LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– RealMed helped Adventist Health System achieve 17 percent better time-to-payment, automated workflows, and standardization across multiple physician practices and seven central billing offices, according to a case study released today at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society’s Annual Conference.

Adventist Health System is the focus of the case study, which details how the organization decreased time-to-payment by nine days per month through improved claim denial management, automated workflows and better management of physician practice billing processes using RealMed, an industry leading revenue cycle management solutions provider.

In a time when many hospitals are challenged with inefficient billing processes and disparate IT systems – particularly when integrating new physician practices – Adventist Health System found a solution to help standardize multiple billing offices using a common tool to drive revenue and improve workflow.

“RealMed helped us achieve our business goals,” said Tim Reiner, vice president of revenue cycle management for Adventist Health System. “We were hindered by the inefficiency of inconsistent and manual billing processes, and RealMed helped us overcome these obstacles.”

Adventist Health System, an Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based health care organization with 43 hospitals and 55,000 employees in 10 states, was able to reduce claim denials and lower the average age of accounts receivables with the help of RealMed.

“RealMed not only helps health care providers get paid faster, but is a proven solution to the many challenges facing health care organizations in today’s increasingly complex business environment,” said Russ Thomas, Availity’s chief operating officer and incoming CEO. “We’re proud that Adventist Health System is able to demonstrate and share the value that RealMed offers, so others can also realize these tremendous benefits to organizations of all sizes.”

RealMed, an Availity company, is based in Indianapolis, Ind. It uses the power of automated workflows to connect health plan and practice management systems, facilitating payments and transactions among patients, providers and health plans. RealMed’s combines technology and customer support to maximize revenue, lower operating costs and increase productivity.

About Availity, LLC – Patients. Not Paperwork.^®

Availity optimizes information exchange between multiple health care stakeholders through a single, secure network. The Availity^® Health Information Network encompasses administrative, financial, and clinical services, supporting both real-time and batch electronic data interchange via the web and through business-to-business integration. For more information, including an online demonstration, please visit www.availity.com or call 1.800.AVAILITY (282.4548).

Company’s Flagship Mobile App Elevates Safety Standards and Functionality in Perinatal Care  

 Available on Smartphones & Tablets

LAS VEGAS – HIMSS Annual Conference, CliniComp booth # 3060 – February 21, 2012 - CliniComp, Intl., the leading healthcare integration technology provider for high acuity environments, today announced the general availability of its Mobile Essentris® Perinatal®, pairing 30 years of innovation and zero downtime with the convenience and added safeguards of real-time Fetal Surveillance & Maternal Monitoring mobilely.  Through the Maternal/Fetal Status Board, clinicians can quickly identify patients in need of immediate care and view in real-time their fetal records to document actions wirelessly, drastically improving patient safety, all from the palm of their hand.

Mobile Essentris® Perinatal® is the first in a suite of mobile apps that CliniComp, Intl. plans to introduce to the marketplace in 2012, available for use on mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.  Mobility allows clinicians to interact with the complete EMR anywhere they are and is part of the new CliniComp Essentris® Eco-System™.  The CliniComp Essentris® Eco-System™ will allow all devices, such as desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones, to have a common user access to the complete CliniComp Essentris® EMR, starting with Perinatal.

Through wifi or cellular, the mobile app features a convenient application that has doctors and other caregivers connected to CliniComp Essentris® EMR platform, seamlessly and securely.

“Mobile Essentris® Perinatal® is the next step in the evolution of innovation for the electronic medical record industry,” said Chris Haudenschild, Chairman and CEO of CliniComp, Intl.  “Our customers have told us that mobility is important to their success.  We are committed to making these new and exciting capabilities of mobile healthcare within reach to all customers by extending the our complete inpatient EMR solutions to mobility — fostering increased patient safety and quality of care, while maintaining the decades of reliability and security for which we are known.”

CliniComp, Intl. will demonstrate the new Essentris® Perinatal® Mobile App along with other Product Developments at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition booth #3060.

