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NASHVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 - Pivot Point Consulting is excited to announce the addition of Keith Olenik as Vice President, Revenue Cycle Services --which includes revenue cycle advisory services and talent solutions, as well health information management, coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI). Olenik brings more than three decades of experience working with provider healthcare delivery systems as a member of senior management and as a consultant. He specializes in practical solutions to streamline business operations, evaluate and implement information technology applications and enhance health care operations through process improvement.
MADISON, WI – September 13, 2019 – Nordic has created Registry Direct, a solution that will save healthcare organizations thousands of hours of manual abstraction and uploading of data to the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Get With The Guidelines® (GWTG) online registry. Registry Direct works using healthcare interoperability standards that are supported by all major EHRs.
DALLAS, TX - September 17, 2019 – Phynd Technologies is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation. As a CHIME Foundation member firm, Phynd will play a vital role in CHIME’s continuing education efforts and have opportunities to interact with leading healthcare Chief Information Officers, Chief Medical Information Officers, and other executives and thought leaders.
SAN JOSE, CA - September 11, 2019 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that it has entered into a three-year agreement with Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA). This agreement is a contracting vehicle that outlines terms and conditions for delivering, installing and supporting Vocera solutions in clinics, hospitals, and specialty health centers across British Columbia.
NASHVILLE, TN — September 11, 2019 — Pivot Point Consulting is excited to announce the addition of Jeff Maris to lead its Cerner Strategic Implementation and Partnerships team. Maris brings two decades of experience with Cerner—leading both sales and delivery as a Technology Sales Executive who expanded Cerner’s CareAware business and as a Technical Implementation... read moreSAN JOSE, CA - September 10, 2019 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that Metro Health – University of Michigan Health has improved its stroke time to treatment from 53 to 29 minutes, in part through Vocera technology.
SPRINGFIELD, VA - September 10, 2019 – Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and a leader in healthcare communications, today released the results of its ninth annual survey on mobile strategies in healthcare. Respondents included more than 450 healthcare professionals from hospitals and health systems around the country, of whom 38% were clinicians and 21% were IT or telecommunications staff.
CHICAGO, IL - September 10, 2019 – Impact Advisors, a leading provider of clinical, revenue cycle and information technology services to the healthcare industry, announced today that it is ranked No. 5 on Consulting Magazine’s Best Small Firms to Work For list. This is the 10th year the firm has received this prestigious honor.
ROCKVILLE, MD — September 10, 2019 — DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing, patient medication management, and price transparency solutions, announced today that its Backline secure care collaboration platform is now the first such mobile solution for the healthcare market to offer an e-signature capability.
SAN JOSE, CA - September 4, 2019 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre (SLMHC) has implemented the new Vocera Smartbadge for care team communication. Purpose-built for healthcare, the wearable Smartbadge combines smartphone capabilities with the hands-free freedom of the Vocera Badge.
SAN JOSE, CA - September 3, 2019 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced the release of Vocera Vina, the company’s revolutionary new smartphone application. The customizable communication app presents prioritized patient-centric calls, secure messages, and alerts in a unified inbox, and provides an intuitive user experience for clinicians inside and outside the hospital. Powered by the Vocera Platform, Vina delivers relevant context about clinical events, patient status, and clinician availability, helping care teams improve safety, quality of care, and experience for patients and care teams.
Optimum Healthcare IT, a Best in KLAS healthcare staffing and consulting services firm, announced that on August 3, 2019, Ellis Medicine went live on a new electronic health record (EHR), Cerner Millennium. Through Optimum’s effective project leadership, detailed planning, comprehensive training, and a proven methodology, the project was a success.
Lexington, MA and San Jose, CA – August 28, 2019—Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, and Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced a partnership to help healthcare organizations unlock the full potential of mobility in healthcare. Combining Imprivata Mobile Device Access with Vocera Collaboration Suite, the partnership enables fast, familiar authentication into shared clinical mobile devices and the Vocera smartphone application, eliminating the burden of manual logins for healthcare providers.
MADISON, WI – August 26, 2019 - Bluetree, an Epic consulting and strategy company for healthcare providers, is the top-ranked Epic Systems Strategy, Support & Implementations firm in the Black Book Market Research report released Monday. Bluetree was rated #1 in eight of 20 categories in the report, which evaluates leading service providers across 18 operational excellence key performance indicators.
CHICAGO, IL - August 21, 2019 – Impact Advisors, a leading provider of clinical, revenue cycle and information technology services to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has been named to Inc. magazine’s Inc. 5000 list. The Inc. 5000 list is a prestigious ranking given to only U.S.-based, privately held, independent, for-profit companies with significant percentage revenue growth. This year the firm was also named a 5-Time Inc. 5000 Honoree.
SAN JOSE, CA -- August 20, 2019 -- Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that Hackensack Meridian Health Jersey Shore University Medical Center reduced readmission rates among stroke patients by 50 percent after implementing the Vocera Care Inform communication solution. Care Inform enables care team members to record live discharge instructions and teach-back sessions at the patient’s bedside.
BALTIMORE, MD - August 20, 2019 - Healthcare compliance analytics company Protenus today announced a $17M investment from some of the country’s top healthcare technology investment firms, to keep up with growing customer demand and to continue partnering with health systems that aim to take a more innovative approach to maintain compliance. Founded in 2014, Protenus helps health systems leverage healthcare compliance analytics to demonstrate 100% compliance and proactively identify risk across the organization, such as inappropriate access to patient data and the theft and misuse of controlled substances by hospital staff.
Linköping, Sweden and Shelton, CT – August 20, 2019 – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) will install its enterprise imaging PACS and VNA throughout Vanderbilt Health in Nashville. The Sectra solution, integrated with Epic Radiant and Cupid, will provide physicians a full patient overview on a single workstation and allow for scalability and future growth of the health system.
SPRINGFIELD, VA - August 19, 2019 - Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), a global leader in healthcare communications, today announced the appointment of Matt Mesnik, MD, as Chief Medical Officer. In this role, Dr. Mesnik will be responsible for representing physicians’ needs for communication software solutions that support provider efficiency and drive improvements in patient care. Dr. Mesnik brings both clinical and technical leadership to Spok and joins a Spok clinical team focused on developing communication technologies that enable more effective clinical workflow approaches and complement a health system’s investment in electronic health records.
CAMBRIDGE, MA - August 16, 2019 - InterSystems, a global leader in information technology platforms for health, business and government applications, announced today that Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII), the statewide health information exchange (HIE) designed to share clinical and administrative data among providers in Nebraska and neighboring states, has selected InterSystems to serve as the foundational technology for the HIE. NEHII will run on InterSystems HealthShare.
