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Lindgren joins Availity as SVP of Legal and Regulatory Affairs

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Health information network Availity has named Karin J. Lindgren as its Senior Vice President of Legal & Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel. In addition to overseeing legal, audit and regulatory functions, Lindgren serves as chief compliance officer and corporate secretary.

Lindgren, whose emphasis will be to drive risk management strategies, brings 28 years’ experience as a health care technology lawyer, with a significant background in entrepreneurial health care software, technology companies and medical informatics.

Most recently, Lindgren was General Counsel for the Reed Group Ltd., a Boulder, Colo.-based cloud computing software and informatics services company. She has also previously served as a law firm partner at two firms, and as general counsel and chief compliance officer for the University HealthSystem Consortium, an alliance of academic medical centers.

“Compliance and risk management are increasingly complex fields in healthcare technology, as more information is made available electronically,” said Russ Thomas, Availity CEO. “Karin brings a unique perspective with both a stellar legal and regulatory background and significant experience as a senior executive in health information technology. She is a great addition to our diverse and talented leadership team at Availity, and her work will enable us to execute in this swiftly changing and opportunistic health care market.”

Lindgren continues to teach graduate courses in medical informatics at Northwestern University and the University of Colorado. She is a frequent national speaker and published author on medical-legal issues, with multiple writing awards to her credit. She earned a Juris Doctorate from Southwestern University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Ursinus College.

About Availity

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change. For more information, including an online demonstration, please visit www.availity.com or call 1.800.AVAILITY (282.4548).

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April 9, 2013 I Written By John

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.

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Honeywell HomMed Announces LifeStream Leaders Advantage Program To Help Providers Better Implement, Market Telehealth Programs

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – April 1, 2013 – Honeywell (NYSE: HON) HomMed, a global leader in telehealth and remote patient care, today announced its LifeStream Leaders Advantage Program, designed to support healthcare providers as they implement, market and grow their telehealth programs.
With LifeStream Leaders Advantage, healthcare providers can tap into Honeywell HomMed’s network of marketing assets and clinical expertise – including educational opportunities, access to marketing funds and vertical marketing kits – to ensure they have the right tools in place to successfully communicate the benefits of their telehealth programs to patients and referral sources, such as physicians and hospitals.
“Giving our customers the support they need to make their telehealth programs successful benefits everyone across the care continuum – from providers to physicians to patients,” said John Bojanowski, president-Honeywell HomMed.

The LifeStream Leaders Advantage program has three membership levels: Gold, Silver and Bronze, and provides a wide range of benefits, including access to market development funds, on-site clinical consultation support throughout the calendar year, the ability to become a member of HomMed’s advisory board, and marketing planning support. At the Gold and Silver membership levels, participants can also accrue Market Development Funds that allow them to select from an array of additional marketing and clinical support activities, including clinical visits, goal setting, company-wide email campaigns and online optimization support.

“The program was developed to support our customers as they communicate the benefits of a telehealth program to their customers,” said Wendy Tobin, Manager of Channel Marketing of Honeywell HomMed, and the Program’s designer. “We created the tiers in the program to provide the level of assistance our customers need, based on the size and scope of their existing telehealth program, and offer our support as they expand their programs in the future.”

For more information about Honeywell HomMed’s LifeStream Leaders Advantage Program, please visit: www.hommed.com/leaders-advantage.

About Honeywell:

Honeywell International (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell’s shares are traded on the New York, London, and Chicago Stock Exchanges. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywellnow.com.

About Honeywell HomMed:

Honeywell HomMed is part of the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions business group, a global leader in providing product and service solutions that improve efficiency and profitability, support regulatory compliance, and maintain safe, comfortable environments in homes, buildings and industry. For more information about Honeywell HomMed, please visit www.hommed.com.

