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NueMD Announces Partnership with Leading EHR Company to Provide Integrated Solution for Medical Practices

Nuesoft Technologies, Inc., the first healthcare IT company to offer cloud-based medical practice management software, today announces a strategic partnership between NueMD, the company’s flagship brand, and Practice Fusion, the country’s largest doctor-patient community.

Atlanta, GA May 29, 2013

Nuesoft Technologies, Inc., the first healthcare IT company to offer cloud-based medical practice management software, today announces a strategic partnership between NueMD, the company’s flagship brand, and Practice Fusion, the country’s largest doctor-patient community. Practice Fusion is based out of San Francisco, and offers a free web-based electronic health record (EHR) system to physicians.

The alliance between two leaders in their respective fields will provide medical practices with an affordable, fully integrated solution for managing scheduling, clinical information and billing. This step is part of NueMD’s long-term vision to provide cost- saving solutions for small- to medium-sized medical practices. This critical segment of physicians faces increased competition as more practices are purchased by hospitals and corporations. Nuesoft anticipates significant company growth as a result, and additional development and sales opportunities will be available at its corporate office, as well as throughout the United States.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Practice Fusion, bringing together two of the most technologically advanced systems created for physicians,” said Massoud Alibakhsh, President and CEO of Nuesoft, makers of NueMD. “Since 1993, we have committed ourselves to providing the most flexible, affordable and user friendly solution for small- to medium-sized practices. This partnership affirms our commitment to meeting the needs of these physicians.”

According to Dan O’Neill, Senior Director of Business Development at Practice Fusion, “We are serious about building a platform that lets all of our physicians find the services they need to run a successful practice. In NueMD, we found an innovative partner who offers advanced Internet-based billing software and services. The end result of our partnership will be a simple, streamlined user experience for our medical practices.”

Beta testing on the system integration begins this month, with anticipated rollout later this summer. Kim Cannon, owner of Cannon Managerial Office Consulting Co. (CMOCC), is participating in the test phase. “From our preliminary review, I anticipate saving at least five hours each day. Streamlining the data entry process for all the practices I work with will save them and me immeasurable time and expenses. As a longtime client of NueMD, I find they are always quick to offer solutions that will benefit their users.”

Nuesoft Technologies began in 1993 at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s renowned Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) and became an immediate success by delivering the first platform independent medical software program to the medical community. Since then, the company has continued to develop groundbreaking technology, including producing the first wholly Internet-based medical practice management system in the form of NueMD. In addition to software development, Nuesoft offers medical billing services for small- to mid-sized medical practices.

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May 29, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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CHIME Calls for Stage 2 Extension in Letter to Senators

CIO organization underscores progress of EHR adoption, highlights importance of standards in Stage 2 

ANN ARBOR, MI, May 6, 2013 – Following a request for feedback from Senators in Washington on the status of health IT adoption, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) issued a response declaring that a one-year extension of Meaningful Use Stage 2 would “maximize the opportunity of program success.”

The organization of healthcare CIOs said the additional 12-months for meeting Stage 2 “will give providers the opportunity to optimize their EHR technology and achieve the benefits of Stage 1 and Stage 2; it will give vendors the time needed to prepare, develop and deliver needed technology to correspond with Stage 3; and it will give policymakers time to assess and evaluate programmatic trends needed to craft thoughtful Stage 3 rules.”

In calling for an extension to Stage 2, CHIME defended much of the federal incentive program’s progress to date, arguing that fundamental shifts in health IT adoption and EHR product capabilities have been made possible through the policy of Meaningful Use.

“While we share some of your concerns with the current state of interoperability, we strongly believe that EHR incentive payments under the policy of Meaningful Use have been essential in moving the nation’s healthcare system into the 21st Century,” the CHIME letter said.  “Through the EHR Incentive Payments program, CMS and ONC have begun to mitigate a fractured and incompatible state for EHRs.”

The response comes amid concerns levied by six Senators that the current direction of the HITECH program is flawed. The white paper released on April 16, “REBOOT: Re-examining the Strategies Needed to Successfully Adopt Health IT,” outlines several concerns including increased health care costs, lack of momentum toward interoperability, patient privacy, and long-term program sustainability.

