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Winola Lake Health IT’s SmartSupply Health Solution Will Make Its Official Debut at AHRMM16 in San Diego
Winola Lake Health IT’s SmartSupply Health Solution Will Make Its Official Debut at AHRMM16 in San Diego
July 29, 2016 11:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time
PIPERSVILLE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Winola Lake Health IT, leading provider of healthcare IT and point of care technology solutions, will officially debut its SmartSupply Health Solution at AHRMM16 in San Diego. SmartSupply Health is an advanced supply chain offering that has been designed for the sole purpose of serving the unique requirements of healthcare and life sciences applications.
“Supply chain is essential to many of healthcare’s most important strategic objectives."
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The offering, first announced in December 2015, is the result of a collaborative effort between Winola Lake Health IT and JASCI, a tenured leader in the enterprise supply chain space. SmartSupply Health brings together Winola Lake’s experience in the healthcare industry with JASCI’s proven cloud-based supply chain platform to transform the management of medical supplies – particularly in the last mile of the supply chain, from dock to patient bedside.
Since its initial announcement, SmartSupply Health has made a positive impact for several of Winola Lake’s hospital and health system clients. The product is now ready to make its entrée into the broader market.
SmartSupply Health comes at a time when the healthcare system is under greater pressure to contain costs and improve efficiency than ever before. With supply chain expected to exceed 44 percent of all healthcare costs by 2022, the function represents a ready opportunity for significant time and cost savings.
“In healthcare, the role of supply chain is more than a functional one,” said Rick Hodge, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Winola Lake Health IT. “Because of its significant cost impact and pervasiveness, supply chain is essential to many of healthcare’s most important strategic objectives, including the improvement of care quality, outcomes, efficiency and cost effectiveness.”
Similarly, SmartSupply Health is designed to play both a strategic and functional role. In addition to providing real-time, end-to-end visibility and control over supplies and inventory from the supplier to the point of care, SmartSupply Health offers analytics integrated with IBM Watson, helping providers to make actionable the wealth of data contained in their supply chains.
Among SmartSupply Health’s additional features are its SmartTask Workflow Engine, which empowers providers to configure workflows on the go, and its labor tracking and management capabilities, which enable providers to measure and improve efficiency.
Winola Lake Health IT views AHRMM16 as the perfect forum to bring the supply offering to market. “We chose to officially launch the product at AHRMM16 because this year’s theme of ‘Collaborating to Achieve the Triple Aim’ is well-aligned with SmartSupply Health’s benefits, which impact both providers and their patient populations,” said Rick of the launch.
Winola Lake Health IT will showcase the offering in Booth #530 in the New Exhibitor Pavilion, where they will be conducting live product demos for attendees.
About Winola Lake Health IT
Winola Lake Health IT provides healthcare technology and services that address the diverse needs of a number of healthcare roles. Committed to bringing innovative solutions that fulfill healthcare information technology needs, Winola Lake Health IT’s solutions make hospitals, long-term care facilities and physicians’ offices more efficient, improving the quality of care and the patient experience. With a seasoned team of healthcare technology veterans, Winola Lake Health IT takes a consultative approach to solving clinical application problems, working with clients to exceed the goals of their institution.
For more information, visit www.winolalake.com.
Amazon Web Services continues to swallow the computer industry, and other Amazon notes
Tom Paine
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Subscribe in a readerA simple earnings report can be a difficult thing to write up. The major news services - Dow Jones, Reuters, Bloomberg - certainly get it right most of the time. But at some of the top tech websites, it may not be a top priority job and as a result is farmed out to some junior staffer who can't do elementary long division.
An example of this was Amazon's earnings report today. I was trying to get a quick fix on Amazon Web Services' year-over-year growth for its 2nd quarter. At one site I went to it was 59%, at another 61%. Another mistakenly said the growth was 2nd quarter over 1st quarter.
The correct numbers were $2,886 for Q2 2016 over $1,824 (000) for Q2 2015, for a percentage increase of 58.2 %.
Although this represents a slight decline in its growth rate from recent quarters, it is still phenomenal for a business of that size, on a pace with companies like Microsoft and Google. Its even more remarkable when considering that AWS is selling mostly infrastructure, not end user services or software that should have more value-added, and revenue.
AWS also has 25% operating margins, impressive for a business that essentially is a modern version of what used to be referred to as a service bureau.
