– Xerox announced it will relabel Nuance’s Equitrac Office 5, and call it the Xerox Secure Print Manager Suite.
– Xerox announced it sold a Xerox Color 1000 production color system to Paperjet, a commercial printer in Cape Town, South Africa, to produce business cards, flyers & booklets.
– Xerox announced it sold two of its divisions to Pegasus TransTech, a transportation industry service provider headquartered in Tampa, FL. Divisions sold were:
o TripPak Services, provider of document capture, submission and workflow management
o ACS Advertising, a recruitment advertising agency.
o Purchase price not accounced
– Canon launched COLORlynx Profiler:
o Cloud-based profiling solution to support the Canon imagePRESS production color series
o Uses ORIS software from CGS Publishing Technologies of Germany
o End users can maintain and diagnose color compliance
o Remote management of single or multiple devices over a secure Internet connection
o Calibration profiles are generated and used directly in the digital front end of the color devices
o Pricing not announced
– Canon launched a new marketing campaign, with the tagline “Bring it”:
o “It’s time for us to take advantage of the marketplace. We need to claim our place of leadership in the imaging category.”; stated Michelle Fernandez, Canon’s Director of Marketing
o “The brand is here to revitalize and redefine the imaging market”
– Canon announced it will have a booth with its MFPs and solutions on display at the National Association of College Auxiliary Services convention for the higher education vertical in Portland, OR on 1/1-3/2014.
– What do they know? Credit Suisse announced it has downgraded Canon’s stock from “neutral” to “underperform”.
– Canon announced it sold an Oce’ ColorStream 3700 production color inkjet system and an Oce’ VarioPrint 6250 b/w production print system to Henry Ling, a printer of books, located in Dorcester, England.
– Canon now shipping three new color A4 MFPs, the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C250i, C350i and C351i featuring:
o 4 tandem OPC drum design
o Top speeds of 25ppm and 35ppm respectively
o 7” color touchscreen LCD control panel
o 1200x1200dpi
o 10 second warm-up time
o Document feeder scans in b/w or color, up to 100 originals
o Fax board standard (second line optional)
o Comes standard with one paper drawer and stack bypass
- Optional envelope feeder
- Can add more drawers to make floor standing
- Max of 2,300 sheets with options
o Optional hanging stapling finisher
o Built-in imageCHIP print controller
- Actual maker unknown
- PostScript & PCL print drivers standard
- Optional XPS driver
- MEAP (multifunction embedded application protocol) equipped for optional embedded solution connectors
- 1.5GB RAM
- 80GB hard drive
- Optional certified data security kit
o 10/100/1000BaseT Gigabit Ethernet and USB ports standard
– Ricoh launched two new A4 desktop b/w devices, the SP112 b/w printer and the SP112SU MFP:
o Both have profile under 5” and 6.5”
o 15”x16” footprints
o 16ppm top speed
o 1200x600dpi
o USB port standard
o Card shot feature
o Replace the SP100e and SP100SU
o 50 sheet paper tray
– Ricoh announced it opened an Inkjet Technical Center in Telford, England, to support manufacturers which buy piezo inkjet printing technology from Ricoh.
– Ricoh announced it has installed 6 of its InfoPrint high speed production inkjet systems at Adare Limited, a commercial printer in London, England to produce transpromo output.
– Ricoh announced it sold a Pro C651EX production color system to Sonal Xerox, a commercial printer in Prahladnagar, India.