“Your report highlights a number of fair and responsible criticisms of the program and it echoes many of the concerns CHIME has voiced over the last three years,” the letter said.  “But given the nation’s increased adoption of EHRs, the increased investments in interoperable solutions and the early-stage transformations encountered every day by our members, we remain convinced that the trajectory set by Meaningful Use is the correct one.

“CHIME believes the industry’s guiding principle should be to maximize the opportunity of program success and monitor the timelines needed to do that.  For this reason, we formally and strongly recommend a one-year extension to Stage 2 before progressing to Stage 3 of Meaningful Use,” the organization concluded.

CHIME also called upon Congress to request an update from ONC on what technologies, architectures and strategies exist to mitigate patient matching errors; seek feedback from the public via congressional hearing or other formal commenting mechanism; and determine how current work at the S&I Framework could be leveraged to address the foundational challenge of patient data-matching.

Responding to a section of the white paper on audits and program integrity, CHIME said CIOs understand the desire to ensure that incentive payments are going to those who have qualified to receive them, but this intent must not result in unreasonable auditing efforts that are poorly structured, inconsistent or lack uniform criteria.  “We ask that Congress ensure CMS audits are efficient and effective without overburdening providers,” the letter stated.

To read the full Senate response, visit the Public Policy section of the CHIME website.

About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,400 CIO members and over 95 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit www.cio-chime.org.

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Stephanie Fraser
Director of Communications
734-665-0000
sfraser@cio-chime.org

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May 6, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway and RelayHealth Announce Ground Breaking Alliance to Enable Integrated Health Care

First-of-its-kind effort to transform quality and cost effectiveness by enabling data liquidity across systems, settings and episodes of care

New Orleans, March 4, 2013 – Top health care information technology (HIT) companies Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway Medical Technologies® and RelayHealth announced today the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance™, planned to be an independent not-for-profit organization that will support universal, trusted access to health care data through seamless interoperability. This historic effort is aimed at improving the quality of care delivery while working to lower costs for care providers, patients and the industry as a whole.

The Alliance intends to be a collaborative effort of suppliers who are focused on achieving data liquidity between systems, in compliance with patient authorizations. The Alliance will define, promote and certify a national infrastructure with common platforms and policies. It also will ensure that HIT products displaying the Alliance seal are certified to work on the national infrastructure.

“Today’s announcement represents an inflection point in health care, with key industry leaders coming together to support the delivery of a national health information exchange,” said John Hammergren, chairman and CEO, McKesson Corp. “The formation of this alliance takes health care a step closer to broad industry interoperability. A national and trusted health information exchange will break down the information silos in health care and should dramatically improve the quality and cost effectiveness of care delivery. Creating data liquidity between all HIT developers is fundamental to improving patient care, enhancing the vitality of the health care industry, and strengthening the long-term health of our nation.”

“We believe the industry needs to step up to the challenges of interoperability,” noted Neal Patterson, co-founder, chairman, CEO and president, Cerner. “If we can rise to the challenge as an industry, we have a chance to deliver a golden era of health care. It is a system where consumers not only have a right to their data, but also have the ability to mobilize it in the pursuit of better health. This alliance is about setting aside the admittedly tough politics of this issue to do what is right for the health care consumer. We at Cerner are proud to play a leadership role in this exciting effort.”

Elements of the Alliance’s national infrastructure will be tested in a local pilot within the next year. Early components will include the following core services:

  • Cross-entity patient linking and matching services: Help developers and providers link and match patients as they transition through care facilities, regardless of the underlying software system
  • Patient consent and data access management: Foster HIPAA-compliant and simple patient-centered management of data sharing consents and authorizations
  • Patient record locator and directed query services: Help providers deliver a history of recent patient care encounters, and, with appropriate authorization, patient data across multiple providers and episodes of care

“The formation of the CommonWell Health Alliance will be a significant step forward toward the electronic exchange of health information to support clinicians and patients,” said Janet Marchibroda, director of the Health Innovation Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center. “The founding members of the Alliance are focused on exactly the right foundational areas, and it’s terrific to see industry leaders stepping up to solve the problem of interoperability on behalf of providers and patients everywhere.”

“Allscripts’ vision has been to create a true Connected Community of Health. We believe open platforms are required to realize that vision and make the improvements our health care delivery system needs to dramatically improve outcomes while reducing cost,” said Paul Black, president and CEO, Allscripts. “This alliance provides a framework that will enable patient identification and record-sharing for providers across the nation. This is good for care providers, for patients and for the country. We are proud to be a founding member and to help lead this important effort.”

