• 2019: A Year of Learning and Sharing


    1.15.2019
    Cletis Earle, Chair, Foundation Board, Kaleida Health

     

    As a member of CHIME, I often am the beneficiary of my relationships with CHIME Foundation firms and the people in them. When I want to evaluate a new technology, I can tap into the technical expertise of a company that specializes in just that technology. When I need to squeeze every dime from a budget, I can turn to Foundation partners to help me find the best deal. And when I have a problem, I have access to the top-tier executives in their companies who can help me right the ship much faster than if I had to follow the standard channels. 

    This year I will serve as the chair of the CHIME Foundation Board. I have had the opportunity to get to know many of our Foundation partners, either while I was the 2018 CHIME Board chair, a faculty member at the 2018 CHIME Partner Education Summit (CPES) or through CHIME’s many networking events. I hope this year to meet and interact with each of our partner firms and learn about your goals and needs.  

    As your board chair, I look forward to finding new and better ways to help you and CHIME members foster the kinds of relationships that I have experienced. We know healthcare is a challenging environment, but also one with exciting opportunities. Healthcare IT is evolving at a fevered pace. To harness its potential, we need CIO and industry partners learning from each other and sharing what we know. 

    This year will be one of education and engagement. I encourage you to take advantage of the educational opportunities we offer. With CPES, you can enjoy programs designed specifically – and exclusively – for Foundation firm representatives. But you also have a chance to attend the keynotes at CHIME’s spring and fall forums, as well as track sessions and other events. CHIME is holding our second annual Advocacy Summit in June, too, where you and your team can join members of CHIME and CHIME’s associations as we all try to make sense of policy in Washington, D.C. 

    CHIME will continue to offer numerous networking events during educational sessions to allow you to get to know CIO members. Focus groups also provide a chance to exchange ideas candidly and with no distractions. It is these kinds of experiences that pave the way for long-lasting partnerships.  

    On behalf of the CHIME Foundation team, I wish you a happy New Year and a wonderful 2019. Please keep in touch and let us know how we can help you make this the best year yet.  

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    Posted 1.15.2019

  • Novarad Named in Gartner Guide for Vendor-Neutral Archives as a Representative Vendor

    Report finds that “While the VNA, in and of itself, is not a comprehensive enterprise image strategy, it will come to be considered a key component”

    SALT LAKE CITY, UT—January 10, 2019—Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, announced today that it has been cited as a Representative Vendor in the 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Vendor-Neutral Archives by analyst Barry Runyon (published on 8 November). The Market Guide provides Gartner’s coverage of an emerging market and focuses on the market definition of and rationale for the market and market dynamics, according to the report.

    Novarad’s Ncompass Enterprise Imaging solution, consisting of the Ncompass Universal Archive and Ncompass Workflow Modules, manages healthcare information by providing an efficient workflow for managing both DICOM and non-DICOM objects throughout the hospital by transitioning the storage of images and patient information from hard drives, disks, disparate archives, and USB drives to a vendor neutral archive. Novarad enables imaging organizations of all sizes to benefit from the state-of-the-art enterprise imaging solutions without having to invest in expensive data centers, IT infrastructures, internal resources and on-going management.

    Novarad has also become the highest rated vendor in the Gartner Peer Insights VNA Category. Gartner Peer Insights is an online platform of anonymous ratings and reviews of IT software and services. The reviews are written and submitted by customers throughout the industry. Each is validated by the Gartner Peer Insights team prior to posting.

    Said one healthcare industry chief information officer (CIO) in their review, “We’ve changed the radiology area completely with [Novarad’s] software, and that helped us grow as a hospital and a social service provider. [Novarad is] part of our success.”

    “The software is easy to use and can pretty much run itself,” said another reviewer, a lead radiology technologist in the healthcare industry.

    Those interested in learning more about the Ncompass Universal Archive and its vendor neutral archive (VNA) component may visit www.novarad.net or follow the company on Twitter, @NovaradCorp. Those interested in reviewing a complimentary copy of the Market Guide to Vendor Neutral Archives can view that information online by clicking here.

