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San Jose, CA - August 7, 2018 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that Phoenix Children’s Hospital has again expanded its use of the Vocera system to improve patient, family and clinician experiences one nudge at a time.
Madison, WI. - August 6, 2018 - Bluetree, an Epic consulting and strategy solutions company for healthcare providers, announced today the launch of its Epic-focused Service Center and upcoming office relocation. The office move and new service line comes on the heels of continued 2018 growth and will offer the dedicated, Epic-specific support its clients have been asking for.
Westwood, MA - August 3, 2018 - Galway Clinic, a state-of-the-art, 146-bed hospital, became the first hospital in Ireland and the UK to launch Expanse, MEDITECH's innovative, fully integrated Patient Administration System (PAS) and Electronic Health Record (EHR). Leveraging the latest technology, Galway Clinic has earned the status as one of the most digitally sophisticated hospitals in Europe, after successfully revalidating their Stage 6 HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) status.
Boston, MA - August 3, 2018 - (Newswire.com) - As the healthcare industry continues to suffer more data breaches than any other industry, privacy and security teams are tasked with managing an ever-increasing number of threats to patient data, often with limited resources and mixed institutional support, according to Robert Lord, president and co-founder of Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics platform that protects patient privacy at our nation’s leading health systems. Lord, who is a featured speaker at the Healthcare Informatics Health IT Summit in Boston, will be speaking on the topic, as well as on strategies healthcare organizations can use to build trust with the patients they serve by better-protecting health data.
Shelton, CT – August 2, 2018 – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) will install its enterprise imaging PACS throughout Stanford Health Care (SHC) and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital to support clinical and research imaging needs of the organization. The Sectra solution - integrated with Epic Radiant – will ensure business continuity, high system availability, and scalability for future growth.
San Jose, CA - August 1, 2018 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, announced it is partnering with Qventus, an AI-based software technology company that helps health systems run more efficiently. Interoperability between Vocera and Qventus technologies enables immediate action and collaboration on the frontlines of hospitals across the country. Together, the two companies empower care teams with real-time situational awareness to quickly mobilize the right people and resources, thereby improving workflow, patient safety, and provider satisfaction.
San Jose, CA. - July 26, 2018 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that Ronald A. Paulus, MD, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mission Health, joined the Vocera Board of Directors effective July 25, 2018. Since September 2010, Dr. Paulus has been the president and CEO of Mission Health, a $1.9 billion regional integrated delivery system serving western North Carolina.
Seattle, WA - July 26, 2018 - Telmediq, the #1 KLAS rated vendor for secure communication platforms in healthcare, today released details about healthcare’s only mobile-supported verbal order system. Telmediq’s patent-pending Asynchronous Verbal Order System (AVOS) replaces traditional telephone and verbal order entry workflows with a streamlined mobile solution.
Houston, TX - July 24, 2018 - (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Identity Automation, a leading provider of Access Management (AM), Identity Governance (IGA), and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) software, today announced its acquisition of HealthCast Inc., provider of award-winning enterprise single sign-on (eSSO) and virtual desktop technology for the healthcare industry.
EDISON, NJ, (July 24, 2018) –Avaap, the largest provider of IT services and solutions for organizations with electronic health record (EHR) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, today announced that Columbus Regional Healthcare System (CRHS), which serves the community of Whiteville, North Carolina, and the surrounding area, has selected Avaap to partner on the implementation and optimization of the Cerner Millennium® product CommunityWorks℠.
Scottsdale, AZ - July 19, 2008 - The Connecticut State Medical Society (CSMS), representing more than 6,000 physicians in Connecticut, has selected DrFirst, a leading provider of e-prescribing and patient medication management solutions, as the vendor of choice for its robust e-prescribing tool, iPrescribe, for its members.
Salt Lake City, UT - July 19, 2018 - Nearly nine out of 10 respondents to a national survey of physicians, nurses and healthcare executives say their organizations are successfully improving the safety of patients. But real problems remain, and to make further improvements, respondents to the Health Catalyst survey said they need better health information technology to warn clinicians of impending patient harm, as well as more resources and greater organizational focus on the problem.
Philadelphia, PA - July 18, 2018 - (Newswire.com) - The ability to audit every access to patient data will help healthcare use AI-powered analytics to solve the industry’s biggest challenges. Nick Culbertson, CEO and Co-founder of Protenus, the world’s leading healthcare compliance analytics platform, will present at the CISO Executive Summit alongside Hussein Syed, Chief Information Security Officer for RWJBarnabas, and Daniel Wilt, Chief Information Security Officer for the HealthShare Exchange of Southeastern Pennsylvania, on how insights gained from health data analytics can drive cultural transformation and reduce organizational risk.
Baltimore, MD - July 17, 2018 - (Newswire.com) - In an effort to leverage innovation to meet consumer expectations in healthcare technology, Black Book Research recently performed a survey that found Protenus is an industry-leading innovator in protecting patient data. The survey examined consumer preferences about which innovative healthcare technologies piqued their curiosity in four key areas:
Salt Lake City, UT - July 17, 2018 - Health Catalyst today launched the Patient Safety Monitor™ Suite: Surveillance Module, the industry’s first comprehensive patient safety application to use predictive and text analytics combined with concurrent clinician review of data to monitor, detect, predict and prevent threats to patient safety before harm can occur.
Seattle, WA. - July 11, 2018 - Telmediq, the #1 KLAS rated vendor for secure communication platforms in healthcare, is Cisco DevNet Fast Lane Certified to ensure critical communications are prioritized within hospital environments. The Fast Lane certification provides business critical iOS applications a higher wireless quality of service within the Cisco network environment.
Salt Lake City, UT - July 11, 2018 - Health Catalyst, a leader in next-generation data, analytics, and decision support, today announced completion of its acquisition of Medicity, one of the nation’s largest population health management companies with solutions for health information exchange (HIE), business intelligence, and provider and patient engagement.
Cary, NC - July 10, 2018 - PeriGen, an innovator of perinatal early warning systems, today announced that hospitals within the Avera Health system, based in Sioux Falls, SD, are implementing PeriGen’s PeriWatch labor analysis software in their birthing units.
July 9, 2018 – CTG (NASDAQ: CTG), a leading provider of information technology (IT) solutions and services in North America and Western Europe, announced today that the Company has been selected by Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) to implement its Epic electronic health record (EHR) throughout its CHI Memorial market.
Westwood, MA - June 28, 2018 - MEDITECH, a leading Enterprise Health Record (EHR) vendor and Contributor Member of CommonWell Health Alliance®, has successfully deployed CommonWell interoperability services at Alliance Community Hospital (ACH). The capabilities will enable ACH, a non-profit hospital serving the residents of Alliance, Ohio, to exchange patient information seamlessly for improved patient care and quality outcomes.
