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HIStalk Reception, Sponsored by Healthia Consulting
Monday, February 25, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
The Peabody Orlando, 9801 International Drive
Registration required - see signup page.
HISsies Winners
Will be announced at the reception.
HIStalk Goodies
Badge Ribbons - DB Technology # 4442
Badge Ribbons - IntraNexus, Inc. # 1851
Badge Ribbons - Novo Innovations # 4128
Badge Ribbons - RSM McGladrey, Inc. # 4038
Badge Ribbons - Stratus Technologies # 569
Tote Bags - Healthia # 4650
Badge ribbon variants: "I’M MR HISTALK", "KISS ME, I’M INGA", "HISTALK SOURCE", and "HISTALKERS HAVE MORE FUN".
Mr. HIStalk’s Must-See Vendors
Sure, you’re busy at HIMSS. There’s a sea of booths, tons of giveaway junk, and maybe even an education session or two if nothing else is happening.I hope you’ll take a moment to drop by the booths of the vendors listed below. They support HIStalk, and through it, you. Hopefully you read HIStalk because you find it informative, opinionated, or humorous (thank you!) and it takes pretty cool sponsors to fund something that runs against the industry grain.They could stop at any time, spending their money instead on big-ticket advertising or other kinds of marketing. They are here because you are.
Dropping by to say hello at HIMSS would be a great service for HIStalk, ensuring that HIStalk keeps coming free (and that Mrs. HIStalk doesn’t make me come watch stupid TV shows with her instead because this is just a hobby that costs money to enjoy).It would be a great personal favor to me if you would print this list (there’s a PDF link at the top), take it along with you to Orlando, and give the secret handshake to your fellow HIStalkers in the booths. Not only are they supporters, they have some pretty darned good products that might interest you as well. Thank you.
AT&T Booth 5947
Contact
Tammi DeVore
Senior Healthcare Marketing Manager
Industry Solutions
425.580.6658
tammi.devore@att.com
AT&T Mobility is the leader in healthcare communications, combining innovation and industry experience to use technology in new ways and in new places. We are committed to helping you transform healthcare delivery by wirelessly enabling clinician workflow. AT&T combines products and services with an ecosystem of alliance vendors to deliver solutions that meet your goals for quality of care and business performance.
AT&T Says
Come discover new ways to mobilize your clinicians, launch new telehealth solutions, and integrate devices to your enterprise system. Interact with innovative technologies, speak with our specialists, and strategize unique solutions for your organization.
Mr. HIStalk Says
AT&T has many services you may not know about: remote worker productivity solutions, home health and remote monitoring, enterprise business continuation, and a variety of voice and data services and the convergence of both. Stop by to see what’s new. Looking for a company with heavy R&D, an impressive track record, and strong industry support? Well, how can you beat AT&T?
Design Clinicals Booth 3923
Contact
Dewey Howell, MD, PhD
5200 Southcenter Blvd
Seattle, WA 98188
888.633.7320
deweyhowell@designclinicals.com
http://www.designclinicals.comAs a company founded by physicians and IT experts, we provide innovative software solutions that improve patient safety and reduce medication errors. Our MedsTracker tool facilitates medication reconciliation workflow for physicians, nurses and pharmacists, enabling hospitals to exceed TJC National Patient Safety goals and ensure safe medication use for patients.
Design Clinicals Says
We will be demonstrating the power and usability of MedsTracker, so please stop by to try it out yourself. You won’t be disappointed!
Mr. HIStalk Says
Think nobody’s figured out medication reconciliation? These guys have. They are ultra-smart and are clinicians, so you will find their solution to take medication reconciliation beyond simple "yes, we’re doing it — kind of" applications that technically meet the need without really adding any value to patient outcomes. Their solution works with whatever systems you’re using. If you’re having a medication reconciliation problem, you need to talk to Dewey Howell or one of the other Design Clinicals folks.
EHR Scope Booth 6082
Contact
http://www.ehrscope.com
Dragon NaturallySpeaking speeds up EMR adoption by minimizing the workflow changes required by busy physicians. See a demonstration of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical at booth 6082.Or visit http://www.ehrscope.com to see all the EMRs which are compatible with Dragon Medical.
