Medicity Inc., the Salt Lake City-based health information exchange (HIE) company, has announced iNexx, its new "Health 4.0" platform, which bridges systems, networks and people to create a care model that keeps the patient as the focus at all times. iNexx connects cloud services, bricks-and-mortar clinical, administrative, and financial networks, local applications such as PMS and EMRs, and the community of people that care for the patient. With a store of Medicity-developed and third-party partner apps, providers can collaborate and coordinate care in a secure professional social network and achieve meaningful use of health information technology rapidly and cost-effectively.

GE Healthcare has introduced Qualibria, its new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets. The result of a multi-year collaboration between GE, Intermountain Healthcare and the Mayo Clinic, Qualibria gives clinicians more control over patient outcomes by bringing together real-time data from existing IT systems and comparing these data against shared baselines of evidence-based best practices.

Phytel, of Dallas, a leader in physician-led health improvement has announced that the Riverside Medical Group, a 350-doctor practice based in Newport News, VA has adopted Phytel’s Proactive Patient Outreach to help improve patient outcomes and ensure that all of its patients receive recommended preventive and chronic disease care. The large multi-specialty group initially provided Phytel’s service to 47 of its primary-care physicians, starting last August. It recently added three endocrinologists and plans to roll out the service to 50 more providers in the near future.

eClinicalWorks, of Westborough, Mass., maker of ambulatory clinical systems, announced an option of on-demand deployment of the eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) system and complimentary eClinicalWorks solutions. This will remove the wait time for installation by allowing self-activation of the EMR/PM system and add-on services including Patient Portal, Enterprise Business Optimizer (eBO), eClinicalWorks P2P, eClinicalMobile and eClinicalMessenger.

Evolute Consolidated Holdings has acquired Denver-based MidTech Partners, in a move designed to further expand Evolute’s offerings to the healthcare industry. Evolute will now have offices in Kirkland, WA, Denver, and New York, with staff throughout the US, all focused on Microsoft platform solutions facilitating integration and compliance management in areas such as Chronic Condition Management, HIPAA 5010, care team collaboration and business process automation.

ThingMagic, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., a leading developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, has announced that its enterprise class Astra UHF Readers have been deployed at the new Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center in Burbank, Calif. The Astra readers are included as part of an innovative RFID solution designed to reduce patient anxiety and improve the workflow between clinicians, patients and administrators.
 
Proofpoint, Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., the leading provider of SaaS and on-premises email security, email archiving, and data loss prevention solutions, announced that University Hospital of Zurich (USZ), one of the largest and most important teaching hospitals in Europe, has deployed the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway email security appliance to provide inbound threat protection and secure file transfer capabilities for 7,000 user mailboxes.

Cellular Specialties, Inc. (CSI), of Manchester, NH, has announced that Florida’s Lee Memorial Health System has chosen CSI products and solutions to ensure reliable, in-building wireless service throughout two facilities.

Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), of Charlotte, NC, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc. has announced the availability of Amelior 360° Hand Hygiene, a unique, auto-id hand hygiene monitoring solution for meeting stringent hand hygiene compliance requirements.

Praxis Electronic Medical Records, of Canoga Park, Calif., has selected MedUnity, an innovator with the first public Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE), as Its Exclusive HIE and Fax Services Provider for the forthcoming Praxis 5.

PositiveID Corporation of Delray Beach, Fla. has announced that it has entered into a partnership with FIS, one of the world's largest providers of banking and payments technology, to launch the company's next generation Health Link personal health record. The new Health Link, which is now live, will be interoperable with Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health, as well as numerous electronic medical records systems in use throughout the country.

Zynx Health, based in Los Angeles, which provides evidence- and experience-based clinical decision support, announced the successful deployment of ZynxOrder and ZynxCare at Metro Health Hospital in Wyoming, MI. Metro Health used ZynxOrder and ZynxCare to customize evidence-based order sets and plans of care, and to improve adherence to standardized content and guidelines.

Emergisoft, of Arlington, Texas, is pleased to announce the release of Emergisoft EC Forms Digital Solution, a powerful application that provides physicians with a portable electronic, customizable, template-style physician documentation modality that converts the template choices and notes into a narrative natural language chart. The solution is designed specifically for physicians and is distinct from the hospital's EHR, allowing emergency physicians to document in a way that is most comfortable for them.

TeleHealth Services, of Raleigh, NC, which manufactures healthcare grade televisions and on-demand interactive patient education solutions, has announced an extended partnership with Alegent Health of TK. Building upon an existing relationship, Alegent has chosen TeleHealth Services as their interactive patient education and entertainment partner in the health system’s unprecedented “Generation Patient” enhancement initiative.