ScienceAlerts.com Back Online: Agriculture, Biology, Environment, Forestry, Geography and Health

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) April 23, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a natural sciences social network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 76,018 members have signed up and actively contribute this content. The review process is partly automated and partly manual to ensure that only relevant content will be approved and featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually within minutes.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Agricultural Sciences Category covers the cultivation and production of crops, raising of livestock, and postharvest processing of natural products. It currently contains 36,667 stories partly derived from over 220 scholarly agriculture journals. The latest article covers volatiles to protect brassicaceous crops against the cabbage root fly, Delia radicum. The author’s results confirmed the role of dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in reducing D. radicum egg numbers on broccoli plants and revealed that (Z)-3-hexenyl acetate, a green leaf volatile released by recently damaged plants, strongly stimulated fly oviposition.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Biological Sciences Category covers life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, genetics, and distribution. This category currently contains over 85,008 stories partly derived from over 400 scholarly biology journals. The latest article covers development of sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbant assay for the detection of Cronobacter muytjensii. It demonstrates that the developed method was able to detect all the strains of C. muytjensii and that ELISA technique has potent application for the rapid and accurate detection of C. muytjensii in dietary foods.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental Sciences Category covers the external physical conditions affecting growth, development, and survival of organisms, and their management. It currently contains 157,518 stories partly derived from almost 780 scholarly environment journals. The latest article presents potential contaminant pathways from hydraulically fractured shale to aquifers. The rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing requires that monitoring systems be employed to track the movement of contaminants and that gas wells have a reasonable offset from faults.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Forestry Sciences Category covers the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. This category currently contains over 28,000 stories partly derived from 170 scholarly forestry journals. The latest article attempts to model spatial patterns of fire occurrence in Mediterranean Europe using Multiple Regression and Random Forest. The Random Forest model showed a higher predictive ability than Multiple Linear Regression. Furthermore, the analysis of the residuals also indicated a better performance of the Random Forest model, indicating that this method has potentiality to be applied in the assessment of fire-related phenomena at a broad scale.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Geographical Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth. It currently contains over 36,700 stories partly derived from almost 250 scholarly geography journals. The latest article covers ostracod palaeoecology and environmental change in the Laptev and Kara seas (Siberian Arctic) during the last 18,000 years. The study suggests that euryhaline species are largely sea-ice- and/or iceberg-rafted and may therefore provide evidence for a climate cooling trend.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Health Sciences Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains over 14,100 stories partly derived from nearly 150 scholarly health journals. The latest article shows that healthier home food preparation methods and youth and caregiver psychosocial factors are associated with lower body mass index (BMI) in African American youth. In this study, adolescent children of caregivers who used healthier cooking methods were more likely to use healthy cooking methods themselves.

ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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Risk Management Decision Saves Health Council from Critical Loss

Columbia, SC (Vocus/PRWEB) February 15, 2011

Unitrends, the leading provider in integrated and scalable backup solutions, today announced that NE Missouri Health Council relied on Unitrends Recovery appliance to gain full recovery of its crashed system, retrieving 100 percent of the health councils mission-critical data.

After opting out of CommVault due to reliability issues and high pricing, NMHC discovered Unitrends as a trusted solution for all-in-one backup, archiving and disaster recovery. NMHCs investment in Unitrends resulted in high returns for the non-profit health care provider.

John Brown, IT director for NMHC, had performed a live migration on the facilitys Windows servers, and during the process, an error caused all data to be entirely erased.

I contacted Unitrends at 11:30 at night. Within 10 minutes, I had a phone call from a support rep-resentative, and we were able to restore all pertinent data that was lost, Brown said.

Most of the information that went to the file servers was patient charts. Had Unitrends not been deployed, NMHC could have been at great risk of losing vital patient records and hindering day-to-day operations.

