) December 9, 2008 -- The Palm Beach Post today launched its new Health channel (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/health), featuring "Find a Doctor" powered by HealthCare.com's Care Provider SearchTM.

) October 22, 2008 --
HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent
healthcare ratings organization, announced today that Yahoo! has
selected the company as the exclusive provider of physician and hospital
quality information for Yahoo! Health. HealthGrades’
physician quality reports and hospital ratings will be integrated into a
variety of Yahoo! Health consumer health tools, including a new Yahoo!
Health Physician Directory.

) September 3, 2009 -- Two consumer healthcare technology companies announced a strategic alliance to create the first personal health information tool with an embedded cost savings application to help employees, employers and the general public save money on their personal health spending. In fact, they guarantee a return-on-investment.

Nashville, TN-based change:healthcare, a technology firm focused on healthcare cost transparency, and San Diego, CA-based MediKeeper, a provider of customized technology systems for the health and wellness industry, will take this enhanced Medikeeper personal health information tool to large employer groups and health plans in the next few weeks with a direct-to-consumer version to be launched later this year.

) September 16, 2009 -- Digital Healthcare, the Cambridge England and Wake Forest, NC based company that is recognized as the leading provider of care management systems for diabetes, celebrated their 10 year anniversary this month.

From its beginning as an image management and storage solutions provider for the UK Ophthalmology sector, the company has extended its product range and expanded into international territories. Digital Healthcare is now a leading software provider to the National Health Service in the UK, a major service supplier to US physicians and has solutions in use within some of the Worlds' leading Eye Institutions.

) February 5, 2009 -- More and more people are turning to the Web seeking answers about their health or the care of someone they love. Arming themselves for doctor visits, trying to figure out why they are getting a bill for something or researching the right hospital for lower back surgery--people turn to search engines and specialized health sites.

Many health insurers are beginning to prefer that members turn to the insurer's own personalized, password protected site for help. The sites include articles on health topics vetted by physicians, tools to assist in finding the right hospital, and calculators to help people determine out-of-pocket-costs, along with other features intended to enhance user experience.

) April 8, 2009 -- MedTouch, the leading provider of interactive, web-based solutions for healthcare organizations, announced its recent partnership with Exeter Health Services to enhance their web presence and to implement its proprietary enterprise content management solution, ContentBridge.

"Exeter chose both our services and our software to take them to the next level of patient interactivity," said Paul Griffiths, CEO of MedTouch. "Our core competency is to serve healthcare organizations who understand that the success of integrated marketing campaigns depends on a strategic web presence to fully serve their constituencies, both in health and in crises."
   

XECAN Inc,RFID healthcare solutions company,announces a pilot program with a national healthcare provider to track the care of oncology patients in order to improve quality and reduce medical errors.

A new economic discovery utilizing innovative index economics and digital commerce provides the means to solve the countries problems associated with escalating health care costs and insurance.

) September 13, 2009 -- Healthcare Market Resources' Data Supports Recent Medicare Home Health Reform for Substantial Savings

Healthcare Market Resources, a leading provider of customized local market research for home health agencies and hospices, has conducted a state by state analysis of the Medicare Home Health Outlier payments.

Its research reveals that Washington's recent health care reform of a 2.5% cap on the outlier payments will in fact produce meaningful health care savings without negatively affecting patient access.

) November 21, 2008 -- MediConnect CEO, Amy Rees Anderson, was invited to participate with U.S. Secretary of Health, Michael Leavitt, in the 2008 National Summit on Personalized Health Care. The Summit brings together leading stakeholders from key sectors related to the development and utilization of personalized health care. Leaders came together to discuss and create a shared vision on personalized healthcare, and to identify the barriers, strategies, and action plans for making it a living reality.

) June 17, 2009 -- IVANS, Inc. has been regularly engaging its healthcare provider customers in discussions about healthcare reform, the importance of Medicare to their business and the steps providers should take in implementing technology to address short and long-term healthcare objectives.

IVANS Inc.

) July 14, 2009 -- Standard Insurance Company ("The Standard"), a subsidiary of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: SFG), announced today a partnership with leading health advocacy service company, Health Advocate™. In addition to its insurance products and services, The Standard will offer the Health Advocacy Solution which will help organizations and their employees simplify health-related issues, relieve stress and improve well-being through the power of Health Advocate's Personal Health Advocates.

The Fall Collaborative Communications Summit: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology announces that HealthCare Partners, Memorial Health Services and Florida Hospice of the Suncoast will take part in a panel discussion that will take a fresh look at the future of evaluating and implementing IT systems at the fall summit this October 27-28, 2008 at the Sofitel Los Angeles. (PRWeb Oct 15, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1465064.htm

) June 16, 2009 -- Today, HealthCare California announces it is the first home health agency in California to implement an industry leading, online service that answers the call from national leaders to utilize technology to improve health care. The home health software service, Agency Manager™, provides HealthCare California with a suite of online services that equips all nursing and administrative staff with real-time access to information at the point of care, reduces costs, improves efficiency and enhances communication across the continuum of care.