About CliniComp, Intl.

CliniComp, Intl. is a global provider of hospital-wide clinical documentation systems that improve the efficiency and safety of health care providers’ highest-acuity workflows with a unique and unparalleled record of decades of absolute system uptime.  The CliniComp Essentris® clinical workflow suite is comprised of complete electronic charting and surveillance solutions hospital-wide and offers industry leading reliability for acute, critical, emergency and perinatal care. The Clinicomp Essentris solution is deployed across 7 countries and 3 continents and is fully capable of being configured in any language.  CliniComp, Intl. is the provider of inpatient documentation solutions to federal health care facilities worldwide, including both DoD and VA hospitals.  For more information call 800-350-8202 or visit www.clinicomp.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/clinicompintl.

Live product demonstrations and client case presentations to showcase how providers can enhance patient flow, increase efficiency, and improve asset management and availability

LAS VEGAS, HIMSS Conference, Booth 3412 – Feb. 21, 2012 – Awarepoint Corporation, the leading provider of real-time location system (RTLS) solutions for healthcare, today launched the new version of its aware360°Suite of real-time location system solutions at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition. Through live demonstrations and client case studies at booth #3412, the company will showcase aware360°Suite,the industry’s only complete RTLS solution that optimizes healthcare workflow, increases care team efficiency, and improves asset management and availability.

“Today’s hospitals and health systems are asked to do more with less, yet the biggest revenue-generating departments – emergency, surgery, cardiovascular, and oncology – can all be adversely impacted by the lack of real-time visibility of critical assets,” said Jay Deady, CEO of Awarepoint. “It is becoming all too clear that the ineffective utilization of high-value assets has a significant negative effect on clinical and patient care, not to mention process workflow. That’s why we are excited to introduce the new version of our flagship solution at the healthcare technology industry’s premier conference. The aware360°Suite expands the visibility and management of facility assets to dramatically increase top-line revenue growth without compromising quality of care.”

Awarepoint’s aware360°Suite translates real-time data into actionable intelligence by enabling hospitals and health systems to monitor the location of patients, staff, and assets. Users also can aggregate that information with their scheduling systems and electronic health records to improve operating efficiency, reduce costs, enhance equipment workflow, and augment staff productivity across their enterprise.

Recent enhancements to the aware360°Suite allow administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of healthcare. The aware360°Suite modules include:

• awareAssets – enables organizations to locate and manage assets, monitor temperature and humidity, reduce shrinkage and rentals, increase equipment utilization, and track sterilization of instrument trays.
• awarePatientCare - facilitates patient flow by expediting communication about the patient’s care plan and condition, ensuring awareness of roadblocks in care, and supporting data analysis to drive process improvement.
• awareCareTeam - improves communication and care coordination by simplifying the process of locating care team members; also integrates with communication systems to streamline synchronization of personnel.
• awareSurgical - measures location, movement and interactions between patients, staff and equipment to identify and communicate care milestones, help staff anticipate and manage their workflow, and streamline perioperative patient flow.
• awareED - helps hospital staff visualize care progression of patients in the emergency department, simplifies access to patient information and improves ED throughput.
• awareRadiology - leverages location tracking and workflow rules and interfaces with scheduling systems to move patients efficiently through their procedure.
• awareHandHygiene - captures information and generates reports, enabling facilities to ensure hand hygiene compliance by physicians, nurses and other employees to reduce preventable infections caused poor hand washing and food handling practices.

Also being unveiled this week is Awarepoint’s bed-level accurate sensor, the S3B. “Ninety percent of all workflow milestones are driven by patient-staff interactions that occur at the bedside and the S3B allows us to detect those interactions with 100% certainty,” says Awarepoint’s CTO Matt Perkins. “Working in concert with our room-level accurate S2C workflow sensor, we can drive any aware360 Suit module and be confident that the care path is automated without error.” Awarepoint is wrapping up technical trials this quarter and expects to make the S3B generally available later this year.

