The Georgia Hospital Association, a non-profit trade association of 170 hospitals in the state, has made available at a reduced member price electronic health record technology from Prognosis Health Information Systems.

Georgia hospitals can establish the ChartAccess comprehensive electronic health record (EHR), a hosted system on a shared server at the Georgia Hospital Health Services, a subsidiary of the state hospital association.

Hospitals in the state that take up the offer can get on the fast track for incentive payments for the adoption and meaningful use of certified EHRs, according to Glenn Pearson, executive vice president of the Georgia Hospital Association.

“We wanted to be able to provide access to an EHR solution that could really help our hospitals jump on the electronic health records bandwagon,” he said in a March 15 announcement.

The software-as-a-service model means hospitals can get the system operational in a matter of months so they can still qualify for the full share of incentive funds starting in 2011.

Prognosis delivers the ChartAccess tool through a cloud computing model, in which the software is made available as a service over an encrypted health information network, Pearson said.

In another announcement, the Kansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc., a quality improvement organization which is also the regional extension center for the state, has selected eight EHR preferred vendors which offer, among other services, reduced equipment, consulting and software costs and pre-negotiated standard contracts, making it easier and faster for healthcare providers to adopt EHRs and become meaningful users.

The 62 national regional extension centers, which the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has funded, supply local technical assistance to physicians and small practices to help them overcome the hurdles to digitizing their medical records.

Of the selected vendors, six have accepted all the terms of the agreement with the REC. Those vendors include Cerner, eClinicalWorks, e-MDs and SuccessEHS. Two others, NextGen and Sage, have amended selected terms of the agreement.

 

 

ExactTarget has launched new mobile apps for its CoTweet social media management platform.

CoTweet is a comprehensive, Web-based social media engagement, management and reporting solution. It helps companies to engage, track and analyze conversations about their brands across the popular and influential social communities.

This latest announcement extends the company’s enterprise Twitter and Facebook management capabilities to Android, BlackBerry and Windows.

The new applications provide full access to the power of CoTweet by ExactTarget. Thanks to the enterprise capabilities, users can engage, track and analyze social media conversations. Plus, they can also harness conversation histories, sentiment tagging, claim and assignment features and integration with prominent CRM systems.

Noting that social media provides a mission-critical link between brands and consumers, Tim Kopp, chief marketing officer at ExactTarget, said that the new CoTweet mobile applications provide marketers the solution they need to manage and engage in social conversations from anywhere at any time.

Additionally, CoTweet also introduced its enhanced iPhone app. The new application features new capabilities for engaging and managing conversations with consumers on Facebook (News – Alert). It also debuted plans for an iPad app launch in April.

Moreover, the company also has expanded its global support operations for CoTweet, and now provides clients of CoTweet Enterprise access to 60 social media support experts 24 hours a day, seven days a week across 12 time zones.

“Our goal is to help customers stay connected to the conversations that matter regardless of where they are or what time of day it is — and to provide the best support services possible as these companies take their social media strategies global,” said Jesse Engle, cofounder and CEO of CoTweet.

ExactTarget is a provider of on-demand e-mail marketing and interactive marketing solutions. Recently, NTT (News – Alert) Communications Corporation, a Japan-based ICT solution provider, and ExactTarget jointly introduced CoTweet by ExactTarget in the Japanese market.

RALEIGH, N.C. and WOBURN, MASS., – March 14, 2011 – Red Hat, Inc., the (NYSE: RHT) world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Acronis, a leading provider of backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that Acronis’ flagship virtualization product has been certified on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

With their expanded partnership, Acronis, has certified its Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.  This certification enables organizations to simplify their physical-to-virtual server consolidation efforts to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.  In addition, the solution, which is based on Acronis’ advanced disk imaging technology, allows users to back up multiple virtual machines on one server host and supports migrations (P2V, V2V and V2P) that can be performed on demand or on a scheduled basis.

“Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition is a sophisticated software tool that solves many of the problems associated with the backup of virtualized servers. This joint certification is indicative of two players who are bearing increasing weight in the virtualization arena. The P2V, V2V and V2P migration capabilities and ability to back up multiple virtual machines on one host server is a clear benefit for customers,” said Tim Stammers, senior analyst at Ovum.

“We have worked closely with Red Hat as an ISV partner since joining Red Hat’s partner program in 2006 and have seen great demand and adoption for our solutions on Red Hat platforms,” said Izzy Azeri, senior vice president & general manager, Americas at Acronis.  “Certifying Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization gives our joint customers even further choice and flexibility for their virtual environments.”

