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MINNEAPOLIS (August 16, 2018)—Best Buy Co., Inc., a technology products and services provider, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire GreatCall, Inc., for $800 million in cash.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (July 16, 2018)—Bonafide Management Systems announced optical character recognition (OCR) functionality. This technology allows customers to efficiently and instantly search scanned documents on the Bonafide system. OCR is included at no additional charge to Bonafide customers.
CLEARWATER, Fla. (June 5, 2018)—Synzi, a virtual care company, has announced that Trilogy Home Healthcare (Trilogy), a Medicare-certified home health care agency, has selected its virtual care communication platform to improve patient management, engagement and care.
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DALLAS (March 13, 2018)—Axxess, a growing home health technology company, has acquired health care data analytics and software provider Home Health Gold.
Axxess founder and CEO John Olajide said David Merk will remain as Home Health Gold’s president and CEO.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (February 26, 2018)—J M Smith Corporation has announced that its technology solutions will now be under the leadership of Kevin Welch. Saul Factor, RPh, who was the president of QS/1, will lead the wholesale distribution business units Smith Drug Company and Burlington Drug Company.
STOUGHTON, Mass. (February 2, 2018)—Medical Specialties Distributors (MSD) held their second annual Healthcare Innovation & Technology Conference, Better Together, January 22—26 at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.
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BOSTON (October 18, 2017)—Orbita, Inc. announced a major upgrade to its Orbita Voice platform that enables health care organizations and service providers to create and maintain powerful applications for voice-assistants and conversational AI platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. This latest version of Orbita Voice adds important new features to accelerate development and streamline maintenance of voice-first, enterprise health care applications, including:
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (September 21, 2017)—Numotion, a provider of complex rehab technology (CRT), now offers remote service and repair on power and manual wheelchairs.
Using a secure, safe and reliable phone app, a Numotion service technician can now remotely diagnose and often times resolve issues entirely over the phone through secure video.
Product brings assurance for loved ones and helps keeps older adults in their own home longer.
CINCINNATI, Ohio (August 29, 2017)—TruSense, family-friendly smart home technology for seniors, today announced that its namesake offering is now available for purchase. TruSense uses sensor and GPS technology to discern the way a person lives—time spent sleeping, in the kitchen or getting out of the house.
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