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Georgia Healthcare Trade Faire & Regional Conference
sponsored by HIMSS Georgia Chapter

 


Friday, August 25, 2006 – Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
International Level Ballroom and
International Level Meeting Rooms 1, 2 & 3
  Silver Level Sponsor/Exhibitor
Eclipsys
Eclipsys is The Outcomes Company®, a leading provider of advanced integrated information software, best-practice clinical content and professional services that help healthcare organizations improve clinical, financial, operational and customer-satisfaction outcomes. Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager™ delivers powerful clinical workflow tools on a single, integrated platform to connect care teams across the enterprise. Eclipsys' high rate of clinician adoption starts with its Computerized Physician Order Entry system, which is used by more physicians at more inpatient organizations than any other vendor's CPOE solution. Please visit with us in booth # 14 on the exhibit floor.
 

  Bronze Level Sponsors/Exhibitors
IBM
Explore Innovation in Healthcare with IBM and Healthlink, a division of IBM. We will be showcasing our broad range of leading healthcare and life sciences services and solutions, which include:
• clinical and business process optimization
• health and wellness management
• patient-centric networks
• predictive health infomatics
• application innovation & management
• as well as, traditional IT products & services
Visit us on the web at www.ibm.com/industries/healthcare for more information. Please visit with us in booth # 23 on the exhibit floor.
Microsoft
Microsoft and its partners help people in healthcare, health plans, and life sciences organizations realize their potential through innovations that enhance their productivity, are simple by design, and help them deliver greater value to the customers they serve. These innovations are made possible by a dedicated team of medical and life sciences professionals—experienced healthcare executives along with medical practitioners such as doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. Our vision is of an integrated infrastructure where physicians, nurses, researchers, scientists, and other healthcare workers can seamlessly share information, collaborate, and remain focused on improving the state of healthcare at reduced costs. Please visit with us in booth # 11 on the exhibit floor.
Novell
Plagued by multiple passwords and time-consuming logins, healthcare professionals are challenged by accessing applications necessary to do their job. The inconvenience of remembering multiple IDs and passwords inhibits workflow, complicates HIPAA compliance, costs time, money and can present a security risk. Designed to eliminate these challenges, Novell Single Sign-on for Healthcare gives clinicians fast login/logout while maintaining security. Novell Single Sign-on for Healthcare…One User ID/One Password, One Time to Login, Fast. Please visit with us in booth # 31 on the exhibit floor.
Oracle
Oracle's business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. With annual revenues of more than $10.2 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services to the world's largest and most successful businesses and institutions.
Please visit with us in booth # 29 on the exhibit floor. 

Solarcom
Solarcom, an HP Gold Partner and total technology solutions provider, offers high performance infrastructure solutions for the unique challenges of clients in the health care industry. We have forged a strategic partnership with Exanet, a global storage software innovator of new breed, open, high-performance NAS solutions, to introduce a methodology for achieving enterprisewide vendor-independent storage infrastructure — including PACS. The end result is "a single infrastructure to provide administration, continuous data protection (CDP), and business continuity services and hence higher availability and a greater return on investment (ROI) eliminating separate infrastructure islands, each with its own resources, staffing, and business continuity challenges."
For more information, download the white paper Deploying Enterprisewide Vendor-Independent Storage Architecture — Including PACS and attend our session led by Exanet. Please visit with us in booth # 42 on the exhibit floor.


