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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.
Seattle, WA - October 31, 2018 - In the latest KLAS Decision Insights Secure Communication report, Telmediq received the clinical communication industry’s highest marks for quality and post-purchase reality. Telmediq, the 2018 Best in KLAS winner for Secure Communication, topped the list in this newest report for Overall Product Quality and Delivery of New Technology.
Springfield, VA - October 31, 2018 - Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and a global leader in healthcare communications, announced that Inova Health System has chosen Spok Care Connect® clinical alerting to deliver priority clinical alarms. The solution helps prevent potential alarm fatigue by delivering alarm notifications from nurse call and patient monitoring systems to clinicians’ healthcare-grade mobile devices. Inova is a five-hospital health system serving more than two million people each year from throughout the Washington, D.C. metro area and beyond. Spok clinical alerting is fully deployed at Inova Fairfax Hospital, and is being rolled out systemwide over the next year, encompassing more than 2,500 users.
San Jose, CA - October 30, 2018 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced a new partnership with QGenda, a leader in enterprise cloud-based physician scheduling automation. Vocera will be the exclusive reseller of QGenda’s product portfolio into the federal healthcare market, including the Veterans Health Administration, Department of Defense, and Indian Health Service. Interoperability between the Vocera communication system and the QGenda scheduling solutions will improve care team communication and clinical workflows with on-call providers.
Cary, NC - October 30, 2018 - PeriGen, the innovator in perinatal early warning systems, today announced northern Nevada’s Renown Health has implemented PeriGen’s PeriWatch labor analysis software in its childbirth unit. The software system includes PeriWatch® Cues™, the only fetal surveillance solution that is both cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and validated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The software incorporates artificial intelligence features to help clinicians interpret fetal heart rate patterns and provides a consistent, objective and standardized assessment to enhance care collaboration.
Rockville, MD - October 30, 2018 -Nearly half of consumers have abandoned a medication prescribed by their physician because it was too expensive, according to a survey released today by DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and patient medication management solutions. At a time when the federal government is pushing a variety of measures to make prescription drug prices more transparent to consumers, the nationwide survey revealed that fully 73 percent of consumers would change pharmacies if they knew that doing so would save them money on a prescription.
Burlington, MA and Atlanta, GA - October 30, 2018 - Nuance Communications, Inc. and Piedmont Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system with nearly 600 locations and 11 hospitals, today announced that Nuance’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions have driven valuable improvements in clinical documentation accuracy and efficiency at Piedmont Healthcare, and quantifiable time-savings for its care teams. In an effort to create a one-of-a-kind experience that always puts patient care first, Piedmont Healthcare has implemented Dragon Medical One, Nuance’s AI-powered speech recognition platform, PowerMic Mobile, a secure microphone app that turns any workstation into a dictation station and Dragon Medical Advisor, an AI-powered computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) solution.
Cary, NC - October 25, 2018 - PeriGen, the innovator in perinatal early warning systems, will host a free educational webinar on Tuesday, October 30, outlining The Joint Commission’s new Perinatal Care (PC) performance measure, PC-06. This requirement will be added to the existing five measures for Joint Commission accredited hospitals with at least 300 live births per year.
Chicago, IL - October 25, 2018 - Celebrating Chicago’s “Heroes of Medicine,” Halo, the first online partnering platform that connects scientists from academia and industry, is hosting a Grammy-style awards event on Thursday, Oct. 25, to honor three local scientists working to advance their research into treatments that help people live better lives.
Austin, TX - October 25, 2018 - CynergisTek, (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in healthcare cybersecurity and information assurance, today announced that it has appointed Jon Hilfiger as the company’s new Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Hilfiger brings more than twenty years of experience in global sales and business development to this role where he will lead client retention initiatives and drive new client acquisitions. Hilfiger will also provide strategic insights to support CynergisTek’s expansion of cybersecurity and managed services that meet the needs of the company’s clients.