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.

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    For over 20 years, Novarad has enabled healthcare providers to solve their imaging problems through its full diagnostic suite. Today, Novarad’s specialized enterprise imaging and workflow solutions continue to improve upon industry standards and empower healthcare providers everywhere to solve problems. Through customizable workflow and imaging solutions, Novarad encompasses medical imaging needs. Visit Novarad at www.novarad.net for more information.

    Media Contact:

    Kristi Alvarado, Media Relations Contact at Novarad | 801.642.1001 | [email protected]

    Posted 1.11.2019

  • CHARLOTTE RADIOLOGY CHOOSES SECTRA AS ITS BREAST IMAGING VENDOR

    LINKÖPING, SWEDEN and SHELTON, CT – January 10, 2019 – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) will install its enterprise breast imaging solution throughout the fifteen North Carolina-based breast centers of Charlotte Radiology. Upon project completion, radiologists will experience enhanced workflow productivity through multi-modality viewing on one workstation with the end goal of improved cancer care.

    “Even in an ever-evolving industry, our practice is thriving,” says Deborah Agisim, MD, Chief of Mammography for Charlotte Radiology. “Specifically, our breast imaging program is viewed as a national leader in the field, optimizing new technologies while continuing to elevate patient care. We could not achieve these successes without key partners and tools that maximize our efficiencies like those offered by Sectra.”

    Sectra PACS displays ultrasound and MRI images side-by-side with digital mammograms and digital breast tomosynthesis exams, facilitating comparison of current and prior images according to radiologist preference. Radiologists at all eight reading locations will have the ability to workload balance ensuring timely and efficient reporting turnaround times for their mammography patients.

    Charlotte Radiology, a founding partner of US Radiology, owns and operates 15 breast centers, a mobile breast center, two vein centers, two interventional radiology sites and jointly owns five free-standing imaging centers. Their 100+ subspecialized radiologists read more than 1 million studies annually for 14 hospitals, 30 imaging centers and a multitude of healthcare providers.

    The breast imaging contract was signed in November. Sectra breast imaging is a component of Sectra’s scalable and modular enterprise imaging portfolio, which can be extended to other image-intense departments such as pathology, cardiology and orthopaedics.

    HIMSS 2019 Sectra’s solution for enterprise imaging, including breast imaging, will be showcased at HIMSS in Orlando on February 11-15. Book a meeting with Sectra at HIMSS to learn more.

    About US Radiology
    US Radiology is one of the largest and most progressive radiology groups in the country. In conjunction with a leading healthcare investment firm, Welsh, Carson,
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    About Sectra Imaging IT Solutions
    With more than 25 years of innovation and 1,800 installations worldwide, Sectra is a leading global provider of imaging IT solutions that support healthcare in achieving patient-centric care. Sectra offers an enterprise imaging solution comprising PACS for imaging-intense departments (radiology, pathology, cardiology and orthopaedics), VNA, and share and collaborate solutions. Read more about Sectra and why Sectra PACS is “Best in KLAS” for a fifth consecutive year at http://www.sectra.com/medical/.

    Contact:
    Andrea Sowitch,
    Vice President of Marketing Sectra, Inc.
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Phone: 203 925 0899 ext. 268

    Torbjörn Kronander,
    President and CEO Sectra AB
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Phone: +46 705 23 5227

    Posted 1.10.2019

  • Coming Up Soon: Spring Forum, Leadership Academies and Advocacy Summit

    1.10.2018
    Tim Stettheimer – VP, Education

    Florida. Maryland. Washington, D.C. Those are some of the places you will be able to visit this winter and spring to attend CHIME’s growing list of educational events.