  Additional Event Exhibitors
Agfa Healthcare
Agfa is a worldwide leader in digital solutions for the Healthcare Industry– Agfa has more than 15 years Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) experience and more than 800 PACS installations worldwide. Agfa’s RIS is a vendor-neutral IT solution, which enables to electronically manage radiology operations. Our HealthCare business is focused on providing our customers with solutions that improve patient care and drive cost out of their delivery systems. Please visit with us in booth # 41 on the exhibit floor.
Carefx
Using the industry’s only open and scaleable patient information aggregation platform, Carefx has revolutionized and simplified identity and access management for healthcare. Fusion from Carefx™ is an end-to-end solution that addresses the clinician’s need to access patient information quickly, intuitively, and remotely and IT’s need to effectively manage and satisfy clinical end-users. Fusion interoperates with the organizations existing IT investments, is rapidly deployed, and affordable. Please visit with us in booth # 37 on the exhibit floor.
Cisco Systems
Cisco's Connected Health puts healthcare stakeholders at the center of responsive networks of knowledge, service, trust and accountability. The Cisco Medical-Grade Network architecture connects features from Clinical Connection Suite, Connected Imaging, and Electronic Health Records solutions to enable secure information sharing. To learn more about Cisco's healthcare solutions, go to: www.cisco.com/go/healthcare. Please visit with us in booth # 38 on the exhibit floor.
Citrix
Citrix (Nasdaq:CTXS) is a global leader in access infrastructure solutions. The Citrix™ MetaFrame™ Access Suite enables 1000's of hospitals and healthcare organizations to easily and securely access applications and information on-demand, from anywhere - hospital, clinic, or home, anytime, using any device. At the 2006 Healthcare trade faire we will be showcasing the new Citrix Netscaler Application Switch™, Citrix Netscaler Application Accelerator™, Presnetation Servertm 4.0 and Citrix Access Gateway™. These products help you to solve the most complex access challenges that your organization faces. Please visit with us in booth # 13 on the exhibit floor.
ClearCube
ClearCube delivers centralized computing solutions that integrate blades, access devices and client management software to give organizations full control over end user computing. Blades are end user business computers that are centralized in a secure location. Access devices are small user ports that connect the user to a blade across wired or wireless networks. The client management software is a powerful console that allocates, switches, and manages global deployments of access devices and blades. Organizations deploying ClearCube gain 99.9% uptime, hardened security, and extra workspace while improving productivity by over 40%. Please visit with us in booth # 16 on the exhibit floor.
DrTango, Inc.
DrTango is the leading provider of Hispanic-directed communications, marketing and health improvement solutions to the U.S. healthcare industry. The Company's medical translation services, Spanish websites, and culturally-appropriate health management applications allow HIT vendors, hospitals, health plans, and pharmaceutical companies to grow with the booming Hispanic population. DrTango also offers MyDiet™/MiDieta®, the most widely used, culturally-appropriate diet, fitness and weight management application online. Please visit with us in booth # 10 on the exhibit floor.
Emageon
Emageon's Enterprise Visual Medical System™ (EVMS) is an enterprise-level advanced visualization and infrastructure solution for the clinical analysis and management of digital medical images. EVMS was designed to provide advanced visualization and infrastructure beyond PACS - including clinical content, images, reports and associated patient information. Its open standards-based solution is designed to help improve productivity, automate imaging workflow, lower costs and provide better service to physicians and patients. Please visit with us in booth # 21 on the exhibit floor.
Gateway
Gateway is one of the most efficient PC companies in the industry.
Gateway uses standard components from the industry's best suppliers across product lines, so customers can enjoy longer-lasting, higher-quality products. As one of the few PC companies in the industry with customer care and quality assurance managed under the same organization, Gateway is able to carefully monitor the quality of every product. As a Gateway professional customer, you can depend on support from domestic-based, top-tier personnel. Please visit with us in booth # 12 on the exhibit floor.
Georgia Duplicating Products Inc
Georgia Duplicating Products will be featuring the Kyocera line of Network Printers and Multifunctional Products (MFP's), which were voted "The Most Cost-Efficient Digital Imaging Line" by Bertyl, a nationally recognized leader in the product testing and evaluation field. All the Kyocera products meet or exceed HIPAA Standards for Copying, Printing and Scanning. In addition, through a relationship with Meditech, the Kyocera products have been certified for usage in Medical and Healthcare environments. Kyocera printers and MFP's are also completing the certification process with Cerner Healthcare Solutions. Please visit with us in booth # 33 on the exhibit floor.



HIMSS
HIMSS is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of human health. Stop by and learn how HIMSS and the Georgia Chapter enable you to shape your professional future, enrich your career, and expand your industry intelligence. Please visit with us in booth # 8 on the exhibit floor.

HIMSS Georgia Chapter
The Georgia Chapter of HIMSS strives to provide our members with local networking opportunities, advocacy updates, and continuing education on industry trends and best practices. Our members encompass many healthcare areas including information systems, management engineering, informatics, telecommunications, and students. Our Georgia chapter make-up includes Georgia-based CIOs, healthcare management and clinicians, physicians, RN's, System Administrators, PACS Administrators, and many other related types of professionals. We provide a local focus for the HIMSS national vision through targeted regional events and member communications. Please visit with us in booth # 8 on the exhibit floor.

