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Jacksonville Beach, FL – March 5, 2019 – Optimum Healthcare IT, a Best in KLAS healthcare staffing and consulting services firm, announced today that the company’s Training and Activation practice had surpassed 100 electronic health record (EHR) go-live projects. Optimum’s dedicated practice provides project coordination, onboarding, logistics, training, and more to meet an organization’s project needs.
NASHVILLE, TN- February 27, 2019 - Endpoint data loss, excessive user permissions, and dormant accounts make up 70 percent of all high and critical risk scenarios for laptop vulnerabilities at hospitals and health systems across the country, according to new findings released by the Clearwater CyberIntelligence Institute (CCI), which leverages insights from Clearwater’s proprietary database—the industry’s largest and most complete database focused exclusively on the unique cybersecurity risk profiles of hospitals, Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and business associates.
SAN JOSE, CA - February 27, 2019 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, announced today that Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Ga., received the first shipment of Vocera Smartbadges to improve clinician agility and accelerate patient care. Vocera recently announced the new mobile device, which launched a new category of wearable communication. The Smartbadge combines smartphone usability with the hands-free freedom of the Vocera Badge, which is used in nearly 1,600 healthcare facilities around the world.
Austin, TX - February 27, 2019 - CynergisTek, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in healthcare cybersecurity, privacy, and information assurance, today announced that two members of its executive leadership team, Marti Arvin, Executive Advisor, and Angela Rivera, Executive Vice President of Operations, have been recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review “102 Women In Health IT To Know 2019,” list for their involvement in and contributions to health IT.
Milwaukee, WI - February 26, 2019 – Every year, managed service providers (MSPs) around the world submit their organizations to be recognized as top ranked providers. Today we are proud to announce that PDS was recognized in the Elite top 150 of this year’s CRN MSP 500 list.
CHICAGO, IL - February 25, 2019 – Impact Advisors, the leader in providing clinical, revenue cycle and information technology services to the healthcare industry, has expanded its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) service offering. The firm has offered ERP current state assessments, new system roadmaps, and selections and cost modeling since 2012. Today, Impact Advisors offers program assurance services to help clients fully realize the benefits of their new ERP solutions, positively impact cost and business processes, enhance talent management, and modernize their ERP technology platforms.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - February 21, 2019 – Health Catalyst, Inc. a leader in next-generation data, analytics, and decision support, today congratulated Louisiana’s Thibodaux Regional Medical Center on being named the Top Innovation winner in the first annual Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH) Innovation Award. The new awards program recognizes healthcare organizations that overcome quality improvement challenges related to patient safety.
San Jose, CA - February 21, 2019 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced findings from a secure mobile communication study conducted by Island Health in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The research evaluated Vocera Collaboration Suite across acute care and community practice settings on Vancouver Island. The study, which included feedback from more than 100 clinicians, evaluated the mobile application to understand the impact of secure texting on care team communication, clinical workflows, technology adoption, and user experience.
Scranton, PA - February 19, 2019 – Huntzinger Management Group, Inc. (Huntzinger), a leader in healthcare advisory, managed, implementation, and staffing services, today named John Hendricks as its Chief Technology Officer. Huntzinger President, Chief Operating Officer, and Founding Partner Tanya Freeman made the announcement.
February 12, 2019 - MphRx announces today that Columbia Asia Hospitals has launched their Patient Engagement Application Suite, with patient facing applications available on Web, Android and Apple devices. Powered by MphRx’s FHIR based digital health platform - Minerva, the integrated patient engagement applications provide an aggregated view of patient’s health data across the network’s hospitals and enables online booking of health care services and physician appointments.
