Healthcare Kiosks – HIMSS 2016 – CTS

By | March 4, 2016

Field report from Joe Grove with CTS Healthcare booth #3065 at HIMSS 2016 in Las Vegas today.

Here are some photos.  I like the new High Brite (courtesy Panel Brite) in particular. Great unit.

New at the show

From Health Care IT news:

At HIMSS16 booth #3065, the vendor will unveil Kwerk to help mid-size and smaller provider organizations launch and integrate kiosks.

Kiosk maker CTS Healthcare will start targeting mid-size and smaller provider organizations when it introduces at HIMSS16 new middleware dubbed Kwerk.

Since it launched its first kiosks in 2005, CTS Healthcare Services has racked up more than 200 million patient check-ins on its kiosks, the vendor said. More than 95 percent of healthcare organizations using the Welcome patient check-in component of Epic’s electronic health record system use CTS Healthcare Services kiosks, CTS Healthcare Services said. This is because Epic was very early to the patient check-in game, enabling the critical integration component.

“We’ve found a lot of potential customers with an interest in deploying check-in solutions but without the appropriate middleware piece that allows kiosks to talk to their EHRs,” Nix said. “So we developed Kwerk, which will talk to not only the EHRs in larger facilities but also serve as a bundled product we can offer the mid-market so potential customers at that level can have healthcare-proven hardware and high-quality patient check-in software solutions in an affordable package.”

Kwerk will connect with EHRs in any size facility, but will also enable smaller organizations that simply want a standalone check-in solution to have one. In addition to patient check-in, the kiosks can accept co-pays and bill payments, be used for patient scheduling, secure consent to treatment signatures, issue privacy notices, change demographic information, and more.

CTS Healthcare Services will offer Kwerk on a subscription basis, Nix said.

More Information

  • New Kwerk software to debut at HIMSS 2016
  • HIMSS 2016 Schedule of Events
  • Search for Exhibitors at HIMSS
  • Visit ctshealthcare.com
  • Visit CTS on LinkedIn

 

Author: Staff Writer

Craig Keefner is the editor and author for Kiosk Association and kiosk industry. With over 30 years in the industry and experience in large and small kiosk solutions, Craig is widely considered to be an expert in the field. Major kiosk projects for him include Verizon Bill Pay kiosk and hundreds of others.