Kodak loses court case:
- The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against Kodak
- The court stated that Kodak cannot charge more to refurbish Versamark print heads if customers were using ink from Collins Inkjet, rather than genuine Kodak ink
- The Kodak Versamark, is a high speed production inkjet system
Canon opens new showroom in Singapore:
- Will be located in the Singapore Sports Hub, a 35 acre multi-sports facility in city of Kallang
- The showroom, called Canon Print Hub, will also serve as a printshop for the facility
Annodata publishes survey of law firms:
- Surveyed 100 IT Directors from law firms
- Only 42% have a managed print services contract in place
- 50% have no plans to implement a MPS contract
- 55% say their main focus is to save money
- 20% want to improve reliability
- 3% want to improve security
Sharp may get an investor:
- Hon Hai Precision (aka Foxconn) of Taiwan is considering investing $835.5 million in Sharp, according to Sankei Shimbun newspaper
- Hon Hai assembles electronics for other companies, for example it makes iPhones and iPads for Apple
- Hon Hai’s investment would be made to support Sharp as it undergoes massive restructuring
- In return Hon Hai would have a role in the company’s operations and access to intellectual property
- The investment would give Hon Hai a 20% stake in Sharp
- Hon Hai’s CEO Terry Gou, proposed an investment in 2012, but Sharp refused to give him a say in the company’s management
Sharp completes sale of solar unit:
- Canadian Solar Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of Recurrent Energy, a solar power division of Sharp Corp.
- Recurrent had 7 late stage projects, located in California and Texas
Sharp may spin off its LCD unit:
- According to Reuters News Service, Sharp may have to sell off its LCD panel business in order to appease its main lenders
- The LCD division accounts for 1/3 of Sharp’s total revenue
Xeikon win production color contract:
- Xeikon announced it placed a 3030 system at Berco Labels of Quebec City, Canada
- The 3030 is an entry level narrow web digital color dry toner press, with 1200x3600dpi, and media width of up to 13”
Print Audit launches new MPS tool:
- Print Audit, provider of managed print services to dealers, announced a new Business Intelligence Dashboard
- Will marry device, document, and user information related to office document production
- Provides dealers a view of printer and MFP footprint compared to market at large
- Breaks down the current vertical market penetration and opportunities that exist
Xerox win production color contract:
- Won placements from Print Bound of Melbourne, Australia
- Includes two iGen 150s, and two Color 1000 presses, all production color toner systems
- Will be used primarily to produce on-demand booklets.
Hewlett Packard gets assist from U.S. Customs
- U.S. Customs officers stopped Ninestar Technology of China from importing print cartridges into the U.S.
- The cartridges are advertised as able to work with HP printers and MFPs
Hewlett Packard former employee pleads guilty
- Paul R. Fite, 53, admitted to using his HP credit card to deposit cash in his checking account while working for the company
- Also used card to pay for plane tickets, hotel stays and meals for his paintball team
- Total fraudulent charges totaled $158,000
Hyland launched version 15 of OnBase ECM:
- Re-architected mobile platform, a new app in the Windows Store, and new integration points between OnBase apps and other enterprise mobile apps
- An enhanced experience for users of case based applications including integration with MS Outlook 2013
- Improved integrations with complimentary cloud based applications including Docusign
- Streamlined user experience and improved data capture tools for invoices
Gartner survey of 3D printer usage:
- Gartner surveyed companies and asked them why they will pursue purchase of 3D printer
- 24.5% = Prototyping
