Carestream Health has announced that its new cesium iodide CARESTREAM DRX-1C detector is now available around the world in countries where it is approved for use. This detector is the latest expansion to the company’s successful family of imaging solutions based on its wireless, cassette-size DR detectors. The new detector delivers exceptional image quality and improved DQE (detective quantum efficiency). It is designed for general radiography exams including orthopedic, trauma, pediatric and other specialty environments.
BIO-key International, a maker of finger-based biometric identification solutions for the healthcare industry, announced that the Institute for Transfusion Medicine (ITxM), through its LifeSource and Central Blood Bank business units, is deploying BIO-key TruDonor biometric identification technology. With TruDonor biometric identification, ITxM, the nation's third-largest independent blood center, will automate and reduce to seconds donor and patient registration while reducing data entry and duplicate donor errors and enhancing blood donor convenience and security.
TelVue Corporation, a N.J.-based digital broadcast company, has announced that Healing HealthCare Systems has agreed to purchase at least 100 digital broadcast servers from the company. TelVue will be providing a mix of standard definition and high definition digital broadcast servers that will broadcast crystal clear digital video to 1000’s of televisions installed in hospitals nationally.
Ontario Systems, a provider of accounts receivables and revenue recovery solution health care industry and Connance, a provider of healthcare self-pay solutions, announced during Ontario Systems’ National User Conference that they have entered into a strategic alliance for product integration and development. Under this arrangement, Ontario Systems will embed Connance Scoring - including cash prioritization scores, collection workflow and treatment strategies - into their Collect SAVVY product line for the recovery of healthcare-related debt.
My Health Direct has signed an agreement with the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE) that will allow Milwaukee area individuals who have used hospital emergency departments to access primary care follow-up appointments in the community. The contract will benefit Milwaukee area residents who are in need of follow-up appointments post-emergency care. The primary goals of this agreement are to reduce emergency department overcrowding, reduce inappropriate use of hospital emergency departments and to promote primary medical homes.
Prognosis Health Information Systems has been selected by Amerinet Inc. as a supplier of electronic health records systems to the group purchasing organization’s more than 41,000 members. The contract will enable hospitals to tap into the clinical, operational and financial benefits commonly associated with electronic health records. Effective immediately, Amerinet members will experience significant savings on ChartAccess Comprehensive EHR, an innovative system that stood out as a preferred technology after a detailed analysis of many other vendors’ offerings.
CA Technologies has been chosen by Intermountain Healthcare to help enhance IT services at its 23 hospitals and more than 150 clinics in Utah and Idaho. The nonprofit health system plans to use the CA Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), CA Service Assurance, CA Service Automation, CA Service Management, and CA Virtual solutions to support enhanced IT service delivery capabilities across Intermountain's clinical and business applications and services.
AccelOps, an integrated data center and cloud service monitoring company, announced that Austin Radiological Association (ARA) has selected its integrated monitoring platform to fortify their business service reliability and IT operational efficiency. AccelOps offers a more integrated, automated and value-packaged solution that cuts through operational and technical silo’s to provide end-to-end visibility, greater IT agility and service insight as compared to conventional legacy and point product approaches.
Greenway Medical Technologies announced an agreement with Irving, Texas-based VHA, Inc., the national healthcare network, to offer physician practices affiliated with the network preferred access to the company's integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite. VHA is a member-based network that helps hospitals improve clinical and operational performance.
TeleTracking has announced that its RadarFind has been selected by the Southern Atlantic Healthcare Alliance as the exclusive real-time locating provider for member hospitals. SAHA, which is comprised of 16 hospitals in North Carolina, chose RadarFind’s real-time location system (RTLS) to enable their members to track medical equipment, patients and staff. RadarFind has existing relationships with four SAHA hospitals, including WakeMed Cary Hospital, which has reduced its inventory of rental infusion pumps by 20 percent since analyzing utilization data gathered by the RadarFind system.
Diskeeper Corporation, which specializes in performance and reliability technologies, has announced significant milestones in customer adoption of V-locity 2.0, a new virtual platform disk optimizer designed to deliver invisible background optimization of all Windows Guest operating systems running on the VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms. In addition, Diskeeper Corporation is offering a free 30-day trial offer of V-locity 2.0, which was designed to create a virtual-specific product that not only performs defragmentation functions, but also synchronizes the complex and ongoing activity between host and multiple guest operating systems in a virtualized environment and frees up vital storage resources by eliminating virtual disk “bloat."
