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MedVentive taps Nancy Brown for CGO spot

September 2, 2010 by MassDevice staff

New MedVentive chief growth officer Nancy Brown to head the company's sales, marketing and business development efforts.

MedVentive Inc. appointed Nancy Brown as chief growth officer.

Brown joined the Waltham, Mass.-based healthcare information technology provider from electronic medical records firm Athenahealth Inc. (NSDQ:ATHN) of neighboring Watertown, Mass.

Her new role includes heading MedVentive’s sales, marketing and business development as the company reconfigures its products to new U.S. healthcare legislation.

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Weekly Wireless Roundup: Monitor your baby with wireless pajamas

September 1, 2010 by MassDevice

Monitor your baby with wireless pajamas; Medgadget's review of Lenovo's new all-in-one touchscreen PC; vital signs monitor interfaces directly with EHR's; NovoDose mobile app helps docs determine insulin needs.

Weekly Wireless Roundup: Monitor your baby with wireless pajamas

Monitor your baby with wireless pajamas: McLean, Va.-based Exmovere claims to have developed baby clothing, called Exmobaby, that can monitor a child's heart rate, "emotional state," and level of activity, and relay that information wirelessly to a computer or cell phone. Paranoid parents will be able to keep a virtual eye on their kids 24/7, and maybe worries about SIDS and infant sleep apnea can be diminished. An initial production of 1,000 units will be made available in 2011 to select customers.

AHA survey: Only 2 percent of hospitals could have met meaningful use last year

August 30, 2010 by MassDevice staff

Only about 2 percent of hospitals could have met the healthcare reform act's "meaningful use" requirements for electronic medical records in 2009, according to a survey by the American Hospital Assn.

A small fraction of U.S. hospitals reported using electronic medical records software last year and even fewer would have met new requirements for "meaningful use" of the systems in 2009, according to an American Hospital Assn. survey.

The group's poll of about 3,100 hospitals between March and November 2009 showed that fewer than 12 percent used EMRs and just 2 percent of those could have passed the meaningful use standards announced in July.

"These findings underscore the fact that the transition to a digital health care system is likely to be a long one," the report's author's wrote.

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WaveMark pulls in $3.9 million

August 27, 2010 by MassDevice staff

WaveMark Inc. completes a $3.9 million equity offering.

Healthcare radio frequency identification technology firm WaveMark Inc. brought in $3.9 million in an equity offering, according to a Securities & Exchange Commission filing.

The Littleton, Mass.-based firm raised the cash from 20 different investors, according to the Aug. 25 filing.

WaveMark makes RFID products for the healthcare industry that enable hospitals and medical device suppliers to track their inventories.

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Carefx inks deal with hospital consortium for business intelligence platform

August 26, 2010 by MedCity News

Carefx signs a deal with University HealthSystem Consortium to supply business intelligence software to the group's 340 hospitals.

A company that licensed technology from a Cleveland Clinic spin-off is supplying its business intelligence software to a consortium of more than 300 hospitals.

Earlier this year, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Carefx Corp. licensed from Clinic spin-off IntellisEPM the right to market and develop so-called "dashboards" that deliver information about how a hospital is performing on a wide range of measures, from quality of care to patient outcomes to scheduling.

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Intelligent Mobile's mhealth platform for healthcare sales reps

August 24, 2010 by MedCity News

Cleveland-based start-up Intelligent Mobile Support hopes to capitalize on the steady growth of mobile Internet access.

Cleveland-area start-up Intelligent Mobile Support is hoping to cash in on the shift to hand-held devices.

Morgan Stanley estimates the number of mobile Internet users to eclipse their desk-bound counterparts within five years. One-year-old Intelligent Mobile markets its mobile platform to medical equipment and device companies so they can deliver training and product support materials to sales representatives in the field.

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Athenahealth parses practice management platform to offer stand-alone EHR product

August 19, 2010 by MassDevice staff

Athenahealth Inc. begins offering its web-based athenaClinicals electronic health records service as a stand-alone offering.

Athenahealth Inc. (NSDQ:ATHN) now offers electronic health records service athenaClinicals as a stand-alone system.

The company formerly only bundled the EHR service with its athenaCollector billing service to offer a plenary practice manangement platform.

The Watertown, Mass.-based company said the new option will give its hospital and enterprise clients more leeway with community-level programs and allow the company to be more competitive in an increasingly diverse EHR market.