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Adams County, Colo., Enhances Public Safety with Automated Secure Alarm Protocol Implementation

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The Monitoring Association (TMA) has announced that the Adams County Communications Center Authority (ADCOM911) has completed implementation of the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) Service.

COMMERCE CITY, Colo., March 17, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced today that the Adams County Communications Center Authority (ADCOM911) has completed implementation of the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) Service. ADCOM911 went live with the service on March 4, becoming the 149th emergency communications center (ECC) in the U.S. and fourth in Colorado to adopt the ASAP program.

ADCOM911 is striving constantly to improve our service to the community, and this application will aid us in that endeavor as it streamlines the dispatch process, shortens response times, and greatly assists in saving lives and property.

ADCOM911 serves a population of more than 500,000 residents in the cities of Brighton, Commerce City, Lochbuie, and Northglenn, as well as unincorporated Adams County. The ECC dispatches emergency services for multiple law-enforcement agencies, including the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, Brighton Police Department, Commerce City Police Department, and Northglenn Police Department, as well as multiple fire districts and departments.

The decision to implement ASAP Service was driven by ADCOM911’s desire to reduce the number of incoming calls to its ECC from alarm-notification centers; it also wanted to minimize human typing errors and accelerate call-processing times. The adoption of ASAP Service will enhance emergency-response efforts significantly by streamlining the transmission of alarm data directly from alarm-monitoring centers to ECCs (also known as 911 centers), eliminating the need for verbal relay of information and ensuring greater accuracy and speed.

“ADCOM911 is excited to announce the implementation of ASAP Service. ADCOM911 is striving constantly to improve our service to the community, and this application will aid us in that endeavor as it streamlines the dispatch process, shortens response times, and greatly assists in saving lives and property,” said Joel Estes, ADCOM911’s director.

In 2024, ADCOM911 handled approximately 12,000 alarm calls, an increase from 11,500 alarm calls in 2023. The agency also managed more than 170,000 emergency calls and 500,000 total calls, dispatching more than 300,000 service requests last year. As the population served by ADCOM911 continues to experience significant growth, the integration of ASAP Service is a crucial step toward ensuring public-safety communications keep pace with increasing demands.

ADCOM911’s ASAP Service implementation is supported by the following alarm companies: ADS, ADT, Affiliated, Alert 360, Brinks Home Monitoring, Dynamark, EverOn, Guardian Protection, National Monitoring Center, Rapid Response Monitoring Service, Security Central, Securitas, Tyco/JCI, United Central Control, Vector Security, and Vivint.

Since its launch in 2011, ASAP Service has been helping ECCs reduce the time it takes to dispatch emergency responders by an average of two minutes for alarm- and sensor-generated calls initiated by alarm-monitoring centers. By delivering information directly to an ECC’s computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system and automatically creating a call for service without human interaction, ASAP Service is reducing time to action, workload, and human errors to improve emergency-response outcomes. ASAP Service utilizes American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard protocols developed cooperatively by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) and TMA.

Learn more about how TMA’s ASAP Service is saving lives every day nationwide at www.ASAP911.org.

About ADCOM911

The Adams County Communication Center, also known as ADCOM911, was originally established as a non-profit Police and Fire/EMS Dispatch Center located in Adams County employing state-of-the-art equipment and technology for phone, radio, and mobile communications. In 2024, the agency managed over 170,000 emergency 911 calls and 500,000 total calls, dispatching more than 300,000 service requests.

About The Monitoring Association

The Monitoring Association (TMA), formerly the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA), is an internationally recognized non-profit trade association that represents professional monitoring companies, security systems integrators, and providers of products and services to the industry. Incorporated in 1950, TMA represents its members before Congress and regulatory agencies on the local, state and federal levels, and other authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) over the industry. Learn more online at https://tma.us/about-tma/.

About TMA’s ASAP Service

Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) service allows for the direct electronic dispatch of first responder calls for service from alarm companies to PSAPs and ECCs. Increasing the accuracy and efficiency of dispatches, the ASAP service utilizes ANSI standard protocols developed cooperatively by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) and The Monitoring Association (TMA).

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DentScribe Launches Perio Charting Benchmark and Reports 100% Across All Eight Levels

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DentScribe 2.165.0 passed 68 of 68 tests with 1,967 of 1,967 expected entries correct and zero extra entries in the company’s text-to-chart evaluation.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DentScribe today announced its AI Periodontal Charting Benchmark 1.0 and accompanying performance report, giving dental practices and dental service organizations a practical framework for evaluating AI perio charting. Developed by DentScribe working with teams of dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants, the benchmark combines a written charting standard, 68 test scripts, expected charts, and a score card.

DentScribe introduces a new, transparent evaluation standard for AI periodontal charting.

In its November 2026 results report, DentScribe reported that it passed all 68 tests across eight levels and handled all 24 tested dictation styles perfectly. All 1,967 expected chart entries were correct, with no extra entries. The results evaluate how the engine converts supplied text into chart entries.

“A hygienist should be able to concentrate on the patient and the probe, not on remembering how a computer wants the findings dictated. We worked with dental teams to make those expectations testable, down to the tooth, site, and reading,” said Dr. Vinni K. Singh, DDS, AFAAID, Founder and CEO of DentScribe.

A Standard for the Chart and a Benchmark for the Software

The charting standard defines the expected interpretation: Universal tooth numbering, six sites per tooth, reading order as the probe travels around the mouth, and rules for missing teeth, corrections, findings, and scope. The benchmark then tests whether software follows those rules. An entry counts as correct only when the value or finding belongs to the right tooth and site. A test passes only when every expected entry is correct and nothing extra appears.

