Tech Updates
Tech Updates
• Standard Register (Dayton, OH) has signed a three-year Integrated Print Management contract with the Visiting Nurse Association of America (VNAA; Boston). The agreement, which includes a two-year renewal option, is worth up to $40 million. Standard Register will deliver a total print management program consisting of traditional business forms printing, and commercial and digital on-demand printing to the more than 400 VNAA member locations. VNAA plans to establish Standard Register’s Internet-based Smartworks as a central forms repository and provide member agencies with a direct link from the VNAA home page to the next generation document management and electronic commerce service. Through a secure Web server, VNAA member agencies accessing Smartworks will be able to print VNAA forms or place production orders for a variety of VNAA documents, including stationery, government-regulated documents, new-hire kits, and patient oriented literature. After receiving production orders, Standard Register will produce and deliver select documents locally by printing them nearest each ordering VNAA member agency via a nationwide network of more than 30 Stanfast digital print centers.
• C-Phone Corp. (Wilmington, NC) reported 2Q99 ended Aug. 31 revenues of $380,499, down from 2Q98 revenues of $549,889. The company saw a net loss in 2Q99 of $899,615, 11 cents per share, compared to a 2Q98 net loss of $896,399, 13 cents per share. The company said the decrease in sales for the quarter reflects the change in its marketing emphasis to the business and special applications marketplace. In introducing earlier in the year C-Phone’s higher-end, higher-priced products, President/CEO Daniel Flohr said, the company’s sales and marketing efforts have been focused at rebuilding and expanding distribution. As a result, he said, the company now has more than 100 domestic and international distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs.
• Sims Communications’ (Irvine, CA) name has chan g ed to MedCom USA, effective immediately. The name change was approved by the company’s board in August and by the shareholders of the company in mid-October. The company’s shares began trading on Nasdaq Oct. 19 under its new symbol, EMED.
• HomMed (Brookfield, WI) and SkyTel, an MCI WorldCom company, have partnered to allow HomMed patients using the company’s HomMed Monitoring System, a new home heart monitoring system for patients with congestive heart failure, to connect directly to their healthcare providers via a wireless data network. The HomMed monitoring system collects true clinical data on the patient’s condition using two main components: the HomMed Sentry, which collect s and transmits data from the patient, and the HomMed Observer, which receives the data, stores it, and presents it to clinical personnel. The HomMed Sentry devices are within the company’s coverage areas, HomMed said, but if the patient is out of coverage range, SkyTel and HomMed have teamed to provide packet switched telephone network services for the Sentry to call, and the data is moved to the same central repository.
• Healthcare Automation (Warwick, RI) announced recently plans for its newest software offering, HAI HomeCareNET. The new software integrates operational and financial software features for providers in all facets of the alternate site healthcare market, including home infusion, ambulatory infusion, home health, hospice, respiratory therapy, and HME/DME. Home care organizations with multiple sites can connect their sites to a central copy of HAI HomeCareNET through a private intranet, the Internet, or a direct connection to HAI.
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