- 16.1% = Product Development
- 11.1% = Innovation (create items that are impossible using traditional methods)
- 9.6% = increase efficiency
- 9.4% = cost reduction
- 8% = develop customized products
- 4.8% = new revenue source
- 4.5% = improved or expanded product line
- 4.2% = transform customer experience
- 3.4% = improve supply chain
- 3.1% = improve logistics
Okidata launches new A3 color MFP, the MC873dn featuring:
- Top speed of 35ppm
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- LED instead of laser technology
- 9.5 second first page out time
- 1200x600dpi (does not offer true 8 bits per pixel)
- Recommended monthly volume of 1K to 10K/month
- Auto duplex standard, supports up to 220gsm
- 7” color LCD touchscreen
- Toner yields of 10,000 pages based on 5% coverage
- Drum yields of 30,000 pages
- Fuser yield of 100,000 pages
- Transfer belt yield of 80,000 pages
- Paper supply maximum of 2,005 sheets with options
- Paper drawers hold up to 176gsm & bypass holds up to 256gsm
- Fax board standard
- No finishing options, as paper exits in front, not side
- Auto reversing document feeder holds up to 100 originals
- Built-in print controller
- Actual maker unknown
- 800MHz processor
- PCL, PS and XPS print drivers standard
- 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports standard
- 1.25GB RAM & 250GB hard drive
Large dealer makes another acquisition:
- Marco, run by Jeff Gau, and headquartered in St. Cloud, MN, announced company has acquired Better Business Equipment
- BBE, founded 47 years ago, is located in Omaha, Nebraska, and has 1400 customers
Quick Printing magazine publishes stats:
- Number of franchise print for pay locations in the U.S. by brand:
- Minuteman = 769
- Franchise Services (aka PIP, Sir Speedy & Multicopy) = 370
- Alliance Franchise Brands (aka Allega, American Speedy, Insty Prints, Speedy Printing and Zippy Print) = 276
- Alphagraphics = 245
- ICED (aka Kwik Kopy, Ink Well, Franklin’s, American Wholesale) = 141
- Sales by Job Type:
- Digital color = 25.1%
- Offset = 19.3%
- Brokered = 17.4%
- Finishing/mailing = 13.4%
- B/w digital = 8.3%
- Prepress = 7.9%
- Wide format = 7.4%
Ricoh wins production contracts:
- Won from Prasad Printers of Mangalore, India
- Placed a C751EX production color system and Pro 907EX b/w system
- Will be used to produce books, magazines, tabloids
- Won contract from Interprint of Swindon, England
- Placed two Pro C901S production color systems, Pro 907 b/w system and two Pro C9110 production color (130ppm) systems
- Will be used to produce light packaging, direct mail, books, promotional materials, brochures and business cards
Kyocera management change:
- Current president of Kyocera Document Solutions, Katsumi Komaguchi, will move to Vice Chairman position
- New president is Takashi Kuki, who joined company 33 years ago
InfoTrends publishes research on color output:
- U.S. digital production color volumes total about 160 billion impressions in 2013, and will reach 320 billion by 2018
- Production color inkjet accounted for 37% of the total production digital color volume in 2013, and will account for 61% in 2018
Adobe released results of survey of office workers:
- 76% = reliant on paper documents at work
- 59% = reliant on paper documents at home
- 50% = believe will be reliant on paper in 5 years
- 83% = ability to be productive at work is hindered by outdated ways of working with documents
- 61% = would change jobs solely for the sake of dramatically reducing the amount of paperwork required of them
- 43% = blame the volume of email attachments that they receive for making their work life more complicated
- 82% = missing documents and version control problems were the most frustrating document problems
- 63% = believe that electronic documents are secure
- 52% = feel emotionally attached to their paper documents
Cartridge World to revamp its stores:
- Based on its research, it plans on updating all of its 500 stores in the U.S.
