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- November 17, 2008 – Ms. Sita Kapoor, Chief Information Officer of IGI will moderate the panel “Trends in Information Technology” at the 54th Annual Employee Benefits Conference, November 17 – 19, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas.
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November 17, 2008 – San Antonio, Texas - Infotech Global Inc. (IGI), a leading IT services and solutions company providing innovative, cutting-edge technologies to Fortune 500 corporations across the country, announced today, Ms. Sita Kapoor, Chief Information Officer of IGI will moderate the panel Trends in Information Technology at the 54th Annual Employee Benefits Conference, November 17 – 19, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. Panel presenters include Ms. Shelley B. Dixon, Associate Dean and Director of Outreach, Center for Distance Learning, Empire State College and Mr. Michael Merrill, Ph.D., Dean, The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies, Empire State College, SUNY. The 54th Annual Employee Benefits Conference is the largest gathering of employee benefits representatives in the nation and brings together more than industry experts from trust funds, corporations, public employee groups and professional advisory firms.
More information about the conference can be found at www.ifebp.org
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- August 27, 2008, Infotech will be participating at the National Plan Automation Group Conference in Lake Placid, NY
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The 2008 National Plan Automation Group (NPAG) Conference will be held at Lake Placid, New York from September 7 through September 10, 2008. This year's event, co-sponsored by Infotech Global Inc. (IGI) and hosted by Excellus BCBS is themed "Harvest the Reward of EDI" . NPAG is a national event attended by senior executives from various BCBS Plans and their affiliates and partners from across the country. IGI has provided healthcare payers, providers, solution vendors and other trading partners with cost effective solutions for over a decade and our continuous participation in NPAG related events and our leadership in areas of healthcare related reform demonstrates a continued commitment to shaping positive change in the American healthcare industry.
During the conference, IGI will showcase how our portfolio of EDI / e-Commerce solutions has helped our customers keep pace in the marketplace, realize reductions in administrative costs and implemented truly cost effective solutions. We will demonstrate some of our solutions, techniques and customer implementation examples that have made a difference. IGI will also focus on our relationship with INTEL and how we are leveraging Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare, a software solution that provides an efficient way to exchange healthcare information within organizations and Health Information Networks. IGI will also showcase its software engineering and development capabilities including how client's have engaged our agile team to offer cost efficient solutions to their customers.
This event will be attended by key members of IGI's healthcare and software solutions practice.
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- July 15, 2008 - IGI ORBIT® healthcare transaction portal is launched into production for Carolina Crescent Health Plan
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IGI has completed the custom transaction portal for Carolina Crescent Health Plan, Inc. The provider transaction portal has been launched into production after the pilot user group has been approved. Carolina Crescent Health Plan, Inc., a Nonprofit Medicaid Managed Care Organization, was formed for the sole purpose of effectively coordinating and improving the healthcare of Medicaid enrolled persons in South Carolina. As per the agreement, IGI has deployed its ORBIT® portal to include member eligibility, reporting and panel listing transactions.
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- July 10, 2008 - HealthEdge Partners With IGI to Implement Award-Winning HealthRules Product Suite
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Software innovator and market expert join forces to deliver revolutionary new software to healthcare payors
Burlington, MA (PRWEB) July 10, 2008 -- HealthEdge, the leading provider of next-generation claims and benefit administration, business intelligence and portal solutions for healthcare payors, today announced that it has partnered with Infotech Global (IGI) to deliver its patented, award-winning HealthRules product suite to the market. IGI's certified HealthRules deployment engineers will provide a full range of services to HealthEdge clients including system installation, configuration, testing, training, data conversion and project management.
"We are currently experiencing an unprecedented level of demand for the HealthRules product suite," remarked Rob Gillette, CEO of HealthEdge. "We are excited to add the IGI team, with their deep domain expertise and outstanding technical integration experience, to our list of premier partners. We are looking forward to working with IGI to deliver our next-generation products to the market."
