Healthcare Alliance Program provides easy path to market healthcare solutions

By eGov Innovation Editors | Feb 22, 2012

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HP has announced a new affiliate program that combines offerings from independent software vendors with hardware from HP so hospitals and healthcare organizations can better deliver cost-effective, and high-quality care.

“Through our close collaboration with technology leaders in the Healthcare Alliance Program, HP is providing an easy path for vendors to bring their most innovative healthcare solutions to market with the reliability of HP hardware,” said Chris Mertens, vice president, Americas Healthcare Practice, Personal Systems Group, HP.

Under the program, HP will be offering hardware and specialized equipment such as medical carts, digital signage and clinical reference technology combined with software from HP Healthcare Alliance program partners, which include Quest Diagnostics and its Care360® EHR, Greenway Medical Technologies and Central Logic.

Some of the collaborative solutions developed by the program will be showcased at HIMSS2012 http://www.himssconference.org/ annual conference and exhibition. These include:

*MedWeb's picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) viewer on the new HP Slate 2 and its virtual PACS solutions on HP Mobile Workstations.
*ACR 2 Solutions' automated enterprise risk-management software to help the healthcare industry meet information security compliance requirements.
*Status Solutions' SARA (Situational Awareness and Response Assistant) solution, which allows caregivers to remotely monitor their patients’ vital information and alerts status.
*Brainlab's software-driven medical technology that supports targeted, less-invasive treatment.
*DigitalPersona's centrally managed suite of authentication and access management solutions that protect data, PCs, applications and networks.
*The Astound Technologies' Virtual Specialist that streamline and standardize video communications and collaboration among primary care physicians, specialists and their patients.