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SAN JOSE, CA - January 23, 2018 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, is offering two opportunities for clinicians, healthcare IT leaders, and other industry professionals to get a closer look at the new Vocera Smartbadge. Introduction of the solution earlier this month marked a significant milestone for the company and how patient care is coordinated.
ROCKVILLE, Md.— January 23, 2019 — More than half of consumers lack confidence in their ability to properly take new medications as directed, according to a survey released today by DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and patient medication management solutions. Among the consumers who had concerns about taking new medications correctly, two-thirds blamed their anxiety on a lack of time with physicians at the point of care.
TAMPA, FL - JANUARY 23, 2019 - Greenway Health, a leading health information technology and services provider, today announced Kali Durgampudi has been named chief technology and innovation officer. Durgampudi will advance Greenway’s products and services to continue to help its customers turn data and insights into action through next-generation technologies.
SPRINGFIELD, VA - January 22, 2019 - Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and a global leader in healthcare communications, is reinforcing its commitment to advancing interoperability for hospitals and health systems through leadership roles in upcoming international industry events. Spok will demonstrate the power of standards-based interoperability with its leading clinical communication platform, Spok Care Connect®, at Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)’s North American Connectathon, Jan. 21-25, in Cleveland, Ohio, and HIMSS19, including the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase™, Feb. 11-15, in Orlando, Florida.
MADISON, WS - JANUARY 22, 2019 – Healthcare IT consulting leader Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company, has partnered with PDS, Inc. to provide US-based solutions for expanded managed services. The combined team will be based at the PDS Managed Services Center of Excellence in Madison, WI a 24,000 square foot facility housing 150+ employees.
NASHVILLE, TN - JANUARY 21, 2019 - Healthcare IT consulting leader Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company, selects PDS, Inc. to be part of a partnership to provide US-based solutions for managed services. The combined team will be based at our Managed Services Center of Excellence in Madison, WI at PDS’ 24,000 square foot facility housing 150+ employees.
MINNEAPOLIS/CHICAGO - January 17, 2019 - Analytics executives from 13 leading healthcare organizations gathered last fall in Chicago as part of the annual Scottsdale Institute Analytics Summit to share strategies, insights and challenges regarding a digital health strategy and consumer engagement. This collaborative event focused on understanding what types of analytics initiatives can influence consumer and patient behaviors. In addition, participants discussed how digital health is enhancing health systems’ abilities to leverage analytics insight to improve health outcomes.
January 15, 2019 - MEDITECH, a leading Enterprise Health Record (EHR) vendor and Contributor Member of CommonWell Health Alliance®, has successfully deployed CommonWell interoperability services at Northwestern Medical Center (St. Albans, VT), taking another meaningful step forward in the goal of more connected care between healthcare organizations.
AUSTIN, TX - January 15, 2019 — (HIMSS Booth #4009) — CynergisTek, (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in healthcare cybersecurity, privacy, and information assurance, today announced that its Executive Vice President of Strategic Innovation, David Finn, Vice President of Compliance Strategies, David Holtzman, and Vice President of Security Strategy, Clyde Hewitt, were selected to present three sessions at the 2019 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition. HIMSS brings together 45,000+ health information and technology professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT—January 10, 2019—Novarad Corporation announced today that it has been cited as a Representative Vendor in the 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Vendor-Neutral Archives by analyst Barry Runyon (published on 8 November). The Market Guide provides Gartner’s coverage of an emerging market and focuses on the market definition of and rationale for the market and market dynamics, according to the report.
LINKÖPING, SWEDEN and SHELTON, CT – January 10, 2019 – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) will install its enterprise breast imaging solution throughout the fifteen North Carolina-based breast centers of Charlotte Radiology. Upon project completion, radiologists will experience enhanced workflow productivity through multi-modality viewing on one workstation with the end goal of improved cancer care.
Virginia Beach, VA, and Vancouver, B.C. - January 8, 2019 – Today, Divurgent and Gevity announced that they have formalized a strategic business alliance to mutually benefit their clients by expanding their services across the United States and Canada. Divurgent and Gevity both offer strengths in healthcare information system design, implementation, and optimization and bring to this partnership proven methodologies and innovative practices.
SAN JOSE, CA - January 7, 2019 – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced the launch of a new category of wearable communication devices that enables clinician agility and accelerates patient care. The Vocera Smartbadge combines smartphone usability with the hands-free freedom of the Vocera Badge to redefine healthcare communication – again.
BALTIMORE, MD - January 7, 2019 - Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics platform that protects patient privacy for the nation's leading health systems announces a strategic partnership with RADAR, the award-winning provider of incident response management software, to help healthcare organizations reduce the risks associated with unauthorized disclosures of protected health information (PHI).
SAN JOSE, CA - December 27, 2018 – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that the company’s President and CEO Brent Lang and its Chief Financial Officer Justin Spencer will be presenting at the 37th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019 at 8 a.m. PT in San Francisco.
NASHVILLE, TN - December 20, 2018 - The three most critical and common high-security cyber risks facing healthcare delivery organizations and their partners have been uncovered in a first-of-its-kind analysis by the Clearwater CyberIntelligence™ Institute (CCI). CCI was formed earlier this year to leverage insights from Clearwater’s proprietary database created by IRM|Analysis™. The database, containing millions of risk records accumulated during the completion of comprehensive, NIST-based risk analyses for hundreds of Clearwater customers over the last six years, is the industry’s largest and most complete database focused exclusively on the unique cybersecurity risk profiles of hospitals, Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and business associates.
ST. PAUL, MN & FRANKLIN, TN - December 19, 2018 - 3M today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the technology business of M*Modal, for a total enterprise value of $1.0 billion. M*Modal is a leading healthcare technology provider of cloud-based, conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered systems that help physicians efficiently capture and improve the patient narrative so they can spend more time with their patients and provide higher quality of care.
BURLINGTON, MA - December 18, 2018 – Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that it is honored to have its conversational artificial intelligence (AI)-powered clinical documentation solutions selected to help advance “Joy at Johns Hopkins Medicine,” a comprehensive, multi-year initiative developed and launched by Johns Hopkins Medicine to help combat clinician and caregiver burnout by enabling them to rediscover the true joy that comes from treating and healing patients.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – December 14, 2018 – Health Catalyst, Inc. has been named one of the “Best Companies to Work For” by Utah Business.
Mountain View, CA - December 13, 2018 - Zingbox today announced that University of Iowa Health Care has deployed Zingbox’s IoT Guardian to protect and monitor their network of connected medical devices.
