Laurus Technologies, an IT consulting and professional services firm based in Itasca, IL, announced its participation in the FairWarning® Ready Solution Partner Program, enabling Laurus to deploy, service and resell FairWarning®’s industry-leading healthcare privacy monitoring solutions. Laurus will offer greater security and privacy measures to hospitals and healthcare providers for their electronic medical records, resulting in greater peace-of-mind for patients that their medical records are kept private. Laurus is one of seven nationwide solutions providers chosen to participate in FairWarning’s® program.

Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in data management solutions for the exchange of health information, has announced the launch of Initiate® Catalyst Patient Registry, a self-contained virtual software appliance to accelerate data interoperability for electronic medical records (EMR), portals, radiology information systems (RIS), picture archival communications systems (PACS) and other healthcare information exchange (HIE) solutions. The new software appliance provides independent software vendors (ISVs) and solution providers in healthcare with entity resolution and search capability that can be embedded in their information exchange applications and portals to improve patient care.