“Greenway has anticipated this evolution to a smarter health care system based on open collaboration and data flow,” said Tee Green, president and CEO, Greenway. “We’ve been telling caregivers the marketplace can provide it and sustain it, and they are right to expect it. Consumers are no different, and a patient-enabled approach to data access will foster a deeper and more efficient patient-provider relationship. Allowing data to flow more freely fits the needs of a mobile society just as providers are taking on more financial risk in coordinating care. We are committed to the Alliance goals and our ongoing participation as this initiative grows.”

“We’ve built athenahealth on the vision that health care needs an information backbone that facilitates and incents true health information exchange. However, the promise of the free flow of health information and the reality of it today are worlds apart,” said Jonathan Bush, CEO and chairman, athenahealth, Inc. “We support the CommonWell Health Alliance because we believe that being open matters, especially when it comes to patient care. CommonWell’s efforts to bring major developers together to pilot patient linking and matching across IT systems and care settings is an important step in the right direction. We look forward to helping lead these efforts as a founding member of the Alliance.”

Members of the Alliance are committed to collaborating with all HIT developers to realize the vision of integrated health care and encourage other HIT companies to join the CommonWell Health Alliance by visiting www.commonwellalliance.org. The founding members of the Alliance will be holding a press conference on March 4, 2013 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CT at the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans. The event will also be livestreamed atwww.webcasts.com/March4PressEvent. Please visit www.commonwellalliance.org for additional details.

About CommonWell Health Alliance

CommonWell Health Alliance is anticipated to be an independent not-for-profit trade association of HIT companies that will work together to create universal access to patient health care data. The Alliance will be open to all health information technology developers that are committed to making patient’s data available to themselves and providers regardless of where care occurs. Alliance members will support the belief that provider access to this data must be built-in to health information technologies at a reasonable cost for use by a broad range of health care providers and the patients they serve.

The founding members of CommonWell Health Alliance invite all HIT suppliers to join us in working together to provide seamless, trusted access to health information, in support of better, more cost-effective care for our patients and communities.

To learn more about the CommonWell Health Alliance, please visit www.commonwellalliance.org.

About Cerner

Cerner Corp. (NASDAQ: CERN) is contributing to the systemic change of health and care delivery. For more than 30 years Cerner has been executing its vision to make health care safer and more efficient. We started with the foundation of digitizing paper processes and now offer the most comprehensive array of information software, professional services, medical device integration, remote hosting and employer health and wellness services. Cerner systems are used by everyone from individual consumers, to single-doctor practices, hospitals, employers and entire countries. Taking what we’ve learned over more than three decades, Cerner is building on the knowledge that is in the system to support evidence-based clinical decisions, prevent medical errors and empower patients in their care.

Cerner® solutions are licensed by approximately 10,000 facilities around the world, including more than 2,700 hospitals; 4,150 physician practices; 45,000 physicians; 550 ambulatory facilities, such as laboratories, ambulatory centers, behavioral health centers, cardiac facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers; 800 home health facilities; 40 employer sites and 1,750 retail pharmacies.

About McKesson

McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK), currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better. We partner with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. For more information, visit us at www.mckesson.com.

About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) delivers the insights that healthcare providers require to generate world-class outcomes. The company’s Electronic Health Record, practice management and other clinical, revenue cycle, connectivity and information solutions create a Connected Community of Health™ for physicians, hospitals and post-acute organizations.  To learn more about Allscripts, please visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.

About athenahealth
athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based Best in KLAS electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and care coordination services to medical groups and health systems. athenahealth’s mission is to be the most trusted service to medical care givers, helping them do well by doing the right thing. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com or call 888-652-8200.

