Equicare Health announces a partnership with OncoLink to develop oncology education services

Vancouver, BC – September 15, 2014 – Equicare Health, a leading provider of care coordination software, is pleased to announce a partnership with OncoLink, Penn Medicine’s online cancer education resource for patients and healthcare professionals. Through the partnership, Equicare will develop products and services to organize, manage and deliver OncoLink’s continuously updated, market leading educational materials.  Representatives of both Equicare and OncoLink will be available at booth #1144 of the ASTRO Annual Meeting in San Francisco Sept 14 – 16, 2014 to provide more information about the planned products and services.

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Equicare Health announces a partnership with e+CancerCare

Equicare to provide integrated software that enables e+ to deliver coordinated Navigation, Survivorship & Patient Portal Services to their centers

Vancouver, BC – August 11 , 2014Equicare Health, a leading provider of care coordination software, is pleased to announce a partnership with e+CancerCare. Headquartered in Nashville, TN, e+ is one of the leading operators of outpatient cancer care centers, offering a variety of cancer imaging, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy services in their 23 sites including Rocky Mountain Oncology Center in Wyoming, OncoLogics in Louisiana, Community Cancer Center of North Florida, Laurel Cancer Care in Mississippi, South Georgia Center for Cancer Care and PET Imaging centers in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.  Through the partnership, Equicare will integrate the EQUICARE CS™ software suite into the entire e+ network, enabling the centers to provide navigation, survivorship and patient portal services.

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Equicare Health Introduces a Cloud-based Hosting Solution through a Partnership with Iron Medical Systems

Vancouver, BC – April 15, 2014Equicare Health, a leading provider of care coordination software, is pleased to announce a partnership with private medical cloud solutions provider, Iron Medical Systems. Through the partnership, Equicare now offers healthcare organizations the ability to host cancer survivorship tool, EQUICARE CS™ (ECS), in Iron Medical’s secure, world class cloud, which is uniquely built for radiation and medical oncology centers.  The Iron Medical Systems cloud offers an unequalled, HIPAA compliant security regime that features daily backups and a thermo-regulated steel vault protected by armed guards and biometric security.

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Equicare Health installs EQUICARE CS™ at the Patricia D. and M. Scot Kaufman Cancer Center

Vancouver, BC, April 3, 2014, Equicare Health, the leading provider of care coordination software, announces the installation of EQUICARE CS at the Kaufman Cancer Center at University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center based in Harford County, Maryland. The software was installed in December 2013 in order to improve the patient experience both during and after treatment by providing long term cancer survivorship care plans, patient navigation services, and an online patient portal.

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Equicare Health installs Active Patient Portal at the Cancer Center of Hawaii

Vancouver, BC – January 15, 2014 – Equicare Health, a leading provider of care coordination software, announces the installation of Active Patient Portal at the Cancer Center of Hawaii.  The center, Hawaii’s only free-standing radiation cancer treatment center, launched the portal in December 2013 in order to empower patients and their families to play a more active role in their healthcare.  Active Patient Portal provides secure online access to healthcare information and includes a consolidated appointment calendar, up to date lab and test results, educational materials, questionnaires, care team contact information, and more.

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Equicare Health moves into new office space

Vancouver, BC – July 23, 2013 – Equicare Health, the leading provider of care coordination software announces their move to a larger corporate office in Vancouver, BC. The new office provides additional space for the company to continue expanding its Vancouver-based team, which includes clinical experts, software developers, sales executives and more. The new office is located at the address below, and the company encourages vendors, partners and customers to update their records accordingly.

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Equicare Announces Support for Meaningful Use with ECS v4.1

EQUICARE CS™ (ECS) is a web-based software solution that enables cancer centers to provide coordinated navigation, distress management, and survivorship care planning to improve clinical outcomes for patients, and achieve regulatory compliance.  Version 4.1 includes significant improvements to the reporting capabilities in ECS, a provision for controlled emergency access to patient records, and a quick link from ARIA to the patient reminders area in ECS.

ECS v4.1 has been reviewed by the Drummond Group and now enables organizations to meet the “Meaningful Use” requirements specified in the U.S. government’s ARRA-HiTech Act, which promotes the adoption of Electronic Health Records in order to reduce healthcare costs.  ECS satisfies meaningful use objectives to provide incorporated laboratory test results, demographics recording, patient specific education resources, patient reminders, electronic copies of health information, timely access, clinical summaries for each office visit, and meet privacy and security criteria (170.302c, d, f, g, h, m, o, w).

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Equicare Health Announces Support for Navigation in EQUICARE CS™

New Navigation functionality in Equicare CS meets American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) Requirements for Cancer Care Center Accreditation

Vancouver, BC – June 13, 2013 – Equicare Health Inc, the leading provider of care coordination software announces the launch of support for Navigation in Version 4.0 release of its industry leading Cancer Survivorship software tool, Equicare CS. The process of Navigation assists patients by helping them move through the health care system in the manner in which care is needed, and has been shown to improve clinical outcomes by ensuring patients receive follow up care in a timely manner, as well as facilitating better quality of life post-treatment. Equicare’s Navigation tools can be seamlessly integrated into existing Oncology Information Systems, and provide compliance with the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC), which requires Institutions provide a formal Navigation system by 2015.

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Equicare installs EQUICARE CS™ at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center

Vancouver, BC – July 11, 2013 – Equicare Health, the industry leading provider of care coordination software, announces the installation of EQUICARE CS at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, WA. PeaceHealth, a not-for-profit health care system with medical centers throughout the Northwest, installed the software in its Bellingham Center in May 2013 to support the launch of a new Cancer Survivorship program. Through the survivorship program, PeaceHealth will now provide patients with treatment summaries, long term follow-up plans, and educational resources to improve patient engagement and long term clinical outcomes following cancer treatment.

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