EnovateIT Booth 1775
Contact
Michael Armstrong
1250 Woodward Heights
Ferndale, MI 48220
248.655.0548
marmstrong@enovateit.com
http://www.enovateit.com
Our mission at EnovateIT is to create a better work environment for clinicians. Our comprehensive solutions merge experience, innovation, ergonomics, and technology to meet healthcare information needs
EnovateIT says
We specialize in designing and facilitating wall computing stations, wireless point-of-care carts, and medical technologies for the healthcare marketplace.
Mr. HIStalk Says
Poorly designed carts are a waste of money and will rarely leave the nurses’ “cart corral.” EnovateIT provides the consulting services, customization, and hospital experience required to impact caregiver satisfaction and care delivery. Computing stations and carts are an integral part of a clinical systems implementations. Why jeopardize a multi-million dollar project by picking devices no one will use? Get clinicians to go mobile with the right technologies. When I got to HIMSS, I have to stop by and just feel and smell their carts - they’re as highly functional and sexy as a BMW.
eScription Booth 2610
Contact
160 Gould Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.455.8900
http://www.escription.com
eScription provides Computer Aided Medical Transcription (CAMT) software that enables healthcare organizations to achieve significant cost savings and shorter document turnaround time. An enterprise-wide solution, the company’s proprietary background speech recognition software turns clinicians’ dictations into formatted draft documents that medical transcriptionists review and edit, often doubling their productivity. The software imposes little if any change on clinicians, while integrating well with existing technology platforms.
Greenway Medical Technologies Booth 1263
Contact
770.836.3100
info@greenwaymedical.com
http://www.greenwaymedical.com
Greenway Medical Technologies is a leading provider of single database electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solutions and on-demand services for physician practices and hospital community EHR strategies. Greenway’s 2007 CCHIT Certified EHR solution, PrimeSuite®2007 r2, streamlines a practice’s clinical, financial and administrative processes.
Healthcare Growth Partners Booth 4878
Contact
Jon Phillips
792 Chatham Avenue
Elmhurst, IL 60126
312.286.4333
jp@healthcaregrowth.com
http://www.healthcaregrowth.com
Healthcare Growth Partners provides investment banking and strategic advisory services to small and mid-size, high-growth companies with an exclusive focus on healthcare information technology and technology-enabled services. With this focus, the firm leverages its experienced management team, strong execution capabilities, and deep network of contacts within the industry to provide efficient and high value processes for clients.
Healthia Consulting Booth 4650
Contact
www.healthiaconsulting.com
Join the consulting firm committed to your success. At Healthia Consulting, we’re equally committed to client success and opportunities for professional growth for our colleagues. Visit us to learn more about opportunities to advance your career or partner with us on your next project.
Healthia Says
Connect with industry leaders at the inaugural HIStalk reception sponsored by Healthia. RSVP at www.healthiaconsulting.com/HIStalkevent as space is limited.
Mr. HIStalk Says
I’ve never consulted for a living, but if I wanted to, I’d call Healthia. They’ve got a lobby full of work-life balance awards along with those for running a great consulting company. They’re just the nicest people you would ever want to meet. Drop by and say hello to Glenn Galloway or Shawna Schueller and see what I mean. Not only do they sponsor HIStalk, they volunteered out of the blue to put on the HIStalk reader event (you don’t even want to know what it’s costing them). I greatly appreciate their support.
InterSystems Booth 1163
Contact
http://www.InterSystems.com/healthcare
For 30 years, InterSystems has been a leader in healthcare IT innovation. InterSystems’ products, the Caché object database, Ensemble rapid integration platform, and HealthShare health information network platform, enable rapid creation, integration, and deployment of high-performance systems for connected healthcare. Visit us at booth 1163 at HIMSS.
McKesson Booth 3035
RelayHealth Booth 2663
OTN, a McKesson Specialty Company Booth 2925
Contact
McKesson Provider Technologies
5995 Windward Parkway
Alpharetta, GA 30005
404.338.2583
http://www.mckesson.com
McKesson is a leader in software, automation, services and consulting to hospitals, physician practices, imaging centers, homecare agencies and payors. We also provide interactive connectivity services that streamline clinical, financial and administrative communication for healthcare stakeholders. The result? Care that is safer, more efficient, and better connected.