    The CHIME HIMSS Spring Forum will be in Orlando, Fla., this year. We have four dynamic speakers who will present keynote addresses on Feb. 11 at this national conference. Each speaker will offer valuable knowledge and inspiring messages from their personal stories and experiences. They will provide a connected path for attendees to travel that will move from a global view of the state of healthcare to new research on the underlying determinants of health and care.  From there, when you attend, our speakers will introduce new and developing technologies that will change how we advance health IT in 2019 and beyond.  And as we complete our path of learning, we will deepen our understanding and commitment to change with a renewed motivation for personal leadership in the year to come.

    The speakers who will lead us on our journey at the forum start with an opening keynote from Vivek H. Murthy, MD, who served as the 19th surgeon general of the United States from December 2014 to April 2017. As surgeon general, he made innovation and improving health his top priorities. He will talk about the state of healthcare today, setting the foundation for the speakers who follow.

    Second is Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA, an expert in infectious diseases and a long-time advocate for patients. Now the president and CEO of the Lasker Foundation, she has used her experiences as a child in foster care to inform her approach to improving health and care. Her presentation will focus on the underlying social determinants of health.

    Our mid-afternoon keynote will venture into the world of artificial intelligence and robotics with a keynote from one of the world’s leading authorities on advanced technologies. Neil Jacobstein, chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at Singularity University and a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University Media X Program, will explore how these technologies are transforming healthcare and how healthcare IT executives can apply them in their hospitals and health systems.

    The educational part of the forum will close with Kristina and Kate Sheridan, a mother-daughter duo who will share their professional and personal journey in our healthcare system.  Kristina Sheridan combines her experience as a caregiver of chronic pediatric patients and systems engineering to help the healthcare and IT communities develop and provide tools to manage the care of complex patients. Kate Sheridan is a patient empowerment advocate who survived complex chronic conditions and is now pursuing a career in healthcare.

    For a full agenda and registration information, go here.

    On March 6 and 7, we will bring a record-breaking number of CHIME faculty to Baltimore, Md., to present a first ever triple-play of leadership education. On March 6, we hill hold a CMIO/CHIO Leadership Academy as well as Cybersecurity Academy, where a combined 10 faculty members will provide new education and content to advance attendees’ capabilities and careers. And on March 7, we will hold a special Leadership Academy with six faculty members who will provide an accelerated dose of content from our popular CIO Boot Camp. This event is being produced in collaboration with the Maryland HIMSS chapter. To learn more and register, go here.

    CHIME also will hold our second annual Advocacy Summit on June 26-28 in Washington, D.C. We are assembling another stellar lineup of leading congressional and federal policy makers along with members from CHIME and our associations who help put policy into practice. CHIME Board member and NHS CIO Will Smart will give an international perspective on privacy and security in a keynote address. Our first Advocacy Summit received rave reviews from attendees. For this version 2.0, you can expect an even more exciting experience.  Program details and registration information can be found here.

    All of these programs have limited capacity, but are available for registration today. While we will have more programs to announce for the summer and fall, don’t miss these current opportunities – they will be one of a kind! Let the CHIME team know if you have any questions. You can reach us at [email protected] or call 734-665-0000.

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    Posted 1.10.2019

  • Ed Kopetsky, 2018 CIO of the Year: A Warrior for Change and Improvement

    1.10.2018
    Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations

     

    As CHIME Board chair in 1998, Ed Kopetsky proposed an idea that changed the course in healthcare IT. Under his leadership, CHIME for the first time invited physicians to attend the fall forum. That helped set the foundation for what evolved into the chief medical information officer. And some of those CMIOs have moved on to become CIOs.

    “We were ahead of the curve,” Kopetsky recalled. Those early insights to wed clinical and IT experience have had a profound effect on healthcare IT and patient care. “We never could have had the clinical automation that we had the last 10 years with CIOs only,” he said. “It had to be with clinicians. It was a critical success factor.”

    Throughout his career, Kopetsky has been ahead of the curve, recognizing needs and opportunities long before they were obvious. Now CIO of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health, he has been at the forefront of change at several prominent healthcare systems as well as in industry. For this and many other contributions he has made, he was named the 2018 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year. CHIME and HIMSS, whose boards jointly selected him for the award, announced the honor earlier this week. The award is given annually to a CIO who has shown significant leadership and commitment to the healthcare industry during his or her career.