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New Health Sciences Alerts at Science Alerts Social Network

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) May 09, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a Health Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 18,025 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,077,022 articles to the site. The new Health Sciences category currently features 318,940 stories exclusively selected from 1,889 scientific geography publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Health Sciences Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains 318,940 stories selected from 1,889 scholarly health sciences journals. This category also provides an Health Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles suggests that keeping current obesity rates level could save nearly $ 550 billion over the next two decades. This forecasting study found that 42 percent of the US population could be obese by 2030. The category also features new research about Facebook addiction. Researchers from Norway have developed the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale as an instrument to measure Facebook addiction. As the site has become as ubiquitous as television in many people’s lives, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many to know if they are addicted to Facebook. The symptoms of addiction resemble those of drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and chemical substance addiction.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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NCH Among the Nations Most Wired Hospitals for Its Advanced Health Information Technologies

Arlington Heights, IL (PRWEB) July 11, 2012

Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) in Arlington Heights is among an elite group of tech-savvy hospitals and healthcare systems to be recognized as forward thinkers within the health information technology field. In a national survey, the results of which were published in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, NCH has been listed as one of the nations Most Wired hospitals and healthcare systems in the country for 2012.

According to Health Cares Most Wired 2012 Survey, the nations Most Wired hospitals are leveraging the adoption and use of health information technology to improve performance in a number of areas. At NCH, new and innovative health IT solutions have automated and integrated clinical, patient safety and administrative functions not only within the Arlington Heights-based hospital, but also at NCHs outpatient facilities and the NCH Medical Group offices located throughout Chicagos northwest suburbs.

Its an accomplishment and an honor to be recognized nationally because weve been working diligently to establish a clinical technology architecture that incorporates population health and wellness management tools, said George Morris, Vice President of Information Technology at NCH, who recognizes there is a shift in healthcare that holds organizations like NCH accountable for both the immediate and long-term well-being of its patients.

NCH also remains focused on health information technologies that optimize patient care processes, streamline communication among providers and protect patient data. Key projects for NCH include computerized provider order entry that enables physicians to submit orders electronically; an electronic closed loop medication process that focuses on patient safety and quality of care, and a hospital-wide electronic Bed Board system that monitors bed availability and patient census, while assisting with the coordination of transporters and environmental services to optimize staff efficiencies and patient resources.

In addition, NCH recently launched a fully-customized mobile application (app) that allows individuals to better manage their urgent and day-to-day healthcare needs. Called MyNCH, this multi-functional free mobile app provides instant access to NCHs network of medical group physicians, hospital services, emergency care, immediate care and specialty centers throughout Chicagos northwest suburbs.

NCH is among the first healthcare providers in Illinois and one of only 13 comparable hospitals in the country to provide its patients with a robust mobile app. The mobile app is NCHs first step to delivering personal and relevant health information to the community in a secure format thats easy to use and convenient to access.

For more information about Northwest Community Healthcare and to learn more about NCHs mobile app, visit http://www.nch.org/app. The 2012 Most Wired Survey is conducted in cooperation with McKesson Corporation, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and the American Hospital Association. For more information about the Most Wired list for 2012, visit http://www.hhnmag.com.

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New Health Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) September 03, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Health Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 21,171 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,007,529 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in a ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Health Sciences category currently features 413,908 posts exclusively selected from 3,504 scientific health publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Health Sciences Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains 413,908 posts selected from 3,504 scholarly health sciences journals. This category also provides a Health Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles presents a multilevel analysis identifying the socioeconomic status and tobacco consumption among adolescents in Argentina. Students attending schools receiving social assistance were more likely to smoke and to purchase loose cigarettes, whereas school poverty was significantly associated with secondhand smoke exposure. Unfavorable contextual school characteristics are associated with tobacco consumption and related measures among youth in Argentina. Another article on tobacco use highlights smokeless tobacco and its relation to panic disorder, major depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder in American Indians. Although approximately 30% of American Indian tribal members were lifetime users of smokeless tobacco, the association with lifetime psychiatric disorders was not as strong as those observed with cigarette smoking. The category also features an article on how exposure to acute electromagnetic radiation of mobile phone alters transiently skin homeostasis. The authors investigated the effects of mobile phone exposure on a model of pigmented skin. Their results indicate that exposure to 900 MHz frequency induces a transient alteration of epidermal homoeostasis, which may alter the protective capacity of the skin against external factors.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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ClearDATA Partners with National Council to Provide Healthcare Cloud Computing and Security Services to Behavioral Health Organizations

Phoenix, AZ / Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 29, 2012

ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, today announced a partnership with the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (National Council) to provide its members specialty healthcare organizations treating mental illness and addiction disorders with a variety of HIPAA-compliant cloud computing and information security services. These services will further National Council members efforts to deliver the highest quality care through services that reduce overall IT costs, improve productivity, and comply with privacy and security regulations.