Howard Medical
Delivering point-of-care solutions to progressive health care entities is what drives Howard Medical. Whether we are designing and manufacturing our revolutionary POC carts or specialized hardware technologies that are vital prior to or after the implementation of electronic medical records, C.P.O.E., PACS, and other health-related systems, we provide you with real-world solutions. And by partnering with other like-minded technology innovators, we also offer rugged notebooks, tablets, and flat panel wall mounts. What more could you need? Please visit with us in booth # 36 on the exhibit floor.
Initiate Systems, Inc
Initiate Systems provides application software and services for healthcare organizations to create complete views of patient information from data dispersed across multiple facilities, application systems and databases. Our enterprise master person index (EMPI) software delivers a comprehensive picture of each patient in real time to all points of service, enabling interoperability and data exchange; providing a foundation for federated, centralized or decentralized data stores; and supporting and managing patient identification across organizations, despite governance, messaging and communication protocols. Please visit with us in booth # 18 on the exhibit floor.
InnerWireless Inc.
Spot from InnerWireless. Spot from InnerWireless significantly increases patient safety, improves equipment utilization and boosts productivity by accurately locating valuable medical equipment and other assets on demand. Staff can quickly locate equipment and clinical personnel to deliver effective patient care when and where it is needed. Spot is an innovative, cost-effective, and extremely reliable asset location system that integrates with your applications. Spot's "cable-free" installation is simple, fast and scalable, and minimizes infection control issues. Please visit with us in booth # 19 on the exhibit floor.
Intel – Digital Health Group
Improving healthcare worldwide through the use of innovative technology, Intel brings breakthrough technical expertise, manufacturing leadership, inspired partners, and the drive for industry standards to put new technologies and platform solutions in the hands of patients, their families and healthcare providers. Intel's Digital Healthcare Group concentrates on the use of technology to improve patient health and safety, manage patient information, help decrease costs and improve the efficiency of healthcare. Major areas of focus include healthcare IT, biomedical and life sciences, personal health platforms, policy and standards, health research and innovation, and strategy and platform development. Please visit with us in booth # 40 on the exhibit floor.
iPass
iPass unifies the management of remote and mobile connectivity, devices and security. Visit our booth on the exhibit floor to find out more about how iPass Endpoint Policy Management helped South Georgia Medical Center reduce the deployment time of Adobe Reader from more than three days to two hours or how iPass helped Genesis Heath System cut security update time from days to minutes, automate mobile device inventory tracking every 15 minutes and enforce HIPAA compliance. Please visit with us in booth # 22 on the exhibit floor.
McKesson
McKesson's vision is to help create a healthcare system where quality is higher, mistakes are fewer and costs are lower. As the nation's leading healthcare services company McKesson touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. By combining its industry-leading technology and scale with unsurpassed clinical knowledge, McKesson is helping providers deliver better, safer care while reducing unnecessary costs across the continuum of care. McKesson's patient strategy is focused on enabling you to positively impact your patient's healthcare by providing convenient, high-quality experiences that consumers and their families are looking for. Don't miss seeing our exciting new patient centered solutions that are delivered by healthcare delivery systems, hospitals, homecare agencies, large and small physician practices, and health insurance organizations. These solutions include: Telehealth, Web-based personalized tools, Lobby and in-room devices. Please visit with us in booth # 1 on the exhibit floor.
Medicity
Medicity specializes in complex clinical integration projects and e-health solutions configured from its own commercially-available component applications, which include an MPI, an integration engine, and an EHR. Medicity also offers a robust portal platform and application suites for physicians, patients and consumers. Its physician portal was top ranked among non-core HIS vendors by KLAS. Please visit with us in booth # 39 on the exhibit floor.
MEDITECH (Medical Information Technology, Inc)
A leading software vendor in the health care informatics industry for 36 years, MEDITECH provides integrated software solutions that meet the information needs of health care organizations worldwide. From large integrated delivery networks to community hospitals and physician practices, our advanced software solutions support the entire continuum of health care, enabling our customers to deliver patient care safely and efficiently while ensuring optimal business performance. Please visit with us in booth # 32 on the exhibit floor.
Meru Networks
Meru Networks is the global leader in wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. Its industry-leading innovations deliver pervasive, wireless service fidelity for business-critical applications to major Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations, and government agencies. The Meru WLAN System is the only solution on the market that provides predictable bandwidth and over-the-air Quality of Service with the reliability, scalability, and security necessary for converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure. Visit www.merunetworks.com. Please visit with us in booth # 15 on the exhibit floor.
Milestone Systems
Milestone Systems is a privately owned Systems Integration company that helps corporations and organizations, including ones in the healthcare sector, with intensive information needs. Founded in 2000, Milestone Systems solves the challenges of ensuring continuous availability and secured transport of data between end-users, applications, databases and other sources. Please visit with us in booth # 34 on the exhibit floor.
Misys Healthcare Systems
