Technology Partners
Skylight's vision and strategic objectives help steer our process of selecting technology partners. We evaluate prospective partners in a number of ways, including implementation, deployment, and functionality.
Because we are a learning organization, and because we are committed to helping hospitals extract maximum ROI from our systems, the technology partnerships we enter into must support our need for efficiency, compatibility, and scalability.
General
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Founded in 1997, St. Louis-based Customer Direct provides outsourced call center services for a wide variety of clientele. These outsourced services include customer care, multi-tier technical support and contact center software. Their domestic and international clients include, the hospitality industry, web retailers, software companies, not-for-profit organizations, financial services organizations, direct marketers, and health care providers. |
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Dallas-based Paymentech delivers secure and reliable payment service in merchant acquiring and point-of-sale transaction processing with a wide array of product functionality and support. Paymentech processed approximately 3.7 billion total transactions and $114 billion in bankcard sales volume in 2001. Founded in 1985, Paymentech is the nation's premier processor and acquirer of credit card transactions. |
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Zix Corporation provides the only email encryption services designed with your most important relationships in mind. ZixCorp Email Encryption Services are powered by ZixDirectory®, the largest email encryption community in the world. The tens of millions of ZixDirectory members can feel secure knowing their most important relationships are protected. |
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Red Hat is a provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, applications, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. |
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Mirth is a global leader in commercial open source products and services powering healthcare interoperability and NHIN connectivity. It also delivers information technology consulting, hosts high availability secure applications. |
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VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, VMware has more than 300,000 customers and 25,000 partners. |
EMR
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Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) delivers the insights that healthcare providers require to generate world-class outcomes. The company's Electronic Health Record, practice management and other clinical, revenue cycle, connectivity and information solutions create a Connected Community of Health for physicians, hospitals and post-acute organizations. |
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Cerner® solutions enable physicians, nurses and other authorized users to share data and streamline processes across an entire organization. An online “digital chart” displays up-to-date patient information in real time, complete with decision-support tools for physicians and nurses. Simple prompts allow swift and accurate ordering, documentation, and billing. |
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Epic makes software for mid-size and large medical groups, hospitals and integrated healthcare organizations – working with customers that include community hospitals, academic facilities, children's organizations, safety net providers and multi-hospital systems. Founded in 1979, Epic is private and employee-owned. Epic's leadership team includes clinicians, developers and process experts – people deeply experienced in patient care and healthcare technology. |
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McKesson Corporation is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better. McKesson partners with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. |
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A leading software vendor in the health care informatics industry for over 41 years, MEDITECH provides integrated software solutions that meet the information needs of health care organizations worldwide. The organizations they serve include hospitals, ambulatory care centers, physicians' offices, long term care and behavioral health facilities, and home health organizations. |
Hardware
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Anacom MedTek has over 30 years of experience in the manufacturing nurse call system accessories and cable interconnects. The company delivers a broad array of healthcare products used by all major nurse call systems. |
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ASUS is a leading company driven by innovation and commitment to quality for products that include notebooks, netbooks, motherboards, graphics cards, displays, desktop PCs, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones and networking devices. |
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Curbell is the leader in replacement solutions for Healthcare Communication Parts and Accessories in the United States. Our specialized product line includes parts and accessories for nurse call systems, healthcare beds, televisions and fall management products. |
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Dell provides technology solutions, services and support. Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Dell Services develops and delivers a comprehensive suite of services and solutions in applications, business process, consulting, infrastructure and support to help customers succeed. |
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D&L Communication Systems is a highly experienced, nationwide distributor and installer of video products and accessories for the healthcare market. From televisions to pillow speakers, medical monitors to nurse call systems, D&L brings communication products to medical facilities of all sizes. |
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GCT-Allwell is a pioneer in the development of the interactive digital IP based Set-Top Box platform. This revolutionary technology aggregates data, voice and video, with or without wires, from ISPs, peers, satellites and broadcasters to computers, laptops or televisions. |
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A total silicon platform provider, VIA offers a broad spectrum of imaginative solutions that are redefining the size, shape and scope of computers as we know them. VIA's current product portfolio consists of individual components for high performance computing, as well as embedded products. |
Network & Communications
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AT&T is among the world's premier voice, video and data communications companies, serving consumers, businesses and government. Backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company runs the world's largest, most sophisticated communications network and is the largest cable operator in the U.S. The company is a leading supplier of data and Internet services for businesses and offers outsourcing, consulting and networking-integration. |
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Founded in January 1999 by a team of experts in networking, telecommunications, hardware & software development, BitBand is a leading provider of content management and delivery systems, specializing in video on demand for IPTV. BitBand has more than 60 commercial IPTV deployments worldwide. Its' products are tailored for IP video and expertise in IPTV solutions, as well as solutions for Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Over-the-Top video services. |
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Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco provides end-to-end networking solutions that customers use to build a unified information infrastructure of their own, or to connect to someone else's network. Cisco's offers the industry's broadest range of hardware products used to form information networks or give people access to those networks. |
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Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. |
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Nomadix offers gateways for seamless wired and wireless connectivity solutions across public access networks and enterprises. Powered by patented technology, Nomadix enables revenue generation and customization in a number of business models. With Nomadix, public access network providers are able to deploy cost-effective, secure and easy-to-use network services. Nomadix is a wholly owned subsidiary company of DOCOMO interTouch. |
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Sprint is a global communications company serving 23 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries. Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state of the art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority of the world's Internet content. |
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Advanced communications and machine-to-machine solutions, mobile devices and applications, and secure network services from Verizon Wireless. Learn how technology from Verizon Wireless can change business operations. |
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Vocera provides mobile communication solutions focused on addressing critical communication challenges facing hospitals today. Vocera helps customers improve patient safety and satisfaction, and increase hospital efficiency and productivity through Voice Communication solutions and new Secure Messaging and Care Transition solutions. Exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association, the Vocera solutions are installed in more than 750 hospitals and healthcare facilities worldwide. |
Software
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iNTERFACEWARE™ simplifies the exchange of electronic healthcare data among disparate systems with its HL7 integration engine, Iguana™. Hospitals and healthcare organizations are able to seamlessly transfer electronic information without the need to replace existing systems or write additional code, thereby improving patient care while reducing costs. |
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Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device. |
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SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) provides powerful and affordable IT management software to customers worldwide – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses. Solar Winds works to put users first and remove the obstacles that have become “status quo” in traditional enterprise software. SolarWinds products are downloadable, easy to use and maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility needed to address users' management priorities. |
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Websense Enterprise® enables organizations to optimize employee use of computing resources while mitigating threats related to Internet use - including instant messaging, peer-to-peer, and spyware. |