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July 12, 2016 - East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System has selected Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to seamlessly connect its system of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare facilities and services throughout East Texas. Rhapsody achieves rapid interoperability between healthcare IT systems, which enables connected solutions in less time and at a lower cost.
July 12, 2016 – Impact Advisors is participating in the 2016 Run to Home Base Event at Fenway Park in Boston. Three members of the Impact Advisors’ team, “Team Impact,” will be running the race and several other Associates will participate on the “Cheer Squad.”
July 12, 2016 - The healthcare division of Kurt Salmon US is joining ECG Management Consultant. ECG has signed a purchase agreement with Kurt Salmon’s parent company, Management Consulting Group. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close within several weeks, were not disclosed.
July 12, 2016 - Vocera Communications today announced that Halifax Health, the largest medical provider in east central Florida, has expanded its use of the Vocera Communication Platform, selecting Vocera’s secure text messaging solution for physicians in addition to Vocera’s hands-free communication system that has been used by care team members for several years. Integrating the hospital’s key clinical systems with Vocera has also improved operational workflow and patient care delivery.
July 8, 2016 - Several major health systems, including University of Maryland Medical System, Hospital Sisters Health System and Infirmary Health, chose Doc Halo in Q2 to provide systemwide HIPAA-compliant communication and to coordinate both acute and ambulatory care.
July 6, 2016 – Infinite Computer Solutions today announces they have been selected by UC Irvine Health for a partnership to assist in their upcoming EHR migration. This relationship, which also includes Optimum Healthcare IT, a leading healthcare IT staffing, and consulting services company, will last for the next 18 months.
July 06, 2016 - Vocera Communications today announced that Parkview Health, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Ind., will implement the Vocera Communication Platform in three of its hospitals. The implementation will include a robust combination of secure text messaging and voice communication on Zebra MC40-HC mobile computers, as well as hands-free voice communication on the wearable Vocera B3000n Badge.
July 6, 2016 - Vocera Communications today announced that Parkview Health will implement the Vocera Communication Platform in three of its hospitals. The implementation will include a robust combination of secure text messaging and voice communication on Zebra MC40-HC mobile computers, as well as hands-free voice communication on the wearable Vocera B3000n Badge.
July 6, 2016 - Spok Holdings today announced the appointment of industry veteran Nat’e Guyton as CNO, effective July 6, 2016. In her new role, Guyton will be responsible for effectively representing nursing communications needs in a clinical setting to drive enhancement of Spok’s critical communications software solutions.
June 29, 2016 - Orion Health has announced today that GoHealth Urgent Care is leveraging Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to continue to grow and expand its geographic footprint and market reach in the urgent care space.
June 28, 2016 - McKesson Corporation today announced that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its Enterprise Information Solutions business, a division of McKesson that provides core hospital information systems.
June 28, 2016 - McKesson Corporation and Change Healthcare Holdings today announced the creation of a new healthcare information technology company. The entity will combine substantially all of Change Healthcare’s business and the majority of McKesson Technology Solutions into a new company with fiscal year end March 31, 2016 pro forma combined total annual revenues of $3.4 billion.
June 28, 2016 - Sunquest Information Systems Inc. today announced it will host the Tucson Cancer Regional Moonshot Summit on June 29 at the Hilton El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort in Tucson. The event will convene local leaders across health, private industry and philanthropic sectors as part of the White House-led National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
June, 27, 2016 — CynergisTek today announced that Clearsense has selected the company’s Compliance Assist Partner Program for BA CAPP to ensure compliance with extended HIPAA regulations and to strengthen its security infrastructure in the face of increasingly sophisticated threats. CynergisTek’s BA CAPP will provide Clearsense with ongoing independent review of its privacy and security programs and procedures to ensure thorough maintenance and compliance.
June 27, 2016 - Vital Images is pleased to announce the launch of the latest addition to its enterprise clinical data suite – the application neutral architecture (ANA) platform. This next-generation approach focuses on customer-centered vendor interoperability, rather than creating additional silos of large data prevalent in the “big bang” VNA realm. The company will launch its ANA in booth 106 at the annual meeting of SIIM, June 29 – July 1 in Portland, Ore.
June 22, 2016 - Vital Images, Inc. (Vital), a Minneapolis-based advanced medical imaging and informatics company, recently launched version 7 of its Vitrea advanced visualization software. This innovative, application-based platform delivers full-powered solutions for 2D, 3D and 4D medical imaging and comprehensive user workflows, including CT, MR and XA applications. Vitrea software is one of several solutions Vital will feature at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) annual meeting (booth 207), June 23-26 in Orlando, FL.
June 22, 2016 - McKesson Corporation will host an Investor Day in Boston on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, including presentations by John Hammergren, Chairman and CEO; James Beer, EVP and CFO; Paul Julian, EVP and Group President, McKesson Distribution Solutions; Pat Blake, EVP and Group President, McKesson Technology Solutions; and other members of the leadership team.
June 21, 2016 - Navigant today announced that McKinnis Consulting Solutions, acquired by the company in 2015, was named a leading provider of IT Advisory Services, as a specialist firm, by KLAS.
June 21, 2016 - Driven by the accelerating trend toward alternative payment models that reward quality rather than volume, CIOs from some of the nation’s leading health systems gathered at the recent Scottsdale Institute (SI) Annual Conference to share experiences in the IT challenges of building clinically integrated networks, a key underpinning of value-based, accountable care.
June 21, 2016 - Health Catalyst today announced it is eliminating the provision in its standard client service contracts that prohibits its clients from soliciting for hire or hiring Health Catalyst team members. Health Catalyst will continue to honor restrictions preventing solicitation of client employees by Health Catalyst.
