At a recent event sponsored by the White House, the National Science Foundation and the Networking and Information Technology R&D program, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) was recognized for its collaborative efforts to enable real-time personalized medicine through innovation with Stanford University and the National Center for Tumor Diseases Germany. The Washington, DC-based event, Data to Knowledge to Action, featured public and private organizations that enhance scientific discovery and biomedical research and derive greater value for consumers by innovating Big Data tools and technologies.

DrFirst, a pioneer of innovative healthcare software solutions and services, announced today the launch of the Patient Advisor Report Card, a medication adherence alert system accessible through the company’s Patient Advisor℠ Toolbar. Physicians access the Patient Advisor Toolbar via DrFirst’s Rcopia® e-prescribing software, as well as through any EMR/EHR/HIS systems in which Patient Advisor is embedded.

Syncsort, a global leader in high-performance Big Data integration software, today announced the availability of Syncsort Ironcluster (formerly DMX-h) Hadoop ETL -- the first data integration engine for Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR). The new offering from Syncsort on Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides elastic Hadoop ETL as-a-service running on Amazon EMR, combining blazing speed, virtually infinite scalability, and ease of use.

Kootenai Health, a recent recipient of the "Most Wired Innovator" award, is progressive in its IT strategy and its approach to integration. Beginning in early 2012, Kootenai Health worked with Summit Healthcare to streamline its current integration strategy and future interoperability goals. The Summit Interoperability Platform featuring theSummit Express Connect interface engine and Summit Provider Exchange solution provided Kootenai's interface foundation for achieving these goals.

Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration announces that their Summit Express Connect interface engine has been tested and certified under the Drummond Group's Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) program for Meaningful Use Stage 2. This EHR software is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was awarded certification on September 26, 2013.

ProVation® Clinic Note Content and Clinical Decision Support will be Embedded into Cerner Millennium® to Improve Patient Care, Streamline Physician Documentation, and Drive the Capture of Structured data

eClinicalHealth Limited, a company dedicated to the provision of innovative clinical trial solutions, has launched Clinpal - a new patient-centric platform designed to engage patients digitally in clinical research more efficiently.

The integration team at Scribe Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (http://www.scribe.com) has successfully completed hundreds of integrations, working with the full gamut of Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record (EMR/EHR) systems, but none to date have offered the uniqueness of a recent project.