ClearDATAs Healthcare Cloud Computing Services include hosting of applications and data, offsite backup and storage, disaster recovery, and vendor neutral archiving (VNA) of PACS and other medical images. ClearDATA also helps organizations maintain regulatory compliance and reduce the chance of a security breach through HIPAA Security Risk Assessments, HIPAA Policies and Procedures Planning, and Remediation Assistance.

The Healthcare Industry is rapidly adopting cloud computing services as a means for organizations to grow and adapt their evolving technology requirements without incurring capital expenses, maintenance, and support costs. ClearDATA focuses exclusively on providing secure, HIPAA-compliant, cloud computing and information security services to the 5,000 hospitals and hundreds of thousands of clinics/medical offices in the U.S. market.

ClearDATA is pleased to work closely with the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare to help its members achieve cost savings and operational efficiency through cloud computing services, said David Bean, executive vice president of sales and marketing, ClearDATA Networks, Inc. The National Council is recognized throughout the country for its commitment and vision towards promoting proactive and holistic healthcare practices and we are honored to partner with them in their efforts.

If behavioral health providers cannot adopt health information technology at a rate comparable with primary care facilities, hospitals, and physicians, it will soon become impossible to provide clinical care coordination for persons with mental and addiction disorders and to meet payer and service system demands in the changing healthcare marketplace. The National Council is committed to helping our member organizations remain on the cutting edge and we are pleased that ClearData will help bring important new technologies and services to our members, said Michael R. Lardiere, LCSW, Vice President, HIT and Strategic Development at the National Council.

About the National Council

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) association of 1,950 behavioral healthcare organizations that provide treatment and rehabilitation for mental illnesses and addiction disorders to 8 million adults, children and families in communities across the country. Learn more at http://www.TheNationalCouncil.org.

About ClearDATA Networks

ClearDATA Networks, Inc. is the market leader for cloud computing and information security services for healthcare providers, software vendors and VARs. ClearDATAs services enable providers to fully automate and securely manage healthcare medical records, applications, IT infrastructure and digital storage. The company provides HITECH HIPAA-compliant cloud and hosting infrastructure and managed services, offsite backup and disaster recovery, medical image archiving, information security and world-class support. The company offers HIPAA Security Risk and Remediation services through its U.S. Healthcare Compliance division to the healthcare industry in order to ensure that they meet the rigorous standards of security required for protected health information to demonstrate Meaningful Use. For more information, call 602-635-4000, email: sales(at)cleardata(dot)net or visit: [http://www.cleardata.net.

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GNAX Health Hires Chris Alfano to Lead Healthcare Technology Product Portfolio

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 18, 2012

GNAX Health, a leading healthcare technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider, announced today the addition of Chris Alfano, medical imaging industry veteran as Medical Image Solutions Product Manager. In his new role, Chris will be responsible for the healthcare products and solutions related to medical imaging, including vendor neutral archive (VNA), cloud archive and backup, and cloud computing for medical imaging applications.

We are excited to have someone with Chriss background join the GNAX Health team, remarked George Robbie, Vice President of Sales for GNAX Health. The largest need we see from our healthcare customers is storage for their ever-increasing data requirements, especially related to medical images. Chris will bridge the customer requirements with GNAX product development for the implementation of GNAX medical image archive solutions, creating a single deliverable solution from multiple inputs and ensuring a strong cohesive customer experience.

Chris has over 19 years of experience in Healthcare Technology. He has helped build solutions for many high-profile clients, including the Department of Defense, Christus Health, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, National Institutes of Health, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross and United Health.

Prior to joining GNAX Health, Chris was the Director of Partner Sales at Acuo Technologies, which delivers an Open-System VNA solution for transporting, storing and tracking digital clinical information such as medical images. Acuos Universal Clinical Platform provides the foundation for interoperability and data management that is required in a complex and always changing healthcare technology environment. At Acuo, Chris led the sales efforts for the Powered by Acuo solution suite, driving the product requirements, design input and feature priorities for Acuo solutions.