About Greenway Medical Technologies

Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: GWAY) delivers innovative software and business service solutions for healthcare providers through its PrimeSUITE® platform. As a certified and fully integrated electronic health record, practice management and interoperability solution, Greenway PrimeSUITE helps improve care coordination, quality and cost-efficiency as part of a smarter, sustainable healthcare system. Thousands of care providers across primary care and more than 30 specialties and sub-specialties use cloud-based or on-premise Greenway® solutions in healthcare enterprises, physician practices and clinics nationwide. www.greenwaymedical.com

About RelayHealth

RelayHealth, McKesson’s connectivity business, enables the trusted exchange of clinical, financial and administrative information between patients, providers, payers, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and government agencies. RelayHealth processes nearly 16 billion healthcare transactions annually by integrating the delivery of high-quality care and improving the financial outcomes for its customers. For more information, call 888.743.8735, or visit our Web site atwww.RelayHealth.com. Follow us on Twitter (@RelayHealth) or visit the RelayHealth Facebook page.

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March 4, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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Wolters Kluwer Health Launches UpToDate Anywhere, new mHealth Clinician Resource

Features Anytime/Anywhere Access to the Award-Winning UpToDate Mobile App

 

New Orleans, LA (March 4, 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today at the HIMSS13 Annual Conference & Exhibition, the availability of UpToDate® Anywhere, enabling healthcare enterprises to improve patient care by equipping clinicians with anytime/anywhere access to comprehensive, evidence-based, clinical decision support through the award-winning UpToDate mobile app.

As doctors and healthcare enterprises embrace mobile health initiatives and increasingly adopt devices like the iPad®, iPhone® and other tablets and smartphones as clinical tools, they can now get actionable answers to point-of-care questions on-site, at satellite offices, at home or on the go by using the UpToDate mobile app. Rated as one of “The Best Apps in Publishing” by EContent Magazine, UpToDate is available in iOS, Android™ and Windows 8 mobile platforms as well as via any internet browser. More than 88,000 UpToDate individual subscribers are already using the UpToDate mobile app which is available in over 180 countries.

UpToDate Anywhere offers robust back-end tools for healthcare IT administrators that streamline user registration and on-going user management. Available in the United States and Canada, the UpToDate Anywhere Subscriber Manager is an intuitive, web-based tool for ambulatory group practices that allows administrators to add users, upload user groups and manage access efficiently. For hospitals and other healthcare institutions, Subscriber Self Registration allows clinicians to register for UpToDate directly without added HIT administration.

“I love remote access to UpToDate. It’s a resource we use as a go-to source for peer-reviewed information that is universally trusted,” said Douglas Young, PA-C at Southwest Medical Associates in Nevada. “The fact that we get CME credit for the time we spend researching clinical information is a huge bonus. The more our staff uses UpToDate, the better the return on our investment!”

With UpToDate Anywhere, hospitals can support broader opportunities for continuing medical education: whenever and wherever clinicians research clinical questions through UpToDate, they are earning CME credits.

“UpToDate Anywhere plays a key role in provider efforts to increase clinician satisfaction by making their go-to evidence-based clinical decision support solution available regardless the clinician’s location,” said Denise Basow, M.D., Vice President/General Manager and Editor-in-Chief, UpToDate at Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions.

To learn more about UpToDate Anywhere, please visit Wolters Kluwer Health at HIMSS13, booth 1740 or visit www.uptodate.com.

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About UpToDate

UpToDate® is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical knowledge system which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. UpToDate’s more than 5,100 world-renowned physician authors, editors and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality. More than 700,000 clinicians in 158 countries and almost 90% of academic medical centers in the U.S. rely on UpToDate, and more than 30 research studies confirm UpToDate’s widespread usage and association with improved patient care and hospital performance, including reduced length of stay, adverse complications and mortality.

UpToDate is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2012 annual revenues of €3.6 billion ($4.6 billion).

 

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A2iA Named Among KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management for the Fifth Year

A2iA recognized for its key role in streamlining complex document workflows.

NEW YORK, February 28, 2013 – A2iA (@A2iA), the industry’s leading cursive handwriting and text recognition, and document classification software developer, announced today its inclusion among KMWorld’s 2013 list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management, marking the fifth year that A2iA has been awarded this distinction. A2iA’s intelligent data extraction and document analysis technology is proven worldwide to streamline complex document workflows allowing previously inaccessible data to become searchable and reportable.

“A2iA continues to dedicate itself to the creation of innovative recognition solutions that meet the ever-changing knowledge management needs of the Global market,” says Hugh McKellar, KMWorld Editor-in-Chief. “KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues vote to recognize technologies which impact this space based on real world requirements.”