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Inland Empire Health Plan Selects MedHOK Platform

TAMPA, Fla. – April 2, 2013 – MedHOK, which delivers industry leading actionable healthcare solutions across an integrated cloud-based platform, announced today that Inland Empire Health Plan will deploy its comprehensive platform for care, quality and compliance to enhance patient population management and improve patient care.

“Successfully managing patient populations requires that health plans maintain a very ‘high-touch’ relationship with both their providers and the patients they care for,” said Dr. Bradley Gilbert, Chief Executive Officer, Inland Empire Health Plan. “MedHOK’s software will allow us to enhance this process by improving patient and provider interactions and providing the comprehensive information we need to improve the member experience.”

Located in San Bernardino, Calif., Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) is a not-for-profit public health plan serving more than 590,000 residents of Riverside and San Bernardino counties through government-sponsored programs including Medi-Cal, Healthy Kids and a Medicare Advantage Special Needs Program.

“Inland Empire Health Plan is growing rapidly and MedHOK’s platform will become increasingly important as the volume of information that we need to successfully manage our growing patient population rapidly expands,” said IEHP Chief Information Officer Michael Deering.

MedHOK’s single platform for care, quality and compliance, provides payers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), accountable care organizations (ACOs) and integrated health networks with the tools they need to view patient information in real time and make it immediately available across the care continuum. By doing so in a manner that is meaningful to each end user, the MedHOK platform creates actionable healthcare wherein individual providers and integrated delivery systems can proactively close care gaps, comply with federal and state regulations, enhance care management and improve Star, HEDIS® and other quality scores.

Its unique Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model allows clients to rapidly deploy and easily maintain MedHOK’s scalable solutions, while incurring lower up-front and ongoing costs. Fully NCQA-certified for HEDIS®, Pay for Performance and Disease Management Performance Measures, MedHOK’s software is compliant with CMS and State regulations to ensure consistent application of rules and regulations.

“For a rapidly growing health plan like Inland Empire, selecting a solution that is easily scalable and rapidly deployed is key to success,” said Anil Kottoor, President and CEO, MedHOK. “By utilizing the full array of services provided across our integrated cloud-based platform, Inland Empire will also be well-positioned to improve care management, meet all federal and state mandates and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.”

About MedHOK

Tampa, Fla.-based MedHOK has more than 23 million lives in production, making it one of the healthcare industry’s fastest-growing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) companies. Its integrated single platform for care management, quality and compliance helps health plans, PBMs, ACOs and public and private payers meet objectives across business lines by facilitating real-time information sharing with all stakeholders to address disease management and care coordination, clinical quality and utilization review, and quality and financial measures. MedHOK’s platform holds 2013 HEDIS® certification and 2012 Pay for Performance and Disease Management performance measures certification.

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aptiQ™ USB and Serial Enrollment Readers Simplify Credential Enrollment

No Software Needed – Plug in, Present and Populate Information

On Display at ISC West…Booth 20029

CARMEL, Ind., April 3, 2013 – Ingersoll Rand today announced that access control administrators can now simplify credential enrollment by using one of two new readers, the aptiQ SUSB89 USB Reader or the aptiQ Serial Enrollment Reader, to enroll a smart card into their access control system using their own computer. No software is required to operate either reader. Both readers function on any operating system. This automatic transfer of information makes it much easier for the user and saves significant time.

Each reader is compatible with aptiQ smart credentials, including MIFARE® Classic and MIFARE DESfire® EV1, both of which provide higher security than traditional proximity cards. They also recognize PIV (Personal Identify Verification) cards as used by the Federal government and its contractors.

“Traditionally, to enroll a smart card, the administrator had to type in the credential information manually into their access control or other systems,” says Jeremy Earles, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, portfolio manager, credentials and readers. “Now, the administrator has a much easier solution – just plug the enrollment reader into one’s computer, present the aptiQ smart card to the reader, and the card information populates automatically.”

The new readers will be featured in the Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies booth 20229 at the ISC West Exposition to be held at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas April 10-12.