GNAXs VNA solution is powered by Acuos Universal Clinical Platform. GNAX has an established partnership with Acuo Technologies, and bringing the knowledge of that product in-house strengthens that relationship and ensures a seamless support experience for our VNA customers, said Robbie.

Prior to Acuo, Chris was the Director of Product Management for Emageon, which provided an enterprise solution for storage and interpretation of digital medical content, including radiology and cardiology. Prior to that, Chris developed and managed the professional services group for MACESS at SunGard.

Chris also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Alabama.

Learn more about GNAX Healths medical image archive solutions.

About GNAX Health

GNAX Health is a leading healthcare technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider offering hospitals, IDNs, clinics, labs and many other healthcare organizations mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed application delivery, backup & disaster recovery, medical image vendor neutral archive (VNA), as well as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAX’s cloud solutions deliver secure, scalable and clouds that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organization agility. GNAX’s 70,000 square feet mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SSAE 16 Type II compliant with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at http://www.gnaxhealth.com.

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GNAX Health, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook Announce Healthcare IT Alliance

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

GNAX Health, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook, announced today the formation of a new strategic alliance to provide an integrated and simplified solution for medical image access, exchange and management.

The cloud-based, clinical content management solution delivered through this alliance offers healthcare providers a cost effective way to deploy a best-of-breed solution that includes a vendor neutral archive (VNA) platform, an integrated universal medical image viewer and image exchange strategies that fit the needs of healthcare organizations.

The solution, available through a single contract, combines Acuos Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) with Client Outlooks eUnityTM clinical image visualization, sharing and collaboration toolset, hosted within GNAXs healthcare-focused cloud infrastructure and tier-4 data centers all supported by a cohesive customer support program. This collective offering provides necessary components critical to building a highly secure disaster recovery and business continuity solution for medical imaging without the infrastructure and costs associated with a traditional model. This solution also provides an economical way to store and protect data by freeing up primary local storage, reducing the total amount of storage needed and shifting from a capital intensive local archive to a pay-as-you-go operational service.

GNAX Health is also in the final stages of developing a web-based image exchange service, called SDEX (Secure DICOM Exchange). Integrated into the foundation of Acuos UCP and data structure as well with the Client Outlook viewer, SDEX provides customers with the benefits of a single, best-of-breed exchange solution. It meets the challenge of complicated workflows by integrating with the provider’s employee and patient identification systems to secure access and simplify patient searches. Studies are retrieved from any of the connected PACS, local edge devices or from the cloud archive, making the location of the image transparent to the end user. Providers are able to securely exchange and view images with other GNAX VNA and non-GNAX customers seamlessly, creating a health information exchange (HIE) platform with a workflow for medical imaging.

Acuos UCP simplifies the process of managing clinical content, providing virtualization and normalization of medical images and non-DICOM data, service orchestration, data replication, clinical workflow, compliance and contextual data management services, with a built-in performance management environment and dashboard.

Client Outlooks eUnity product provides a universal viewer that lets health care professionals access, manipulate and collaborate in real-time with diagnostic quality medical images using a web-browser and a mobile application for tablets that enables on-the-go viewing of all image modalities, including X-ray, CT, MRI, color ultrasound and X-Ray angiography.

The integration of these solutions solves a wide range of problems for our healthcare customers, said Jeff Hinkle, chief executive officer for GNAX Health. This offering tightly integrates world-class clinical content viewing, abstraction and life cycle management applications, data migration, cloud-computing and customer support services into a single bundle, greatly simplifying the process of administering enterprise medical image access, exchange and management while reducing IT costs.

All healthcare systems, including hospital networks, university hospitals, community hospitals, physician offices, and other organizations with complex use-case requirements stand to benefit greatly from the interoperability and economies of scale offered by this alliance. The ability to accelerate access to patient information at the point of care along with the collaborative benefits of having an integrated viewing platform improves clinical decision-making, enhances quality of care and speeds up treatment for patients.

Today, healthcare providers and the IT groups that support them face complexities and delays associated with managing multiple sets of clinical data. Departmental image data silos provide integration barriers and make it difficult to be responsive to patient demand, meaningful use requirements and audit demands. Scalability is an ongoing issue as the number and size of medical image files continues to grow at an exponential rate. Ultimately, these problems lead to difficulty in physicians accessing information and collaborating at the point of care.