Live booth demonstrations of Awarepoint’s aware360°Suite will be available throughout the conference showcasing how the solutions increase patient throughput and increase capacity management. In addition, attendees can register for a live demonstration with an Awarepoint representative for a chance to win an iPad 2.

On Wednesday, Feb. 22, HIMSS conference participants can attend in-booth presentations from Awarepoint clients. The presenters will describe how they were able to achieve unprecedented outcomes and hard return on investment. Lawrence Grossflam, director, clinical systems, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Gregg Stepp, director, supply chain operations, Texoma Medical Center will be sharing their stories in a panel presentation at 4:00 p.m. Attendees can R.S.V.P. here.

For screen shot of the new version of aware360°Suite, please click http://www.flickr.com/photos/74049452@N04/6910917807/in/photostream.

About Awarepoint

Awarepoint provides the only complete RTLS solution optimizing healthcare workflow for improving asset management and availability, optimal patient flow, and increasing care team efficiency.

The company’s aware360°Suite provides unmatched real-time location system (RTLS) technology, best-in-class software, and fully managed services for the healthcare enterprise. By improving asset, patient, and personnel visibility across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the Quality, Efficiency, Experience, and Economics of care. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com/.

The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit pioneer and leader in healthcare delivery through health information technology, announced today that it has partnered with MITRE’s Center for Transforming Health to demonstrate comparative measure results for meaningful use quality metrics reporting at the HIMSS 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, NV from February 20-24.  MAeHC will showcase its recently ONC-ATB certified commercially- available Quality Data Center (QDC) in comparison with the ONC-sponsored popHealth tool by MITRE to evaluate quality measures at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase in Hall G, Exhibit Booth #11000, ONC/FHA area.

MAeHC and MITRE to Demonstrate Comparison of the MAeHC Quality Data Center Meaningful Use Measure Reporting with PopHealth

Waltham, Mass., February 21, 2012 – The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit pioneer and leader in healthcare delivery through health information technology, announced today that it has partnered with MITRE’s Center for Transforming Health, a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest, to demonstrate comparative measure results for meaningful use quality metrics reporting at the HIMSS 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, NV from February 20-24.  MAeHC will showcase its recently ONC-ATB certified commercially- available Quality Data Center (QDC) in comparison with the ONC-sponsored popHealth tool by MITRE to evaluate quality  measures at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase in Hall G, Exhibit Booth #11000, ONC/FHA area.

To support the growing need for quality metrics in healthcare, the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase has dedicated this year’s exhibition to “Breaking Barriers to Interoperable Healthcare” to provide an educational forum for attendees by featuring health IT solutions from vendors and government-funded initiatives. This year’s solutions include the MAeHC QDC, a standards-based web application which securely extracts, aggregates, and analyzes patient level health information from EHR and HIE systems, and popHealth, an open-source clinical quality measure reporting reference implementation that works with a provider’s electronic health record (EHR) system, to evaluate quality measures for a population of patients, and share benchmarked results as well as observations and lessons learned for providers and vendors engaged in clinical data analytics.

“The future is already here, and it’s in data analytics,” said Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. “The MAeHC QDC is a commercially-available, federally-certified data analytics solution which takes in and analyzes millions of patient records annually.  As a non-profit organization, we were delighted to accept the invitation to work with MITRE and benchmark our production QDC with the popHealth tool and to share the results at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase.  As we will show at HIMSS, the tools are available today for healthcare providers to affordably bridge the gap between the limited capabilities of their independent clinical systems and the information mastery required for value based health care delivery such as accountable care and patient-centered medical home, but we’ve still got a long way to go before we can call these solutions plug-n-play.”

MAeHC delivers hands-on tactical support and sustainable strategies to help providers improve healthcare delivery within their own organizations and across communities. The QDC uniquely helps MAeHC connect communities by providing a comprehensive, on-demand data warehousing solution that seamlessly extracts and aggregates data from multiple clinical systems and provides timely feedback that helps clinical teams improve overall quality.