For more than 22 years, A2iA has been committed to the research and development of its handwriting recognition and document classification solutions to create more efficient ways for organizations to improve business intelligence. Available in 24-country versions and 7-languages, A2iA’s award-winning toolkits are trusted worldwide to streamline document workflows and reduce the need for data-entry throughout industries such as banking/finance, healthcare, insurance, government, and service bureaus/outsourcing firms.

About A2iA
A2iA (@A2iA) is the worldwide leading developer of handwritten and machine printed text recognition, information extraction and intelligent document classification toolkits. By enhancing solutions from integrators and independent software vendors, A2iA allows complex and cursive data from all forms, documents and checks including unstructured handwritten letters, to become part of a structured database, making it searchable and reportable, with the same level of flexibility of printed or digital data. Proven to reduce costs and nearly eliminate data-entry and manual document processing, A2iA’s technology has been improving business process automation and providing a visible ROI for over 20 years. For more information, visit www.a2ia.com or call +1 917-237-0390 within the Americas, or +33 1 44 42 00 80 within EMEA or Asia.

About KMWorld
The leading information provider serving the Knowledge, Document and Content Management systems market, KMWorld informs more than 45,000 subscribers about the components and processes – and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc.

 

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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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Fovia and Radiant Sage Streamline Clinical Trials for Pharmaceutical Industry

Cloud-based HDVR® Access Facilitates Drug Research, Discovery 

Palo Alto, California and Belmont, Massachusetts, February 28, 2013 – Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume rendering technology, and Radiant Sage LLC, a leading provider of on-demand clinical image management solutions, today announced a collaboration to deliver High Definition Volume Rendering® to the pharmaceutical market.

The Radiant/Fovia collaboration will provide real-time access to the world’s highest quality 3D medical imaging, thereby enabling clinical sponsors to make critical decisions earlier in the development cycle and facilitating more rapid and cost-effective drug development.  Radiant Sage will be able to deliver Fovia’s full suite of sophisticated volumetric visualization functionality, including automatic segmentation and volume measurement, to global leaders in drug discovery and research—including pharmaceutical, biotech, device and research enterprises.

Fovia’s flexible and scalable software development kit (SDK) is currently deployed in a variety of fields, providing cloud-based, enterprise-wide and local imaging to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).  In clinical image management, HDVR enables rapid diagnosis with real-time visualization and quantitative assessment accurate to the sub-voxel level.  The CPU-based solution supports 24/7 image availability on off-the-shelf computers without requiring expensive graphics cards, thus allowing convenient and inexpensive access, sharing, data manipulation and management.

“Our customers need the ability to retain control of their studies during the entire trial process, make necessary image-aided decisions, and have visibility of their data in real time.  With Fovia as a partner, we can deliver an uncompromised, flexible solution that meets these needs,” said Ven Thangaraj, Chief Executive Officer of Radiant Sage, LLC.  “We simply could not provide the fast and high-quality access demanded by the global pharmaceutical leaders without the advanced features and thin-client technology of Fovia’s HDVR software.”

Ken Fineman, Chief Executive Officer of Fovia, stated, “Fovia is thrilled to have a partner provide such an innovative offering to leaders in the pharmaceutical field.  Radiant’s game-changing products are clearly a step ahead and provide a uniquely comprehensive and timely delivery of clinical trial image management tools.”

About Fovia, Inc.

Fovia has developed High Definition Volume Rendering®, a CPU-based, advanced visualization technology platform that delivers unparalleled quality, performance, scalability and flexibility.  Fovia’s innovative HDVR® solution successfully overcomes the inherent limitations of other currently available imaging technologies, thereby enabling local, enterprise-wide and web-based volumetric rendering with affordable, off-the-shelf computers.

Fovia’s flagship product, HDVR® Connect, is a software-only, advanced visualization solution that includes all of the key attributes required by today’s vendors and their customers: performance, quality, scalability, anytime/anywhere image access, cost-effectiveness and flexibility.  With HDVR Connect, OEM vendors can deliver unrivaled image quality and uncompromised performance, both locally and remotely, in 2D, 3D and 4D advanced volume visualization applications.

For additional information and to learn more about commercial, academic or research licensing, visit www.fovia.com.