This offering simplifies and resolves these issues, giving healthcare institutions a shared services approached provided by a trusted partner focused on solving these problems in an integrated and cohesive way. The money organizations can save by easing the process of moving, accessing and managing clinical data with this new approach, said Brenda Rankin, executive vice president and co-founder of Client Outlook, will allow them to put more money toward clinical quality improvements.

This consortium brings an innovative solution based on IHE standards to the marketplace that will disrupt the status quo in healthcare IT, noted Jeff Timbrook, chief executive officer for Acuo Technologies. Weve worked closely with GNAX and Client Outlook to develop an implementation approach that will save our customers significant time and effort. Healthcare organizations can get a complete solution through a single source while lowering their IT expenses with our unique pricing model.

Organizations interested in finding out more about this new solution should contact GNAX Health at 855.280.4629 or health(at)gnax(dot)net.

About GNAX Health

GNAX Health is a leading healthcare technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider offering hospitals, IDNs, clinics, labs and many other healthcare organizations mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed application delivery, backup & disaster recovery, medical image vendor neutral archive (VNA), as well as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAX’s cloud solutions deliver secure and scalable clouds that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organizational agility. GNAX’s 70,000 square feet mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SSAE 16 Type II compliant with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at http://www.gnaxhealth.com.

About Acuo Technologies

Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, was founded in 2000 with the objective of developing the first enterprise-wide collaborative Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) solution for medical image content, both DICOM and Non-DICOM. Today, Acuo supports implementations of UCP around the world, including locations in Africa, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. For more information on providing superior clinical content management and data migration while simplifying operations and reducing costs, visit http://www.acuotech.com.

About Client Outlook Inc.

Client Outlook is a healthcare company, first, a technology company second. Driven by personal healthcare experiences, the Client Outlook team challenges themselves every day to develop and deliver the most practical, useful and secure clinical mobility solutions for physicians and frontline healthcare professionals – right where healthcare happens. Client Outlook is the leader in universal viewing technologies. For more information about our company and our product, eUnity, visit us on the web at http://www.clientoutlook.com.

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RISARC CEO Richard Stephenson Personalized Digital Records will set off a Consumer Health Care Revolution

Burbank, California (PRWEB) October 10, 2012

Richard Stephenson, CEO and founder of RISARC, a leading national provider of high-technology and revenue recovery solutions to the U.S. health care industry, today predicted that patient engagement and information exchanges with health care providers will soon match and exceed what consumers have come to expect from banks and retailers.

Said Stephenson: Recent stories in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere have noted growing and broad consumer acceptance of electronic health care records. Widespread use of networked automated teller machines, providing direct access to a customers bank account, dates back at least to the 1970s and most major retailers have provided consumers secure on-line digital access to products and account records for a decade or more. As a consequence, the ways in which consumers manage their money and purchase goods has changed profoundly. The changes to the healthcare industry that will now come from consumer access to these new, powerful digital health records will be every bit as impactful and long-lasting.

According to top insurance industry lobbyist Karen Ignagni, in testimony before the powerful House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on September 24, the first major shift of information access will be to empower the patient to more effectively take better care of themselves and that will save the industry billions.

Said Stephenson: The digital healthcare record will go beyond giving you constant and secure access to what the doctor and the lab have discovered and recommended it will also give health plans continuous access back to their members, engaging them in self-care and health maintenance, reminding them of medication and exercise regimens that they have committed to.

Robin Gelburd, a New York based health care cost expert, told the L.A. Times that on-line cost calculators provided by most large healthcare insurers is just the start of new services, tools and communication strategies that banks and retailers have used for years to attract and retain consumers.

This is a true revolution in healthcare consumerism, according to Stephenson, transforming electronic health care records into a shared and secure communications commons that enable prescription apps from your smart phone, on-line health coaching, remote monitoring of health conditions and disease, and real-time diet information and interactions.

The most profound and welcome revolution for consumers, says Stephenson, will be a substantial reduction in the cost of too-late care and emergency room visits that too often characterize our current engagement with health care providers. It will save us money and may very well one day save our lives.