Misys Healthcare Systems, an industry-leading healthcare IT company and a division of Misys plc, develops and supports reliable, easy-to-use software and services that enable physicians and caregivers to more easily manage the complexities of healthcare. Misys serves more than 110,000 physicians in 18,000 practices, 1,200 hospitals, 600 home care agencies and hundreds of commercial laboratories, clinics, managed services and other related groups. For over 25 years, healthcare organizations have relied on Misys solutions, including electronic health records for ambulatory, acute and post-acute settings, departmental systems, practice management systems and EDI connectivity. Misys also endorses interoperability and improved access to clinical data through the Misys Optimum™ family of clinical products, which are supported in all medical settings across the continuum of care. Please visit with us in booth # 24 on the exhibit floor.
Motion Computing
Motion Computing slate Tablet PCs are designed to help healthcare professionals enhance the quality of patient care and improve patient safety with streamlined clinical workflows and increased clinician mobility and productivity. Motion is a mobile computing and wireless communications leader, combining world-class innovation and industry experience allowing individuals to use computing technology in new ways and places. Marketed through its international reseller network and directly through its Web site, Motion products are built to customer specifications.
Please visit with us in booth # 7 on the exhibit floor.
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.
NextGen Healthcare is a leading provider of fully integrated enterprise practice management and electronic medical records software. Ideal for the multi-provider enterprise or the solo practitioner, our award-winning solutions are proven to increase the quality of patient care, cut costs, and improve operational efficiencies—all while delivering a healthy return on investment. Please visit with us in booth # 28 on the exhibit floor.
Reflex Security
Reflex Security's ThreatIQ intrusion prevention suite secures networks by accurately blocking internal and external security threats. SC Magazine recently named Reflex Security the top performer in its 2006 Group Test of IPS vendors, awarding its winning "Best Buy" honor. Adaptable, reliable and easy to use, Reflex Security provides effortless enterprise security for business networks and virtualized networks of all sizes. Please visit with us in booth # 20 on the exhibit floor.
Rubbermaid Medical Solutions
Rubbermaid Medical Solutions provides innovative Mobile Medication and Computing Stations that assist Georgia healthcare facilities in patient safety initiatives. Our Medication Carts support barcode scanning at the bedside and provide for closed-loop medication delivery all the way to the point of care. All of our products are open platform, allowing our clients to select hardware devices that best suit their facility’s needs. Please visit with us in booth # 26 on the exhibit floor.
Siemens Medical Solutions
Siemens Soarian HIS was developed to bring your organization to the next horizon of healthcare. Soarian is an integrated health information solution (HIS) that was developed from the ground up to empower healthcare providers to proactively manage the clinical, financial, and administrative process from beginning to end. Soarian, a truly unique solution, orchestrates workflow to increase efficiency, productivity, and quality of care across the healthcare continuum - easily and affordably. Please visit with us in booth # 9 on the exhibit floor.
Stinger Medical
When considering your future project, Stinger Medical's experience is the difference that will make it a success. Stinger understands that care environments are constantly evolving, and has been helping facilities meet new challenges for more than a decade. Responding to the needs of its customers, Stinger has designed services and solutions that will meet the demands of today and provide a foundation for future growth. Products include: fully customized mobile solutions, integriti® vital signs technology, wall and arm mounts, All-In-One computers and complete integration services. Call today to learn how Stinger's experience will be the difference in your next project. Please visit with us in booth # 27 on the exhibit floor.
Surgical Information Systems
Surgical Information Systems provides automated intelligence across the entire perioperative continuum, thereby empowering hospitals to enhance patient care and business operations. SIS centralizes and unites all information exchanged between the people, processes and resources associated with surgery to deliver fast, accurate and comprehensive information precisely when it is needed most – at the scheduling desk, the point-of-care, the O.R. control center, and the surgeon's office, as well as with materials management and in the executive boardroom. Please visit with us in booth # 30 on the exhibit floor.
Think Medical Group
Think Medical Group is a division of Think Resources, an 18 year old international firm specializing in assisting client organizations with locating candidates for Health Care Information Systems and Information Technology positions. Think Medical Group specializes in locating and placing healthcare IT professionals on a contract, temp-to-perm, or a direct hire basis. Due to our extensive experience in these and other technical disciplines, our fully automated, proprietary, client server automated systems, two million dollar plus advertising budget, pervasive internet presence and very large database of candidates, we are able to provide client organizations with the right people on a very timely basis. Clients value our service because they are often challenged to find the IT professionals in the time frame they need theme, so they turn to the experts. As demand grows and supply diminishes, Health Care Organizations are faced with either expanding their own capabilities or retaining firms like Think Medical Group to assist in this vital area. Think Medical Group serves as an augmentation to the Information technology and human resources staff of client organizations for this purpose. Please visit with us in booth # 35 on the exhibit floor.
Vocera Communications
The Vocera Communications System improves staff productivity by allowing instant, two-way communication between mobile users across hospital settings. The Vocera Badge is virtually hands-free and uses wireless technology and speech recognition allowing calls to be made to individuals, groups, or any healthcare resource. Together, the Vocera Communications Badge and Vocera System Software, let users immediately speak with the resources they need allowing fast decision-making. For more information, please visit www.vocera.com. Please visit with us in booth # 17 on the exhibit floor.
     
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