- According to “GreenOrder”, a sustainable business strategy firm:
o Copier sales in US are worth $24 billion annually
o Older copiers use up to 60% more energy than new models
o Average office worker creates 1.5 pounds of paper waste each day
o Recycled paper uses 44% less energy and produces 48% less waste
o More than 100 million cartridges end up in trash each year in US
o Cartridges take up to 450 years to decompose
o Toner remanufacturing employs 35,000 in the US
o Reconditioning cartridges saves 264 gallons of oil and 845 lbs. of solid waste each month
o Fewer than 10% of all electronics discarded are recycled each year in US
o Electronics contribute 50 million tons of trash each year to landfills
- Hyland, maker of OnBase document management software, which has a large market share in the healthcare vertical, announced version 10.0 adding:
o Intelligent automated indexing
o Business process and notation modeler
o Site provisioning for MS SharePoint
o Comprehensive full-text search with Autonomy IDOL integration
o Integration for MS Outlook 2010
- EHR usage survey. Survey conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals:
o More than half of physicians surveyed are using at least a partial EHR system in their practices
o Nearly a quarter have a system in place that meets criteria for basic EHR system
o 10% have fully functional EHR in place
- McKesson, maker of EHR systems, announced that Professional Data Services Inc. won its “Value Added Reseller of the Year” award for its sales of McKesson Practice Partner EHR during last year.
- According to survey of EHR usage in pediatric hospitals conducted by Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine:
o 2.8% have a comprehensive EHR system
o 17.9% have a basic EHR system
o 15.7% exchange health info electronically
o 34.3% have CPOE (computerized physician order entry) systems
- According to survey from College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME):
o 15% of hospital CIOs are confident that they will have EHR installed by April, 2011
o 5% expect to meet meaningful use targets in first 6 months
- Allscripts, maker of EHR systems, announced it won a contract from Berkshire Health Systems of Berkshire County, Mass.
- Pediatric Cardiology Associates in Syracuse, N.Y., implemented Allscripts EHR.
- Cerner announced it won an EHR contract from WellSpan Health of Pennsylvania.
- Epic won an EHR contract from University of Colorado Hospital.
- Medsphere won an EHR contract from Lutheran Medical Center of New York.
- Auxilio, a managed print services provider that focus on the healthcare vertical, announced it won contracts in California from:
o Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
o Petaluma Valley Hospital
o Queen of the Valley Hospital
- Worldox, a document management program for the legal vertical, won the “Gold” award from Legal Technology News for 2010 based on customer satisfaction.
- Ricoh announced it has chosen to offer IPRO Tech software for its legal vertical market customers, including the eCapture, Allegro and Eclipse eDiscovery products.
-=Greetings from the Highlands=-
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