Securing Connected Medical Devices – A Practitioner’s View - Interview with Tressa Springmann & Michael Hardesty. When asked about the escalating cyberthreat landscape and the challenges of protecting Connected Medical Devices, LifeBridge Health’s SVP & CIO and their IT Security Analyst shared the significance of the security strategy of encompassing people, processes, and technologies. Listen to Tressa Springmann and Mike Hardesty as they talk to Kalyan Siddam about the lessons learned, the best practices and, the role of latest Machine Learning tools. Learn the importance of considering the entire device Lifecycle Management and choosing platforms that can complement existing investments, and effortlessly plug-in to protect and ensure continued patient care.
ROCKVILLE, MD — February 12, 2019 — Only 10 percent of patients prefer to receive physician communications via patient portals, whereas twice that many (19.6 percent) favor receiving information via secure text messages when in-person and phone calls are not an option. The new survey, conducted by DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and patient medication management solutions, also found that more than 90 percent of respondents would like the ability to communicate via secure text messaging with a family member’s care team if that loved one were ill.
Milwaukee, WI - February 10, 2019 - PDS is pleased to announce that Tamara Korbel has joined their team as Director, Corporate IT Security and IAM Technical Services. In this new role Tamara will be responsible for two main areas; Corporate IT Security as our CSO, and the management of our Identity & Access Management (I&AM) Practice.
SPRINGFIELD, VA - February 11, 2019 - Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and a global leader in healthcare communications, will demonstrate the latest evolution of its integrated healthcare communication platform, Spok Care Connect, in booth #3371 at the 2019 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition, Feb. 11-15, 2019, in Orlando, Florida. The first-of-its-kind cloud-native enterprise communication platform includes a fully integrated healthcare contact center, clinical alerting and alarm management solution, and a multi-device application for care team messaging. Spok Care Connect makes care collaboration easier by connecting important care team and patient information into messaging and alerting applications.
Dallas, TX - February 11, 2019 - QliqSOFT, an industry leader in secure clinical collaboration solutions, today announced the release of a new patient-facing chronic care management solution that allows for the easy sharing and monitoring of data between patients and their care team members.
ROCKVILLE, MD — February 7, 2019 — DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and patient medication management solutions, announced today the availability of an integrated solution with the MEDITECH Enterprise Health Record (EHR) that seamlessly connects prescribers to California’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). For the first time ever, in-workflow access to the PDMP, known as Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES 2.0) is available to MEDITECH and DrFirst mutual customers using the MEDITECH Acute, Ambulatory, and ED solutions in the 6.15 or Expanse platforms.
Silicon Slopes, UT - February 7, 2019 - Health Catalyst®, Inc., a leader in next-generation data, analytics and improvement, announced the closing of a Series F equity and debt funding round led by OrbiMed, a leading healthcare public and private market investment firm. This equity and debt funding will provide Health Catalyst with access to up to $100 million in capital. Several existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital Ventures, UPMC Enterprises and Kaiser Permanente Ventures also contributed to the financing, which lifts Health Catalyst’s value above $1 billion.
Milwaukee, WI - February 07, 2017 – PDS is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Foundation (CHIME Foundation), an affiliate of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). As a CHIME Foundation member firm, PDS will play a vital role in CHIME’s continuing education efforts and have opportunities to interact with leading healthcare executives and thought leaders.
MADISON, WI – February 7, 2019 - Redox today announced that it is integrating with Microsoft Teams to enable secure, bidirectional data exchange with electronic health record (EHR) software at provider organizations using the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard. As a result, clinicians and caregivers can easily communicate patient data on the Microsoft Teams platform and record information at the EHR level. Redox streamlines the adoption of Microsoft Teams by provider organizations with minimal IT resources.
BURLINGTON, MA - February 5, 2019 - Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it will introduce its voice-enabled virtual assistant to all users of Dragon Medical One, the company’s cloud-based clinical documentation platform. With this launch, Nuance will bring the strength of its trusted artificial intelligence (AI) technology, already used by leading brands such as FedEx, BMW and Citizens Bank, to approximately 300,000 healthcare providers across the country. This rollout comes in tandem with, and is supported by, the release of industry survey data that underscores clinicians’ daily battle to overcome administrative burdens and bring joy back to medicine.
