- Kodak announced it sold production print systems to:
o NexPress SE2500 production color system to J&L Marketing, a printshop in Louisville, KY
o 6 NexPress SX systems and 16 Digimaster production b/w systems to Synergie Group of England
o Nexpress 2500 to Bek/Grafische Products of the Netherlands
- Xerox announced it sold a DocuShare CPX Enterprise Content Management solution to The Copernicus Group Independent Review Board, which will use the system to share and store critical biomedical research documents for the Food and Drug Administration.
- Xerox announced that its XMPie variable data software can now be integrated into PrintStream Fulfillment System web-to-print software from Streamline Solutions.
- According to Gartner, 16% of worldwide software sales will deliver as a service. According to Saugatuck, 40% of new software sold will be cloud-based.
- InfoTrends predicts that print production workflow software sales will increase 5.2% per year through 2014. By 2014, it projects the total spend in the category will be $8.6 billion.
- Ricoh announced that it sold an InfoPrint 5000 production color inkjet system (relabeled Screen engine) to Diamond Marketing Solutions of Bloomingdale, IL for transpromo applications.
- New use for recycled paper. Nike Corp. announced a new pair of sneakers, called “Women’s Premium Print Pack”, that are made from shredded magazines.
- Pitney Bowes announced it is opening up a new Federal Litigation Support Center in downtown Washington DC. Details:
o capable of scanning 500,000 pages per month
o PB already has a similar facility in Grand Rapids, MI
o Will be used to fulfill a $950 million contract it won from Dept. of Justice
o Also will support Lockheed Martin, CACI and USIS
o Includes Kodak high speed scanners
o IPRO eCapture software installed
o Clearwell ECA software
o Will have total of 50 employees covering 2 shifts
- Toshiba announced it is entering the electronic book market, with its new Toshiba Biblio Leaf:
o Solar powered
o 6” b/w touchscreen display
o 800x600dpi
o 2GB RAM
o SD memory card slot
o WiFi and 3G wireless connections
o $20/month subscription
o 12 hour battery life
o Expected price of $150.00
- Toshiba announced it will outsource some of its system chip manufacturing to Samsung of South Korea. This will allow the company to grow its memory chip production.
- Toshiba announced it is selling its Nagasaki, Japan system chip plant, which was losing money, to Sony Corp. for $599 million. Sony will use the plant to make CMOS sensors for cell phones and digital cameras.
- Toshiba launched the world’s first 3D HDTV set that does not need special 3D glasses. The 12” flat screen, called Regza GL1, will sell for $1400.00
- Toshiba announced that revenue from its nuclear plant business may reach $12 billion in next 3 years.
- Toshiba launched a new series of b/w A3 MFPs that have copier hard drive security/overwrite standard. The new models are eSTUDIO 205SE/255SE/305SE/355SE/455SE:
o 20, 25, 30, 35 & 45ppm top speeds
o Unlike other Toshiba models, comes standard with Toshiba Data Overwrite kit, providing 128bit AES encryption
o Advertised as offering 2400x600dpi (actual is 600x600)
o 20 second warmup time
o 30K toner yield and 150K drum yield on 355 & 455 models
o Comes standard with two 550 sheet paper drawers and 100 sheet stack bypass
Bypass can hold up to 110lb. index, drawers up to 28lb. only
Optional deck with two more 550 sheet drawers
Optional deck that holds 2,000 sheets of letter size paper
o Outside edge erase
o Finishing options include:
50 sheet corner staple hanging finisher
Floor standing 50 sheet staple finisher
Booklet maker
2/3 hole punch option for floor standing models
o 8.5” color LCD touchscreen
o Top scan speed of optional document feeder is 57opm
100 sheet capacity
Does not scan both sides of original at same time
Color scanning standard
Optional OCR for scan to searchable PDF/MS Word/MS Excel
o Print print and hold print
o Omit blank scanned page
o Optional fax board with Internet fax
Optional 2nd line kit
o Print controller standard
Actual maker unknown
1GB RAM & 60GB hard drive
PCL, PostScript and XPS print drivers standard
10/100BaseT and USB ports (no1000BaseT/Gigabit Ethernet option)
Optional proximity card reader
- Toshiba announced it is working on a new copier that will be a “Green” machine. Details:
o Produces instantly erasable output
o Documents can be turned blank by heating them with a special device
o Uses special toner that loses its color when heated
o Printouts can be reused at least 5 times
o Top speed of 30ppm (b/w only)
o Will cost 30% more than current 30ppm model
- Canon estimates its sales in Asia to increase 40%, and that it will account for 30% of its total revenues.
- Canon announced that it expects it operating profit for the fiscal year to end at $4.8 billion. This forecast is half the record levels it reached in 2007.
- Canon was sued for patent violation by Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. for allegedly infringing on patents involving video compression technology.
- Oce’, a division of Canon, announced it sold a Varioprint 6250 production b/w system to Kopytek, a printshop in St. Louis, MO.