About Radiant Sage:

Radiant Sage LLC provides on-demand clinical trial image management solutions for organizations involved in drug discovery and research.  Specifically designed for clinical trials, the company’s solutions, Core-Lab-in-a-Box™ and RadVista Viewer, enable rapid trial start and increase overall efficiency of the collection, distribution, and processing of images with little or no capital investments.  The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model enables sponsors to retain control of their clinical trials by leveraging cost-effective, efficient and accurate image management solutions.  These secure, Web-based, real-time solutions also offer increased image/data integrity and meet necessary compliance requirements.  Radiant Sage is headquartered near Boston, Mass., and can be found on the Internet at: www.radiantsage.com.

 

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February 28, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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UpToDate Adds Dermatology as a Specialty

Electronic Clinical Decision Support Resource Serving Healthcare Practitioners and Patients Now Covers 21 Medical Specialties

Waltham, Mass. – (February 28, 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that it has added Dermatology to UpToDate®, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, marking the 21st medical specialty included in an UpToDate subscription.

The addition of Dermatology is the result of over three years of collaboration led by Dr. Jeffrey Callen, Editor-in-Chief of UpToDate in Dermatology. Callen led a team of leading dermatologists to expand and build dermatology content in all major areas — including medical, pediatric and dermatologic surgery.
UpToDate’s dermatology content is ideal for researching less common disorders and treatments, pediatric issues, and drug reactions. Physicians in other specialties, including rheumatologists and those specializing in allergy and immunology, will also find UpToDate’s dermatology content indispensable.
In a recent beta test of the content, dermatology professionals found that UpToDate answered nearly 90 percent of their questions.* As with all UpToDate content, the Dermatology specialty includes peer-reviewed, evidence-based recommendations that reflect the latest medical advances and practices from over 450 medical journals, including Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Archives of Dermatology, British Journal of Dermatology and the New England Journal of Medicine.
“Working with a team of respected leaders in dermatology over the last three years, we have dramatically expanded and enhanced the actionable dermatology content in UpToDate. The new specialty truly encompasses views from across all disciplines,” said Callen.
Denise Basow, M.D., Vice President/General Manager and Editor-in-Chief, UpToDate at Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions commented on the added specialty, “UpToDate is focused on developing the breadth and depth of our medical content to ensure clinicians feel equipped to provide the very best care.” Basow adds, “For dermatologists and other healthcare practitioners alike, the addition of a Dermatology specialty affirms our commitment to providing the most comprehensive, evidence-based recommendations available for treating patients.”
* Dermatology Beta Test 2012, N=63 participants
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About UpToDate
UpToDate® is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical knowledge system which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. UpToDate’s more than 5,100 world-renowned physician authors, editors and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality. More than 700,000 clinicians in 158 countries and almost 90% of academic medical centers in the U.S. rely on UpToDate, and more than 30 research studies confirm UpToDate’s widespread usage and association with improved patient care and hospital performance, including reduced length of stay, adverse complications and mortality.
UpToDate is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2012 annual revenues of €3.6 billion ($4.6 billion).
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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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NextGate EMPI and Provider Registry Pass Interoperability Testing at 2013 IHE Connectathon and Conference

NextGate Products Meet IHE Interoperability Standards for 4th Year in a Row; Underlying Platform for New Provider Self-Service Portal

PASADENA, Calif. — February 28, 2013 — NextGate, a leading provider of enterprise identity management solutions, announced that its Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) and NextGate Provider Registry passed all 64 profile tests at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon and Conference 2013, the healthcare IT industry’s largest interoperability testing event. This accomplishment demonstrates the readiness of NextGate’s EMPI and Provider Registry for immediate deployment in IHE-based and other environments, providing accelerated implementation, standard interoperability, and easy access to current patient and provider information from different platforms and stakeholders.

Provider Management Technology

NextGate’s Provider Registry was one of only a few products to test against the IHE Healthcare Provider Directory (HPD) Trial Implementation, a profile designed to simplify the management of individual and organizational healthcare provider information.  As components in the NextGate Registries for Healthcare software suite, the NextGate Provider Registry, NextGate Provider Directory, and NextGate Provider Self-Service Portal aggregate provider information from different public and private sources, and gives healthcare organizations multiple options for consistent, up to date, and easily accessible provider management solutions.

