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Comprehensive mobile solution to deliver enhanced care to patients

Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Motorola Mobility Inc. and BoxTone are collaborating to develop a comprehensive mobile solution to help satisfy the unique security, reliability and usability requirements of the health care industry. By providing health care practitioners with secure mobile devices and apps, patient care can be improved through the sharing of clinical data in near-real time to help speed decision making and control costs.

21 Feb 2012

Equinix, Carpathia Hosting partner to build new data center for healthcare companies, federal agencies

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, and Carpathia Hosting, a provider of complex, compliant managed hosting services for government agencies and enterprises, today announced plans to build a 64,000 square foot data center in Dulles, Va. aimed at supporting industry-specific compliant solutions for healthcare companies, federal agencies, and commercial industries.

21 Feb 2012

Healthcare organizations using data recovery providers may be vulnerable to data breaches

DriveSavers Data Recovery, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today the risks that healthcare organizations should be aware of with using third party data recovery service providers that are not compliant with HIPAA Data Security Guidelines or properly vetted for security protocols.

20 Feb 2012

ZirMed launches VeraFund Manager for healthcare providers

ZirMed, a preeminent provider of revenue cycle and information solutions for healthcare, today announced the launch of VeraFund Manager for healthcare providers. Available exclusively from ZirMed and utilizing advanced payment and remittance processing support from BNY Mellon, the service delivers an end-to-end automated patient/payer solution for healthcare providers.

20 Feb 2012

Temkin Group rates 13 health plans

A new research report published by Temkin Group, 2012 Temkin Experience Ratings, rates the customer experience of 206 large companies across 18 industries. This is the second year that Temkin Group has released these ratings.

20 Feb 2012

Axway-GE Healthcare combined HIE solution selected by HITE-CT

Axway, the Business Interaction Networks company, and GE Healthcare, a leading health information exchange software provider and a division of General Electric Company announced today that the Health Information Technology Exchange of Connecticut (HITE-CT), the state designated Health Information Exchange (HIE), has selected its combined solution for HIE.

20 Feb 2012

3M Littmann to provide electronic stethoscopes for all HealthSpot Care4 Stations

HealthSpot, Inc. today announced that 3M Littmann Stethoscopes, the trusted leader for stethoscopes worldwide, will be the provider of electronic stethoscopes for all HealthSpot Care4 Stations.

20 Feb 2012

ICA reports a year full of achievements

ICA announced today that 2011 saw strong growth in hospitals and clinics under contract for its CareAlign Solutions suite, as well as significant product upgrades among its current client base. In addition, ICA's employee base again nearly doubled in 2011 to meet growing demand and critical partnerships were formalized.

20 Feb 2012

Belkin, Peerless partner to provide PeerCare EMR Hybrid Cart

Belkin today announced a strategic partnership with Peerless Industries, Inc., a designer, manufacturer and distributor of audio-visual solutions. The partnership will initially yield the PeerCare Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Hybrid Cart, fitted with a unique modular battery power system.

20 Feb 2012

Iron Mountain's VNA solution to lower medical data storage costs at Dallas hospital

Iron Mountain Incorporated, the information management company, today announced that the Texas Regional Medical Center (TRMC) has chosen Iron Mountain's vendor neutral archive (VNA) and cloud storage solution to manage its CT scans, MRIs, X-rays and other diagnostic image volume.

20 Feb 2012

Premier healthcare alliance awards new SEEDS agreement for coffee, tea and cocoa

The Premier healthcare alliance today announced that a new SEEDS agreement for coffee, tea and cocoa has been awarded to KimBees's Inc. of Greensboro, N.C.

20 Feb 2012

Innovative testing technology helps hospital save $3.7M

Kettering Medical Center has realized a positive financial impact of $3.7 million in the past year as the result of a change in standard operating procedures using a new innovative testing technology that diagnoses a wide variety of infectious diseases faster and more accurately than traditional testing.

20 Feb 2012

TecENTERPRISE Claims Solution to be demonstrated at HIMSS 2012

The Business intelligence specialists, announces the TecENTERPRISE Claims Solution providing both a deep and wide scope into claims status, claims processing and claims management.

20 Feb 2012

Teleflex, Premier enter new agreements for ligation and stapling products, suture and trocars

Teleflex Incorporated, a leading global provider of medical devices for critical care and surgery, has announced three new group purchasing agreements with the Premier healthcare alliance.

20 Feb 2012

PlanSource completes SOC 2 audit and report process for HR administration platforms

PlanSource Holdings, Inc., a cloud-based HR and healthcare SaaS technology company, has announced that it has completed the SOC 2 (Service Organization Controls 2) audit and report process covering areas of security, confidentiality, processing integrity, and availability for its HR management and benefits administration platforms.

20 Feb 2012

A pediatric version of Rothman Index

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is partnering with Rothman Healthcare Corporation in their development of a pediatric version of the Rothman Index. The Rothman Index, currently in use in adult patient populations, quantifies a patient's condition (based on vital signs, nursing assessments and lab results) displayed in a user-friendly graphical format.

20 Feb 2012

Open application marketplace for ambient assisted-living solutions

The success of Apple's App Store and the Android Market has inspired EU-funded developers of 'Ambient assisted-living' (AAL) solutions to develop their own open application marketplace and work together on interoperable platforms. In doing so, they are hoping to mainstream technology that will help older people live more active and comfortable lives.

20 Feb 2012

PIP breast implant removal and consultation costing the NHS large sums

After the Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) breast implant scare nearly 3,000 women have been seen by NHS specialists, of which over 1,000 have had scans and 67 have opted to have the implants removed, according to Department of Health statistics.

20 Feb 2012

Massive infant Tylenol recall

Johnson & Johnson has announced the recall of its entire U.S. supply of infants' Tylenol—about 574,000 bottles—due to a design flaw. The flaw involved bottles of grape-flavoured infants' Tylenol, which had only just returned to shelves in November announced J&J last Friday.

20 Feb 2012

Apixio introduces Clinical Knowledge Exchange at HIMSS 2012 conference

Apixio, Inc., the leading provider of clinical data integration, search and analytics for healthcare organizations, is introducing this week at the HIMSS 2012 conference, a technology framework called the Clinical Knowledge Exchange.

20 Feb 2012

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Comprehensive mobile solution to deliver enhanced care to patients

Equinix, Carpathia Hosting partner to build new data center for healthcare companies, federal agencies

Healthcare organizations using data recovery providers may be vulnerable to data breaches

ZirMed launches VeraFund Manager for healthcare providers

Temkin Group rates 13 health plans

Axway-GE Healthcare combined HIE solution selected by HITE-CT

3M Littmann to provide electronic stethoscopes for all HealthSpot Care4 Stations

ICA reports a year full of achievements

Belkin, Peerless partner to provide PeerCare EMR Hybrid Cart

Iron Mountain's VNA solution to lower medical data storage costs at Dallas hospital

Premier healthcare alliance awards new SEEDS agreement for coffee, tea and cocoa

Innovative testing technology helps hospital save $3.7M

TecENTERPRISE Claims Solution to be demonstrated at HIMSS 2012

Teleflex, Premier enter new agreements for ligation and stapling products, suture and trocars

PlanSource completes SOC 2 audit and report process for HR administration platforms

A pediatric version of Rothman Index

Open application marketplace for ambient assisted-living solutions

PIP breast implant removal and consultation costing the NHS large sums

Massive infant Tylenol recall

Apixio introduces Clinical Knowledge Exchange at HIMSS 2012 conference

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