- 76% of business customers use online ordering as primary source for print cartridges
- 58% of SMB customers still prefer instore experience
- Home based businesses do more instore shopping
- Will offer a “full range of B2B printing solutions that fill a need neither big box nor office supply stores meet”
Kodak wins contract:
- Placed a PROSPER 6000C production color inkjet system at Wilen Direct, a commercial printer in Deerfield Beach, FL
- Will be used to produce variable data direct mail pieces
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Samsung booth at HIMSS show:
- Samsung announced it will have its MFPs and printers on display at the HIMSS healthcare technology show
- Will also be demonstrating “follow me” cost recovery solution from Ringdale
Xerox wins contract from hospital:
- Won managed print services contract from Luton & Dunstable Hospital
- Located in Luton, England
- Converted 1.25 million sheets of paper medical records to digital
- Implemented a “Scan Centre” inside the hospital
Peer60 published results of survey:
- What are your hospital’s purchasing intentions in 2015:
- 58% = ICD-10 Migration
- 50% = population health management
- 48% = patient engagement
- 31% = revenue cycle management
- 26% = EHR
- 26% = data analytics
- 24% = data security
- EHR market share for all hospitals of all sizes:
- Meditech = 19%
- CPSI = 15%
- Cerner = 13%
- McKesson = 11%
- Siemens = 9%
- Healthland = 7%
- Epic = 5%
- GE = 4%
- Allscripts = 4%
- None = 4%
- EHR market share for IDNs with more than 1000 beds:
- Epic = 30%
- Cerner = 30%
- GE = 20%
- Allscripts = 10%
- McKesson = 10%
- EHR market share for systems with 501-1000 beds:
- Siemens = 25%
- Epic = 17%
- Cerner = 17%
- Meditech = 13%
- NextGen = 8%
- McKesson = 8%
- GE = 8%
- EHR marketshare for 251-500 beds:
- McKesson = 27%
- Cerner = 19%
- Siemens = 15%
- Meditech = 12%
- Epic = 8%
Apple partnership with IBM:
- The partnership will launch 4 healthcare-related apps at the HIMSS show
- The apps include:
- an iPhone communication system for nurses
- iPad workload app for hospital charge nurses
- a notification and lab status app for hospital tech
- app that allows home care nurses to upload info to an EHR
Epic launches Care Everywhere:
- Epic EHR customer, Sutter Health of northern California, now allows clinician access to patient medical records from other Epic users including:
- Kaiser
- UCSF
- Stanford
- UC Davis
- John Muir
- Washington Hospital
- CVS Minute Clinics
- Benioff Childrens Hospital of Oakland
Epic wins contracts:
- Lifespan, the largest healthcare system in Rhode Island, went live
- Total cost of system will be $100 million over next several years
- Forbes Hospital of Pennsylvania, replacing Allscripts
eClinicalWorks launches new EHR feature:
- New feature for its EHR for the ambulatory market
- Will allow integration of data from patients’ wearable fitness tracking devices with their records
- Devices supported include Fitbit, iHealth, Jawbone and Withings
athenahealth CEO to host fundraiser:
- athenahealth, an EHR for ambulatory care providers, has CEO, Jonathan Bush
- he is hosting a $10,000 per person fundraiser for his cousin, which is presidential contender, Jeb Bush
Allscripts settles lawsuite:
- The EHR vendor will pay $10 million to settle a 2012 class action lawsuit with investors
- The company was accused of hiding problems after acquisition of Eclipsys, another EHR maker
Healthcare leads cloud security adoption:
- CipherCloud conducted survey of several verticals, in regards to their investment in data security for cloud storage
- 38% = healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
- 25% = banking and finance
- 9% = government
HIMSS releases EHR adoption data for 2014:
- HIMSS is the Health Information Management Systems Society
- Has released 7 stages of EHR adoption, with Stage 7 being the highest.
- Percentage of IDNs and Stages achieved:
- Stage 7 (complete EMR, CCD transactions to share data, data warehousing, data continuity with ED, ambulatory, OP) = 3.6%
- Stage 6 (physician documentation, structured templates, full CDSS, full R-PACS) = 17.9%
- Stage 5 (closed loop medication administration) = 32.8%
- Stage 4 (CPOS, clinical decision support) = 14%
- Stage 3 (nursing/clinical documentation, flow sheets, CDSS, error checking, PACS available outside of radiology) = 5.1%
- Stage 1 (ancillaries, lab radiation, pharmacy all installed) = 2%
- Stage 0 (all three ancillaries not installed) = 3.7%
HIPAA/Data Security update:
- Pacific Medical Center of San Francisco notified 844 patients that a former pharmacist had illegally accessed their PHI.
- Indian River Medical Center of Florida notified 30 patients that their PHI was exposed when a patient web portal malfunctioned.