Other interesting Amazon facts:
- Amazon Business now serves more than 400,000 businesses and generated more than $1 billion in sales in its first year
- "AWS announced the availability of X1 instances, a new Memory Optimized instance for Amazon EC2. X1 instances have 2 TB of memory — the most memory available in any cloud instance offered today by any cloud provider. Powered by the latest Intel processors and certified by SAP, X1 instances are ideal for running in-memory databases like SAP HANA, big data processing engines like Apache Spark or Presto, and high performance computing (HPC) workloads."
- "AWS also announced that SAP business-critical applications are gaining momentum on AWS as customers including GE Oil & Gas, Kellogg’s, Brooks Brothers, Ferrara Candy Company, GPT Group, Hoya Corporation, Lionsgate, Macmillan Publishers India, RWE Czech Republic, and Bart & Associates Inc., are running SAP on AWS."
- AWS announced that Salesforce selected it as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider
- NBC has a skill on Alexa, and Campbell's Soup has a Dash button. Amazon has already established itself as a leader in home IoT and has roots on the business side as well.
- With Amazon now reselling Comcast cable (no word on how that's progressing), and Comcast Business Services linking to AWS (no big deal, actually), one has to wonder if there will be more joint initiatives between the two giants in the future.
- Amazon continues to build out its fulfillment centers in New Jersey, including one near Trenton and another planned for Burlington County
- AmazonFresh launched in Boston, joining northern and southern California, northern New Jersey, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, and Seattle.
Comcast 2Q earnings meet expectations; A look at some key issues
Tom Paine
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Comcast earnings calls are so well correographed that I usually focus on exception reporting, noting the few items or remarks that stand out like outliers. But there was a little more substance and discussion of strategic issues today as Comcast reported 2nd quarter earnings, though the financial results were largely as expected (hint: it made a ton of money)
Comcast couldn't comment on the ongoing spectrum auction because FCC rules prohibit it. It stands to gain money by selling spectrum as well as spend money buying spectrum. But Neil Smit did comment on the wireless opportunity in general, saying "with 28 million customer relationships, our MVNO rights, which we've invoked, and our 15 million Wi-Fi hotspots, we think there's a real business opportunity there. We've been in test and learn mode." Smit also mentioned the appointment of Greg Butz to head Comcast's wireless effort.
Comcast lost only 4,000 video customers, its best second quarter result in over ten years. The second quarter is usually a low tide spot because many college students and seasonal workers move and disconnect.
Comcast's X1 is now at 40% penetration,, up from 30% at the beginning of the year, but at the 2nd quarter rate may fall short of its 50% stated goal at year end. X1 is seen as more than a user interface, but as the key vehicle for delivering content and services via the cloud.
Brian Roberts on OTT (streaming over the web) and going out of footprint, as Hulu (1/3 owned by Comcast as silent partner) prepares a Netflix-like OTT service: 'OTT economics are unproven to us, and out of footprint it's not clear that that's the right strategy for us."
No mention of an item in the New York Post this weekend suggesting that Comcast might be planning a nationwide mobile content service.
Judging from a Q&A exchange, it sounds as if the XB6 wireless (WiFi) gateway is taking a little bit longer to get out of the lab than expected. Maybe late this year or early next.
Theme parks are now a billion dollar quarterly business for Comcast, with operating margins of about 45%. Quite an achievement for a company that was once laughed at for trying to acquire Disney.
NBC had the best upfront since Comcast has owned the company, with a 12.5% CPM increase at NBC primetime.
Steve Burke on retrans fees: "I think, on retrans is we still have some major contracts where retrans is going to take significant step-ups and we're still hundreds of millions of dollars less than some of the other comparable peers."
Strong gains were reported at MSNBC (Brian Williams?), and Meet the Press "moved up from 3rd to 1st in key demo"(graphics?), perhaps proving that the prior host was the problem. Political advertising is expected to provide a boost for the remainder of the year.
Business Services revenue grew 17%. About 75% of Business services revenue comes from small business, and I wouldn't be surprised if there is a slight downward blip in growth this quarter due to the major voice outage earlier this month.
For those obsessed with the numbers, revenue for the quarter was up 2.8%, and operating cash flow was up 3.0%. Results compared to last year were hurt by some tough comparisons, particularly in its film business. Cable revenue grew 6%.
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