"IGI is focused on helping payor organizations realize their technology goals," stated Arthur Kapoor, CEO of IGI. "Our strength is in leveraging the outstanding capabilities of our consulting team and the many years of experience that we have in both healthcare operations and in healthcare technology to help organizations of all types and sizes achieve success. We are excited to partner with HealthEdge, and we are looking forward to helping their customers maximize their investment in the HealthRules technology platform."
About HealthEdge
HealthEdge offers health plans, TPAs, PPOs and insurers of all sizes unique software products that position them for success. Payor organizations are able to pursue innovative, new strategies focused on increasing revenue, decreasing costs and improving the quality of healthcare. HealthEdge provides HealthRules®, a next-generation, patented software platform for core administrative processes, business intelligence, and web self-service. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
About IGI
Infotech Global is a Healthcare information technology solutions provider focused on emerging initiatives. IGI has developed a niche set of solutions and connectors that allow trading partners to leverage IGI's domain expertise to assist in their implementation of systems. IGI's implementation services are packaged to reflect their business philosophy, which is to build their practice around their customers' business, rather than engaging a customer with a prescribed set of solutions. IGI draws upon a wide range of IT skills and industry expertise to tailor an optimal solution that meets their customers' business workflow needs.
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- June 4, 2008 - IGI signs a Independent Contractor Services Agreement with Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc.
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Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc., is a leader in designing, engineering and manufacturing state-of-the-art hearing aids, in all custom and behind-the-ear models, that enable those with hearing loss to communicate more easily and improve their quality of life. It is the largest manufacturer of hearing aids in the United States. The initial project that IGI will be involved with, is to do a business assessment and analysis of the internal ERP system and the legacy systems that are interfaced. At the conclusion of the project, IGI will document the findings and recommendations to improve the workflow and applications.
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- April 21, 2008 - IGI becomes certified Independent Software Vendor (ISV) with Intel for its SOA Expressway software
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See Intel’s official press release below for more details:
INTEL ANNOUNCES SOFTWARE THAT CONNECTS HEALTH NETWORKS, ENABLING KEY DATA SHARING IN CLINICAL SETTINGS
New Software will Help Healthcare Providers Reduce Integration and Interoperability Costs and Improve Care
WORLD HEALTH CARE CONGRESS, Washington, Apr. 21, 2008 – Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare, a software solution that provides an efficient way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks. This new software solution will allow healthcare providers to be more easily connected to one another so that they can provide better care while benefiting from reduced integration costs.
Until now, the sharing of patient information between healthcare network participants has been hindered by the steep costs and complexities of proprietary data and integration services. Based on Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare offers a cost-efficient solution to this problem by providing an efficient and scaleable way to translate, process and connect any data format across a healthcare network.
In addition, Intel has created an ecosystem of validated Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that provides best-of-breed capabilities to deploy a complete health network powered by the Intel® SOA Expressway. Current validated ecosystem vendors include Initiate Systems, Apelon Systems, Infotech Global (IGI), Oracle and Red Hat. The services provided by these vendors include enterprise master-patient index, controlled medical vocabulary translation, clinical patient portal applications, and operating system support. The validated ecosystem helps complete the next-generation SOA architecture for healthcare data interoperability. The new solution has been successfully piloted with several healthcare providers, including at a hospital network in Shanghai, China.
“Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare solved a very difficult hospital integration scenario for us.” said Shen Ping, General Manager of Health Services Division at Wonders Information Co, the systems integrator deploying the Shanghai health network. “We were surprised to see that it was able to meet our performance requirements for daily synchronization of nearly a million hospital records in a short amount of time.”
Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare provides the performance of a hardware appliance in a software form factor that offers native message acceleration for rapid data exchange, workflow management, and translation to enable data exchange to and from any original format. This advance in software is an example of how technology can help improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs by streamlining information flow.
“Intel developed the SOA Expressway for Healthcare as a platform that can be used with a wide variety of existing IT environments in order to provide world-class integration regardless of the specific electronic medical records and other software platforms used at individual healthcare facilities,” said Girish Juneja, Director of SOA Products at Intel. “We also leveraged the SOA architecture to drive down costs, which has enabled Intel to offer our solution at prices comparable or below other solutions in the market.”