In 2009, ONC sponsored the development of the open-source popHealth tool by MITRE, a not-for-profit organization chartered to work solely in the public interest, to empower providers to easily perform their own clinical quality measures analysis as well as promote easier submission of meaningful use clinical quality measures to public health organizations. Both solutions support the electronic specifications for all 44 of the Meaningful Use Stage 1 clinical quality measures for eligible professionals. At the Interoperability Showcase, the QDC and popHealth solutions will pull from a common source set of HITSP C32 standard documents, to demonstrate the interoperability of these systems for producing Clinical Quality Measure results that streamline the submission of clinical quality measure reports for Meaningful Use and other purposes.

“Through our partnership with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, we are able to support enabling innovative solutions to address complex national problems,” said Joy Keeler Tobin, Chief of Health Informatics for MITRE’s Center for Transforming Health. “MITRE is excited about popHealth’s impact on the healthcare community and introducing a tool that easily reports and applies what is learned to the delivery of healthcare,” said Tobin. “We hope the joint popHealth and MAeHC QDC demonstrations will illustrate the true power of interoperability.”

For additional information regarding the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase, the hours and list of participants, visit: http://www.himssconference.org/exhibition/interop.aspx.

For more information about popHealth, visit ONC’s home page: www.projectpophealth.org.

About Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)

The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative is a national leader in the facilitation and management of electronic health record deployment, health information exchange and quality measure reporting. MAeHC is an independent non-profit corporation with a charitable mission to improve the delivery of health care by promoting the use of health IT.  Formed in 2004 as a collaboration of non-profit health care stakeholders to demonstrate the most effective ways to deploy EHRs and HIE to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and affordability of care in Massachusetts, MAeHC now works across the United States with a wide range of physician practices, hospitals, state governments, contracting networks, management services organizations, HIE organizations, technology vendors, and consulting firms.  To learn more about the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, please visit www.maehc.org.

About The MITRE Corporation

The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that provides systems engineering, research and development, and information technology support to the government. It operates federally funded research and development centers for the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, with principal locations in Bedford, Mass., and McLean, Va. To learn more, visit: www.mitre.org.

Web-based project management tool offers a more efficient approach to managing projects and implementations

Demos will take place during HIMSS12 in booth #3926

LAS VEGAS, NV – February 21, 2012 – Healthcare management consulting firm, Beacon Partners, announced today a new Web-based project management and implementation tool called Pillars Project Planner. Pillars offers healthcare organizations real-time access to their projects, making implementations and overall project workflow more consistent and efficient.

Pillars simplifies large databases of tasks, owners, hours, dates and milestones to help keep projects on time and on budget. The project management tool provides customizable dashboards, communication tools and powerful reporting capabilities for a real-time view into each phase of a project, keeping it on track every step of the way. Pillars’ current healthcare project templates include CPOE, ICD-10 and HIPAA Security, with other templates in development.

Attendees of the HIMSS12 Conference in Las Vegas will be able to see live demonstrations of Pillars in the Beacon Partners booth #3926.

“Managing workflow for an implementation project is challenging and stressful for a healthcare organization. Pillars is designed to help improve project planning efficiencies and communication by offering a consolidated database for issues and work plans coupled with powerful reporting functionality,” explains Daniela Mahoney, vice president at Beacon Partners. “Pillars allows you to efficiently manage projects, such as cross-disciplinary CPOE or ICD-10 implementations, providing the team with a variety of indicators to help keep projects on time and on budget.”

Top features of Pillars include:

·      User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive, easy-to-use interface
·      Dashboards: Customizable dashboards for all levels of users, from clinicians to PMPs
·      User Management:  Individually manage each user’s access and permissions
·      Task Management: Manage all your tasks and team members from one location
·      Issue Management: Built-in issue tracker easily links tasks and issues
·      Project Communication: Built-in messaging system automatically notifies team members of important changes to their projects via Pillars mail or email
·      Reporting and Exporting: Provides up-to-the-minute information on your projects that can be shared outside of your team in Word, Excel or PDF format

For more information, demonstrations will be given at HIMSS12 in booth #3926, or visit http://BeaconPartners.com/Pillars or contact Pillars@BeaconPartners.com. Participate in the Pillars demo at HIMSS12 and be entered to win an iPad®2.