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Tanzania’s Healthy Pregnancy Text Message Service Reaches 100,000 Subscribers in 15 Weeks

The unique healthy pregnancy text messaging (SMS) service reached 100,000 active registrants in March 2013. More than 4 million text messages have been sent to those who signed up for the free healthy pregnancy and safe motherhood information, since the launch late November 2012.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PRWEB) March 28, 2013

“Wazazi Nipendeni’ (Parents Love Me) is a national healthy pregnancy and safe motherhood multi-media campaign. The mHealth Tanzania Public Private Partnership strengthen this campaign by providing informative text messages and appointment reminders in Swahili at no charge for pregnant women and mothers of newborn babies up to 16 weeks of age. This service offers also free information to her supporters – such as husband, friends and family – and information seekers”, explains Sarah Emerson, Country Manager, mHealth Tanzania Partnership, CDC Foundation.

The Wazazi Nipendeni multi-media campaign includes promotion of the free text messaging service by listing the short-code on the campaign materials and instructs anyone interested in more information about healthy pregnancy to send the word ‘MTOTO’ (child) to the short-code 15001. Registrants receive instructional messages during registration, allowing them to indicate the woman’s current week or month of pregnancy (or the age of the newborn baby) during the enrollment process. “This process allows the recipients to receive specific text messages at the time the information is most relevant to them. The service registered an average of 7000 people per week. Healthcare partners such as the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation (EGPAF) and the Aga Khan Health Services – Joining Hands Initiative – play an important role by supporting the registration assistance of pregnant women at the healthcare facility level.

Eliza’s experience
“I found the text messages on my phone very useful during the period of my pregnancy”, says Eliza (29). This first-time mother was part of a group of women that gave feedback on the informative messages before the service started. She registered for the service as soon as it was launched in November 2012. “I was happy to receive the ‘Wazazi Nipendeni’ information about my pregnancy. I liked the helpful tips, including the importance of attending clinics regularly. I was able to learn about the need for testing and malaria prevention. I feel that it benefited me to know these things. I was able to go and deliver my baby safely since my baby was born healthy and without malaria. This service has also assisted my husband to better understand what I was going through during my pregnancy, so that he could be of greater assistance to me according to my needs.”

Eliza works as a housekeeper in Dar es Salaam and considers herself privileged when it comes to receiving information. She reads the newspapers and listens to radio. The housekeeper believes the service will especially be useful to women in remote areas as many have a mobile phone. “Many people, especially those living in rural areas, are not realizing how important it is to visit clinics”, she states. “They just don’t receive as much education and information as we do a big city. Newspapers are scarce there and not everyone has a radio. It also does not cost anything to get these text messages. So anyone can get the information from the Wazazi Nipendeni text messaging service. It will benefit many people, because it reaches all regions around the country.”

Government led initiative
Tanzania is a large country, it almost 900,000 square kilometers big. The country is approaching a population of 44 million. Current reports show that there are over 25 million mobile phone subscribers in our country. Tanzania registers the highest average number of text messages sent per month per subscriber in East Africa. The use of text messaging (SMS) doubled over the past few years to almost 5 billion messages in 2012. The mobile technology is therefore recognized by the ministry as a useful tool to offer crucial healthy pregnancy and safe motherhood information to even the most remote pregnant woman and her supporters.

Dr. Mwendwa E. Mwenesi M.D, M.A- Health Policy, Planning and Management, Phones for Health (mHealth) Country Coordinator is proud to introduce the service as part of the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare current mHealth initiatives: “The government actually has recognized the benefits of using technology for healthcare”, she elaborates. “The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare is giving a priority to mHealth initiatives and projects, because we have seen what it can do. The text message service Wazazi Nipendeni offers maternal health information and care of newborn. It can be accessed by the pregnant mother and couples through their mobile phone. Now people can have access to health information in the palm of their hands!” (See also the video of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Tanzania http://goo.gl/5Ozdc.)

