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SoloHealth Partners with Metro Atlanta Chamber at HIMSS12
Organization to showcase Atlanta's fast growing health IT industry.
ATLANTA, GA, February 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SoloHealth, a consumer-driven healthcare technology company, will partner with the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) and the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition taking place this week in Las Vegas. SoloHealth joins other Georgia-based companies and organizations, including the GDEcD, HealthNovation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Greenway Medical Technologies and Vensai Technologies, as the MAC showcases the region's rapidly growing healthcare technology industry, helping to establish Atlanta as the nation's health IT capital. SoloHealth will be demoing its next generation, award-winning consumer healthcare kiosk, the SoloHealth Station, in the Georgia Pavilion booth, #3869.
"Thanks to innovative companies like SoloHealth, metro Atlanta is now a major player in the healthcare technology space and is continuing to attract both companies and individual talent from all around the world," said David Hartnett, vice president, bioscience - health IT industry development for the Metro Atlanta Chamber. "With industry leaders like Greenway Medical Technologies, Transcend Services and McKesson Technology Solutions joining hundreds of innovative startups and businesses, we are proud that Atlanta is increasingly being recognized as the health IT capital of the nation."
"Atlanta's strong technology culture and environment, as well as support from organizations like MAC and ATDC, has enabled SoloHealth to thrive and innovate to get us where we are today - readying for what will be a watershed year for the company," said Bart Foster, CEO & Founder of SoloHealth. "We are thrilled to partner with MAC at HIMSS; and we look forward to attracting more businesses and talent to the metro Atlanta area to help the healthcare industry grow, innovate and prosper."
SoloHealth specializes in developing and deploying interactive health screening kiosks to empower consumers about their health through awareness and education, which leads to prevention and lower healthcare costs. Anchored by its award-winning SoloHealth Station, the kiosk offers free vision, blood pressure, weight, and body mass index screenings, as well as an overall health assessment and access to a database of local doctors. The SoloHealth Station, currently in select U.S. test markets and retail locations, is launching a nationwide rollout this year with thousands of kiosks estimated to be in retail locations by end of 2012.
A cloud-based platform, the SoloHealth Station offers highly personalized, targeted and interactive healthcare opportunities for consumers, advertisers and retailers by placing kiosks in high-traffic retail locations and offering access across a multi-platform ecosystem including Internet, mobile, social and emerging platforms, as well as a digital signage network. The multiple-platform approach gives advertisers, consumers and medical professionals the ease of interaction from many touch points allowing for greater effectiveness and efficiencies.
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