CoActiv, the Ridgefield, Conn.-based digital image management company, has announced a partnership with XRI, the specialized medical equipment sales and service organization, for the distribution of the complete CoActiv product line, including the EXAM-PACS family of web-based PACS solutions for every imaging modality and medical specialty, its three EXAM-RIS offerings and its vendor-neutral, EXAM-VAULT QUAD-REDUNDANT ARCHIVING services.
eClinicalWorks, of Westborough, Mass., has announced that Rockville, Maryland’s Adventist HealthCare has chosen eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) system as an option for its employed and affiliated physicians in Maryland and New Jersey. Adventist also selected eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange (eEHX), providing an electronic health records system that allows for access across the practices and the acute care system.
BIO-key International, a Wall, N.J.-based maker of finger-based biometric identification solutions, has announced the statewide expansion of the state of Minnesota’s eCharging pilot. This solution utilizes BIO-key’s WEB-key fingerprint biometric software for officers to establish their identity when electronically signing criminal complaints. The paperless eCharging system increases efficiency by allowing police officers and prosecutors to electronically transmit charging documents in real-time with the courts. The electronic delivery eliminates duplicate data entry and forms, and time and travel for document delivery.
Versus Technology, of Traverse City, Mich., has announced that Avera McKennan University Hospital is utilizing its Real-time Locating System (RTLS). With this system, Avera tracks over 1,500 assets for real-time equipment management. The Versus solution also integrates to the hospital’s nurse call system from Rauland-Borg, which allows Avera’s nurses to automatically register response to patient calls and report that they are with a patient just by virtue of their presence. Now, Avera is expanding the Versus solution to its new, comprehensive Surgery Center.
Curaspan Health Group, the Newton, Mass.-based maker of secure electronic patient-transition networks for hospitals, post-acute providers and suppliers, has announced that president and CEO Thomas R. Ferry has joined the board of directors of the Epilepsy Therapy Project. Founded in 2002, the Epilepsy Therapy Project brings together scientific, business and community leaders dedicated to advancing new therapies for epilepsy.
Diversified Information Technologies, a Scranton, Penn.-based provider of document and information lifecycle solutions, has announced its eChart-Rx solution, a suite of medical records management and conversion services that addresses the growing demand for electronic medical records (EMR) in the healthcare market. Diversified’s new eChart-Rx suite of services is available nationally and can be deployed both on- and off-site. The suite addresses all phases of the medical records lifecycle, combining paper chart records storage with on-demand scanning, backfile scanning to all major EMR platforms, and on-site day forward scanning. Supported environments include Cerner, Siemens, McKesson, Allscripts/Misys, Nextgen, Epic, E-clinical Works, Meditech, Quadramed, Greenway, and more.
Patient Care Technology Systems, a Mission Viejo, Calif.-based subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, announced that Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has selected the company’s Amelior EDTracker solution to automatically track patients in its new Irvine, California emergency department slated to open in late 2010. Amelior EDTracker is part of the Amelior Enterprise Visibility Suite which comprises departmental to facility-wide solutions to streamline patient flow through the real-time visualization and documentation of patient care. Hospitals can scale their implementations by the entities they wish to track (movable medical equipment, patients, staff), operational goals (asset management, patient flow, infection control) and by scope of care (acute care, outpatient services, inpatient floors, facility-wide).
Agfa HealthCare, a Belgium-based provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announced that it has signed an agreement with the Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudo de Diagnóstico por Imagen (FIDI) in Brazil for the delivery and installation of its digital imaging and healthcare IT solutions across the facility's 25 sites. The agreement was signed in the presence of His Royal Highness, Prince Filip of Belgium, who is on an economic mission in the region.
Siemens Healthcare has announced that it will begin deploying its new Agile Implementation Methodology, Soarian AIM, for all future Soarian Health Information System installations. Based on an innovative deliverables-based framework that organizes work in a structured, simple way within a pre-loaded environment, Soarian AIM is designed to help accelerate customers’ path to meaningful outcomes in less time, and at lower costs. The 341-bed acute-care Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center, in Plattsburgh, New York, and the 233-bed not-for-profit Reid Hospital & Health Care Services, in Richmond, Indiana, recently served as Soarian AIM beta sites for the installation of several Soarian functionalities.
athenahealth, a Watertown-based provider of Internet-based business services to physician practices, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued athenahealth a patent entitled, ‘Automated Configuration of Medical Practice Management Systems’ (U.S. Patent No. 7,720,701) related to its automated Self-Service Implementation (SSI) capability. The Company’s SSI technology allows a medical practice to virtually implement athenahealth’s medical billing and revenue cycle management service, athenaCollectorSM, which is advantageous in that a practice can quickly and efficiently configure athenahealth’s service for its individualized needs and the costs of implementation is significantly reduced through automation. This capability is especially critical for small physician practices that have limited staff and operational bandwidth.
McKesson, of San Francisco, continues to gain momentum in the radiology market with its Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) offering, with four practices recently joining its nationwide client ranks. With radiologists under continual reimbursement pressure, McKesson has the radiology-specific expertise in coding, compliance and operations that can help practices overcome operational and revenue challenges while enhancing overall financial performance. The most recent practices to sign on for the RMS radiology billing and practice management solution include Radiology Associates of Plymouth, located in Plymouth, Mass.,Radiology Associates of Nevada, in Las Vegas, SMH Radiology Associates, in Sarasota, Fla., and South Coast Radiological Medical Group, located in Laguna Hills, Calif.
Merge Healthcare, a Hartland, Wis.-based health IT solutions provider, has announced that it was selected by Cato Research Ltd. to provide the proprietary etrials EDC solution through Merge’s technology transfer program. This new agreement expands Merge’s partnership with CATO to provide additional technology for clinical trials management, as well as extending the relationship for an additional five years. The technology transfer program allows CATO to use the etrials EDC system to build and deploy custom clinical trial studies that leverage the powerful reporting capabilities of Merge’s technology.
Portico Systems, the Blue Bell, Penn.-based maker of Integrated Provider Management (IPM) solutions, has launched a blog dedicated to the healthcare payer community and IPM. Portico Pulse will address and debate important healthcare issues, including: healthcare reform, administrative and medical cost containment, changes in provider reimbursement methodologies and collaboration. It also features a comprehensive resource section that provides visitors with the most up-to-date market, payer, reform and policy news – all in one place.