About RISARC

RISARC is a leading national high-technology and revenue recovery consulting firm to the health care industry. RISARC, founded in 1990, has recovered over $ 1 billion for its clients. The company offers the RMSe-bubble for secure electronic document exchange and the signature RISARC 360

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Brookings Health System Selects ClearDATA Virtual Data Center Service for HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Hosting of IT Infrastructure

Phoenix, Arizona (PRWEB) September 27, 2012

ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, today announced Brookings Health System, located in Brookings, South Dakota, will be moving its data center systems and software to ClearDATAs HIPAA-compliant HealthDATA Cloud Platform. By moving to the ClearDATA Virtual Data Center, Brookings Health System will eliminate significant capital expenses for servers, storage, and other hardware as well as reduce IT costs associated with support and maintenance.

ClearDATA will provide Brookings Health with a full complement of managed services to ensure reliability, security, and compliance including data encryption, system monitoring, backup and restore services, and more. ClearDATA manages its private cloud in highly secure, state of the art data centers. Redundant power feeds to the grid, multiple carriers with global connectivity, comprehensive HVAC and fire prevention systems are fully integrated with a unique ultra-secure HIPAA Compliant network architecture to ensure 100% uptime.

Healthcare costs are rising in every category, and especially in the areas related to expanding IT requirements and HIPAA regulations, stated Jason R. Merkley, CEO and President of Brookings Health System. Brookings Healths top priority is to provide optimum healthcare services to patients in the local community, and utilizing state-of-the art technology is key to achieving that goal. Moving our data center to the ClearDATA HealthDATA Cloud Platform enables us to significantly reduce IT costs, improve our overall system performance and reliability, and comply with government security standards. We chose ClearDATA because of its exclusive healthcare focus, HIPAA expertise, and excellent customer service reputation.

ClearDATA is pleased to be working with Brookings Health System to help them achieve their strategic IT goals through the effective implementation of cloud computing architectures and services, said Darin Brannan, CEO of ClearDATA Networks, Inc. We commend their executive and IT staff for their foresight in recognizing the benefits of cloud computing and their due diligence applied towards choosing a solution that meets their technical requirements.

About the HealthDATA Cloud Platform

As healthcare IT expenses for servers and storage continues to skyrocket, along with the required maintenance and support, many organizations are looking for virtual data center services strategies and architecture models to help reduce costs, improve productivity, meet security & compliance requirements, and increase reliability. ClearDATAs HealthDATA Platform meets these strategies and architecture needs with its unique private cloud healthcare design of multiple security layers combined with a state of the art robust and redundant environment.

About Brookings Health System

Brookings Health System, located in Brookings, South Dakota, includes a 49-bed hospital, the 79-bed Brookview Manor nursing home, and Brookhaven Estates apartments. It is a non-profit, city-owned facility that offers the community a full range of inpatient, outpatient, and extended care services. The emergency room is staffed 24 hours a day and provides around the clock medical-nursing care for patient needs ranging from minor injuries to life threatening crises. For more information about the services offered at Brookings Health System, please call (605) 696-9000 or visit us on the Web at brookingshealth.org.

About ClearDATA Networks, Inc.

ClearDATA Networks, Inc. is the market leader for cloud computing and information security services for healthcare providers, software vendors and VARs, and 100% dedicated to the healthcare field. ClearDATAs services enable providers to fully automate and securely manage healthcare medical records, applications, IT infrastructure and digital storage. The company provides HITECH HIPAA-compliant cloud and hosting infrastructure and managed cloud services, offsite backup and disaster recovery, medical image archiving, healthcare information security and world-class support. The company also offers HIPAA Security Risk and Remediation services to hospitals and providers in order to ensure that they meet the rigorous standards of HIPAA security required for protected health information to demonstrate Meaningful Use and to ensure a highly secure environment prior to enabling a HealthDATA Cloud platform installation. For more information, call 602-635-4000, email: sales@)cleardata.net or visit: http://www.cleardata.net.