    In 2009, Kopetsky joined Stanford Children’s, where he has led large-scale change to support integrated patient care, high-performance business and analytics systems and innovative digital health technologies. Stanford Children’s received the HIMSS Stage 7 Acute Care and Ambulatory Awards in 2015, demonstrating best practice for electronic patient records adoption and use, and the 2017 HIMSS Davies Award for improving patient outcomes and care processes using health IT and analytics. He previously served as CIO at Sharp HealthCare, where he helped automate the continuum of care to extend beyond the inpatient setting, and Centura Health. Before assuming the CIO post at Stanford Children’s, he was a partner at Healthlink and IBM.

    Kopetsky credits his training in systems engineering and experience in integrating healthcare organizations for his ability to spot industry trends and innovate solutions. He also says he was privileged to work with and learn from gifted leaders and mentors throughout his career, and to be supported by talented teams. He sees his role, and that of other healthcare IT leaders, as a warrior for change and improvement in healthcare.

    “It is just what we do,” he said. “If you are just keeping the lights on, you are toast.”

    He was among the pioneering CIOs to become founding members of CHIME in 1992 and has been an active member of HIMSS since 1987. He started and chaired a HIMSS chapter in San Diego in 1988 and three decades later joined the HIMSS Executive Institute. His contributions to CHIME include board member (1996-1999) CHIME chair (1998) and CHIME Foundation Board member (2002-2005). After losing his son to an accidental opioid overdose in late 2017, he helped launch the CHIME Opioid Task Force in 2018, which he co-chairs.

    Kopetsky will be honored on Feb. 11 at the 2019 CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum in Orlando, Fla. He will officially receive the award at the HIMSS19 conference that runs Feb. 11-15 in Orlando. The award is named for John E. Gall Jr., who pioneered implementation of the first fully integrated medical system in the world in El Camino Hospital in California in the 1960s.

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    Posted 1.10.2019

  • CHIME, AEHIS Members Contribute to National Cybersecurity Report

    1.10.2018
    Erik Decker – Chair, The University of Chicago Medicine

    At the end of 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a cybersecurity report that included valuable insights from CHIME and AEHIS members. HHS unveiled Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients (HICP), a four-part document designed to assist healthcare organizations mitigate the top cybersecurity threats we face today. It is the work product of the 405(d) Task Group, where I serve as industry lead and co-chair along with my HHS government counterpart, Julie Chua.

    “Many of the most influential industry organizations in healthcare came together as the 405(d) Task Group in May 2017, to plan, develop and draft this publication,” wrote HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan in the report. “HHS engaged a diverse group of more than 150 healthcare and cybersecurity experts through the Health Sector Coordinating Council as well as our government partners. The Task Group focused on building a set of voluntary, consensus-based principles and practices to improve cybersecurity in the health sector.”

    The documents and a toolkit are:

    • Main document examines cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities that affect the healthcare industry. It explores five current threats and presents 10 practices to mitigate those threats.
    • Technical Volume 1 discusses these 10 cybersecurity practices for small healthcare organizations.
    • Technical Volume 2 discusses these 10 cybersecurity practices for medium and large healthcare organizations.
    • Resources and Templates portion includes a variety of cybersecurity resources and templates for end users to reference

    This initiative and the documents can be found on the www.phe.gov/405d website.

    CHIME, at the request of membership, led the charge to increase congressional awareness about healthcare cybersecurity challenges, and welcomed the inclusion of the healthcare-specific provisions in the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. The provision known as 405(d) directed HHS to establish through a collaborative process with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and any other federal entities and non-federal entities a common set of voluntary, consensus-based, and industry-led guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures and processes that:

    • Serve as a resource for cost-effectively reducing cybersecurity risks for a range of healthcare organizations;
    • Support voluntary adoption and implementation efforts to improve safeguards to address cybersecurity threats; and,
    • Are consistent with NIST, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) standards, guidelines and requirements.

