Finding success in self-service: Kiosk execs discuss 'How to's'

Leaders offer ideas on engaging consumers and partners to launch winning products.

Status Solutions intros interactive kiosk for senior centers

October 28, 2010

Charlottesville, Va.-based Status Solutions will officially introduce next week CATIE, its personal information center that provides Communication and Access…

SoloHealth partners to create free healthcare kiosks for Georgia's underserved

Rural communities getting health help through kiosks from the state, SoloHealth and healthcare museum.

Agfa HealthCare intros IMPAX Kiosk to streamline patient check-in

October 21, 2010

Agfa HealthCare launched this week the IMPAX Kiosk, an interactive system that enables patients to register with, and check-in to, hospital services without…

Telehealth intros blood pressure kiosk for the office

October 7, 2010

The United Kingdom’s Telehealth Solutions announced it has launched the Occupational Health Pod, a kiosk that allows users to measure their blood pressure and…

Opinion: Kiosk applications continue to transform healthcare experiences

Hospitals, doctors and other healthcare providers are turning to kiosks for a mix of uses, from check-in to the monitoring of patient well-being.

Biosign to buy med-kiosk firm Healthanywhere for $4.3 million

October 4, 2010

Toronto-based Biosign Technologies announced it will purchase for $4.3 million Healthanywhere, a privately-held eHealth solutions provider whose products…

Medical kiosk provider SoloHealth names two to its advisory boards

Atlanta-based SoloHealth, maker of the EyeSite self-service vision testing and new patient generating kiosks, recently announced two additions to its Advisory…

Asian TechFest showcases combo-robot doctor, kiosk

September 28, 2010

A conference on healthcare technology in Singapore offers a number of innovations that could become commonplace, including "Lucas", a motion-detecting robot…

Patients, providers interacting through kiosks and online channels

September 23, 2010

As more healthcare providers offer patients electronic health records, patients are proactively using electronic tools such as Microsoft HealthVault and Google…

Gwinnett Med Center goes interactive with kiosk and online bill pay

September 22, 2010

Lawrenceville, Ga.-based Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC) announced the system-wide integration of an online bill pay system and the addition of an interactive…

AutoGov launches Medicaid eligibility tool for kiosk, phone and Net

September 19, 2010

Austin, Texas-based AutoGov's CEO, Rose Hayden, announced a new release of her company's flagship risk-management tool, CaseVue. This version introduces public…

IT soothes emergency department pain points

September 16, 2010

The huge growth in visits to emergency departments (ED) has hospitals using a number of treatment innovations including patient tracking software and…

Patient self-service critical to healthcare reform: Gingrich and Kao

September 14, 2010

Americans are ready to embrace new approaches to healthcare such as patient self-service and will soon search out healthcare providers that use kiosks to offer…

NCR teams with PharmaTrust, StayHealthy in Canada for medication-dispensing kiosks

September 14, 2010

A medication-dispensing kiosk has been installed in several Canadian hospitals as part of a partnership between NCR Corp., PharmaTrust and StayHealthy to…

UK retailers turn to kiosks to speed ‘speed of service'

September 9, 2010

A number of retailers in the United Kingdom are making self-service kiosks an integral part of their efforts to improve their speed of service, according to a…

Two English hospitals to install self check-in kiosks

September 9, 2010

ISoft will provide the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust hospitals in Kent with five self-service kiosks, which will be used to cut lines and free up reception…

UK installs ‘sexual health' kiosks for STD test and free condoms

September 7, 2010

Six ‘sexual health' kiosks that dispense free condoms and Chlamydia testing kits have been installed in Yorkshire and Hull in the United Kingdom, according…

Patient self-service kiosk provider HealthAsyst teams with Salumatics in Canada

September 7, 2010

Mississauga, Ontario-based Salumatics Inc. and HealthAsyst Pvt. Ltd. announced a strategic partnership agreement in which Salumatics will be a value-added…

Walk-in clinic saving time and costs after deploying kiosk registration

September 2, 2010

A story in CIO provides further details on kiosk implementation at The Little Clinic healthcare services company.   Since deploying Boston Software Systems…