud. Providing enterprise content management (ECM), case management, business process management (BPM), records management and capture all on a single platform, OnBase transforms organizations around the globe by empowering them to become more agile, efficient and effective. Enterprise cloud-based sharing capability for the OnBase platform is available with their complementary offering, ShareBase by Hyland.

    Over 1,800 healthcare organizations use OnBase to complete patient records, eliminate reimbursement delays and enhance business processes. Dedicated to meeting the evolving needs of their customers for document and process management, OnBase has evolved through consistent product innovation and remains focused on automating business processes that depend on documents, content and people to operate more effectively. For more information about OnBase, visit OnBase.com/Healthcare.


    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 and medical equipment to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS and their reports, visit KLASresearch.com.

    Media contact
    Laura Pegg
    +1 440-788-5632
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.2.2017

  • Fortified Health Security Designated as an Approved HITRUST CSF Assessor

    FRANKLIN, TN – February 2, 2017 — Fortified Health Security, a leader in information security, compliance and managed services focused solely in the healthcare industry, is now an approved HITRUST CSF Assessor. Developed by healthcare and IT professionals, the HITRUST CSF is a certifiable framework utilized by HITRUST CSF Assessors to provide organizations with a comprehensive, flexible and efficient approach to regulatory compliance and risk management.

    “As healthcare organizations rely more and more on technology and data to run their operations and treat patients, compliance has become an increasingly complex landscape to navigate,” said Dan L. Dodson, president of Fortified Health Security. “HITRUST offers a trusted benchmark from which covered entities and business associates can measure and manage their own compliance while offering proven protection to their patients and customers.”

    The HITRUST CSF was developed to address the multitude of security, privacy and regulatory challenges facing healthcare organizations. By including federal and state regulations, standards and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST CSF helps organizations address these challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.

    Quickly becoming a Gold Standard for Business Associates, a HITRUST CSF certification sets an organization ahead of their peers with regards to a functioning, sound security program.

    With one simple compliance process, the HITRUST CSF:

    • Harmonizes and cross-references existing, globally recognized standards, regulations and
      business requirements, including ISO, NIST, PCI, HIPAA, and COBIT and State laws.Scales controls according
      to type, size and complexity of an organization.
    • Provides prescriptive requirements to ensure clarity.
    • Follows a risk-based approach offering multiple levels of implementation requirements determined by risks
      and thresholds.
    • Allows for the adoption of alternate controls when necessary.
    • Evolves according to user input and changing conditions in the healthcare industry and regulatory
      environment on an annual basis.
    • Provides an industry-wide approach for managing business associate compliance.

    “Every healthcare provider has multiple compliance obligations that require extensive human and financial resources to manage,” said Dodson. “The HITRUST CSF provides a roadmap with a prescriptive set of controls to manage compliance across the regulatory landscape. With the HITRUST CSF certification, our clients can be assured that Fortified’s risk assessment services are in line with the high standards set forth by HITRUST.”

    Learn more about Fortified Health Security’s role as a HITRUST CSF Assessor here.

    About Fortified Health Security
    Fortified Health Security, formerly Fortified Health Solutions, is a leader in information security, compliance and managed services. They focus exclusively on helping healthcare professionals overcome operational and regulatory challenges every day regarding HIPAA, HITECH and Meaningful Use. Founded in 2009,  they have established a heritage of excellence, compliance and innovation. Today, Fortified Health Security partners with healthcare organizations across the continuum, serving health systems, single hospital entities, physician practices, post-acute providers, payors and business associates.

    For more information, visit fortifiedhealthsecurity.com or call 615.600.4002.

    Media Contact
    Kristin Deuber
    Golden Spiral Marketing
    614.97504186
    [email protected]

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    SOURCE Fortified Health Security

    Posted 2.2.2017
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