About Beacon Partners

As one of the largest healthcare management consulting firms, Beacon Partners <http://www.beaconpartners.com/> is chosen by organizations in the healthcare community to provide advisory services to improve overall operational, clinical and financial performance with the adoption of information technology. With their strategic approach and depth of experience, Beacon Partners is uniquely qualified to help organizations navigate the challenges in healthcare and optimize their potential to deliver the highest possible level of patient care.

The Beacon Partners 2012 State of ICD-10 Survey will be conducted electronically in booth #3926

LAS VEGAS, NV – February 21, 2012 –Healthcare management consulting firm, Beacon Partners, will invite healthcare professionals attending the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition to participate in “The State of ICD-10” survey that focuses on current state of readiness among healthcare organizations. The Beacon Partners “2012 State of ICD-10 Survey” will be conducted live, electronically in booth #3926 at HIMSS12, February 20-24 at the Venetian Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, NV.

“On October 1, 2013, the entire US healthcare system will make the largest transition many of us will ever see,” explains Christine Kalish, Beacon Partners Executive Consultant. “With the amount of debate surrounding ICD-10 throughout all levels of the healthcare industry, we would like to gauge the perspective and opinions of healthcare organizations on this important issue and share it with the community.”

The survey consists of six key questions to gauge readiness:
·      How would you rate your organization’s sense of urgency regarding ICD-10 implementation?
·      Has your organization prepared an impact analysis to determine how the change to ICD-10 will affect your organization?
·      Rate the impact of each of the following ICD-10 implementation issues based on your impact analysis or best estimate. [Loss of productivity during implementation; Loss of productivity after implementation; Total implementation cost; Cost of updating or replacing practice IT systems; Cost of additional staff training; Reimbursement]
·      What is your greatest challenge with the conversion to ICD-10?
·      Which of the following best describes your organization’s current ICD-10 implementation status?
·      Of the items mentioned below [ICD-10; Meaningful Use Stage 1 & 2; ACO development; HIE planning; EHR implementation; Optimization of clinical systems], what is your organization’s top concern in 2012?

All participants in the Beacon Partners State of ICD-10 survey will be entered to win an iPad2®, or one of two American Express® $100 gift cards.

Real-time results of the poll will be displayed on monitors in Beacon Partners’ booth during HIMSS12.  Final results will be made available shortly after the conference.

About Beacon Partners

As one of the largest healthcare management consulting firms, Beacon Partners is chosen by organizations in the healthcare community to provide advisory services to improve overall operational, clinical and financial performance with the adoption of information technology. With their strategic approach and depth of experience, Beacon Partners is uniquely qualified to help organizations navigate the challenges in healthcare and optimize their potential to deliver the highest possible level of patient care. For more information, please visit http://www.beaconpartners.com/ <http://www.beaconpartners.com/>

Synapse® PACS 4.0, now commercially available, is the newest addition to the company’s comprehensive medical informatics portfolio

Las Vegas, Nev., February 21, 2012 – This week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. will showcase the latest addition to the company’s Synapse® family of medical informatics solutions. Now commercially available, Fujifilm’s Synapse® PACS 4.0 includes improvements to image visualization and overall user experience by increasing overall efficiency.

“Healthcare organizations are faced with many challenges to meet government regulations and adopt the right technology, and they are looking for a partnership with a financially stable, customer-focused Medical Informatics provider,” said Jim Morgan, Vice President of Medical Informatics for Fujifilm. As Fujifilm continues to expand, we are committed to cultivating these relationships and are investing in the development of products to meet and exceed the needs of our customers.” According to a new report from GlobalData, a leading provider of global business intelligence, the major factors contributing to PACS growth can be attributed to the government incentives to adopt IT in healthcare, and advancements in imaging informatics technology.

