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Salt Lake City, UT - November 20, 2018 - Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, announced new mammography software, NovaMG-Pro, specifically for multi-modality radiologists that read mammography as well as non-mammography studies. By using the same workstation, a compatible PACS user interface and optimizing human performance engineering – radiologists become more efficient.
Burlington, MA - November 19, 2018 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced its intention to spin off its Automotive business segment into a new, independent, publicly traded company ("Nuance Auto"). The standalone entity will be a pure-play, next-generation automotive software company. Immediately following the transaction, which is expected to be completed before the end of fiscal 2019, Nuance shareholders will own shares of both companies. The transaction is intended to be tax-free to Nuance shareholders.
Burlington, MA - November 19, 2018 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced financial results for its fiscal 2018 and fourth quarter ended September 30, 2018.
Salt Lake City, UT - November 15, 2018 - Health Catalyst, Inc., a leader in healthcare analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement, today announced it ranked No. 323 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America.
Austin, TX November 15, 2018 - CynergisTek, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in healthcare cybersecurity and information assurance, today announced that MultiScale Health Networks, a pioneer in bringing real-time problem-solving innovations to healthcare, has selected CynergisTek’s signature service, Compliance Assist Partner Program (CAPP). MultiScale will leverage CynergisTek’s expertise and comprehensive risk assessments to proactively secure the MultiScale Hive solution, which enables clinicians to securely communicate and collaborate with EHR and health operations data to address issues in real-time before they become problems.
San Jose, CA - November 14, 2018 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that Perth Children's Hospital (PCH) has implemented Vocera Collaboration Suite throughout its new facility to improve care team communication and clinical workflows. Clinicians and staff across the hospital can communicate hands-free with wearable Vocera badges, text securely using the Vocera smartphone app, and communicate at their workstations via a web console.
Salt Lake City, UT - November 14, 2018 – Health Catalyst, Inc., a leader in next-generation data, analytics, and decision support, today announced two important additions to its senior team—Jason Jones, PhD, and Elia Stupka, PhD.
Burlington, MA - November 15, 2018 – Nuance Communications, Inc. today in conjunction with Baptist Health South Florida’s Miami Cancer Institute (MCI) announced that MCI has established a Lung Cancer Screening program that supports early diagnosis and thus more effective treatment of the disease.
Burlington, MA - November 13, 2018 - Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered diagnostic solutions is helping curb radiologist burnout, a critical issue that is compounded by inefficient processes and mounting volumes of work. Nuance is enabling radiologists to improve the efficiency and accuracy of disease detection, diagnosis and treatment with AI-powered diagnostic workflow and reporting solutions, real-time image sharing and communication, powerful performance and analytics tools and an open platform for sharing AI algorithms.
Burlington, MA - November 12, 2018 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced the company has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Document Imaging division to Kofax, Inc. The sale enables Nuance to focus the business entirely on its conversational AI- and cloud- based solutions while simplifying the organization and improving its growth profile. For Kofax, the Document Imaging division bolsters the company’s leadership in Intelligent Automation technologies. Total consideration for the transaction is $400 million in cash. The deal, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close by the end of Nuance’s second fiscal quarter.>br>
Burlington, MA - November 9, 2018 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its Board of Directors has adopted amendments to the Company’s Bylaws that allow shareholders holding at least 20 percent of shares of Nuance common stock outstanding to call a special meeting of shareholders. The threshold was informed by a recent shareholder outreach program conducted by the Company’s chairman of the Board and Compensation Committee chairman.
San Jose, CA - November 7, 2018 – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that physicians at Upstate University Hospital in New York identified a unique way to improve communication and patient experience using real-time feedback captured with the Vocera Rounds solution.
Springfield, VA - November 7, 2018 - Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and a global leader in healthcare communications, announced that it has earned honors as the top overall healthcare technology vendor for secure communications platforms in an annual report published by Black Book Market Research. Spok also received the highest scores in the categories of best-of-breed technology and process improvement; trust, accountability, transparency, and ethics; viability and managerial stability, training and education; and tech support and customer care.
Shelton, CT – November 7, 2018 – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that its enterprise imaging solution for radiology and digital pathology was ordered by Kettering Health Network (KHN). Sectra will install its solution, integrated with the Epic EMR, throughout KHN to provide a consolidated overview of patient images and information to support increased reading and reporting efficiency.
Burlington, MA - November 7, 2018 - Nuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its Dragon TV platform brings new conversational AI capabilities to Telecentro’s TV service. Telecentro, one of the largest cable and broadband service operators in Argentina, is the first provider in Latin America to deploy Dragon TV, bringing a voice-activated platform to subscribers in the region for the first time.
Austin, TX - November 6, 2018 - CynergisTek, (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in healthcare cybersecurity and information assurance, today announced that The Silicon Review Magazine has named it among the, “50 Most Trustworthy Companies of the Year 2018.”
Buffalo, NY - November 6, 2018 - CTG (NASDAQ: CTG), a leading provider of information technology (IT) solutions and services in North America and Western Europe, and Akron Children’s Hospital announced a new webinar on how the large pediatric system transformed from being encounter-based to positioning itself for value-based contracts. The webinar “One Hospital’s Journey from a Fee-for-Service Culture to a Value-Based Care Model” will be co-presented on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. E.T./10:00 a.m. C.T. by the executive and operational project team members from both organizations who led the transformation.
Salt Lake City, UT - November 1, 2018 - Health Catalyst, Inc., a leader in next-generation data, analytics, and decision support, and Allina Health, a 13-hospital, 90-clinic integrated delivery network based in Minneapolis, today received the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Collaboration Award at the organization’s CHIME18 Fall CIO Forum. The award recognizes the successful long-term collaboration between CHIME Foundation firm Health Catalyst and CHIME member Allina Health, with special recognition for Allina CIO Jonathan Shoemaker.
Mountain View, CA - November 1, 2018 - Zingbox, the provider of the most widely deployed healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) analytics platform and leader of healthcare IoT security research, today released the report of its second annual Healthcare Security Survey. The survey was expanded this year to include not only IT/IS professionals, but also clinical and biomedical engineers who play critical roles in managing and securing connected medical devices.
San Diego, CA & Nashville, TN - October 31, 2018 - In the wake of a record-breaking $16 million data breach settlement earlier this month that put insurers and provides alike on notice that ignoring cybersecurity risks could come with a hefty price tag, a new national survey of U.S. health systems finds that only 29 percent report having a comprehensive cybersecurity program in place.