McKesson Says
The call to transform healthcare grows daily – from both public and private sectors. It’s no longer a question of if or even when, but how fast it can be done. McKesson and its employees are committed to giving caregivers the power to perform and achieve measurable results as they strengthen the provider/patient connection.
Mr. HIStalk Says
I confess that Awarix wasn’t on my radar until Jon Phillips told me it was the smartest acquisition of 2007. I’ve read up on it since and it’s darned cool and now even more widely available as Horizon Expert Visibility (check out the easy ROI and make sure to see how cool at looks when you’re at HIMSS). We also talked to the folks in Worforce Management Solution Suite and it resonated with me because at hospitals I’ve worked, labor was 70% of our operating cost and it was sporadically and manually managed instead of using sophisticated staffing, HR, timeclock, and shift-bidding tools. Hospitals that can’t manage labor will never be successful. McKesson’s booth will be easy to find, so surely it’s worth a visit.
Medicity Booth 3641
Contact
Brent Dover
56 E. Broadway
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
801.322.4444
SHill@Medicity.com
http://www.Medicity.com
Physicians want access to complete, real-time patient data regardless of the technology in their office. Medicity delivers proven interoperability solutions on behalf of hospitals, IDNs, and RHIO/HIEs—enabling physicians to receive information via the web, mobile devices, printers, fax, and directly into their EMR. Demos are available at Booth #3641.
NextGen Booth 3463
Contact
sales@nextgen.com
Hospitals and practices use NextGen because we offer the market’s leading ambulatory EMR & practice management system, featuring interoperability with numerous inpatient systems, specialty content to ensure fast user adoption and standardized data capture, and enterprise architecture to support large, multi-specialty sites. Visit us at HIMSS booth #3463.
Noteworthy Medical Systems Booth 1283
Contact
Christine Brock
Noteworthy Medical Systems, Inc.
6001 Landerhaven Drive, Unit D
Cleveland, OH 44124
800.224.9740
http://www.noteworthymedical.com
Achieve more with the industry’s most powerful suite of tools from Noteworthy Medical Systems. Our integrated EHR/PM system partners Just 3 Screens™ EHR innovation, ePrescribing, E&M calculation, and clinical decision support with our PM’s robust workflow management, scheduling, billing, reports and more to provide the ultimate profitability tools for your practice.
Novo Innovations Booth 4128
Contact
Bill Sims
3600 Mansell Road
Alpharetta, GA 30022
770-573-2567
bill.sims@novoinnovations.com
http://www.novoinnovations.com
Novo Innovations is the leader in healthcare interoperability and exchange solutions, providing a practical solution for information exchange between hospital systems and physician offices. Novo’s next-generation technology and comprehensive integration services provide a complete solution that addresses the needs of small hospitals and the largest health systems.
Picis Booth 2849
Contact
Megan Kelley, Marketing Operations Specialist
100 Quannapowitt Parkway, Suite 405
Wakefield, MA 01880
781.557.3000
http://www.picis.com
Picis is a leading provider of healthcare information systems for high-acuity care areas — the emergency department, the operating room and the intensive care unit. Picis software and services transform these demanding areas into highly-efficient operations and helps support clinicians need for fast, accurate and complete patient records. Picis has licensed systems used by more than 1,000 hospitals in 19 countries.
Premise Corporation Booth 2115
Contact
http://www.PremiseUSA.com
Premise optimizes patient flow and care management across leading hospitals and healthcare systems, from admissions through placement, ancillary services, turnover and reporting.
QuadraMed Booth 1645
Contact
12110 Sunset Hills Road
Reston, VA 20190
703.709.2300
http://www.quadramed.com
We develop IT solutions that enable healthcare organizations to simultaneously improve the documentation, quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care along with coding, billing, and collections functions – from initial patient contact through discharge. QuadraMed’s Care-Based Revenue Cycle solutions help hospitals grapple with the business realities of healthcare: the need to achieve financial strength year after year so they can fulfill their mission of providing quality care.
QuadraMed Says
Take our survey at www.quadramed.com/himss and receive a free gift!