    In addition to the over 150 participants who provided thought leadership into the development of this document, it was also focus group-tested by over 100 individuals in seven different regions throughout the country. This effort has been a fantastic example of public-private partnerships and what is possible with an inclusive approach, leveraging the expertise of representatives from across the industry, with the backing of the federal government.

    I’d like to personally thank my co-chair and all of those who contributed to the dialogue and participated in this important initiative. Task group members are listed here. I look forward to getting your feedback and learning about how your organizations leverage these resources to bolster your cybersecurity posture.

    WEST C LOBBY, CHIME Booth at HIMSS – Learn more about how industry leaders in the Healthcare Coordinating Council Joint Cybersecurity Work Group are changing the industry, and get involved!

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    Posted 1.10.2019

  • Divurgent and Gevity Announce Strategic Business Alliance

    USA and Canadian Healthcare Organizations to be Biggest Beneficiaries of Combined Healthcare Information Systems Expertise

    VIRGIINIA BEACH, VA, and VANCOUVER, B.C. – January 8, 2019 – Today, Divurgent and Gevity, two leading healthcare IT consulting firms, announced that they have formalized a strategic business alliance to mutually benefit their clients by expanding their services across the United States and Canada. Divurgent and Gevity both offer strengths in healthcare information system design, implementation, and optimization and bring to this partnership proven methodologies and innovative practices.

    “This alignment is a natural evolution for our firms who have worked together over the past year on a number of initiatives. Gevity’s mission and core values align perfectly with Divurgent’s, and our mutual commitment to improving healthcare and dedication to client satisfaction offers our clients a winning proposition when partnering with us on their healthcare systems initiatives,” said Colin Konschak, Divurgent CEO.

    The partnership offers Gevity’s Canadian and American customers a more robust implementation practice, powered by Divurgent’s proven methodologies and past performance in EPIC and Cerner implementation services, and expanded capabilities in enterprise resource planning and healthcare cyber-security.

    Likewise, Divurgent’s customers can anticipate improved capabilities and offerings in public health, clinical informatics, and technical expertise across a greater breadth of applications. “Our service offerings are expanded tenfold with this alliance,” said Shane Danaher, Divurgent COO, “and there is exponential value with the combined breadth of our services, meaning that our portfolio of experience and expertise can reach almost every clinical, financial, and operational need that a healthcare organization may encounter.”

    “Our two companies’ combined experience and resources will deliver a significant advantage to both existing and future clients,” said Leon Salvail, Gevity CEO. “I truly believe that our individual strengths perfectly augment each other’s and that our clients will be the ones to benefit the most from this alliance. Divurgent and Gevity offer a combined 36 years of serving the healthcare industry. The lessons learned and innovative solutions implemented by both firms will ensure all our clients realize maximum value from their health information technology investments.”

    Divurgent’s recent awards and recognitions include being named to Inc. Magazine’s List of Fastest Growing Firms for a sixth consecutive year, to Modern Healthcare Magazine’s List of Best Places to Work in Healthcare for a sixth year, and to Consulting Magazine’s List of Fastest Growing Firms. Additionally, the firm has recently been rated by KLAS, an independent research company, as a top-ten firm in the Health Information Technology Implementation Support & Staffing Category.

    Gevity’s accolades include consecutive recognition awards from Healthcare Information Management & Communications Canada for outstanding commitment to the health informatics industry. In 2016, Branham Management Group Inc. recognized Gevity as one of Canada’s top information technology companies and Mediacorp Canada Inc. selected the company as one of Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employers. More recently, Digital Health Canada included two Gevity managing partners on its list of the top 10 Women Leaders in Digital Health in 2018.

    Gevity and Divurgent will be co-hosting an event on Sunday, February 10, 2019 as part of the HIMSS Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, FL, being held from February 11-15. In Canada, the two firms will be participating in the Annual eHealth Conference and Tradeshow taking place from May 26-29 in Toronto, ON.