The media campaign and text messaging service support the Government of Tanzania (GoT) and the United Nations (UN) Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Tanzania (CARMMA TZ), officially launched by President Kikwete in 2011. The Wazazi Nipendeni campaign takes steps in operationalizing CARMMA TZ as well as in directly supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). It is the aim of the Tanzania governments Strategic Plan to accelerate reduction of maternal, newborn and child deaths in Tanzania (2008-2015). The Tanzania government aims to reduce the roughly 45,000 newborn deaths and 13,000 maternal deaths it registered in 2008 by three-quarters by 2015.

The mHealth Partnership Country Manager Emerson underlines that the text messages include comprehensive healthy pregnancy and safe motherhood topics: “The messages cover timed information concerning prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS, antenatal care, family planning, malaria prevention, nutrition (for mother and baby), danger signs, individual birth plan, postpartum care and entertaining information such as fetal development milestones.”

Partners and donors
The Wazazi Nipendeni text messaging component of the campaign is led by the Government of The United Republic of Tanzania and is supported by several key partners including Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC Foundation, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the Joining Hands Initiative (JHI-Aga Khan Health Services), Text to Change and many others.

The Tanzania mHealth PPP is looking for corporate sector organisations to join and benefit from such collaboration; through relationship building, public relations as well as marketing opportunities etc. For more information please contact our team through info(at)mhealthtzppp(dot)net, You can also find us on Twitter as @mhealthtzppp.

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Contrast Imaging Integrates Fovia’s HDVR® Connect

Global Reach of High Definition Volume Rendering® is Extended

Palo Alto, California and Victoria, Australia, March 28, 2013 — Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume rendering technology, and Contrast Imaging, a leading Australian provider of process-effective radiology solutions, have collaborated to make natively integrated High Definition Volume Rendering® available throughout Contrast Imaging’s entire digital offering. With Fovia’s flexible and scalable advanced visualization HDVR® software, Contrast Imaging can further streamline its fast, stable and integrated workflows at imaging centers throughout Australia.

Contrast Imaging’s experienced team of radiology and radiology informatics professionals allows it to provide highly customized, state-of-the-art digital imaging solutions. By integrating Fovia’s CPU-based, thin-client HDVR, Contrast Imaging can deliver scalable and dynamic systems—with unified workflows and consistent viewing environments—to its customers. The remote capabilities of HDVR® Connect allow effortless, rapid and efficient reporting from anywhere that has internet connectivity.

“By partnering with Fovia, we are able to add 3D visualization to our offering quickly and cost-effectively, allowing us to focus on our core competencies and direct valuable R&D to other projects,” said Jason Wilden, Contrast Imaging’s Commercial Director. “Utilizing Fovia’s integration technology gives us the flexibility to create, manage, and fine-tune radiology workflows on-the-fly within our products, and to be completely responsive to our customers’ needs.”

Ken Fineman, Chief Executive Officer of Fovia stated, “We are thrilled to help Contrast Imaging add advanced visualization to their offering. With its hands-on approach to digital imaging, Contrast Imaging is able to deliver customized solutions that are ideal for imaging centers looking to replace a legacy or inefficient PACS system, or those making their first foray into the world of digital imaging. We always enjoy partnering with forward-thinking companies, and we are happy to have our product showcased by such an innovative company.”

About Fovia, Inc.

Fovia, Inc. was founded in 2003 to address the challenges of data explosion – the exponentially increasing amount of data being acquired by modern imaging modalities. The firm has developed a CPU-based, High Definition Volume Rendering software solution that leverages and scales with multi-core, multi‑processor and multi-threaded generational processor development. Fovia’s HDVR solution is more scalable, cost effective, flexible, and easily deployable on an enterprise-wide basis than GPU or other hardware-based approaches. It can be easily and natively integrated into various original equipment manufacturers’ offerings, thereby enabling OEMs to quickly and easily offer the world’s most advanced volume rendering to their customers. More information can be found at www.fovia.com.

