Friday, June 18, 2010

Coleman Research Group’s Business and Financial Services Expert Network highlights Foreclosure crisis China buys Greek when no one else will

Coleman Research Group's Business and Financial Services Expert Network facilitates consultations between our clients (institutional investors) and leading business and financial services professionals on a wide variety of topics including consumer credit trends, banking and investment services, insurance, residential and commercial real estate, student lending, and regulatory issues.

Our Business & Financial expert network includes an elite assembly of current and former CFOs and senior executives, accountants, former regulatory officials, academics, and top-level industry consultants.

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Foreclosure crisis hits minorities harder

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The mortgage meltdown is hitting the African-American and Latino communities harder than whites, a new study has found.

Of borrowers who took out mortgages between 2005 and 2008, some 8% of both African-American and Latino borrowers have lost their homes to foreclosure, compared to 4.5% of non-Hispanic whites, according to a study by the Center for Responsible Lending, released Friday.

The racial and ethnic disparities continued even after controlling for income differences. The center's research shows that African-American and Latino borrowers were about 30% more likely to get higher-rate subprime loans than white borrowers with similiar risk characteristics.

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China buys Greek when no one else will

FORTUNE -- China is hunting for bargains in some unlikely corners of the world. Earlier this week, it opened its checkbook to make 14 commercial investments inside Greece, which is struggling to avoid defaulting on its mounting debt.

China's vice premier Zhang Dejiang signed off on each contract, securing deals in major industries such as telecommunications, real estate and shipping during his four-day visit to Greece, which began on Monday.

Among the contracts signed was a $123 million contract between Helios Plaza and BCEGI, a Chinese real estate company intent on developing a hotel and commercial complex for tourism in Piraeus, Athen's largest port town. Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecom solutions provider, also inked a deal with Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA. The company will equip the tourism complex BCEGI is financing.

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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Coleman Research Group’s Healthcare department highlights HHS grants $267 million and critical gaps in hospital data security

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executives, consultants, and former regulatory officials.

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HHS grants $267 million for more regional extension centers, thousands of jobs

WASHINGTON – The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday awards for more than $267 million to 28 non-profit organizations to establish Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers.

The grants from the $2 billion allotted for healthcare IT under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and follows 32 HHS for grants issued last February for regional extension centers (RECs).

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Study points to critical gaps in hospital data security

NASHVILLE – Even as providers work to update their security environments, hospital data continues to be at serious risk, according to the 2010 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data.

Despite new statutory requirements for healthcare privacy and security, the study found critical gaps in data security – and its findings suggested that efforts to keep data safe were often more reactive than proactive, with hospitals dedicating more resources to breach response than to breach prevention.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Coleman Research Group’s Healthcare department highlights mobility of heathcare industry and CCHIT warning

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Healthcare industry one of the most mobile

BLUE BELL, PA – Healthcare IT workers are among the biggest users of smart phones and other mobile technology, but addressing the security needs of such devices remains a critical concern, according to a survey released today.

Forrester Consulting conducted the study on behalf of Fiberlink, the Blue Bell, Pa.-based developer of cloud-based "Mobility as a Service" (MaaS) solutions.

The study, titled "Managing and Securing Mobile Healthcare Data and Devices," found that 95 percent of healthcare enterprises relying on smartphones for work, making the industry one of the most mobile across all verticals.

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CCHIT warns certification plan might slow adoption

CCHIT Chairman Mark Leavitt, MDWASHINGTON – The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) said it believes the Interim Final Rule (IFR) on standards and certification might cause "unintended deceleration in the pace of adoption."

In comments filed March 12 to the Office of the National Coordinator, CCHIT said the IFR - the administration's proposal for EHR standards and certification - drops some standards that were already widely adopted yet introduces other criteria that require an "unrealistic leap forward."

"We believe the criteria and standards need refinement in order to drive an achievable step forward in the meaningful use of EHRs," said CCHIT Chairman Mark Leavitt, MD. CCHIT has been the sole official certifier of EHRs since 2006.

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Coleman Research Group’s Healthcare department highlights Athenahealth and Eclipsys, Microsoft partnership

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Athenahealth shares fall on news of reporting delay

WATERTOWN, MA – After announcing that it would be postponing the release of its fourth quarter financial results, Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, Inc. (ATHN), which provides Web-based billing services to providers, saw its shares fall 13 percent in pre-market trading on Friday.