    About Divurgent

    Divurgent is not the typical healthcare consulting firm. As a nationally recognized company focused on the business of hospitals, health systems, payers, and affiliated providers, we are committed to healthcare IT evolution, deploying customized, scalable solutions that help our clients achieve improved operational effectiveness, financial performance, and quality of patient care. Our experienced, hands-on team continuously evaluates and addresses the industry and market trends to align client goals with the future market state. Divurgent’s transformational services, developed to align with our client’s goals, include Implementation & Activation, Transformational, Strategic Advisory, and Financial Advisory services. Learn more about Divurgent at www.divurgent.com.

    About Gevity

    Gevity Consulting offers professional services to clients seeking to establish sustainable and effective healthcare, life sciences and social services systems. From strategic planning and advisory services to supporting and implementing critical transformation initiatives, we work with healthcare organizations to deliver results and enable a healthier world. We have been in business since 1995 and have grown steadily through geographic and service portfolio expansion. For more information, please visit www.gevityinc.com.

    Posted 1.8.2019

  • Vocera Introduces New Wearable Smartbadge Purpose-Built for Healthcare

    Intelligent device accelerates care with hands-free communication and secure messaging

    SAN JOSE, CA – January 7, 2019 – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced the launch of a new category of wearable communication devices that enables clinician agility and accelerates patient care. The Vocera Smartbadge combines smartphone usability with the hands-free freedom of the Vocera Badge to redefine healthcare communication – again.

    “Vocera has been on a mission to improve the lives of patients, families and care teams for more than 18 years; and based on customer feedback, we have thoughtfully designed a sleek, light-weight, wearable, and intelligent device that will make it even easier for care teams to communicate and collaborate,” said Brent Lang, president and CEO of Vocera. “The new Smartbadge is purpose-built to leverage the full software capability of the expanded Vocera Platform – voice calling, messaging, clinical alerts and alarms, and more – with its larger, touch-screen display.”

    The biggest advantage of the new Vocera Smartbadge over earlier versions of the wearable communication device is the size of the 2.4” touchscreen, which enables clinicians to receive and read notifications with more patient context. For example, a nurse who receives a sepsis alert can see the patient room number, plus the patient’s name, age, and vital signs. The larger screen also enables clinicians to view contact lists, as well as read and send text messages right from their Smartbadge.

    While the device’s screen is larger than the original Vocera Badge, the new Smartbadge is still small, lightweight, wearable, and ideal for busy clinicians needing their hands free to provide patient care. Improved microphones and speakers enable high-quality audio while communicating with colleagues in both hands-free and hand-set mode. A new, dedicated, one-touch panic button is designed to make it faster and easier for staff to get help in emergency situations. Additionally, the Smartbadge boasts extended battery life, USB charging and headset ports, and a durable and water-resistant design.

    “The Vocera Smartbadge is a gamechanger for healthcare and will enhance the way care teams connect, collaborate and provide care to patients,” said Tom Stafford, Vice President and CIO at Halifax Health. “I am impressed by how the Smartbadge is still small and lightweight even with a larger notification screen, which is also now a touchscreen. Vocera really listened to its customers to design this new device that meets all the mobile communication needs of nurses, physicians and other team members.

    Clinicians can communicate hands-free, receive contextual patient information, reach the right person by name, role or group, and get help in an emergency with the touch of a button. The Smartbadge will integrate with more than 140 clinical and operational systems, including electronic health records, nurse call systems, physiologic monitors and more. Powered by the Vocera Platform, data is aggregated from most systems used in hospitals today. Patient information, prioritized clinical events, and care team availability can be presented on the Smartbadge. The intuitive mobile device will help increase workflow efficiencies, reduce interruption fatigue, and improve patient care and experience.

    Additionally, the Vocera software platform now has unique capabilities designed specifically to support the well-being of healthcare workers. During times of high stress or emotional exhaustion, care team members can use the Smartbadge to “call a Code Lavender.” This simple voice command will send an alert to members of a multi-disciplinary group that will quickly respond, offering physical, spiritual and emotional support to patients, families and staff in need. For overwhelmed care team members who need a brief moment to relax or return to purpose, three guided meditations are available on the new mobile device.  