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Orion Health and Caradigm Expand Partnership to Deliver Integrated Health Information Exchange, Intelligence Platform and Applications

Extensible, end-to-end solution will help healthcare communities use data to gain insight
and transform care

Bellevue, Wash. and Santa Monica, CA – March 27, 2013 – Caradigm, a Microsoft and GE Healthcare company, and Orion Health, a global leader in eHealth technology and interoperability, today announced they have expanded their alliance agreement to integrate Orion Health’s market-leading Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution with the Caradigm Intelligence Platform (CIP) and ecosystem of applications, which will allow healthcare communities to more rapidly address today’s most complex challenges—including new models of care delivery and payment, population health management and patient engagement—while also helping to reduce costs and increase revenue.

The companies’ integrated, end-to-end solution will offer healthcare organizations the ability to move beyond simple data exchange by using near real-time data aggregated from disparate systems across the healthcare community to rapidly gain insight about patients, populations, performance and outcomes. These insights can be used to identify opportunities and steps to help healthcare organizations improve care for patients and populations across the community.

Healthcare organizations also will be able to use the aggregated data in a wide range of CIP-powered applications developed to target challenges related to population health management, revenue and cost optimization, and healthcare quality improvement. For example, the ecosystem of applications developed by Caradigm and industry partners helps healthcare organizations improve patient engagement, reduce avoidable costs like readmissions, drive quality improvement across populations, and manage new payment and care delivery models, such as accountable care and pay for performance.

Orion Health will expand the Caradigm application ecosystem by developing new applications for the Caradigm Intelligence Platform that take advantage of the extensive data available through Orion Health HIE. These new applications will be aimed at addressing customer needs in the areas of decision support, quality improvement and metrics, and population health management.

Under the new agreement, Orion Health also will act as a referral partner for the Caradigm Intelligence Platform and the integrated solution in the U.S., and as a reseller and services provider for CIP and the Caradigm Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions in certain territories outside of the U.S. The IAM suite includes Caradigm Provisioning, Caradigm Single Sign-On and Caradigm Context Management, products designed to accelerate caregiver access to the right patient data across multiple applications, helping organizations improve patient safety, reduce errors and spend more time with patients. Caradigm will resell Orion Health HIE under the Caradigm brand and promote the integrated solution to health systems in the U.S.

“We’re excited to partner with Orion Health to address the escalating needs of healthcare organizations worldwide with a new generation of interoperability solutions,” said Caradigm CEO Michael Simpson. “As health systems everywhere search for better answers to quality, cost, revenue and population health management, we expect our partnership to deliver significant value to our customers and strong growth for both of our companies.”

“Orion Health HIE is one of the most widely deployed HIEs in the world, linking hundreds of facilities, used by hundreds of thousands of end users, and caring for a population of millions of lives. We look forward to offering our mutual expertise to healthcare organizations worldwide,” said Paul Viskovich, president, Orion Health North America. “Combined with the Caradigm Intelligence Platform’s powerful framework for robust applications, this expanded partnership creates a new generation of solutions that make it easier to aggregate and analyze data to improve care.”

“Platform as a service will increasingly play a role in the health information exchange market as vendors add value-added services, such as analytics, care management and consumer engagement tools,” said Lynne Dunbrack, program director, Connected Health IT Strategies at IDC Health Insights. “This will be especially evident as HIE vendors build out their technology portfolios to target the burgeoning accountable care market and update solution offerings for healthcare providers that are building out their ACO capabilities.”

About Orion Health Inc.

Founded in 1993 in Auckland, New Zealand, Orion Health is the only global, independently owned eHealth technology company. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health has become the world’s leading provider of health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions. Orion Health has extensive experience in the design and installation of complex systems within demanding healthcare environments. Today, Orion Health products and solutions are implemented in more than 30 countries, used by hundreds of thousands of clinicians, and help facilitate care for tens of millions of patients. Clinicians, provider facilities and OEM partners rely on Orion Health to facilitate data exchange between hospitals, health systems, HIEs, and affiliated providers and medical devices, resulting in improved care coordination, increased cost savings and efficiencies, and enhanced quality of care.