) September 24, 2008 -- MedHelp (www.medhelp.org), the leading online health community connecting people to medical experts, information and shared experiences, and the drugstore.com™ pharmacy (http://www.drugstore.com/pharmacy) today announced a partnership to provide registered pharmacists to answer questions from MedHelp members. The new forum on MedHelp.org is called Ask-a-Pharmacist and is the first to focus solely on medications.

) August 24, 2009 -- change:healthcare has been chosen by GeneSyn IP Ventures, LLC, a partner of the Keystone Institute for Translational Medicine in Philadelphia, Penn., to support a national translational medicine technology consortium, officials announced today.

The move is intended to help the Keystone Institute for Translational Medicine more quickly reach their goal of increasing the speed with which medical and health-related discoveries become significant patient care advances.

) October 1, 2008 -- Broadlane is pleased to recognize the Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management (AHRMM) National Healthcare Resource and Materials Management Week October 5-11. This week is dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating resource and materials management professionals for their outstanding contributions to healthcare and the overall success of the healthcare supply chain.

) September 30, 2008 -- SingaporeMedicine, the government-industry partnership to develop and promote Singapore as the leading medical hub and international healthcare destination, announces its presence on Facebook. By creating a place where people can share and talk about their experiences, SingaporeMedicine strengthens its position as the leading destination for medical and healthcare.

) October 21, 2008 -- The Fall Collaborative Communications Summit: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology announces that Saint Luke's Health System will present a case study on the future of e-ICU at the fall summit this October 27-28, 2008 at the Sofitel Los Angeles. http://www.ccsexpo.com/fallccs.html

The case study entitled "The e-ICU: A Model for the Future" will take place Monday, October 27th at 4:00 p.m. and be presented by Jennifer Ball, RN, BSN, MBA eICU Operations Director & Director, Nursing Informatics, Saint Luke's Health System

) July 10, 2009 -- Consumer Health Technologies, Inc. ("CHT") a leader in Consumer Directed Healthcare (CDHC) software for administrators, payers and financial institutions, announced a strategic partnership agreement with Health Advocate, Inc. ™, to incorporate Health Advocate's suite of services into its already function rich CDHC solution. Under the agreement, Health Advocate will provide its program of independent healthcare advocacy and assistance to subscribers of the BenefitSpan™ platform. BenefitSpan™ is an award-winning total benefit administration platform for managing CDHC and the underlying accounts associated with them, like HRA, FSA and HSA.

) October 23, 2008 -- Broadlane is pleased to announce that Anna Maria Medvid has joined its sales team as vice president of strategic sales leading the East region.

Broadlane logo

Medvid comes from Premier, Inc. where she was responsible for working directly with healthcare executives at key accounts to recruit hospitals into the Premier Group Purchasing Organization (GPO).

"We are pleased to welcome Anna Maria to Broadlane," said Julie Plaga, senior vice president, sales, Broadlane. "Her experience of working with healthcare executives will be instrumental as we continue to aggressively pursue new client relationships."

) September 16, 2008 -- The Fall Collaborative Communications Summit: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology announces that the Avera Health System Chief Information Officer and Director of Telehealth will present a case study that will take place at the fall summit this October 27-28, 2008 at the Sofitel Los Angeles. http://www.ccsexpo.com/fallccs.html

The session entitled "Avera Health - IT and the Greater Vision" will take place Monday October 27th at 10:45am and be presented by Jim Veline, SVP & CIO of Avera Health. The session's co-presenter will be Mary DeVany, Avera Health's Director of Telehealth.

) June 11, 2009 -- While more than one-third of home health care and nursing home organizations said they expect the government's economic stimulus package to increase use of healthcare information technology, another 52% said the stimulus package will have little or no impact on their businesses, according to a recent survey by IVANS, Inc.

IVANS Inc.

) September 15, 2009 -- www.YourCity.MD, CEO, Joe Benza, Jr., announced a two year partnership with Lexington, Kentucky's #1 news station, WLEX 18 TV, the flagship Cordillera station.

Lex18.com

) December 23, 2008 -- Mayo Clinic Web sites recently won awards in several classifications of the eHealthcare Leadership Awards, presented by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, and two classifications of the W3 (World Wide Web Consortium) Awards, presented by the International Academy of Visual Arts.

Mayo Clinic's medical and professional services site, www.mayoclinic.org, won two W3 awards: a highest-honor "Best in Show" award for copy or writing, and a "Gold" award in the health care services category.