The firm, whose previous CFO, Carl Byers, stepped down at the end of 2009 and was replaced by Tim Adams this past month, was due to publish its earnings on Thursday, but held back, citing an internal accounting review.


At issue is an evaluation of the company's policy related to the timing of amortization for deferred implementation revenue. Money generated from the implementation of new services for customers accounts for six percent or so of athenahealth's revenue.

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Eclipsys, Microsoft partnership looks to open platforms, interoperability

ATLANTA and REDMOND, WA – Eclipsys Corp., an Atlanta-based health IT company, and computer technology giant Microsoft Corp. are planning to integrate their platforms to provide more flexible and interoperable solutions to healthcare providers.

Under the agreement, officials said both companies plan to integrate key components of Eclipsys' Sunrise Enterprise suite of integrated software applications with Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS), a data aggregation platform that integrates clinical, administrative and financial data from disparate information systems. Officials said the goal of the planned integration is to give providers improved analytic capabilities and help connect estranged and disparate data repositories.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Coleman Research Group’s Technology, Media & Telecom department highlights NASA's shuttle mission and Google 'optimistic' it won't pull out of China

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Our TMT network spans technology industries across the globe and includes CTOs, CIOs, marketing and business development executives, engineers, buyers, and resellers.

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NASA extends shuttle mission by a day

(CNN) -- NASA is extending the mission of the space shuttle Endeavour by a day so astronauts can do more work on the International Space Station, mission managers announced Sunday.

The shuttle is now scheduled to return to Earth on February 21, after a 14-day mission, the space agency said.

The announcement came as two astronauts completed a spacewalk lasting nearly six hours, NASA said in a statement.

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Google 'optimistic' it won't pull out of China

Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Friday said he's optimistic that his search engine will not have to pull out of China over hacking and censorship issues.

"I'm an optimist. I want to find a way to work within the Chinese system and provide more and better information," he said. "I think a lot of people think I'm naive, and that may be true."

The remarks came at the annual TED Conference of thought leaders in Long Beach, California.

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Coleman Research Group’s Technology, Media & Telecom department highlights Hubble finds primordial galaxies and Nasa launches new infrared telescope

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Hubble peers back 13.2 billion years, finds 'primordial' galaxies

Washington (CNN) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has reached back 13.2 billion years -- farther than ever before in time and space -- to reveal a "primordial population" of galaxies never seen before.

"The deeper Hubble looks into space, the farther back in time it looks, because light takes billions of years to cross the observable universe," the Space Telescope Science Institute said in a statement released Tuesday.

"This makes Hubble a powerful 'time machine' that allows astronomers to see galaxies as they were 13 billion years ago -- just 600 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang," the institute said in a statement released Tuesday.

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NASA launches infrared telescope to scan entire sky

(CNN) -- NASA launched a new telescope into space on Monday to scan the cosmos for undiscovered objects, including asteroids and comets that might threaten Earth.

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft will employ an infrared camera to detect light- and heat-emitting objects that other orbiting telescopes, such as the Hubble, might miss.

WISE launched Monday at 9:09 a.m. ET aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch was postponed from Friday because of a problem with the motion of a booster steering engine.

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Friday, January 8, 2010

Coleman Research Group’s Healthcare department highlights Tennessee-based health network deploys new EHR and AdvancedMD acquires EHR company

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Tennessee-based health network deploys new EHR, PM systems

JOHNSON CITY, TN – The Mountain States Health Alliance has deployed new electronic health record and practice management solutions for its 300 employed and affiliated physicians and mid-level providers.

The Johnson City, Tenn.-based network is using software developed by Chicago-based Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions to enhance the quality of patient care, improve patient communications and better manage the cost of care delivery.

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AdvancedMD acquires EHR company

SALT LAKE CITY – AdvancedMD Software, provider of practice and revenue cycle management software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, has acquired PracticeOne, a provider of electronic health records.

The acquisition positions AdvancedMD as a SaaS leader for the small to medium size physician office and advances its vision of delivering an integrated physician office automation solution from a single vendor, said CEO Eric Morgan. "This acquisition puts us up against the best players in the market," he said.

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