– Ricoh announced it will turn off all of its billboard signage around the world on 6/5/2014 to recognize the United Nations “World Environment Day”
– Ricoh launched version 2.2 of its Streamline NX document capture solution for its MFPs:
o Competes with Nuance and NSi products
o “One Integrated Application for Better Document Processes”
o Sourced from Ricoh Japan
o Loads on server to track usage volumes across dozens, hundreds, or thousands of MFPs
o Work with Ricoh MFPs that have ESA (embedded software architecture based on Java operating system) for access from touchscreen LCD display
o Base MSRP of $373 per MFP
o $523 for Scan/fax tracking package with image cleanup
- $2500 for zonal OCR
- $3800 for barcode recognition
- $2000 for scan to watched folder
- $2000 each for connectors (IBM FileNet, MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, OpenText RightFax, or DocumentMall)
o $485 for secure print package
- Print tracking and reporting
- Follow me print
- HotSpot printing and mobile printing
- $198 for secure print client add on
o Annual maintenance is 12% of the MSRP of the software
– Ricoh launched two new desktop color A4 MFPs, the SP C250SF and C2525F featuring:
o Copy/scan/print/fax standard
o 4 tandem OPC drum design
o Offwhite plastic exterior with black accents
o Base MSRPs of $399 and $699
o 21ppm top speeds
o Only difference between 2 models is that the C2525F model uses large capacity supplies, for a lower cost per page
o 250 sheet paper tray and 150 sheet bypass
o Document feeder holds up to 35 original
o Built-in print controller
- 400MHz CSR Quatro RISC processor
- 256MB RAM
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- PCL and PostScript print drivers standard
– New Milford, New Jersey police arrested 5 teenagers, after they were caught attempting to buy food at Dunkin Donuts with fake $20 bills made on a color MFP.
– Kodak announced it sold a Prosper 1000 b/w production inkjet system to SOS Print Media of Sydney, Australia to produce books on demand.
– More info from recent Kyocera annual dealer meeting in Las Vegas:
o FY2014 total worldwide revenue of 307.8 billion yen ($3.1 billion)
o Operating profit of 28.26 billion yen ($283 million)
o MFP/printer division represents 21% of revenue and 19% of operating profit
- In FY2015, aiming for 21% increase in revenue and 10% increase in operating profit
- Targeting growth of 15% in U.S.
– Toshiba now shipping three new A3 color laser MFPs, the eSTUDIO 5560C, 6560C and 6570C offering:
o Replaces the 5540C, 6540C and 6550C, but based on same engines originally launched in 2008
o 4 tandem OPC drum design
- Drum life ranges from 450,000 to 550,000 pages
o Pulverized toner infused with wax and integrated with developer
- Black toner yield of 77,400 pages based on pages with 6% coverage
- Color toners yield of 29,500 pages based on pages with 6% coverage
o 5560C offers 55ppm color or b/w for base MSRP of $27,656
o 6560C offers 65ppm color or b/w or base MSRP of $33,956
o 6570C offers 65ppm color and 75ppm b/w for base MSRP of $36,056
o Maximum monthly duty cycles of 225K/mo to 275K/mo
o Audible beep when MPF needs attention
o Offwhite plastic exterior with blue plastic accents
o 10.4” color LCD touchscreen on armature
o Document feeder holds up to 100 originals
- Does NOT scan both sides at same time
- 77opm top scan speed
o Comes standard with two 540 universal paper drawers
- Choice of two more 540 sheet drawers or 2,320 letter size paper deck
- Bypass holds up to 13”x19”, and supports up to 47” long banner paper
- Auto duplex standard
- $1783 for 2500 sheet side mount paper deck
o $1076 for fax board
- 2nd line for $651
o Finishing options include:
- $3201 for 50 sheet stapling finisher
- $4897 for booklet making finisher
- $811 for hole punch kit
o Built-in eBridge print controller
- Actual maker unknown
- Runs on Linux OS
- 1.5GHz Freescale PowerPC RISC processor
- 2GB of RAM
- 10/100/1000BaseT and USB ports
- PCL and PostScript print drivers standard
- Scan to file/FTP/folder/email
- 320GB hard drive standard with 256 bit encryption
- $799 for IPsec data security kit option
- Optional EFI Fiery print controller for $7560
– Neopost, maker of mailing equipment, announced it has purchased the following two companies:
o Systems and Programming Solutions of Brookfield, WI, a provider of managed IT services for supply chain and logistics departments
o Best Way Technologies of Chicago, IL, a provider of parcel shipping solutions
– Edudemic magazine published results of survey of those that choose paper book instead of eReader:
o 65% like feeling of real book
o 61% feel physical book helps them learn better
o 58% like being able to lend and borrow books
o 53% like the visual aspects
o 45% want to able to resell them
o 44% enjoy collecting paper books
o 44% enjoy gifting real books
o 42% prefer shopping at bookstore versus online
o 11% enjoy the way a real book smells
o 9% like to show off what they are reading when they carry book
– Sharp announced it won contract to supply A3 color MFPs to each of the 6,300 Circle K convenience stores located in Japan. Model supplied is the MX-3610DS, a 36ppm model.