    About Vocera

    The mission of Vocera Communications, Inc. is to simplify and improve the lives of healthcare professionals and patients, while enabling hospitals to enhance quality of care and operational efficiency. In 2000, when the company was founded, we began to forever change the way care teams communicate. Today, Vocera continues to offer the leading platform for clinical communication and workflow. More than 1,700 facilities worldwide, including nearly 1,500 hospitals and healthcare facilities, have selected our solutions for team members to text securely using smartphones or make calls with our hands-free, wearable Vocera Badge. Interoperability between Vocera and more than 140 clinical and operational systems helps reduce alarm fatigue, speed up staff response times, and improve patient care, safety and experience. In addition to healthcare, Vocera is at home in luxury hotels, aged care facilities, nuclear facilities, libraries, retail stores and more. Vocera makes a difference in any industry where workers are on the move and need to connect instantly with team members and access resources or information quickly. In 2017, Vocera made the list of Forbes 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America. Learn more at www.vocera.com, and follow @VoceraComm on Twitter.

    Vocera® and the Vocera logo are trademarks 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.

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    CONTACT
    Shanna Hearon
    Vocera Communications, Inc.
    669.999.3368
    [email protected]

     

    Posted 1.7.2019

  • Protenus and RADAR Partner to Mitigate Security and Privacy Risks for Healthcare Organizations

    BALTIMORE, MD – January 7, 2019 – ​Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics platform that protects patient privacy for the nation’s leading health systems announces a strategic partnership with RADAR, the award-winning provider of incident response management software, to help healthcare organizations reduce the risks associated with unauthorized disclosures of protected health information (PHI).

    Health data security has become an increasing concern across the healthcare industry, with the Protenus Breach Barometer reporting 4.4M patient records breached in Q3 2018, putting millions of patients at risk for having their most sensitive information exposed. The partnership between Protenus and RADAR offers healthcare organizations the ability to use automation, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics to efficiently detect and assess the risks associated with privacy and security incidents, ensuring compliance with HIPAA, U.S. state data breach notification regulations, and international regulations such as GDPR.

    “Protenus and RADAR share a commitment to applying advanced technology to solve complex problems related to patient data privacy and security,” said Mahmood Sher-Jan, CEO of RADAR. “Protenus’ ability to detect inappropriate accesses to patient data within a health system’s electronic health records and associated systems complements RADAR’s automated multi-factor incident risk assessment and breach determination and notification capabilities. Together, our platforms provide healthcare organizations the benefit of full-cycle incident response management.”

    “Health organizations are increasingly in need of innovative solutions to help reduce risk related to health data security,” said Stacey Davis, VP of Business Development for Protenus. “RADAR’s patented incident response functionality alongside Protenus’ AI-powered analytics provide health systems, HIEs, and payers the ability to better manage compliance requirements and mitigate risk across the organization.”

    About RADAR®

    In today’s world of increasingly complex and changing privacy regulations, cyber attacks, and data breaches, leading organizations trust RADAR®, a patented SaaS-based incident response management platform that simplifies and streamlines compliance with data breach laws. The RADAR Breach Guidance Engine™ profiles and scores data privacy and security incidents and generates incident-specific notification guidelines to help ensure compliance with data breach laws as well as contractual notification obligations. Fortune 100 companies and other organizations from heavily regulated industries in healthcare, finance, insurance, and beyond rely on RADAR for an efficient and consistent process for incident response. Learn more at radarfirst.com.

    About Protenus

    The Protenus healthcare compliance analytics platform uses artificial intelligence to audit every access to patient records for the nation’s leading health systems. Providing healthcare leaders full insight into how health data is being used, and alerting privacy, security and compliance teams to inappropriate activity, Protenus helps our partner hospitals make decisions about how to better protect their data, their patients, and their institutions. Learn more at Protenus.com and follow us on Twitter @Protenus.