“As healthcare organizations work towards integration and consolidation, the need for interoperability is more critical than ever before,” stated NextGate’s President and CEO, Andy Aroditis. “Our results in the IHE Connectathon show that NextGate’s solutions support any system or architecture that specifies PIX/PDQ, HL7, XCPD, and HPD requirements, and therefore allows customers to leverage all of our advanced data matching and standardization features, rather than just being limited to simple patient indexes or various provider directories.”

The Connectathon, held by IHE International Inc., is a multi-stakeholder effort to promote the effective use of healthcare information technology (HIT) by providing a common framework for multi-vendor systems. Using an accredited, standards-based certification program, IHE USA certifies that systems are interoperable against established criteria.

NextGate will be showcasing its Provider Registry, Provider Self-Service Portal, EMPI, Patient Portal, and other infrastructure products for connected care at the upcoming Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition from March 4-6, 2013 in New Orleans, LA. To view a demo of NextGate’s Provider Self-Service Portal (and enter to win an iPad® mini), please visit http://bit.ly/Ya1vsP, or visit booth #1356 at HIMSS13.

About IHE USA
IHE USA (www.iheusa.org) is a not for profit organization founded in 2010 that operates as a national deployment committee of IHE International®. IHE USA serves as a voice representing U.S. health IT interests and key partners in national health IT efforts for fostering the national adoption of a consistent set of information standards to enable interoperability of health IT systems.

About NextGate
NextGate provides Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI), Provider Registry, and other identity management and registry solutions that integrate, index and coordinate data from disparate systems to provide unified views, expedite decision processing, and streamline interoperability to drive performance.  For more information visit: www.nextgate.com.

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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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e5000 Tele-Medicine cart offers powerful tools for remote consults

CANTON, Mich. – Enovate unlocks the full power of tele-medicine with the e5000
cart equipped with high-definition video and audio in a compact, durable package
that is easy to use and effortlessly mobile.

The e5000 is designed to meet FDA Class 1 MDDS requirements, and has a pan/tilt/
zoom camera, 22-inch high-definition LCD monitor with built-in speakers, codec,
SLA battery power and microphone. It can be equipped with a locking drawer, work
surface, storage basket and various other attachments for medical equipment.

“The e5000 makes mobile video conferencing possible anywhere it’s needed,” said
Kevin L’Heureux, Enovate’s tele-presence product manager. ”Its scalability, mobility
and adjustability make it perfect for patient rooms, emergency and operating
rooms, labs, radiology centers, nurse stations or doctor’s offices.”

The e5000’s 1080p high-definition resolution and 60 frames-per-second provides
one of the sharpest, smoothest pictures on the market. Data compression helps
users reduce their bandwidth needs and cost. It also offers an advance plug-n-
play scaler that allows additional analogue peripherals to connect effortlessly to the
codec.

Electronic height adjustment and independently adjustable work surfaces allow
clinicians to work in comfort whether they are sitting or standing so they can focus
attention on the patient.

Small, lightweight and easy to maneuver in tight areas, Enovate’s concave base
design and smooth-rolling casters glide easily around corners and across hard floors
or carpeting.

About Enovate
Headquartered in Canton, Michigan, Enovate is a leading international provider
of mobile and wall-mounted computer workstations for healthcare, office and
home. Enovate’s scalable, easy-to-use, ergonomic designs feature the best
technology to create a flexible work environment that enhances productivity and
performance. Enovate has been named by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-
growing companies in the U.S. for the past four years, is celebrating 10 years of
innovation in 2013. For more information, please contact Enovate at 877-258-8030
or visit www.enovateusa.com.

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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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VAROLII LAUNCHES CROSS-CHANNEL SMARTPHONE APP SOLUTION FOR PATIENT ENGAGEMENT

“My Health Alerts” App Enables Healthcare Providers to More Easily Deliver Mobile Self-Service to Outpatients; Minimizes IT Resource Use and Costs

SEATTLE—February 27, 2013—Varolii Corporation, a market leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) customer interaction management, today announced its first smartphone application designed to enable healthcare providers to deliver personal health information and self-service options at the patient’s fingertips. Built on the Varolii Interact Mobile Service, the My Health Alerts app is a provider-branded smartphone application that delivers proactive reminders for upcoming appointments and clinical quality measures, and complements electronic health record access for patients.