In the U.S., Orion Health™ HIE provides the technology backbone for commercial, state and regional HIEs across the country. Orion Health Rhapsody® Integration Engine is used by nearly all state and local health departments for public health reporting. Customers include Catholic Health Initiatives, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beacon Community of the Inland Northwest, North Carolina HIE, Geisinger Health System, Inland Empire HIE, Kaiser Permanente, Lahey Clinic, Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Maine HealthInfoNet, Massachusetts Health Information Highway, New Hampshire Health Information Organization and St. Vincent’s HealthCare. For more information, visit www.orionhealth.com. Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

About Caradigm

Formed by GE Healthcare and Microsoft Corp. in June 2012, Caradigm is a 50–50 joint venture focused on enabling health systems and payers to drive continuous improvements in care. Caradigm software helps healthcare professionals across care settings to use data to gain critical insights, collaborate with each other and with patients, and to develop and implement innovative care solutions. Caradigm products—and applications built by partners to extend these products—give clinicians, administrators and finance teams timely access to key information, helping them to take steps to solve some of healthcare’s biggest challenges, including chronic disease management, preventable hospital readmissions and hospital acquired conditions, and to advance integrated, accountable care. Caradigm is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. For more information about the company, visit http://www.caradigm.com.

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Samsung Combines World-Class Imaging Technology and Design with the Launch of the UGEO H60 Ultrasound System

On display as part of Samsung’s AIUM 2013 showcase – April 7-9

New York – April 7, 2013 – Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, today announced the Samsung UGEO H60, the first ultrasound system integrating Samsung technology and design introduced to the U.S. medical imaging market. Combining Samsung’s latest medical imaging technology and smart design, the Samsung UGEO H60 ensures superior imaging performance and a sleek design that provides users with a fast, accurate and intuitive ultrasound experience. The UGEO H60 is among a number of innovative medical imaging products Samsung will be showcasing at this week’s American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine’s (AIUM) Annual Convention at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel, Booth #516.

In addition, Samsung is also introducing FRV™ – Feto Realistic View, a new image rendering technology for the premium Accuvix A30 ultrasound system that gathers much more information from 3D/4D data than previous versions, enabling highly detailed images of the fetus. The FRV™ software update will be available to new and existing Accuvix A30 customers.

“The Samsung UGEO H60 and FRV™ are just the latest examples of our global commitment to introducing increased innovation to the healthcare market through our health and medical business unit,” said Tod Pike, senior vice president of Samsung Electronics America’s Enterprise Business Division. “We are keen to demonstrate how the integration of Samsung technology into our lineup of medical ultrasound and imaging products can help enhance the quality of care and transform both the patient and provider experience.”

Samsung’s showcase at the AIUM convention will feature:

· Live demos of the UGEO H60 and Accuvix A30

· The Accuvix A30 – FRV™ hospitality suite, scheduled for Monday, April 8 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. in the Liberty Ballroom, 8th floor at the Marriott Marquis Times Square

· Additional Samsung product demos in a number of the program sessions (full schedule below)

Performance & Design

The Samsung’s UGEO H60 combines high performance with the attention to design that has made Samsung a global technology leader. The UGEO H60 features SDMR™ image processing technology, providing sharp 2D images for optimal diagnostic performance and S-Flow™, an innovative function that enables color detection with superior sensitivity, that allows even micro vessels to appear in high resolution. In addition, the UGEO H60’s 18.5-inch LED-backlit monitor features Samsung’s world-class image processing technologies and Hybrid Imaging Engine to deliver clear, accurate clinical images.