    For further information, please contact:

    Protenus
    Kira Caban
    Director of Strategic Communications
    ​[email protected]

    RADAR
    ​Dorothy Davis
    ​Director of Marketing
    +1 971 319 0019
    ​[email protected]

    Posted 1.7.2019

  • Stanford Children’s Health CIO Ed Kopetsky Receives Healthcare CIO of the Year Award

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Jan. 7, 2019 – Innovator. Collaborator. Mentor. Teacher. Thought leader. Servant leader. Lifelong student. Those are some of the many ways his peers describe Ed Kopetsky, CIO of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health.
     
    All see him as a pillar in the industry, recognition that has earned him the 2018 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year award. The award was announced today by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). The award is given annually to a CIO who has shown significant leadership and commitment to the healthcare industry during his or her career. The recipient is selected jointly by the boards of CHIME and HIMSS.
     
    “I have had the great fortune to work with and learn from many healthcare executives and IT leaders, and to have talented teams working alongside me throughout my career,” Kopetsky said. “I am honored to have been nominated, and to have CHIME and HIMSS select me for this award.”    
     
    Kopetsky’s career has spanned the industry, from CIO of three prominent healthcare systems to partner in a consulting firm specializing in healthcare IT and process improvement. He joined Stanford Children’s as CIO in 2009, after working as a partner at the professional services organization Healthlink, which was acquired by IBM in 2005. He was senior vice president and CIO of Centura Health from 1996 to 2000 and CIO of Sharp HealthCare from 1986 to 1996. Under his leadership, Stanford Children’s received the HIMSS Stage 7 Acute Care and Ambulatory Awards, Most Wired recognition from 2015 to the present, honors for having one of the best healthcare IT departments in 2016, and the international HIMSS Davies Award in 2017 for improving patient outcomes and care processes using health IT and analytics. 
     
    Over the decades he has helped launch and sustain numerous initiatives that have helped the industry grow. He was among the pioneering CIOs to become founding members of CHIME in 1992 and has been an active member of HIMSS since 1987. He started and chaired a HIMSS chapter in San Diego in 1988 and three decades later joined the HIMSS Executive Institute. His contributions to CHIME include board member (1996-1999) CHIME chair (1998) and CHIME Foundation Board member (2002-2005). After losing his son to an accidental opioid overdose in late 2017, he helped launch the CHIME Opioid Task Force in 2018, which he co-chairs.
     
    “Ed is one of the most courageous people I know,” said Russell Branzell, president and CEO of CHIME. “Ed has turned a personal tragedy into a mission for CHIME and our members that already is saving lives. He has a vision of what can be achieved when healthcare IT leaders work together, and with his leadership we are making inroads against this devastating opioid epidemic.” 
     
    “Ed Kopetsky epitomizes the values and traits that all in health strive to achieve,” said Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS. “Mission driven, technically innovative and highly respected among his peers. A longtime HIMSS member and contributor, Ed has focused his personal passions into improving the lives of countless individuals. It is a privilege to honor Ed as our CIO of the Year.”
     
    As a CIO, Kopetsky has successfully led several large-scale projects and mentored many staff members. At Sharp HealthCare, his team completed implementation of one of the first integrated patient care systems supporting a multi-hospital and physician network. At Stanford Children’s he oversaw the implementation of enterprise systems, including an integrated electronic health record across Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health. He is credited with developing top-notch IT teams and serving as a role model and mentor throughout his career.
     
    Kopetsky will be honored on Feb. 11 at the 2019 CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum in Orlando, Fla. He will officially receive the award at the HIMSS19 conference that runs Feb. 11-15 in Orlando. The award is named for John E. Gall Jr., who pioneered implementation of the first fully integrated medical system in the world in El Camino Hospital in California in the 1960s.
     
    Information about the 2019 CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum is available here and information about HIMSS19 is available here.
     
    About CHIME
    The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,800 members in 51 countries and over 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
     
    Contact
    Candace Stuart
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    Posted 1.7.2019
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