February 26, 2008 — Vocera Communications Inc. unveiled its new T1000 Vocera Phone at HIMSS this week, a 802.11b/g wireless phone designed to provide the flexibility and form factor some workers desire with the intelligent calling and workflow capabilities offered by the Vocera Voice Badge.

This shareable communicator complements the wireless, wearable Vocera Communications Badge used in more than 400 hospitals worldwide.

February 26, 2008 – Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) will award $13.1 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and programs aimed at improving the quality of patient care through health technology, and to expand health insurance for children who do not qualify for public programs.

February 26, 2008 – At HIMSS 2008, the Open eHealth Foundation said that Agfa HealthCare, InterComponentWare, and Sun Microsystems have joined as foundation members of a new Open eHealth Foundation where Open eHealth Foundation will provide software components under an Open Source license that reportedly will boost the open standards-based exchange of medical information.

February 26, 2008 – Health Language Inc. (HLI) and BridgeForward Software, a leading supplier of interface engine technology for the U.S. and U.K. healthcare markets, announced their partnership to provide full data interoperability.

February 25, 2008 – The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) revealed plans for expansion of the certification program in 2009 during a Town Hall meeting at the HIMSS 2008.

February 26, 2008 – Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. named Girish T. Hagan as vice president, Marketing.

Previously, Hagan served as the director of Business Development and Strategic Management for Toshiba. Additionally, Hagan was an integral part of Toshiba’s alignments with multiple vendors including McKesson and Vital Imaging, said Toshiba.

February 26, 2008 - MDnetwork Inc. and M*Modal entered into an agreement to combine each company’s services in order to provide better clinical documentation, allowing MDnetwork clients to use M*Modal’s advanced speech understanding technology, AnyModal CDS(Conversational Documentation Service), which combines speech recognition and natural language understanding to capture and comprehend clinical information from dictation, transforming it directly into accessible, retrievable and shareable electronic files.

February 26, 2008 - Cerner Corp. and Hill-Rom formed a partnership to integrate their technologies to improve and coordinate healthcare delivery, featuring Hill-Rom hospital beds that communicate directly with the Cerner Millennium healthcare computing platform.

February 26, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. introduced the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund, a $3 million initiative designed to empower providers with targeted funding to stimulate the research and development of online tools that improve health.

February 26, 2008 - Village Health Partners is the recipient of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence in the ambulatory category, reportedly chosen because of the efficient practice, especially the online health services offered through its Patient Portal.

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