The new ultrasound system integrates Samsung’s smart design approach to provide an ergonomic form factor that enhances the user experience. Despite its high-performance, the UGEO H60 offers a slim profile for optimal use in crowded scan rooms. Unlike the bulkiness of existing ultrasound systems, the Samsung UGEO H60 boasts a sophisticated and distinctive appearance that creates a comforting diagnostic environment for patients. Innovative features include a built-in gel warmer, which keeps the ultrasound gel at a temperature between 86 and 102 degrees, helping to ensure patient comfort.

Leveraging Samsung’s technology leadership in consumer electronics, the UGEO H60 utilizes the same touch screen display technology as Samsung’s award-winning Galaxy Tab 10.1, providing a responsive touch experience combined with a selection of customizable keys and menus for quick operation and efficient workflow. In addition, users can employ the Time Gain Compensator (TGC) function to create and access saved presets for added convenience.

Samsung’s Special Interest Education Sessions at AIUM

Samsung has been invited to showcase its platform of ultrasound equipment during several of the special interest sessions offered by the AIUM, where attendees can earn continuing medical education (CME) credits. These include:

· Hands-on Basic Obstetric Ultrasound and Simulation, moderated by Dr. Jude Crino: Sunday, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

· Hands-on Advanced Obstetric Ultrasound and Simulation, moderated by Dr. Jude Crino: Sunday, 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

· Live Fetal Cardiac Scanning by the Experts, moderated by Dr. Lami Yeo: Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (two-dimensional scanning) and 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (three- and four-dimensional scanning)

Samsung will also be hosting the Accuvix A30 – FRV™ hospitality suite on Monday, April 8 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. in the Liberty Ballroom. Throughout the evening, attendees will have the opportunity to gain first-hand experience with the Accuvix A30 and visit two ultrasound live-scan stations, which will illustrate

both abdominal and obstetric imaging acquisitions. For an invitation to experience the hospitality suite, please visit the Samsung booth (#516).

To learn more about Samsung Electronics’ healthcare division, its subsidiaries and products, please visit samsung.com/global/business/healthcare.

About Samsung Electronics America Enterprise Business Division

As a global leader in Information Technology, Samsung’s Enterprise Business Division (EBD) is committed to introducing new business experiences across a diverse spectrum of industries from retail to healthcare, hospitality to sales. We believe technology brings business and customers together — to better share, collaborate and discover new opportunities. With a market-oriented approach to innovation, EBD is a division of Samsung Electronics America (SEA), Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. (SEC). For more information, please visit samsung.com/business, call 1-866-SAM-4BIZ or follow Samsung EBD via Twitter @SamsungBizUSA.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, we are transforming the worlds of televisions, smartphones, personal computers, printers, cameras, home appliances, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. We employ 236,000 people across 79 countries with annual sales of US$187.8 billion. To discover more, please visit www.samsung.com.

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HEALTH TECH HATCH SELECTED AS ONE OF 48 INNOVATORS IN THE HIVE AT TEDMED 2013

TEDMED to create and host interactive, hands-on social environments for Delegates

to discover breakthrough thinking

Larkspur, Calif. (March 27, 2013) – Health Tech Hatch (Hatch), a resource to organizations, health technology companies and individual entrepreneurs creating innovative health and wellness products and companies, today announced it is one of 48 innovators selected to take part in The Hive, debuting at TEDMED 2013 in association with the StartUp Health Network. An immersive and informal social environment dedicated to exploring transformative innovations and inspiring entrepreneurs in health and medicine, The Hive will live online at TEDMED.com and via a 30,000 square foot superstructure on the South Plaza of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., April 16-19, 2013.

At The Hive, incubators and accelerators, government-run programs, academic specialists, independent start-ups and labs run by Fortune 500 companies will come together to share and to discover important drivers of innovation. TEDMED will create and host interactive, hands-on social environments for Delegates to discover breakthrough thinking, and to meet leading future-thinkers.

“Being named part of The Hive, particularly in our first year of operation, is huge for Health Tech Hatch and certainly introduces several important new opportunities for collaboration,” says Patricia Salber, CEO of Health Tech Hatch. “We believe health tech entrepreneurs have the potential to change health care for the better, making it more convenient, less costly and more consumer friendly. By engaging in The Hive community, we hope to further our mission through conversations with some of the greatest entrepreneurial minds of our time.”

