"athenahealth's More Disruption Please program spurs cross-industry collaboration to speed high-value innovation in health care," said Bill Brown, CEO, Entrada, Inc. "Entrada's voice-powered clinical documentation technology provides clear benefit to the electronic health record workflow, and, with our partnership with athenahealth, we're able to integrate our speech-to-text solutions directly within the EHR, accelerating physician adoption. Across the MDP program, there's a shared vision to integrate technologies that complement each other and make them more accessible so that providers can realize the benefits of innovation without sacrificing their focus on patient care." Call for More "Meaningful Use" Transparency and Accountability Through the delivery of its cloud-based EHR, athenaClinicals, athenahealth partners with health care organizations to simplify Meaningful Use criteria while keeping providers focused on patient care. athenahealth remains the only leading EHR vendor that tracks providers' progress against Meaningful Use measures and publishes those results to the broader public. athenahealth will maintain this level of transparency--and calls on other vendors to do the same--as it begins implementing functionality in support of the Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements across its entire provider base.

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With the economy still struggling to regain its footing, many consumers remain focused on getting the most bang for their bucks. At the same time, retailers are looking for ways to entice budget-conscious shoppers to their stores. edo Interactive offers a solution for both challenges. Once consumers sign up with edo through their financial institutions, they receive offers from different retailers via e-mail or through their mobile phones; the offers are different from typical coupons in that the money saved — say, $5 off a $30 purchase — goes directly into their bank accounts. “We’re building a new advertising and promotional channel,” says Jeff Fagel, vice president of marketing and brand development for edo, which is working with nearly 150 financial institutions.

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edo has partnered with financial institutions, card issuers and more than 200 local and national merchants that run offers through the edo network. When a cardholder from one of the company’s financial partners makes a purchase, the edo targeting system searches existing Geocommerce Offers from its merchant network and presents the right offer to the right person based on his or her store location and purchase selection.

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Entrada and Allscripts have expanded its official corporate partnership, further integrating Entrada’s clinical documentation and information sharing technology with the Allscripts Professional and Enterprise EHR systems. Entrada's mobile application is now live on the Allscripts Application Store (ASX), an online marketplace accessible by Allscripts hospital and physician clients and partners, allowing them to create, add, and connect to third-party applications. This new partnership also enables both companies to co-market the integrated solution to Allscripts’ current and future client base.

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A startup that offers a faster way to sell difficult-to-access research materials from the laboratories of academic investigators has opened its new headquarters in Boston's Innovation District.

KeraFAST Inc. broke ground Wednesday on its new 3,000-square-foot offices at 27 Drydock Ave., where it’s moving from Winston-Salem, N.C. Robert Bondaryk, president and CEO of KeraFAST, told Mass High Tech that the company was just founded late last year at the offices of its former parent company, the medical device firm KeraNetics, itself a spinout from Wake Forest University, but most of the executives had been in the Boston area already.

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