“Red Hat is focused on expanding our Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization’s robust ecosystem to provide our customers with the flexibility they need for their virtualized systems,” said Navin Thadani, senior director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat.  “By certifying Acronis’ virtualization solutions on our Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform, we aim to expand the value of our joint solutions to enterprises around the globe.”

For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, visit www.redhat.com/rhev.

Acronis and Red Hat are holding a webinar on March 22, 2011 at 1 pm ET to discuss Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, migration tools and image-based backup and disaster recovery capabilities Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition provides for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments.  Go to REGISTER HERE! to register for the webinar.

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Eastland Memorial Hospital is implementing Prognosis Health Information Systems’ ChartAccess Comprehensive EHR to help meet meaningful use incentives.

ChartAccess Comprehensive EHR is a shared web-native EHR, delivered via a cloud computing model, that provides clinicians with a view of patient data to support clinical care.

The 52-bed Eastland, Texas-based hospital began software installation and implementation earlier this month and plans to start the attestation period on May 31, and to complete attestation to meaningful use requirements by Sept. 1, 2011.

Under this connectivity model, all participating hospitals dial into one centralized tool remotely and the EHR is integrated with billing, laboratory, pharmacy, radiology and other ancillary systems at the various hospitals

Acronis, which makes backup and recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, has broadened out its North American distribution with an agreement with Ingram Micro.

Woburn MA-based Acronis has been around since 2002, and makes backup and recovery software for the whole breadth of the market — from consumer through the SMB, to the enterprise. Over 80 percent of their business is corporate, and most of that is SMB.

The company started with direct sales, and then gradually moved into single tier distribution. In 2007, it moved to two-tier distribution, with Lifeboat, a software specialist, and then with Tech Data. Those two remained their go-to-market channel, with about half their business being DMRs and the other half a blend of local and national VARs. They have also started selling to MSPs, which is a new and emerging market for them.

So why sign on with a second broad line distributor?

“Ingram is five times the size of Tech Data, so they will be able to cast a wider net for us,” said Izzy Azeri, senior vice president & general manager, Americas, at Acronis. “There likely will be a little share shift from Tech Data and Lifeboat, but our primary goal is net-new partner recruitment. We are continuing to plan to work with both Tech Data and Lifeboat as well. This year we are really focused on partner recruitment.

“We think we are really building out VAR network with Ingram,” Azeri said. “We signed an agreement late last year and have been working on a marketing plan. They have such good coverage on the VAR front. And they see us as helping grow their infrastructure business.”

Azeri said Acronis will leverage Ingram Micro’s datacenter infrastructure group to drive new sales to VARs and MSPs. They recently took part in the distributor’s Sales Kickoff event in California, and will take part in others like the storage boot camp event, to gain the maximum possible exposure to their resellers.

Azeri said he thinks Acronis’ value proposition will resonate with Ingram resellers, even in what has become a very crowded backup market.

“A lot of the other vendors say they do channel but many are also direct, and the channel doesn t appreciate that,” Azeri said. “We are a channel-only company. In addition, we are easy to use and easy to sell, without agents, or a lot of SKUs — so it’s easy to sell and easy for the end user to deploy.”

ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS–(Marketwire – March 8, 2011) – Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimization solutions, today announced that Tribunal de Justiça do Espírito Santo (TJES), the central administrative office of the state judiciary for the State of Espírito Santo in Brasil, has selected Exinda’s solutions to improve the performance of critical applications on its network.

The Exinda solutions have allowed TJES to reduce bandwidth consumption, gain complete visibility to the traffic traversing its networks and improve the user experience for the more than 5300 employees within the state justice department headquarter buildings and 87 remote offices.

“With Exinda’s WAN Optimization solutions, we can easily judge the traffic in our network, assigning rights to priority applications, while preventing unwanted traffic to interfere or cause harm,” said Rodrigo Esteves Gomes, Support Analyst, TJES. “As a government entity, we are under tremendous scrutiny by our constituents. It was important that we found a cost-effective solution that would immediately improve network performance, without having to spend tax-payers dollars to have the local carrier increase service or build new network infrastructure to support our needs.”

The installation of Exinda’s solutions on the TJES network was completed over a twelve month period, with the support of its technology partner MAHVLA, a leading network solutions company in Brazil. For information on TJES, visit www.tjes.jus.br.

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