Morgan continues, “This report confirms that the latest features found within Synapse PACS 4.0 will set the foundation for Fujifilm to meet future industry demands. More importantly, these improvements are based on listening to customer feedback, and as a result, Synapse PACS 4.0 is faster, and much more intuitive, which allows users to be more productive. This enables them to spend more time focusing on their patients, which ultimately improves the overall patient experience.”

Key features of Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS 4.0 include:

• Image processing for all of Fujifilm’s Digital Radiography (DR) and Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) systems
• Advanced integration utilizing DatCard’s collaborative image access, intelligent archival management, and standards based interoperability across all imaging environments
• User interface advancements for customizable user interface functions, native 64-bit OS support, active overlays, resident reading, spine labeling and a user dashboard
• Use of Oracle Database version 11g Enterprise Edition
• Support for VMware’s Version 5.0 virtualization products

Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS global customer base has surpassed 3500 systems, and includes a variety of imaging centers and hospitals including recent installations at Western New York’s Kaleida Health, Massachusetts-based Baystate Health, and the State of California.

In addition to Synapse PACS 4.0, Fujifilm will also be highlighting the overall Synapse® enterprise of products at HIMSS including:

• Synapse® RIS, Synapse® TeleRIS: featuring version 6.1 which includes an enhanced dashboard that gives the user an ability to better manage performance in real time; Synapse® Financials for RIS, which provides a seamless option of incorporating the billing process into the system; and a unique feature that will enablethe user to pre-set dose settings.
• Synapse® 3D: a comprehensive suite of clinical applications that is directly integrated into both Synapse PACS and Synapse Cardiovascular, providing access to advanced diagnostic tools without the need for separate workstations.
• Synapse® Mobility: a zero footprint application enabling access to clinical information via Fujifilm’s suite of Synapse products using hand-held mobile devices, as well as Macintosh- or Windows-based PCs.
• Synapse® Cardiovascular: provides a completely web based solution for cardiovascular imaging.
• Synapse® vCloud: enables Fujifilm to manage Synapse RIS, PACS and related IT functions, freeing facilities to fully concentrate on delivery of care. Comprised of a set of turnkey, high-reliability solutions including software, systems management, PACS and RIS hosting and disaster recovery.

For more information on Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS 4.0 and the entire Synapse product portfolio, please visit booth # 4839 at HIMSS12, February 20th – 24th at Venetian Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas.

About Fujifilm

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutions to meet the needs of healthcare facilities today and well into the future. From an unrivaled selection of digital x-ray systems, to the Synapse® brand of PACS, RIS and cardiovascular products, to advanced women’s health imaging systems, Fujifilm has products that are ideal for any size imaging environment. The Endoscopy Division of FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., supplies high quality, technologically advanced, FUJINON brand endoscopes to the medical market. FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. is headquartered in Stamford, CT. For more information visit www.fujimed.com and www.fujinonendoscopy.com.

FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, brings continuous innovation and leading-edge products to a broad spectrum of industries, including electronic imaging, digital printing equipment, medical systems, life sciences, graphic arts, flat panel display materials, and office products, based on a vast portfolio of digital, optical, fine chemical and thin film coating technologies. The company was among the top 16 companies around the world granted U.S. patents in 2010, and in the year ended March 31, 2011, had global revenues of $25.8 billion*. Fujifilm is committed to environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship. For more information, please visit www.fujifilmholdings.com

Dose Management and Meaningful Use Incorporated into Version 6.1

Las Vegas, Nev., February 21, 2012 – Today at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2012 Annual Meeting FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. showcased the benefits of version 6.1, the latest addition to the company’s Synapse® RIS and Synapse® TeleRIS applications. Introduced in late 2011, version 6.1 includes graphical dashboards that provide end users with the ability to better monitor and manage performance in real time; Synapse® Financials for RIS, which provides a seamless option of incorporating practice management into the system; and advanced dose management features. By upgrading to this latest version, clinicians will enjoy an enhanced user experience and system performance.

