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.

NCR and Cycom deploy wayfinding kiosks in Toronto children's hospital

July 8, 2010

According to itbusiness.ca, Toronto 's Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) has deployed new wayfinding kiosks from NCR Corp. and NCR partner Cycom Canada …

SoloHealth to roll out self-service health screen kiosks in retail stores

July 6, 2010

According to eweek.com, SoloHealth has announced plans to put self-service health kiosks in major retail stores to allow customers to self-test for conditions…

Patient survey kiosk improves healthcare interaction productivity

June 30, 2010

Opinionmeter, which provides healthcare satisfaction survey tools for gathering and measuring patient satisfaction at the point-of-care, announced that it is…

Bahrain eGovernment Authority intros gov't services kiosk

June 28, 2010

As part of the Bahrain eGovernment's Authority effort to provide convenient electronic services through multiple channels, the authority recently announced its…

NCR provides The Valley Health System with improved self-service check-in

June 21, 2010

DULUTH, Ga.—The Valley Health System, a subsidiary of Universal Health Services Inc., has enabled patients to check-in for medical appointments at its…

Beaufort Memorial Hospital reaps benefits of MEDHOST kiosk

June 20, 2010

MEDHOST, a provider of healthcare throughput and emergency department software, today announced that Beaufort Memorial Hospital in Beaufort, S.C., has achieved…

Freescale develops patient kiosk for home health screenings

June 15, 2010

Freescale has introduced an intelligent medical kiosk that can be placed in homes or public areas to allow patients to send medical information to their…

Patient kiosk wins Project Innovation top prize

June 10, 2010

A kiosk that allows a medical patient to register and update records more quickly has been awarded the $15,000 top prize in Project Innovation, a Sangamon…

Mexico hospitals to use kiosks for remote diagnoses

June 10, 2010

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. is testing a kiosk to be used to quickly and remotely check the vital signs of patients on five continents. A…

Next-gen charging kiosks provide more than just a quick jolt

by Matt Cunningham — Editor, NetWorld Alliance

Multimedia capability expands potential deployment possibilities.