- More details on the new Oce’ ColorStream 3500 production color inkjet system:
o top sped of 535ppm
o uses rolls of paper up to 21.5” wide
o 600x600dpi (but only 2 bits per pixel)
o CMYK plus two more colors
o Ink drop size as small as 7 picoliters
o Up to 160gsm paper weight
o Print controller has 1000BaseT port and support for PDF, PCL, and PostScript
o Ink tank holds 10 kilograms of ink
o Max duty cycle of 12 million per month
- Fitch announced it has downgraded Sharp’s debt from BBB+ to BBB, due to concerns over Sharp’s ability to sustain a 3% operating EBIT margin.
- Hewlett Packard revealed that it spent $1.6 million on lobbying the federal government in the third quarter, which is twice its normal spending levels.
- Hewlett Packard announced it won a managed print services contract from 3M Australia:
o reduced devices from 130 to 72
o will supposedly save $170,000 per year
o page cost reduction of 90%
o 14 sites and 700 employees
o Also included Perceptive Software document management and Adobe electronic forms solutions
- Hewlett Packard detailed the success of its last 4 years of trying to put counterfeit print cartridge makers out of business:
o Conducted 4,723 investigations
o Covered 88 countries
o Resulted in 3,733 enforcement actions (raids and seizures)
o Confiscated 47.2 million cartridges
- Avatron Software announced a new $2.99 app, named Print Sharing, that allows Apple iPad, iPhoen and iPod users to print wirelessly from their mobile device.
- Lorree Ann Capps of Anderson, South Carolina was sentenced to 30 months in prison for making fake $20 bills using a color copier.
- Janelle Newsome and Richard Gladfelter were arrested for allegedly creating fake $10 and $20 bills using a color copier in South Charleston, WV.
- OpenText announced version 5.3 of Edocs document management software:
o support for rapid remote deployment
o maintenance can now be carried out remotely
o support for MS Office 2010
o will add social media tools and apps next year
- For any business that handles credit cards, the updated version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) goes into effect 1/1/2011.
- Omtool AccuRoute received a 5 Star rating from BLI. Omtool AccuRoute is a middleware scan/OCR data capture application that competes with Nuance eCopy and NSi AutoStore, and is very popular in the legal vertical market, and sold primarily by IKON/Ricoh.
- According to EHR study conducted by RAND Corp, regarding adoption of EHR systems in hospitals:
o Number of hospitals using either basic or advanced EHR up from 24% to 38%
o Largest increase in quality of care was for patients treated for heart failure for hospitals with EHR versus those without
- Results of EHR study conducted by University of California-Davis finds:
o Initial implementation of EHR results in a 25-33% drop in physician productivity
o Internal medicine units adjusted to the new technology and experienced increase in productivity
o Pediatricians and family practice doctors did not return to original productivity levels
- Dell announced it is buying InSiteOne Inc. of Wallingford, CT, and provides medical diagnostic image archiving services.
- According to Black Book Rankings about EHR adoption:
o 90% of healthcare providers that purchased EHR systems are off track to meet meaningful use implementation goals
o Only 10% foresee achieving requirements for stimulus funding this spring
o Over 400 EHR system developers have emerged in past year
o Top five reasons why will not meet requirements:
93% say lack of support from their EHR vendor
89% say delay caused by cost of additional support by EHR vendor
82% caused by rushed selection of EHR vendor
77% lack staff to implement
69% are underfunded to rectify difficult EHR system interfaces
- The State of Wisconsin is still pursuing a lawsuit it filed against McKesson for $150 million, for allegedly overcharging Medicare and Medicaid programs.
- Allscripts announced that its EHR can not be integrated with WellDoc DiabetesManager solution. WellDoc allows physicians to have real-time patient self-care data, including; blood glucose data, mediation use, lifestyle info and other diabetes related info.
- Premier Inc., one of the 6 large healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the U.S. announced that over the past year, 1,220 hospitals participating in its group buy program have identified $81 million in savings. Savings under the program vary between 5% and 15%.
- HIPAA breach. Dean Health System of Wisconsin notified 2,000 surgery patients that their personal information was exposed when the laptop computer belonging to a doctor was stolen.
- Centra Health System of Virginia notified 14,000 patients that their personal info was exposed when an employee’s laptop computer was stolen from her rental car.
- EHR vendor, eClinicalWorks of Massachusetts reports:
o CEO if Girish Kumar Navani
o Will be hiring up to 200 in 2011 due to growth
o Currently has more than 1,300 employees
o Will build new headquarters for $18 million
o Will finish the year with $150 million in revenue
o 5 year goal is to have 100,000 providers and 100 million patients on its HER
- Results of healthcare survey conducted by PriceWatersCoopers (PwC):
o 86% of patients do not access their medical records electronically
o What consumers would use web-access to health info for:
58% lab reports
56% prescription orders
53% immunization records
52% upcoming appointments
48% physician visit notes
33% suggested preventive health screening
o 72% would trade employer-based insurance for higher pay
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