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Topaz Shared Services Selects Infogix to Help Create a New Approach to Managing Health Insurance Claims and Processes

Naperville, Ill (PRWEB) December 11, 2012

Infogix Inc., a developer of business operations management software, today announced that Topaz Shared Services, LLC (Topaz) has selected Infogixs reporting and visibility software to help ensure the accuracy and reliability of Topazs customer data. Topaz offers an integrated technology solution for its Blues Plans customers, and the combination of Infogixs software and services will ensure Topazs customers data is accurate and reliable as they entrust their business to Topaz.

Infogix will provide the automated controls and reporting around the administration and delivery of sales, enrollment, billing and customer service to ensure customer data is accurate and reliable, and to help streamline operational efficiency and reduce costs, said Ian Gordon, CEO of Topaz Shared Services. We recognize the importance of a strong, controlled environment and are committed to providing this capability so our customers can focus on servicing their customers.

Topaz will implement a number of products that are part of Infogixs Controls and Visualization Suites:

Controls Suite

Infogix Assure provides the capabilities to implement automated information controls that detect data errors across business operations and the enterprise. By allowing critical processes to execute with streamlined trustworthy data, businesses can reduce costs and unnecessary validation efforts.

Visualization Suite

Infogix Insight provides a dashboard that enables users to view the definition, status, results and history of all controls to help streamline auditing and compliance efforts. This includes the capability to monitor controls, view trending and track exceptions, giving customers the visibility into the detail of possible problems.

Infogix Nexix enables users to view all of a companys KPIs, controls, business processes and reports, and combine data and external URLs by bringing them into a personalized view to monitor all business operations.

Infogix Perceive provides real-time analytics into a companys operations, gives users the ability to merge reconciliation and control operations, as well as the ability to create templates, schedule reports and develop ad-hoc reports. Combining these functions allow users to analyze their companys data based on their own customized needs within their own special environment.

Topaz is partnering with health care information technology company The TriZetto Group, Inc., to provide integrated technology and services solutions for Topaz. The solutions help simplify health care for everyone, improve collaboration among payers and providers, and enable greater efficiency and effectiveness in health care.

Topaz can serve as a model for all providers and payers who are reviewing their operations to determine how to ensure compliance with the new laws while also reducing the cost of operations, said Sumit Nijhawan, chief executive officer, Infogix.

About Topaz Shared Services, LLC

Topaz Share Services delivers an integrated technology suite that allows health plans to get new products to market faster, innovate more effectively and gain cost efficiencies. Topaz Shared Services was formed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) in response to impending market changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, increased competition and the need to offer consumers new options. The Topaz integrated technology solution will be operational for business effective January 1, 2014.

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Colorado Telehealth Network Signs Contract with GNAX Health to Provide Statewide Medical Image Archive and Exchange

Denver, CO (PRWEB) November 26, 2012

The Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN) developed a program that will enable hospitals, imaging centers, clinics and other health care providers in Colorado to safely store and share medical images through a private cloud hosted and managed by GNAX Health on CTN. CTN and GNAX Health are working with the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) and Quality Health Network (QHN)the two Colorado Health Information Exchangesto image-enable their physician portals so that images and diagnostic reports will be available through the HIEs. GNAX Health will also allow CTN to offer disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. In addition, electronic medical records (EMRs) can be integrated with the infrastructure to provide physicians a single interface for viewing all medical images, which is a requirement for Stage 2 Meaningful Use.

Nine CHA member hospitals worked with CTN over the past eight months to develop the imaging program with input from hospitals across Colorado. After a thorough RFI process and evaluation of five solutions, CTN selected a solution provided by GNAX Health through a strategic alliance with Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook. The unique requirements of the CTN program required a specific set of capabilities that is best addressed through this strategic alliance. Several use casessuch as the ability to search, retrieve and exchange medical image studies federated across CTN and view images quickly from the cloudled to this best-of-breed approach.

This pioneering agreement between CTN, GNAX, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook further solidifies our network as a national leader in health information technology and connectivity, comments Ed Bostick, CTN Executive Director. We are confident this new image-storing service has the functionality and advantages our clients deserve, and promises to significantly enhance patient care coordination and quality across Colorado.

The solution combines Acuo’s Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) with Client Outlook’s eUnity clinical image visualization, sharing and collaboration toolset, hosted within GNAX’s health care-focused cloud infrastructure and tier-4 data centersall supported by a cohesive customer support program. This collective solution provides necessary components critical to building a statewide vendor neutral archive and, subsequently, a highly secure disaster recovery and business continuity solution for medical imaging without the infrastructure and costs associated with a traditional model.

