Health 2.0

F5 Networks on Tuesday announced that the latest release of the F5 BIG-IP product family has been certified by ICSA Labs as a network firewall, helping customers protect their public-facing websites from today’s massive cyber attacks. The newly certified solution handles eight times more traffic at the same cost of the closest competitor’s solution. “F5 provides an entirely new and more intelligent approach for defending public-facing web properties and DNS services against harmful attacks,” said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of Product Management at F5. “Many of the world’s largest and most prestigious brands are leveraging F5’s BIG-IP solution to protect web properties that have substantial traffic levels and are frequent targets of malicious attacks. An added benefit of our solution is that it delivers dramatically better price/performance than traditional firewalls... (more)

Allscripts Adds M*Modal’s Speech Understanding™ to EHR Platforms and Mobility Solutions

MModal Inc.(NASDAQ/GS: MODL), a leading provider of clinical narrative capture services, Speech Understanding™ technology and clinical documentation workflow, today announced that it has entered into a strategic reseller and development relationship with Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) for its speech and language understanding technology, which will be available in key solutions for Allscripts clients across all ambulatory and acute-care platforms. The relationship will provide capabilities to create content-rich, voice-driven narrative patient documentation within Allscripts electroni... (more)

MedQuist Holdings Becomes M*Modal

MedQuist Holdings (NASDAQ/GS: MEDH), a leading provider of integrated clinical documentation solutions for the U.S. healthcare system, today announced the unification of the Company’s advanced speech and language understanding technologies, medical transcription, coding, HIM professional services and analytics under the name M*Modal. Shares of the Company’s common stock will begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “MODL” on January 25, 2012. The Company will celebrate the launch of M*Modal with the Opening Bell ceremony at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New Y... (more)

What Will Health Care Look Like in 2025? Futurists Predict Everything from Health Avatars and Shortages of Primary Care Physicians to Growing Disparities in Access and Quality Based on Income and Where People Live

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By 2025, patient-doctor relationships and health care delivery will look radically different than they do today, according to the Institute for Alternative Futures. In the Institute's new report Primary Care 2025: A Scenario Exploration, available here, the nationally recognized futurists give readers a preview of how Americans could select, pay for and receive primary care.   Working with more than 50 national health care leaders, the Institute for Alternative Futures, a nonprofit think tank based in Alexandria, Virginia, ... (more)

PatientClick is Launching Transcription Interface to Enable Easy Transition from Paper Base to Paperless

Dallas, TX, January 24, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Technology has changed the way many businesses interact with their customers, and the medical field is no different. EHRs (Electronic Health Records) have changed the physician/patient relationship. PatientClick, a Cleveland-based company, with offices in San Diego, has been at the center of this technological revolution due to their user-friendly, web-based EHR system. PatientClick now takes another quantum leap forward by introducing a transcription interface that enables an easy transition from a paper-based system to a paperless offic... (more)