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November 15, 2016 - Health Catalyst announced today the healthcare industry’s first end-to-end care management and patient engagement solution, and the first to enable discovery of an otherwise invisible subset of patients – those who will benefit most from care management and who can be engaged most effectively to lower the cost of care.
November 15, 2016 - Vocera Communications today announced that company executives will present to institutional investors at the 28th Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 12:30 pm ET in New York. The discussion will be available as a webcast, both live and archived, through the Vocera website. The replay will be available for 90 days following the live broadcast.
November 15, 2016 - Huntzinger Management Group announced today that the company has engaged in a strategic partnership with DCCS Consulting Huntzinger founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer Bob Kitts made the announcement.
November 14, 2016 - FormFast is hosting a product launch event webinar to showcase the latest addition to the FormFast product Suite, FormFast Connect. FormFast Connect enables personalized care navigation and document workflow solutions, empowering patients and providers across the care continuum to collaborate more effectively. The live webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 16 at 1:00 CT (2:00 ET).
November 10, 2016 - Health Catalys received the highest overall score and the highest score for “proactive service” among enterprise business intelligence vendors evaluated by the respected research firm, KLAS, in a report published this month, “Enterprise Healthcare BI 2016: Getting Value from BI Tools: A US and Global Perspective.”
November 10, 2016 – Sunquest Information Systems announced today the acquisition of the Salt Lake City-based software firm UNIConnect L.C. UNIConnect specializes in software for molecular laboratories and augments Sunquest’s molecular diagnostics solution.
November 9, 2016 - Ann Mendlowitz joins Orchestrate Healthcare today as Vice President of EMR Consulting Services. With a robust 20 years as a formative leader in healthcare operational strategy and large-scale Epic and Cerner EMR implementations, Ann will leverage her deep industry knowledge with their client-centered focus serving as a bridge bringing technologists and operational teams together.
November 9, 2016 - Optimum Healthcare IT announced that it received a high number of mentions across the five success factor attributes outlined in the KLAS Healthcare Consulting 2016 report. This report provides a summary of Healthcare Consulting Firms who are well positioned to help healthcare organizations with current and future needs. The report states that healthcare organizations most often achieve desired consulting outcomes when third-party firms are proficient, collaborative, trustworthy, strategic, and efficient. Additionally, engagements most often flounder when firms are the opposite: salesy, incompetent, inflexible, over promising, and non-strategic.
November 7, 2016 - Doc Halo announces the opening of its new corporate headquarters in downtown Cincinnati. With record sales in 2016, which added several major health systems onto its clinical communication platform, Doc Halo has committed to adding at least 65 new positions in the next several months.
November 3, 2016 -- Jenny McCaskey, Vice President at Impact Advisors, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, was named one of the “Women Leaders in Consulting” of 2016 by Consulting Magazine. McCaskey was recognized in the Excellence in Client Services Award category. She will be traveling to New York City to attend the Women Leaders in Consulting Gala Awards Dinner on November 17.
November 2, 2016 - Vocera Communications today announced that its Experience Innovation Network, focused on research and designing the next standards in care, has released a new report, Human Experience at the Forefront: Elevating Resilience, Well-Being, and Joy in Healthcare. The research report examines how leaders at hospitals and health systems are addressing the challenges of care team burnout and compassion fatigue.
November 1, 2016 -Today at the CHIME 16 Fall CIO Forum in Phoenix, Arizona, Fortified Health Security announced the launch of its new Virtual Information Security Program, Managed Data Loss Prevention and 24/7/365 security information event monitoring offerings.
November 1, 2016 - Vital Images, Inc. (Vital), a Minneapolis-based enterprise medical imaging and informatics company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Karos Health (Karos), an innovative global healthcare informatics company.
October 31, 2016 - Spok today released the findings of a survey designed to identify the business goals and drivers behind mobile workflow investments in hospitals across the country. CHIME administered the survey to more than 100 CIOs, who responded to questions about their big-picture goals, the use-cases driving their mobile app selections, and which common workflows they are focused on improving.
October 31, 2016 – Iatric Systems, Inc., applauds the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to affirm a lower court’s dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it.
October 31, 2016 - Healthcare companies are more likely to increase information technology spending over the next 12 months than other industries as they aim to improve efficiency and business processes in the midst of significant skills shortages, the Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO survey found.
October 27, 2016 - Vocera Communications today announced that it has acquired Extension Healthcare for approximately $55 million in an all-cash transaction. Based in Fort Wayne, Ind., Extension Healthcare is a leading provider of clinical, event-driven communication and workflow collaboration software for the hospital environment.
October 27, 2016 -- Nordic is pleased to announce the hiring of Mark Costanza for the newly created position of chief client officer. He brings with him more than 25 years of healthcare and healthcare IT experience with a specialty in services and solution-based sales.
October 27, 2016 - Vocera Communications today reported total revenue of $33.8 million, an increase of 28% compared to revenue of $26.5 million in the third quarter of 2015.
October 25, 2016 - CDW Healthcare has once again recognized the Orion Health blog as a Top 50 Health IT Blog in a 2016 list released earlier this month.
