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…

Optometry group installs free vision-screening kiosks in supermarkets

September 1, 2010

Center For Sight, an eye-care practice with eight offices in Southwest Florida, has installed EyeSite kiosks in three Sweetbay Supermarket locations. The…

EyeSite vision-screening kiosk firm receives NIH grant to expand

August 23, 2010

The National Institutes of Health awarded a grant of $1.2 million to a Duluth, Ga.-based firm working to expand its self-service, vision-screening kiosk that…

Portable touchscreen kiosk provides quick healthcare check-up

August 22, 2010

Austin, Texas-based chip maker Freescale Semiconductor has launched a low-cost, intelligent hospital kiosk that enables patients to quickly check such health…

You can get most anything at a kiosk in Miami

August 22, 2010

The Miami Herald looks around South Florida and finds that kiosks have become pervasive with applications at movie theaters, medical centers, retail shops and…

Kiosk and self-service study a goldmine of industry info

Installed kiosks top 1.8 million worldwide as public grows to prefer self-service for multiple uses.

Self-service apps for patients cut paper use, speed check-in at Tenet Healthcare

August 19, 2010

Tenet Healthcare's patient financial services subsidiary, Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions, is saving money, cutting paper use and moving patients through the…

Health clinic CIO says patient self-registration at kiosks lowers costs, saves time

August 17, 2010

Healthcare organizations seeking to increase operational efficiency and expand the use of electronic health record (EHR) should consider implementing patient…

Sainsbury's is UK's first retailer installing Asteres pharmacy kiosks

July 27, 2010

Asteres Inc. today announced the installation of Express prescription kiosks at U.K.-based retailer Sainsbury's for the deposit and collection of patient…

Touchscreen, kiosk technologies target underserved populations in health care

July 11, 2010

Multimedia talking touchscreens, housed in computer kiosks at clinics and hospitals, are helping researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of…

National Health Service trusts to get Savience self check-in kiosks

July 8, 2010

CSC has partnered with healthcare kiosk specialist Savience to provide self-service kiosks to National Health Service trusts, according to eHealthEurope.net.