– In an effort to diversify from its shrinking core business, United Stationers, one of the country’s largest office supply distributors, announced it paid $40 million to buy CPO Commerce, a California-based distributor of tools and equipment.
– Apogee Corp. of London, England, which acquired the printer/MFP business of Sagemcom of France last year, announced it acquired Xact Complete Solutions, a Xerox dealer in England.
o Xact has annual revenue of $5 million
- Has 1800 unit MIF
– Inotec of Germany launched a new high speed scanner, the InoTec 800 series featuring:
o Top speed of 300opm
o Scans both sides of original at same time for 600ipm scan speed
- Model 801 is 160opm for $85,000 MSRP
- Model 811 is 220opm
- Model 821 is 300opm for $150,000 MSRP
o 300x300dpi in color or b/w
o Has two 1000 document feeder trays
- When scanner is finished with first tray, it is automatically moved to the side, and the second tray begins feeding
- When the second tray is empty, it goes back to first
- Allows end user to constantly feed the scanner
o 2D bar code, MICR and RIFD readers are optional
o Color LCD touchscreen control panel
o TWAIN and ISIS drivers
o Will be sold and serviced in the U.S. by the Crowley Company
– Upland Software, announced the following about its new cloud-based FileBound ECM (enterprise content management):
o Top 10 customers average 2700 user each
o One customer has 34 million document stored in the cloud
o Have 730 customers total using cloud solution
– Apple announced to its iPhone customers that the “Find My iPhone” feature can be hacked by fraudsters who shut down the gadget before demanding money over PayPal to unlock the iPhone.
– Samsung announced it hired former Hewlett Packard executive, Matthew Smith, to be its new VP of Sales & Marketing for its printer/MFP division, reporting to Tod Pike (who is former executive from Canon)
– 3D Systems, maker of 3D printers, announced it raised $317 million from investors, which it plans to use on acquisitions.
– Hewlett Packard announced that a 60,000 square foot building it abandoned in Boise, Idaho is now leased by DataSite, which will open a data center.
– HP announced it sold three T260 production b/w inkjet presses to Hucais Printing Company Limited of China, for on-demand book production.
– HP’s new OfficeJet Enterprise X585z, a color MFP designed to compete with laser, was reviewed by InfoTrends. Commentary made by analysts about the color inkjet output:
o “You can see how it’s kind of saturated and bubbly”
o “There’s a little bit of curling”
o “I call it the Monet effect, they (samples) look nice from far away but once you get close they are pixelated and there’s gradation”
o “I think the print quality was very good for documents but not great for images, very saturated”
o “It’s good enough for almost everything except for perhaps say color handouts for customers”
– Hewlett Packard recently published an updated list of options it offers to its customer who have signed up for an HP Managed Print Services contract. Pricing not published for:
o Priority Phone Support option provides technical support to end users from 8am-5pm, M-F
o HP Service Portal option allows customers to see online status of their account, including:
- Account information
- Listing of devices
- Device location address
- Supplies info
- Page count tracking
- Utilization info
- Order supplies, and shipment tracking
- Request onsite service
- Export date into MS Excel
o On-site service level options:
- 4 hour onsite, 9am-5pm, M-F
- 4 hour average onsite, 8:30am-5:30pm, M-F
- Next business day onsite, 8am-5pm, M-F
- Next business day onsite exchange, 9am-5pm, M-F
o Supplies delivery options:
- Delivery to point of need
- Delivery to central receiving dock
- Automatic replenishment
- Delivery within 2 to 4 business days
o Maintenance Kit Onsite Installation Service Option
- Within 2 days of order
– Walmart’s CEO, Doug McMillon, stated; “3D printing is interesting to me. We can use 3D printing over time for replacement parts.”
o The world’s largest retailer may use 3D printers for producing supplies and may even make an acquisition in the market, according to Bloomberg News.
