Month: September 2014

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AC Client Plasticity Labs raises $2.1 million to boost employee morale

Plasticity Labs, a company that uses data analytics to measure workplace morale, announced that it has raised $2.1 million led by Fibernetics Ventures. The funds will be used for sales and development.

Plasticity was founded in 2012, three years after co-founder and CEO Jim Moss, a former professional lacrosse player for Colorado Mammoth, fell ill with swine flu and was also diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, an auto-immune disorder.

Moss says Plasticity, which focuses on rapid-growth small- to medium-sized businesses, differentiates through the frequency of its data collection and “by focusing on what inspires employees instead of what simply motivates them.” Plasticity surveys employees once a day, but with questions that only take a minute to answer and then uses that information to create programs that help increase workplace morale.

Plasticity says that in the past 12 months, the company has grown from one to 12 enterprise customers. It now has teams in 11 countries and plans to add employees in another 11. Moss says Plasticity is nine months ahead of its forecasted sales and is about to double its pricing model.

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AC Grad I Think Security secures spot in the 2014 Fintech Innovation Lab

Waterloo’s I Think Security was founded in 2010 and graduated from the Accelerator Centre program in September of 2013. The company, which was founded by cryptologist and security expert Dr. Cédric Jeannot, has been steadily growing and launching various products aimed to those concerned with data security.

I Think Security has been named one of eight startups to be selected to participate in the upcoming 2014 FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific. The core focus of the Lab is to assist early stage companies in the financial sector to develop and commercialize new technologies, specifically targeted to the Asia-Pacific region. The initiative was launched by Accenture in June 2014.

According to the Wall Street Journal, I Think Security is considering expanding into the Asia-Pacific market. Apart from I Think Security, the eight companies selected to participate are: Advanced Merchant Payments, AtCipher, Beijing Wecash Wonder Technology, FinSuite, iDGate, Jocata Financial Advisory & Technology Services and QxBranch.

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AC Grad Karos Health acquires Medical Insight A/S

Karos Health, a leader in standards-based clinical imaging exchange, storage and cross-enterprise workflow solutions, announces that it acquired Medical Insight A/S in June 2014.

Medical Insight, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a leading provider of universal diagnostic imaging solutions. Its EasyViz products use a revolutionary adaptive streaming technology for instant cross enterprise access to large examinations and reports over low bandwidth connections. Adding complete mobility to clinical workflow and displaying of diagnostic quality images directly from any PACS or Vendor Neutral Archive all without prefetching makes it the perfect tool for primary reading, enterprise viewing, tele-medicine and real-time collaborative group sessions. EasyViz seamlessly integrates with 3rd party applications such as RIS, EMR or patient portals. It is used today in many leading institutions across North America and Europe where it delivers unparalleled access to critical diagnostic imaging information at anytime, from anywhere.

Karos’ Rialto platform, combined with EasyViz, delivers a seamless solution for imaging departments and healthcare enterprises, providing our customers with a platform for clinical collaboration and rapid access to imaging information and any other clinical documents at anytime, from anywhere. The scalability, performance and comprehensive feature set delivers our vision for the future today.

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AC Grad Client Outlook's eUnity™ platform standardized by Marshfield Clinic

Client Outlook Inc., an industry leader in clinical image viewing solutions, announced today that Marshfield Clinic, one of the largest multi-specialty group practices in the United States, has standardized upon the company’s eUnity™ universal viewer and collaboration platform as its default viewer serving Marshfield’s 750+ physicians located across 54 locations and over 17,000 users through their commercially available CattailsMD EHR, which has integrated the eUnity solution.

eUnity™ offers Marshfield Clinic physicians, rapid retrieval of archived studies; anywhere, anytime ability to view diagnostic quality images from a browser or mobile device; and improved collaboration with hospital-based physicians and users within the clinic’s Tier II provider network enabling more rapid delivery of care to patients.

eUnity™ is now used across the Marshfield Clinic health enterprise to display medical images housed within the Cattails Software Suite, the Clinic’s homegrown medical records system. Marshfield Clinic’s more than 17,000 users within the Clinic and its extended Tier II provider network (referring physicians in hospitals, public health departments, nursing homes etc) access, manipulate and collaborate in real-time over full quality medical images using nothing more than a commonly configured web-browser.

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