) December 10, 2008 -- Broadlane announced today that Jordan Health Systems in Plymouth, Massachusetts has selected Broadlane as the exclusive provider of a broad range of supply chain services to help manage its approximate $35 million in annual spend.

Jordan Health Systems will access Broadlane's unparalleled national GPO portfolio of consumable supplies, equipment, pharmaceuticals and purchased services. Additionally, Jordan Health Systems will utilize OnRamp™ (Broadlane's client portal) and BroadLink® (Broadlane's e-commerce exchange), to streamline purchasing processes.

) 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.

) 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.

) January 27, 2009 -- Broadlane is pleased to announce its relationship with MEDmarketplace.com®, the world's largest online marketplace for buying and selling surplus medical equipment and supplies.

"In today's struggling economy, our clients are experiencing increased financial challenges," said Jocelyn Bradshaw, vice president, capital equipment services, Broadlane. "We are constantly seeking ways to deliver innovative solutions. Working with MEDmarketplace.com, we are able to offer our clients an automated, virtual venue to easily sell, transfer or donate their used or excess medical equipment."

) June 11, 2009 -- Blanchard Schaefer Advertising & Public Relations® (BSAPR) a full-service, integrated strategic marketing services firm, today announced that it took home six Healthcare Advertising Awards. The awards program is the oldest, largest and most widely respected healthcare advertising awards competition. The awards are sponsored by Healthcare Marketing Report, the leading publication covering all aspects of healthcare marketing, advertising and strategic business development.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) June 25, 2009 -- Nemours, one of the nation's leading children's health systems, began construction in June on the Nemours Children's Hospital in Lake Nona's medical city. The 630,000-square-foot children's hospital will include 95 beds and serve as the core of a 60-acre pediatric health campus featuring a children's clinic, emergency department, diagnostic and ambulatory programs along with education and research centers. Nemours plans to open the $380 million hospital in 2012.

Rendering of the future Nemours Children's Hospital

) May 1, 2009 -- The CCS Health IT Summit announces that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Veterans Affairs will present how federal agencies are working with the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) this June 16th in Fort Lauderdale, FL.        

) January 22, 2009 -- Web 2.0, Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, RSS feeds, blogging... all of these words are appearing more and more in the healthcare space and many hospital marketers are scrambling to find ways to incorporate this new technology into their marketing plans as another way to increase market share and build a loyal patient community.

) November 1, 2009 -- Winston-Salem, N.C (PRWEB) November 1, 2009 -- Rural and small, suburban hospitals in North Carolina and Virginia can now provide a higher level of emergency stroke and critical neurology care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, as part of a new teleneurology medicine program announced today by Forsyth Medical Center (FMC).

) April 22, 2009 -- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach CA is one of four hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and one of 12 in California named in the top 125 hospitals by Consumers' CHECKBOOK as reported by AARP The Magazine. The designation of a "top hospital" is based on multiple performance measures using over 30 million records of hospital stays by Medicare enrollees. The other institutions named in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas include Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.

) October 26, 2008 -- Providence Health Care (PHC) is one of Canada's largest faith-based health care organizations, operating 14 health care facilities in Greater Vancouver. The health care industry is one of the most exciting and fastest-growing industries in BC. Providence Health Care is in the market to fill hundreds of health care jobs over the next few months. To help accomplish this ambitious goal, PHC is holding a career fair on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Career Fair will take place at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.

To register for the upcoming PHC Career Fair, email careerfair2008 @ providencehealth.bc.ca.

) October 21, 2009 -- Aprima Medical Software (originally iMedica), a leading developer of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) systems for medical practices, today announced its compatibility with Microsoft Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit PCs), due out for release on October 22nd. Aprima 2009 is fully compliant and tested with Microsoft's latest Windows release.

) September 25, 2008 -- LiveProcess, the leader in healthcare emergency preparedness and incident management, announced today that it will be among the exhibitors at "Disaster Planning for California Hospitals," a statewide conference for hospital executives, disaster planning teams and community partners. The conference is planned for October 1-3, 2008 at the Sacramento (CA) Convention Center.

The conference is sponsored by the California Hospital Association. Co-sponsors include the California Department of Public Health, Emergency Medical Services Authority, Governor's Office of Emergency Services and Governor's Office of Homeland Security.

) April 27, 2009 -- 23andMe, Inc., an industry leader in personal genetics, and Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH), the largest public health district in California, today announced that PPH will be offering the 23andMe Personal Genome Service for sale to San Diegans at its outpatient health centers. As an innovator in preventive health care, PPH encourages its communities to understand their genetic information in order to make more informed decisions about their health.

) December 4, 2008 -- HealthCare.com, Inc., the leader in local healthcare provider search and health insurance information search, announced today that it has launched a network of websites to expand the reach of HealthCare.com's proprietary Care Provider Search™.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) January 12, 2009 -- Allen Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of interactive communication and education patient television systems, announced today that Saint John's Health Center has finalized a contractual agreement to deploy Vigo for its 255-bed facility in Santa Monica, California. Saint John's selected Allen Technologies to continue its tradition of providing outstanding personal care as one of the premier community hospitals in the nation.

) 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.