– Microsoft apparently is offering Windows 8.1 with Bing Search for free to makers of tablet PCs to ensure that it’s the platform sold to new customers.
o Windows 9 will launch in 2015
– Brother launched the MFC-L8000 series of desktop color laser MFPs:
o 30ppm top speed
o Copy/fax/print/scan
o 4 tandem OPC drum design
o 40K/month maximum duty cycle
o Base MSRPs from $399 to $599
o 3.7” to 4.85” color touchscreen LCD displays
o 2400x600dpi
o Document feeder on L8600 has 35 original capacity
o Document feeder on L8850 has 50 original capacity
o Paper supply ranges from 300 sheets to 800 sheets
o $78 for black toner with yield of 4,000 pages
o $125 for color toners with yield of 3500 pages
o $180 for drums
o $137 for transfer belt
o $27 for waste toner bottle
o Built-in print controller
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- PCL and PostScript print drivers
– Capsilon Software announced it was named a “Top 50 Services Provider” by Mortgage Technology magazine for its cloud-based document management solution for mortgage lenders.
– Epson announced it will enter the smart glasses market with a product called Moverio BT-200, optimized for augmented reality.
– What does he know? Lexmark’s CFO, John Gamble Jr. sold 24,000 of his shares in the company for $1,040,400.
– Laserfiche announced it won an ECM contract from the Edgewood Independent School District of Texas, which has 12,000 students across 20 campuses.
– IDTechEx published report that estimates that the 3D Printing market will be worth approximately $7 billion by 2025. Out of this $7 billion, at least $3 billion will be attributed to biopinting
– Muratec announced that its MFPs were installed in the 40 locations of Glens Fall National Bank and Trust Company of New York.
– Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers gave presentation on the future of healthcare in the U.S.:
o Costs are up to 17% of the GDP (gross domestic product) or $2.8 trillion
o 27% of money spent is wasted
- $765 billion on excess costs
- $210 billion on unnecessary services
- $190 billion on excess administration
- $55 billion on missed prevention opportunities
- $310 billion inefficient delivery of care/fraud/inflated pricing
o $620 billion is spent by employers per year for 150 million Americans, with costs up 28% in last 5 years
o 25% of family income likely to go to healthcare spending in 2015
o Top 5% of healthcare consumers (must with multiple chronic illnesses) spent 50% of healthcare dollars
o 50% of personal bankruptcies are driven by healthcare costs
o 52% of adults did not meet recommendations of physical activity
o 50% of patients with chronic conditions are not taking medicine to manage disease
– The Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) investigation revealed that Medicare paid $6.7 billion too much for office visits based on judgment of professional coders reviewing a small random sampling of claims.
– CNS NEWS reports that another investigation conducted by HHS OIG reveals that between 2009-2011, HHS spent $120.6 million to cover healthcare for illegal aliens and deceased persons.
– An article in The Economist magazine claims that an investigation reveals that thieves pillage the American healthcare system for $272 billion per year.
o Example given was an 865 unit luxury condo complex Brighton Beach, NY, with garage full of Porsches and Aston Martins, which has 500 residents claiming Medicaid.
– According to SK&A Research, implementation of EHRs in the solo and small group clinics has risen by 11.4% to 53.7% of sites.
o Adoption rate is 77.5% in clinics with 26 or more physicians
o 80.6% for internal medicine
o 75.8% for pediatrics
o 70.5% for nephrology
o 69.4% for pathology
o 69.2% for radiology
– Xerox announced it won a $500 million contract to run the State of New York’s Medicaid insurance system.
– Xerox announced it won contract to convert Miami Children’s Hospital of Florida system to ICD-10.
o The federal government requires this conversion by 10/1/2015
– Xerox announced that the Federal Trade Commission has approved Xerox’s $225 million acquisition of ISG Holdings, a private equity backed healthcare technology firm.
– Samsung launched Simband, an experimental wristwatch whose sensors can measure blood pressure, ECG (electrocardiogram, or the electrical activity of the heart), oxygen, and heart rate.
– Epson announced a new option for its TM-C3400LT thermal ribbon label printer for the healthcare vertical:
o The NEPS Pt. ID optional monthly software subscription allows a hospital to connect printer to their EHR, and automatically generated a color coded patient identification wristband.