Varolii’s mobile app, combined with Varolii’s mobile Software Development Kit and the Interact platform, uniquely allows providers to engage patients through orchestrated voice, text, email, smartphone push notifications and hosted web app channels so that they get the information they need on the channel they most prefer. With cross-channel orchestration, providers can promote app adoption and be sure that a personalized message is reaching the right people on their preferred smartphone channel. My Health Alerts also leverages Varolii’s robust cloud-based analytics and reporting to quickly and intelligently adjust patient communication strategies based on real-time feedback.

“In a smartphone-majority world, consumers want more information when it suits them and via the channel they prefer – and a growing number prefer a mobile app to complement email, texting and voice interactions. With Varolii’s My Health Alerts app, healthcare providers can deliver exactly that – instant self-service and proactive reminders to consumers in the way they want it on their smartphone,” said Dave McCann, CEO at Varolii.

Consumer expectations are clearly shifting around healthcare. Recent primary research from Varolii shows that the rise of mobile has also led to a desire for more frequent interaction and on their preferred channel of communication. Consumers overwhelmingly prefer mobile channels with nearly 1 in 5 (17%) preferring a text message, 14 percent favoring automated voice and nearly 1 in 10 (9%) preferring a smartphone application. Fifty percent of respondents also believe that texts, emails and smartphone apps with tips, reminders and encouragement could have helped them avoid a health problem in the past.

“Our experience and primary research around healthcare customer interaction management have led us to the conclusion that if a large outpatient clinic operation has one million patients, smartphone applications will appeal to about 14 percent of that population,” added McCann. “However, the app has to be orchestrated with other patient engagement channels like voice, email and text messages. Standalone mobile apps – what we call first-generation apps – are not the answer because they don’t include push notifications or integration with these other channels. This is critical to driving successful adoption and use of a mobile app. Our third-generation mobile app integrates both of these pieces, making it a great choice for providers looking to build or improve a mobile app.”

With the My Health Alerts app, providers can take a more active role in a patient’s health that goes well beyond the doctor’s office. Key benefits include:

·         Improved smartphone app adoption. Smartphone push notifications and Varolii hosted Interact web apps make it more relevant and convenient for patients to utilize the app.

·         Minimized IT resource use. The app minimizes the use of IT resources as a cloud-based solution and takes advantage of progressively expanding capabilities within subsequent app versions that ensure the long-term success and vision of your mobile app strategy.

·         Greater patient self-service. My Health Alerts delivers better patient self-service options to reschedule appointments, view personal health information and receive proactive alerts related to their health and wellness.

·         Improved clinical quality measures. By taking a more proactive role with texts and push notifications, providers can improve key Meaningful Use and other measures, such as patient portal use, mammograms and colorectal cancer screenings.

·         Increased patient satisfaction. By providing an enhanced experience and pushing relevant information to patients at the right time, appointment scheduling and key health reminders through the app, providers can improve patient satisfaction. In one recent case, the Varolii Interact Platform created a two percent lift in patient satisfaction scores by leveraging a cross-channel approach to patient engagement.

·         Fewer missed appointments. With push notifications to remind, reschedule or cancel appointments, My Health Alerts can reduce missed appointment rates and boost unrealized revenue. For example, Varolii’s applications have been proven to reduce missed appointments by 25 percent with cross-channel interactions.

“This new era of pay-for-quality, local competition for market share and meaningful use has taken us well beyond annual check-ups and reactive patient relationships. Today, provider organizations need to be an active partner in a patient’s health and wellness. However, providers cannot scale to develop this kind of relationship on an individual basis,” said Vance Clipson, senior healthcare market manager at Varolii. “That’s where we come in. With Varolii, providers can leverage personalized, cross-channel interactions to engage with patients in a meaningful way across smartphone apps, voice, text and email.”

For more information on Varolii’s My Health Alerts app, please visit Varolii Mobile Health. Varolii will also be exhibiting at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition from March 3-7, 2013 in New Orleans. Please visit Booth #5807 for a live demo of the new My Health Alerts app.

About Varolii Corporation

Varolii is a leading provider of customer interaction management applications. Our cloud-based communication service help organizations more effectively interact with large numbers of customers and employees through voice, text messages, smartphone applications and email, reducing cost of operations and improving service. The company’s award-winning Interact platform enables companies to deliver personalized communication on a large scale, achieving better results from fewer interactions. More than 450 companies trust Varolii to manage more than four million interactions every business day. For more information, visit www.varolii.com.

 

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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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