UPDATED 12:53 EDT / MARCH 04 2013

ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 4, 2013

Telefónica Vivo Brazil Builds Mobile on HP

Telefónica Vivo, the largest mobile operator in Brazil, is building new mobile services  for millions of subscribers on HP technology. Telefónica delivers landline, VoIP, broadband, and mobile services to more than 80 million subscribers throughout Brazil. To reduce time-to-market for activation of 3G mobile and 4G long-term evolution (LTE) users, Telefónica Vivo recently adopted the HP Mobile Subscriber Activation Solution, part of the HP Operations Support System portfolio. More

 

EPA Recognises IBM for Climate Leadership

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented IBM with a 2013 Climate Leadership Award in Washington, D.C. on March 1 in recognition of its supply chain leadership in working toward ambitious emissions reduction goals and setting requirements for suppliers to measure, disclose, and reduce their operational greenhouse gas emissions. The award is made jointly by the EPA, the Association of Climate Change Officers, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, and The Climate Registry. More

 

Miami-Dade County and IBM Partner on Smarter Cities Initiative

Miami-Dade County and IBM have announced a public-private partnership to conduct a transformational Smarter Cities initiative to improve services for residents and help agencies share information among the 35 municipalities within the county. The county is using Big Data analytics, including large datasets from multiple sources, and cloud computing to help leaders make better decisions and cut across organizational boundaries to improve services to residents. More

 

Dell Announces Hospital Center of Excellence using Epic EHR with Red Hat, Intel, VMware

Dell has partnered with Red Hat, Intel, and VMware to create a dedicated center of excellence where hospitals can test and deploy a new option for running Epic systems’ EHR on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The DRIVE (Dell, Red Hat, Intel, and VMware for Epic) Center of Excellence is located near the EHR vendor’s Verona, Wisconsin, headquarters. more

 

VMware Announces vCloud for Healthcare to Support Providers

VMware Inc. has announced vCloud for Healthcare supporting the IT patient care environment from point-of-care to critical patient-care systems. VMware vCloud for healthcare leverages VMware’s extensive product and service portfolio and healthcare industry expertise to provide a platform to allow healthcare providers to move confidently into the cloud, achieve stage 2 Meaningful Use, and improve patient outcomes. More

 

Healthcare Providers Move to Cloud with Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Corp. has announced the FHI 360, Gwinnett Hospital System Inc., Kindred Healthcare Inc., and Mihills Webb are among the list of healthcare providers large and small that have selected Microsoft Office 365 as the trusted cloud service to help address their end goal of providing best outcomes for their patients. They are also using Office 365 to comply with critical regulatory and privacy obligations under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Office 365 addresses rigorous HIPAA regulations and programmatically offers a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement to customers. More

 

Healthcare Providers Look to Windows 8 to Advance Patient Care

Microsoft Corp. has announced at the HIMSS13 Annual Conference and Exhibition that new healthcare partners and customers are showing Windows 8 solutions as part of a comprehensive approach to meeting mobility, productivity, and collaboration goals within hospital and practice settings. Currently more than 850 next-generation health apps are available to providers in the Windows Store, providing a platform to change how healthcare organizations connect with each other, medical staff, and patients. more

 

Cisco Study Finds 74 Percent of Consumers Open to Virtual Doctor Visit

A Cisco Customer Experience Report examining the perceptions of customers and health care decision makers on the patient experience has found that views on in-person versus virtual medical consultation and the use of technology to make recommendations on personal health vary widely between consumers and health care decision makers (HCDMs) and among the 10 geographies surveyed. The report includes responses from 1,547 consumers and HCDMs across 10 countries. It found that most consumers, except those in Germany and Japan, are comfortable with having their health records securely in the Cloud. Also, nearly half of consumers and two-thirds of the HCDMs surveyed would be comfortable sharing and receiving health information through social media channels. More

 

Cisco Announces Financial Community Event Participation

Cisco has announced its participation in the Piper Jaffray Tech Conference March 12-13 in San Francisco and the BAML Global Tech Conference March 12 in Taipei. The presentations will be webcast and available on the Cisco Investor Relations website. More

 

MediTech Certifies NetApp FAS Storage for EHR

MediTech has certified the NetApp FAS storage for its electronic health records (EHR) system. This allows healthcare providers and payers using NetApp systems to consolidate architectures to gain efficiencies and simplicity while maintaining compliance with the U.S. HIPAA and similar health care records regulations in other jurisdictions. More


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