– MedAssets, one of the country’s largest GPOs (group purchasing organizations) announced it will hold its next national meeting/tradeshow at the Omni Dallas Hotel in Texas on 10/27-29/2014.
– After reports of widespread problems within the federally run VA Healthcare system, President Obama announced that Eric Shinseki, Veterans Affairs Secretary, will be replaced.
o 26 VA hospitals are now under investigation.
– The federal Office of National Coordinator (ONC, which oversees EHR meaningful use rules) announced a reorganization:
o Kelly Cronin – Office of Care Transformation
o Joy Pritts – Office of the Chief Privacy Officer
o Lisa Lewis – Office of the Chief Operating Officer
o Dr. Doug Fridsma – Office of the Chief Scientist
o Judy Murphy – Office of Clinical Quality & Safety
o Seth Pazinski – Office of Planning, Evaluation & Analysis
o Jodi Daniel – Office of Policy
o Kim Lynch – Office of Programs
o Nora Super – Office of Public Affairs
o Steve Posnack – Office of Standards and Technology
– Survey shows top reasons why clinics are pushing back on upcoming implementation of Stage 2 Meaningful Use rules for EHRs:
o 50% of patients must provide email addresses to meet requirement that they have web portal access
o Orders must be initiated electronically directly by the clinician instead of dictated, written, or verbally issues to a clerical support person
o Data entry timeliness is unworkable given that patients are to be given an electronic summary of care within one day
o Summaries of care must be sent or received with each transfer out or in
– NextGen announced it won EHR contract from Avita Health, which owns 2 hospitals in Ohio.
– Athens Regional Medical Center of Georgia announced that its CEO, James Thaw, has left the hospital after problems with its new Cerner EHR implementation
– Epic announced it won $1.2 million EHR contract from Jamestown Regional Medical Center of North Dakota, replacing HMS system.
o Also won EHR contract from Sidney Health Center of Sidney, Montana, replacing Meditech
– Catholic Health Initiatives, headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, which controls 89 hospitals in 18 states, announced it would spend $2.2 billion for a systemwide EHR.
– The State of Maryland announced it will spend up to $50 million to create an Obamacare website, by modifying one that the State of Connecticut is using.
o The state of Maryland had awarded a $170 million contract to Noridian Healthcare Solutions for a website that failed upon launch.
– Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announced he will sue Oracle, hoping to recover the $134 million paid to develop an Obamacare website for the state which failed.
– The MGMA (Medical Group Management Association) published results of survey of independent physician practices regarding Obamacare
o 62% are struggling to identify patients who claim they are covered by Obamacare and verify their eligibility
o Most say that their patients who have Obamacare are surprised to find out that their deductibles are high
o 50% say they can’t provide services to Obamacare patients because their practice is outside of the network
– The president-elect of the Kansas Medical Society gave his views of usage of EHRs:
o “Now, we’re basically key-punch operators, transcriptionists having to input the data ourselves. Voice-recognition software and some of those things help, but is has essentially tripled the time to complete a medical record. How do you accomplish that when we are already working 12-14 hours a day?”
– HIPAA/Data Security Breach News:
o Ponemon Institute published results of study that shows that computer hackers have exposed the personal information of 110 million Americans, roughly half the nation’s adults, in the last 12 months.
o BitSight Technology reports that PHI record sells for $20/record on the black market.
o Sutherland Healthcare of Los Angeles, CA notified 3,497 patients that their PHI was exposed after computers were stolen.
o The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center says it now believes that all 62,000 employees have had their PHI access by hackers.
o Hurley Medical Center of Flint, Michigan announced that it inadvertently emailed out PHI of an unspecified number of employees.
o The Associated Press reported that when Illinois Governor Pat Quinn closed 3 healthcare facilities in 2012, that file cabinets and boxes full of paper medical records of past patients. The PHI for unspecified number of people was found at facilities in Tinley Park, Rockford and Jacksonville.
o The VA Hospital in Denver, CO notified 239 patients that their PHI was exposed after a laptop computer was stolen from its pulmonary lab.
o Elliott Hospital of Manchester, New Hampshire notified 1200 patients that their PHI was exposed after 4 computers were stolen from an employee’s car.