In order to make the Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare as versatile as possible, Intel designed it as a flexible product offering that can stand alone as the gateway to and from a community health information network or may be bundled as part of an ISV solution.
About Intel
Intel® Software provides resources, technologies, products and services developers need to create innovative products and industry-leading software solutions designed to run best on Intel platforms.
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom, blogs.intel.com, and www.intel.com/healthcare.
About Infotech Global, Inc. (IGI)
Infotech Global, Inc. (IGI) is a Healthcare information technology solutions provider focused on emerging initiatives such as: Electronic Health Records (EHR), trading partner connectivity to Health Information Networks and Exchanges, and the National Provider Identifier (NPI) and Index. We have developed a niche set of portal solutions and connectors for the Healthcare Industry that allows trading partners to leverage our domain expertise to assist in their implementation of revenue cycle and clinical transaction systems. Our ORBIT® portal, exchange and framework has been adopted by health care entities including: health plans, system vendors, healthcare providers and hospitals.
Our implementation services are packaged to reflect our business philosophy, which is to build our practice around our customers' business, rather than engaging a customer with a prescribed set of solutions, we draw upon a wide range of IT skills and industry expertise to tailor an optimal solution that meets our customers' business workflow needs.
IGI is headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey and can be contacted for more information at 800-444-0278, info@igiusa.com, or visit our website at www.igiusa.com.
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- March 10, 2008 - IGI has signed a Consulting and Software Development Services Agreement with HealthEdge.
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HealthEdge, Inc. provides health plans, TPAs, PPOs, reinsurance carriers and insurers of all sizes with unique software products to position them for success. With patented, next-generation technology, HealthEdge enables payor organizations to pursue innovative, new strategies to grow revenue, decrease costs and improve the quality of healthcare. The initial project that IGI will develop is to provide reporting system analysis and development. HealthEdge, Inc. provides health plans, TPAs, PPOs, reinsurance carriers and insurers of all sizes with unique software products to position them for success. With patented, next-generation technology, HealthEdge enables payor organizations to pursue innovative, new strategies to grow revenue, decrease costs and improve the quality of healthcare. The initial project that IGI will develop is to provide reporting system analysis and development.
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- February 29, 2008 - IGI's ORBIT® portal receives GETI certification for its Medpay module
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IGI received Gold/Silver certification from Global E Telecom, Inc. (GETI) for electronic check processing through the Fastcheck Network host specifications on the ORBIT® portal. IGI recently enhanced the ORBIT® portal, Medpay module, to allow automated check payment. IGI programmed a check reading device which connects to the USB port of the desktop. Checks can be swiped through the reader and the data auto populates into the portal entry screen, thus eliminating data entry errors and increasing productivity.
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- February 24, 2008 - Infotech Global Inc. exhibiting its solutions and services at HIMSS08
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Orlando, Florida welcomes the 2008 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition, Feb. 24 – 28, 2008, at the Orange County Convention Center. Some 25,000 healthcare industry professionals and 900 exhibitors are expected to attend and learn more about cutting-edge technology and innovative healthcare solutions designed to improve patient care.
Infotech Global Inc.(IGI) will be on the HIMSS exhibit floor at booth # 3788. IGI has been a participant at HIMSS events over the last couple of years. IGI will demonstrate its specialized services and capabilities in the healthcare domain as well as software engineering expertise.
The annual HIMSS conference in the U.S. ranks as one of the largest healthcare IT and management systems gatherings in the world. IGI will showcase its healthcare IT solutions at the booth (# 3788) to assist customers in identifying the right solution for their individual healthcare setting. IGI Staff will be available to discuss the services with interested customers so that they better understand the IT needs and how IGI can assist them. IGI will also showcase how it has delivered software projects using Agile Development methodologies using an onsite-offshore delivery model.
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