Mr. HIStalk Says
I can vouch for their solutions since I was a former customer of several of them. They’ve got the top ranked MPI and patient registration and accounting systems, plus everybody knows how good their HIM products are and I’ll throw in my two cents for the former TempusOne enterprise scheduling system that’s now part of their solution. You really should check out QCPR, the former Misys CPR that’s now QuadraMed’s clinical solution. As I’ve said for years, it’s a great product that deserved more attentive owners and now it’s found them.
RelayHealth Booth 2663
Contact
Janeen Cook
1145 Sanctuary Parkway
Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30004
770.237.7918
janeen.cook@relayhealth.com
www.relayhealth.com
RelayHealth operates as a neutral partner in an open network environment, offering healthcare connectivity services and integration among all organizations, systems, and solutions. Its intelligent network is designed to streamline clinical, financial and administrative communication between patients, providers, payors, pharmacies and financial institutions. RelayHealth works to accelerate the delivery of high-quality care and improve financial performance through solutions such as online consultation of physicians by patients, electronic prescribing, point-of-service pharmacy claims resolution by payors, pre-visit patient financial clearance by providers, and post-visit provider bill settlement by payors and patients. RelayHealth securely processes more than 10 billion financial and clinical transactions annually.
RelayHealth Says
Got pain with getting results delivered to physicians and patients? RelayHealth’s new Results Distribution Service (RDS) electronically distributes clinical results and other patient care documentation in real time from hospitals to participating physician practices. The hospital delivers the results through RelayHealth’s “software as a service” (SaaS) actionable web messaging platform. The secure RDS transmission gives physicians actionable access to the most current data for making informed decisions. The physician can then securely exchange the information with referring doctors to promote collaboration, and communicate with patients to enhance interaction and self-care. Additionally, the results data can be delivered directly to the medical practice’s electronic medical record (EMR) or a Web browser. Visit our booth to learn more!
Mr. HIStalk Says
I didn’t realize until we did the HIStech Report interview that RelayHealth has such a broad set of offerings, covering consumers, providers, and payers. I expect them to continue being a leading player in transaction processing, clinical data exchange, personal health records, and provider communication.
Sage Software Booth 4001
Contact
2202 N. West Shore Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33607
813.202.5000
http://www.sagehealth.com
Sage Software provides solutions that allow practices to optimize the patient’s experience while enhancing the practice’s bottom line. Our industry-leading three-pronged approach includes products – including practice management, electronic health records and business intelligence software – thirty years of experience, and connectivity that enables electronic communication between practices and other providers, payers and facilities
Sage Software Says
Stop by to see how we connect practices to hospitals, laboratories, payers and patients.
Mr. HIStalk Says
These guys have a good story to tell on the physician systems side of the house, so please visit them at HIMSS. Sage is a one-stop shop for physician technologies, including CCHIT-certified EHRs, top-of-the-line practice management solutions, and business analytics. You can trust your practice to a large, experienced company like Sage Software.
SCI Solutions
Contact
cdullea@scisolutions.comwww.scisolutions.com
SCI Solutions is transforming the way healthcare providers deliver a superior customer experience. SCI offers the industry’s premier solutions for enabling healthcare organizations to improve their Access Management processes, with an emphasis on easing patient access, starting the revenue cycle earlier, increasing automation, and supporting the movement to consumer-driven healthcare.
SCI Says
With our LASER FOCUS on Access Management and Revenue Cycle Processes, SCI has opted out of HIMSS this year. Instead we will demonstrate our ORDER FACILITATOR, SCHEDULE MAXIMIZER and REVENUE ACCELERATOR products at NAHAM (the National Association of Healthcare Access Management) May 4-6, 2008 and via online webinars throughout the year! For more information, check in with us at www.scisolutions.com.
Mr. HIStalk Says
I’ve admired this company going back to their days as Scheduling.com. CEO John Holton is an industry pioneer and our usual contact there is VP Cindy Dullea, who also happens to be Rear Admiral (Select) in the United States Navy as I found out when I interviewed her. Anyway, SCI won’t be at HIMSS because it’s not really their core audience as access management experts, but you should definitely check them out after the conference. If you want to keep your customers (both doctors and patients) happy and work your revenue cycle optimally, you need experts, not just some slide-in vendor solution that claims to be integrated but can’t offer the capabilities of a focused system.