GNAX Health is also providing a web-based image exchange service for CTN, called SDEX (Secure DICOM Exchange) that is integrated into the foundation of Acuo’s UCP and utilizes the Client Outlook viewer. It meets the challenge of complicated workflows by integrating with the provider’s employee and patient identification systems to securely access and simplify patient searches. Studies can be retrieved from any of the connected PACS, local edge devices or from the cloud archive, making the location of the image transparent to the end user in addition to reducing the total amount of storage required (because images do not have to be copied in all locations to be accessible).

This is a great example of a successful public-private partnership. This collaboration led to a unique strategic alliance that produces a solution unlike any others in the market, said Jeff Hinkle, chief executive officer for GNAX Health. “This offering tightly integrates world-class clinical content viewing, abstraction and life-cycle management applications, data migration, cloud-computing and customer support services into a single bundle, greatly simplifying the process of administering enterprise medical image access, exchange and management while reducing IT costs.”

“This consortium brings an innovative solution based on IHE standards to CTN,” noted Jeff Timbrook, chief executive officer for Acuo Technologies. “We’ve worked closely with GNAX and Client Outlook to develop an implementation approach that will save CTN significant time and effort.

The benefits of the program to Colorado health care providers and patients are numerous. Patients of participating providers should no longer be required to transport their own imaging studies via CD or film. Consequently, such patients should no longer undergo duplicate studies, reducing unnecessary radiation exposure.

CTN leverages the reciprocal collaborative nature of the solution to make it affordable for all providers in Colorado. The services are available to all CTN members through flexible deployment models that fit each providers needs. The program is financially sustained through a subscription model based on the number of studies ingested and the amount of cloud storage required. Because the program is scaled across the entire state of Colorado, it provides cost savings for both large and small providers. The small hospitals receive an enterprise vendor-neutral archive and exchange solution at a fraction of the cost while gaining access to specialists at larger institutions for their patients. Large providers also benefit from the collaboration with critical access facilities because they can service patients they may not otherwise be able to as easily.

Two hospitals are expected to begin implementation this year, with several additional hospitals slated for 2013.

CTN, along with GNAX Health, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook will summarize the journey to this strategic alliance-based solution during a presentation at RSNA 2012 in Chicago. RSNA attendees can see the presentation on Monday, November 26th at 10:30 a.m. in the South Hall Exhibitor Showcase Theatre, booth 4064. Learn more about the session here: http://go.gnaxhealth.com/RSNA2012-CTN-session.html. RSNA attendees may also schedule an appointment to speak with GNAX Health and CTN executives to learn more about the Colorado program here: http://go.gnaxhealth.com/RSNA-CTN-GNAX_appointment.html.

About the Colorado Telehealth Network

The Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN) is a statewide broadband network formed in 2008 as a result of two Federal Communications Commission (FCC) grant awards to the Colorado Hospital Association and the Colorado Behavioral Health Council. In partnership with the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization and the Quality Health Network, CTN works to improve patient care and safety by providing the core network infrastructure that enables rural health care organizations to increase their use of health information technology; and encourages affiliated health care organizations to collaborate and integrate in ways not possible without a high-capacity, connected network. In January 2012, CTN met its goal of connecting more than 200 hospitals, clinics and behavioral health care centers statewide. For more information, visit http://www.cotelehealth.com.

About GNAX Health

GNAX Health is a leading health care technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider offering hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, labs and many other health care organizations mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed application delivery, backup & disaster recovery, medical image vendor neutral archive (VNA) and enterprise level cloud computing services. GNAX’s 70,000 square-foot mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SSAE 16 Type II compliant with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more by visiting RSNA booth 439 or go to http://www.gnaxhealth.com.

About Acuo Technologies

Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, was founded in 2000 with the objective of developing the first enterprise-wide collaborative Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) solution for medical image content, both DICOM and Non-DICOM. Today, Acuo supports implementations of UCP around the world, including locatio

Colorado Telehealth Network Signs Contract with GNAX Health to Provide Statewide Medical Image Archive and Exchange