“It’s our mission to make the patient care tasks of our end users easier by providing them with improved tools that address the varying issues and scenarios that arise throughout their day. The latest features found on Synapse RIS were designed with these users in mind,” said Jim Morgan, Fujifilm’s Vice President of Medical Informatics. “With the latest version of our RIS and TeleRIS, users can access tools designed to address Meaningful Use requirements and manage patient dose. They can also have access to a new financial management optimization feature designed to improve facility operations.”

Hospitals and radiology groups around the country including Diagnostic Professionals in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. have selected Fujifilm and are currently deploying Synapse RIS. “Analyzing our practice’s performance in real-time has always been a challenge,” says Claude Hanushak, COO at Diagnostic Professionals. “The new Analytics Dashboard on Synapse RIS will allow us to quickly and easily see what is happening and allow us to address minor issues before they become major problems.” Other facilities include Radiology Associates of Ocala Fla., the State of California, Good Samaritan Hospital, Health Village Imaging, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, William Newton Hospital, Greenwood County Hospital, Capital Health, and Kansas Imaging Consultants.

Highlighted features of Synapse RIS 6.1 include:

Synapse Financials for RIS: Next generation practice management solution that incorporates powerful billing and management tools to improve cash flow and increase insurance reimbursements. Data is shared between the software modules to eliminate dual data entry. The new application enables more efficient and accurate billing, while aiding the collection of imaging procedure payments. It also includes extensive custom interfacing features designed to improve staff productivity and a facility’s overall profitability.

Meaningful Use: Critical functionality for practices to be able to implement and attest to Meaningful Use and obtain EHR incentive payments. This module will be available to Synapse RIS customers as of July 2012. Fujifilm has already taken first steps by achieving Modular EHR Certification and plans to evolve the functionality to continue to meet requirements as they continue to change.

Graphical Dashboards: This feature provides clinical information such as patient wait times, and patient volume. This information is provided in real-time allowing clinicians to address issues immediately, rather than waiting for a weekly or monthly report.

Dose Management: Going beyond simple dose capture, Synapse RIS 6.1 provides recommended exposures (customized by the end user) with equipment specific weighting, patient level dose estimates, and maximum recommended exposure.

As with Fujifilm’s complete medical informatics product portfolio, version 6.1 for Synapse Information Systems is designed to also run in a virtualized environment which is proven to lower hardware acquisition/maintenance costs and reduce power consumption. It is expected to be available for delivery in the first quarter of 2012.

To learn more about Fujifilm’s entire medical informatics portfolio, including Synapse® RIS and Synapse® TeleRIS, please visit www.fujimed.com or booth # 4839 at HIMSS 2012, February 21st – 23rd at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nev..

About Fujifilm

For more information on Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS 4.0 and the entire Synapse product portfolio, please visit booth # 4839 at HIMSS12, February 20th – 24th at Venetian Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas.

About Fujifilm

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutions to meet the needs of healthcare facilities today and well into the future. From an unrivaled selection of digital x-ray systems, to the Synapse® brand of PACS, RIS and cardiovascular products, to advanced women’s health imaging systems, Fujifilm has products that are ideal for any size imaging environment. The Endoscopy Division of FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., supplies high quality, technologically advanced, FUJINON brand endoscopes to the medical market. FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. is headquartered in Stamford, CT. For more information visit www.fujimed.com and www.fujinonendoscopy.com.

FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, brings continuous innovation and leading-edge products to a broad spectrum of industries, including electronic imaging, digital printing equipment, medical systems, life sciences, graphic arts, flat panel display materials, and office products, based on a vast portfolio of digital, optical, fine chemical and thin film coating technologies. The company was among the top 16 companies around the world granted U.S. patents in 2010, and in the year ended March 31, 2011, had global revenues of $25.8 billion*. Fujifilm is committed to environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship. For more information, please visit www.fujifilmholdings.com

Secure, High-Speed Ethernet Connection Supports Fast, Efficient Patient Care

Las Vegas, NV – HIMSS Conference, February 20, 2012 – Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today announced that Navos has upgraded its network infrastructure from a 1.5 Mbps T1 to a 50 Mbps Comcast Business Class Ethernet connection in order to enhance communications and improve patient care in its new 53,000 square foot outpatient campus, with plans to connect more facilities with Comcast in the future. Founded in 1966, Navos is a Seattle, Washington-based non-profit organization that improves the quality of life for people vulnerable to mental illness.

Before Navos opened its new outpatient services campus in 2011, the organization’s IT team evaluated its existing T1 connection and realized that this service was insufficient for meeting their increasing bandwidth demands. After researching other options, it was an easy decision for Navos to select Comcast’s Ethernet Private Line service because it offered higher bandwidth, a faster connection and would improve its staff’s ability to provide timely and efficient patient care.

“Comcast provides a secure point-to-point connection, plus it gives us the bandwidth we need at a reasonable price,” explained Navos’ Information Systems Manager Jeff Coleman. “If we had stayed with T1, the throughput would have been 10 percent of what we get with Comcast and I would have paid more each month. Now, we save thousands of dollars a year and get a connection that is 10 times faster. Plus, our staff can access and update patients’ records in minutes, which improves productivity and boosts patient care. In fact, I am so satisfied with Comcast that we plan to add a second connection to another campus, and I look forward to additional opportunities for growth and staff efficiency in the future.”

Before Navos implemented Comcast, their data back-up process was particularly long and frustrating. It required large amounts of bandwidth, taking 60 hours and causing various bottlenecks and slowdowns. Now that Comcast is in place, the backup process takes only 12 hours to complete. “No one dreads the process anymore,” Coleman commented.

With the new Ethernet connection, healthcare staff can quickly access electronic patient records, conduct fast file transfers of critical medical data and gather the mental health information needed from government, university and private institution websites without delays. The Comcast solution also enables video conferencing, which means that Navos staff members no longer need to drive from campus to campus for training, saving each person time, money and energy.

“We often hear from our healthcare customers that our secure point-to-point connection, which preserves patient privacy, is critical to support their organizations,” said Kevin O’Toole, SVP of product management and strategy, Comcast Business Services. “Healthcare IT departments report that they continually save time and resources by ensuring that data is only going to the places where it should be going, and they can confidently connect to the network without the added worry about privacy concerns.”

About Navos

Founded in 1966 and located in Seattle, Washington, Navos is a private, non-profit organization that offers a full spectrum of innovative mental health services to thousands of low-income children and adults each year, including crisis intervention, inpatient care, and highly specialized and recovery-oriented outpatient services. Navos is recognized as a leader for its efforts to transform services into care focused on recovery and wellness, and on the strengths of individuals with mental illness. We believe that all our clients can lead meaningful lives and successfully manage their mental illness. Every client receives individualized support to help them address their psychiatric and psychosocial needs, understand their medication, develop coping strategies, and connect to critical resources such as housing and employment. Even the most seriously ill patient participates in his or her own care. For more information, visit http://www.navos.org.

About Comcast Business Services

Comcast Business Services, a unit of Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), provides advanced communication solutions to help organizations of all sizes meet their business objectives. Through a modern, advanced network that is backed by 24/7 technical support, Comcast delivers Business Class Internet, TV and Voice services for cost-effective, simplified communications management.

Launched in 2011, the Comcast Business Class Ethernet suite offers high-performance point-to-point and multi-point Metro Ethernet services with the capacity to deliver cloud computing, software-as-a-service, business continuity/disaster recovery and other bandwidth-intensive applications. Comcast Metro Ethernet services are significantly faster than standard T1 lines and other legacy technologies, providing scalable bandwidth from 1 Mbps up to 10 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) in more than 20 major US markets.