Sentillion Booth 6463
Contact
978.689.9095
info@sentillion.comhttp://www.sentillion.com
Sentillion unveils its newest authentication innovation - Tap & Go! With Tap & Go caregivers have secure access to clinical systems with the touch of a badge. Sentillion will be offering hands-on demos of Tap & Go as well as its provisioning, SSO, context management and virtualized remote access solutions.
Sentillion Says
Stop by and see how quickly you can access clinical systems with Sentillion’s newest authentication feature and while you’re at it don’t forget to pick up a Sentillion “green fish” tote bag.
Mr. HIStalk Says
Now first of all, I love that green fish and I didn’t know they were giving away tote bags, so I’m snagging one for sure. Second, Sentillion is the one-stop shop for single sign-on, context management, application virtualization, and all kinds of cool stuff. Basically, if it involves security, remote access, application synchronization, or any kind of user management, they are the healthcare-specific experts. I think the expreSSO application for single sign-on is cool and its movie scene-like "application learning" promises to make SSO affordable and usable by hospitals of all sizes. I bet your doctors gripe constantly about multiple passwords, resets, and lack of synchronization across best-of-breed clinical apps. Sentillion can fix your problems.
SolCom Booth 5282
Contact
4510 N. Lewis Ave.
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
605.357.8212
sales@solcominc.com
http://www.solcominc.com
SolCom provides solutions and services specifically for healthcare. SolComHealth software automates health record processes and connects existing systems to establish a comprehensive, enterprise-wide solution. SolComSource scanning services streamline documents into the electronic patient record. No barcodes or forms redesign are required and costs can be managed on a per-page basis.
Sonitor Technologies Booth 3815
Contact
http://www.sonitor.com
Sonitor Technolgoies’ ultrasonic Indoor Positioning (IPS) automatically tracks the real-time location of equipment and people in hospitals with 100% room or bed-level accuracy. Other advantages over RFID and WiFi: sero risk of electromagnetic interference, minimal LAN bandwidth requirements, lower cost.
Stratus Technologies Booth 569
Contact
Come by and learn how Stratus delivers solutions that offer the superior availability solutions that healthcare organizations need to provide quality patient care. Stratus combines fault-tolerant servers with services, ftScalable storage, and industry-leading partner applications to create turn-key solutions that cut the risk, time and costs of implementing new technologies.
Stratus Says
Our renowned server design prevents downtime from impacting your HIS, EMR and other critical applications!
Mr. HIStalk Says
These are the guys that have been delivering critical information system technologies for 25 years, long before high availability was something we thought much about in healthcare. Today’s systems are too critical to just sit there on off-the-rack Dell or HP servers without the high-availability solutions offered by Stratus. If you’re a CIO, think of it as career insurance.
The Revere Group Booth 2334
The White Stone Group Booth 3310
Contact
2030 Falling Waters Road
Knoxville, TN 37922
865.531.4545
http://www.twsg.com
The White Stone Group Says
Nearly 400 hospitals nationwide have employed The White Stone Group’s software solutions to capture and archive managed care, administrative, and clinical communications, indexing each record by patient for easy access and retrieval. Proven results from this unique approach include improved revenue cycle results, enhanced quality, and greater management capabilities.
Mr. HIStalk Says
These are fun people with a different take on work and their mission, so you should pay them a visit at HIMSS. Their focus on "communications events" of all kinds provides solutions for reducing claims denials and improving information those hand-offs that Joint Commission will be asking you about soon. Their technology is cool and I don’t know of any vendor doing anything quite like TWSG.
Vendors by Booth Number
569 Stratus Technologies
1163 InterSystems
1263 Greenway
1283 Noteworthy
1645 Quadramed
1775 Ennovate IT
2115 Premise Corporation
2334 The Revere Groups
2610 eScription
2663 McKesson
2849 Picis
2925 McKesson
3035 McKesson
3310 The White Stone Group
3463 NextGen
3641 Medicity
3815 Sonitor Technologies
3923 Design Clinicals
4001 Sage
4129 Novo Innovations
4650 Healthia Consulting
4978 Healthcare Growth Partners
5282 SolCom
5947 AT&T
6082 EHR Scope
6463 Sentillion