) December 22, 2008 -- The National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL) has elected Eric Christ to the organization's board of directors. Christ is the president of Patient Placement Systems, part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies located in Alpharetta, Ga. NASL is a trade association of ancillary providers of products and services to the post-acute industry.

) December 22, 2008 -- The National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL) has elected Eric Christ to the organization's board of directors. Christ is the president of Patient Placement Systems, part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies located in Alpharetta, Ga. NASL is a trade association of ancillary providers of products and services to the post-acute industry.

) September 24, 2009 -- Starting today, consumers can simply tweet healthcare questions such as "what is diabetes" to @askch and it will return a short description and a link to more information. Or tweet "cost of celebrex near 37209" and you get "average price of $163 in 37209" in return.

The Fall Collaborative Communications Summit: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology announces that Alameda County Medical Center, Pfizer, Wellspan Health, El Centro Regional Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente will take part in a panel discussion addressing the latest uses of health IT data at the fall summit this October 27-28, 2008 at the Sofitel Los Angeles. (PRWeb Oct 8, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1437544.htm

) July 22, 2009 -- To inspire a new generation of students to think about the benefits of healthcare software, Claricode is starting the Claricode Medical Software Essay Scholarship program which will award a total of $5000 in scholarships this year.    Five industry experts have generously donated their time to review the essay finalists:

Claricode

) May 7, 2009 -- MBF today launched an innovative software application designed to provide their health insurance customers with access to free, mobile healthcare provider information.

Reassurance Health (www.ReassuranceHealth.com) offers affordable healthcare discount programs that allow consumers nationwide to save up to 60 percent on out of pocket healthcare costs.

) July 21, 2009 -- Health Advocate™, the nation's leading independent healthcare advocacy and assistance company, announced today that Thomas Masci, Jr., CFO and cofounder, has been named the winner in the Philadelphia Business Journal's 2009 CFO of the Year Award in the medium company category.

Thomas Masci, Jr., CFO and cofounder of Health Advocate, Inc.

) August 14, 2009 -- An International Design team has been selected to do a feasibility study, plan and design a world class U.S. Standard Hospital in Calabar, Nigeria. The team includes Rees Associates, Inc., OMMA Healthcare, LLC and SYMX Corp. The initial design conceptualizes a 150 bed, 250,000 square foot Acute Care Hospital worth approximately $50 million in construction costs. Governor Liyel Imoke described the selection of REES and OMMA as an important day to commence the realization of the state's vision of providing an affordable health care delivery services to its citizenry.

) December 22, 2008 -- Wellsphere has named SeniorCareMarketer.com's The Business of Aging blog a Top Health Blog in the Aging & Senior Health community of Wellsphere. Wellsphere is a healthcare a site with over 2 million visitors per month, helps millions of people live healthier, happier lives by connecting them with the knowledge, people and tools they need to manage and improve their health.

The Business of Aging blog is authored by Mark Willaman, founder ofSeniorCareMarketer.com, a service that helps companies selling products and services relating to the aging population generate online visibility, web site traffic and sales leads.

) March 10, 2009 -- Orion Health http://www.orionhealth.com a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for eHealth, introduces a new program to ensure high-quality service is maintained to improve communication and customer-driven development.

The newly formed Client Services team will ensure an additional level of partnership with customers for the speedy resolution of post implementation questions and to focus on increasing alignment between clients' business needs and Orion Health solutions.

Paul Viskovich President Orion Health North America and EMEA, describes the Client Services role as a trusted advisor and advocate for the customer.

MedicareFinance.com gives a unique user friendly experience, supplying consumers with an array of Health Insurance, Long Term Care and Life Insurance information with free quotes.

) February 18, 2009 -- ConnextionsHealth announced today that Michael Leavitt - the Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009, and former Governor of Utah (1993-2003) - will address the World Congress Leadership Summit on Member Retention for Health Plans in Orlando, on March 18th. As opening keynote, Mr. Leavitt will provide health insurance executives with first-hand insights into the key issues, timetables and people involved in the nation's escalating healthcare reform debate.

Connextions Inc.

) September 16, 2008 -- Lifeclinic International's LC300 blood pressure monitors were recently selected and purchased by the New York City Health Department for a hypertension awareness campaign. The machines are being donated by the Health Department to pharmacies in neighborhoods with high rates of hypertension to increase access to blood pressure monitoring. The monitors will be distributed and maintained by Lifeclinic's dealer, New York Blood Pressure, Inc.

) September 17, 2008 -- The New Jersey and Delaware Valley Chapters of the national Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) have joined forces to bring regional health information technology professionals together for a two day regional conference entitled The Healthcare Technology Evolution: Smarter Solutions for Better Patient Care on September 18-19, 2008 at Caesars Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City.