) April 14, 2009 -- Broadlane has helped Jordan Health Systems in Plymouth, Massachusetts, recognize a 17 percent reduction in Med/Surg contract prices and a 2.5 percent reduction in pharmacy contract prices. It is expected that this reduction will result in $1.2 million in savings for 2009 for Jordan Health Systems with its $35 million in annual supply spending.

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) July 9, 2009 -- Broadlane announced today the signing of an exclusive agreement with Scottsdale Healthcare based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Scottsdale Healthcare has selected Broadlane Workforce Management® to help manage the $9 million annual workforce spend at their three acute care hospitals.

Scottsdale Healthcare will utilize Broadlane Workforce Management to streamline and enhance all aspects of the clinical contract workforce process including: agency contracting, agency staff requisition and fulfillment, credential and performance tracking, time tracking and reverse invoicing.

) January 20, 2009 -- Destiny Health Group LLC, a California based Health and Wellness Company launched its new growth strategy with the acquisition of the medical spa, Aspect Beauty. Destiny Health Group LLC was formed by partners Dennis Draudt and Robert Zasa to leverage the consumer's heightened interest in wellness and retail healthcare.

) December 3, 2008 -- The newly-redesigned web site for Scripps Health (www.scripps.org) received a Gold award in the Best Site Design category of the 2008 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. The site also received a distinction in the Best Newsroom category.

The patient's needs were always at the forefront of our minds when redeveloping Scripps.org. We wanted to make sure that the information important to them was easy to find and presented in a way that made sense to them

) 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.

) January 15, 2009 --The Medical Fitness Association (MFA) was honored to host keynote speaker, Kristina Ripatti, a 10-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department who was injured in the line of duty and subsequently paralyzed, at the Annual MFA Conference held in December in San Antonio, Texas. Ripatti, who is a spokesperson for NuStep, Inc. and relies on their equipment in her training, gave an inspiring speech about her journey and the importance of medical fitness on her road to recovery.    

) December 21, 2008 -- EnovateIT, a national provider of medical technologies for the healthcare environment teamed with Metrologic, now a Honeywell company, to provide over 800 bar-coding medication verification scanners to Novant Health.

MS1633 FocusBT in use

) 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.

) August 25, 2009 -- Patient Placement Systems (PPS), a leading provider of Web-based discharge referral software, announced today that Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare (JHSMH) has implemented the innovative Discharge Referral System to automate the discharge referral process for patients needing post-acute care at five of its facilities: Jewish Hospital, Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital, Jewish Hospital Shelbyville, Frazier Rehab Institute, and Our Lady of Peace. The Discharge Referral System is a Web-based application that enables JHSMH case managers to send referral inquiries to post-acute providers electronically - eliminating faxes and phone tag and significantly streamlining the placement process.

) April 30, 2009 -- As Ontario Hospitals prepare this month to begin mandatory public reporting of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) rates in a move to further improve Patient Safety, Mississauga-based Theramed Corporation has launched a new website www.collatampg.ca to help Patients better understand the risks of SSIs and prevention strategies.
   
Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) are devastating to patient safety and hospital budgets, but relatively unknown to the Public-at-large despite being the 2nd most common cause of hospital adverse events.

) June 23, 2009 -- Further solidifying its reputation as a committed provider of patient education and care, The Boston Spine Group was recently admitted into the Spine Center Excellence program of the leading online back pain resource, Spine-health.

) April 1, 2009 -- Management Health Solutions, Inc. (MHS) has signed a three-year contract with Mercy Regional Medical Center, the largest hospital in southwest Colorado, to perform clinical inventory services for their facility in Durango, Colorado. MHS will perform this inventory for the 82-bed acute care hospital and put into operation a more efficient clinical inventory valuation process. www.MHSInc.com

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) August 20, 2009 -- Florida spine surgeon Alfred Bonati, M.D. announced the results of a nonpartisan national poll commissioned by the American Society of Medical Doctors (ASMD) that shows physicians are unwilling to accept new patients covered by a government-run health care plan. Dr. Bonati announced the poll results at a press conference earlier today in Washington, DC.

The poll conducted on August 7, 2009 by WRS Opinion Research on behalf of the ASMD shows that:

) 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.

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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 29, 2008 -- Drexel University Online is increasing its range of prestigious online healthcare programs with the addition of the Post-Master's Certificate in Medical Family Therapy. This 14 credit certificate is offered fully online.

) December 3, 2008 -- OptumHealth Inc., the health and wellness business of UnitedHealth Group, announced the launch of myOptumHealth.com, a free consumer health and wellness Web site designed to assist the 76 million Internet consumers who look for health information online each month (1).

) July 29, 2009 -- Broadlane, the leading cost-management company for healthcare providers, announced today that AHMC Inc. & AHMC Healthcare Inc. (AHMC) in Alhambra, California has renewed its exclusive supply chain relationship with Broadlane for another five years. AHMC will continue to access Broadlane's unparalleled national contract portfolio of consumable supplies, equipment, pharmaceuticals and purchased services to help manage its approximate $100 million in annual supply spend for its seven hospitals, including the recently-acquired AHMC Anaheim Regional Medical Center.