The Hive brings together a diverse community of independent start-ups, incubators/accelerators, government-run challenges, academically-led programs and labs run by Fortune 500 companies. Selected by an eight -member curation team who helped to ensure it represents a diverse set of innovators and entrepreneurs, Hive participants emerged from an applicant pool of more than 250 innovators doing game-changing work in varied fields both inside and outside health and medicine.

About Health Tech Hatch

Health Tech Hatch (Hatch) is a resource to organizations, health technology companies and individual entrepreneurs. Hatch cultivates early iterative feedback from selected end-users (consumers and providers) to make product development more effective and to prevent expensive rework, and hosts challenges to crowdsource solutions for government agencies, foundations, academic institutions and other organizations. An entrepreneur may also crowdfund for early seed funds on the Hatch platform.

Hatch provides: a codesign platform bringing together developers and testers, challenges to openly innovate solutions for organizations, support to develop effective seed-crowdfunding campaigns, and access to industry expertise from its multidisciplinary team. Learn more at www.healthtechhatch.com.

About TEDMED

TEDMED, LLC is an independent organization operated under a special license from the nonprofit TED conference. TEDMED is the world’s only TED-licensed event focused solely on innovation and breakthrough thinking across all of health and medicine. TEDMED 2012 featured 71 preeminent leaders in health, medicine, science, technology, business, government, academia, media and the arts, who spoke before a sold-out audience of more than 1,600 Delegates. Jay Walker has served as the Curator of TEDMED since 2011. Walker is also the founder of Priceline.com. For more information, please visit www.TEDMED.com.

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Ingenious Med Announces New Outpatient Revenue Capture Functionality

Provider of nation’s largest physician performance solution expands software offerings by releasing outpatient product

ATLANTA. Mar. 26, 2013 – Ingenious Med, the nation’s largest multispecialty charge capture and physician performance solution, has announced it will combine both inpatient and outpatient functionality into its award-winning impower platform.

Ingenious Med’s previous inpatient charge capture system and coding suite is employed by more than 22,000 client users across more than 30 different specialties, including cardiology, surgery, pulmonary and pediatrics. The added outpatient functionality allows the company to expand its offerings enterprise-wide.

“Health systems are looking for a single, universal solution that captures and holds all charge capture data,” said Steven Liu, M.D., founder of Ingenious Med. “We do a great job capturing inpatient professional and technical revenue due to our physician workflows and extremely high adoption rates. As organizations shore up their revenue cycle and prepare for ICD-10, the market dictated that we needed to expand our product offerings and bring our benefits to the outpatient side.”

Designed to enhance physician workflow, the newest release offers several different features, including the ability to create highly customizable virtual Superbills, a robust clinic scheduling interface and a sophisticated integration engine with existing back-office practice systems. The end result is a streamlined billing workflow for outpatient clinics and multispecialty organizations.

According to Liu, Ingenious Med’s software can potentially save health systems millions of dollars as revenue leaks are addressed and charges are captured more accurately. The ability to use one system to hold all charge capture data, both inpatient and outpatient, can make those savings even more pronounced.

About Ingenious Med

Founded in 1999 by a group of practicing physicians, Ingenious Med is an award-winning platform that automates the activities of inpatient and outpatient physicians. Ingenious Med automates the revenue and charge capture processes for more than 22,000 users in the nation’s leading healthcare facilities. Ingenious Med’s Physician Rounding Platform is the nation’s largest multispecialty charge capture and physician performance solution in the healthcare industry today. The mobile and cloud-based, charge capture and analytics platform provides real-time data that helps hospital systems and physician groups improve physician productivity and efficiency, enhance quality of care, maximize revenue, increase billing accuracy and ensure compliance. For more information, visit www.ingeniousmed.com or call 404-815-0862.