The eight levels progress from individual readings to complete examinations:

Explicit Tooth & Site Charting — Correct placement of named readings, including two-digit pocket depths.Automatic Navigation — Numbers-only dictation, midline direction changes, arch transitions, and missing teeth.Periodontal Findings — Bleeding, suppuration, recession, mucogingival junction measurements, and mobility.Flexible Phrasing & Navigation — Different word orders, findings during probing, jumps, and restatements.The Real Room — Filler words, patient conversation, corrections, and returning to or resuming probing.Accelerated Dictation — Shorthand, scope words, tooth lists, and ranges.Safety — Missing teeth receive no readings, incomplete readings stay incomplete, and findings do not spread to unmentioned sites.Complete Exams: Full Words & Shorthand — Two complete examinations, each expressed both ways, must produce matching charts.

Performance Beyond the Clean Scripts

DentScribe also passed all 13 additional noisy-room text versions, with 471 of 471 expected entries correct and zero extra entries. These scripts contain simulated speech-recognition mishearings; they are not a live suction-noise or microphone study. Across all 81 clean and noisy scripts, eight runs per script produced identical charts.

Both full-word and shorthand versions of each complete exam produced the same expected chart. For the second exam, shorthand reduced the script from 397 words to 210, about 47% fewer words. This measures script length, not demonstrated chairside time savings.

“Accurate transcription is only the beginning. Perio charting must preserve location and context while the clinician changes direction, corrects a reading, or adds a finding on another tooth. Publishing the scripts and expected charts lets customers inspect those behaviors themselves,” said Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Ph.D., Board Chair of DentScribe.

The benchmark suite reflects styles supported by DentScribe

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The kit provides read-aloud scripts, expected charts, and a score card. Practices can use the same reader, room, and microphone, score the first attempt, and count extra entries separately. The kit and performance report are available from DentScribe.

Book a benchmark demonstration: https://www.dentscribe.ai/book-a-demo

About DentScribe

DentScribe is an AI platform for dental documentation and practice intelligence. Founded by practicing dentist Dr. Vinni K. Singh, it combines dental SOAP notes and voice perio charting with DentScribe CoPilot, DentScribe GPS (Guided Production System), after-care summaries, specialist reports, and treatment coordinator notes. Its practice management integrations include Dentrix, Open Dental, and Eaglesoft. DentScribe helps teams complete documentation and act on information already present in the clinical record.

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CURE International completes electronic medical records rollout across its eight children’s hospitals with Thoughtworks

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BENGALURU, India, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy integrating design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation, worked with CURE International (CURE), a global non-profit, to move clinical records at all their pediatric hospitals from paper to a modern electronic medical records (EMR) system. CURE provides surgical care at no cost to children with treatable disabilities and their hospitals, seven across Africa and one in the Philippines, now run on Bahmni, an open-source hospital management system incubated by Thoughtworks for low-resource settings.

Much of the clinical work in CURE’s hospitals used to run on paper, with notes written by hand, carried between departments and re-entered later. Each hospital also has its own specialties, infrastructure and staffing.

Thoughtworks worked with the non-profit to modernize and standardize their systems to digitally document all their patient clinical care journeys. The partners customized and deployed Bahmni across CURE’s network.

The latest rollout builds on a partnership that began in 2023, when CURE first engaged Thoughtworks to digitize care in its children’s hospitals. Thoughtworks’ Managed Services team continues to run deployments and day-to-day operations across the network.

“Taking eight hospitals from paper to digital without interrupting care is a monumental challenge,” said Kevin de Smidt, Chief Technology Officer at CURE International. “The Thoughtworks team learned how our clinicians actually work, allowing us to roll out a system that lets our teams spend less time chasing paperwork and more time focused on providing world-class surgical care to the children we serve. Because we built this on Bahmni, these EMR enhancements are going back into the open-source project, ensuring the next low-resource hospital starts further ahead than we did.”

To give clinicians reliable digital tools in every hospital, the work focused on four priority areas:

Safer clinical care: Adding high-visibility alerts for allergies and the need for blood crossmatching, supervisor approval for changes to medication records, dosing guidance linked to each child’s weight and a new variable dose protocol.Less administrative work on the ward: Introducing electronic drug charts, automated nursing tasks and ward-level inpatient dashboards. A routine medication round now takes three clicks instead of seven.Better use of operating theaters: Tracking each patient’s surgical readiness in real time and suggesting a replacement patient when a scheduled surgery can’t go ahead.Reliable operations without disrupting care: Upgrading the platform that helped deployments reach each site 60% faster and causing 45% less disruption to patient services.

“Executing a multi-region clinical rollout across eight global hospitals demands absolute operational resilience,” said Steve Obana, Senior Vice President – Life Sciences & MedTech at Thoughtworks. “Healthcare platforms operating in these environments cannot afford downtime or instability. Our team approached this with rigorous engineering discipline and we are proud to provide the managed services backbone and technical stability that allows CURE’s medical teams to scale their life-changing work with absolute confidence in their systems.”

CURE has extended its managed services support with Thoughtworks for a further year, covering platform upgrades, stability and operations across all eight hospitals.

Features built for CURE, including inpatient care and monitoring and a digital medication administration record, are being contributed back to the core Bahmni project. This makes them available to other hospitals deploying the platform in low-resource settings.

By combining its experience building Bahmni with managed services operations, Thoughtworks is helping CURE International deliver technology that works where it matters most: giving clinicians reliable tools and information to provide safe, effective care for every child.

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Read the CURE International client story.Learn more about Bahmni.Explore Thoughtworks’ work in healthcare and managed services.Follow Thoughtworks on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

About CURE International

CURE International is a Christian nonprofit organization operating a global network of eight children’s hospitals that offer no-cost surgical interventions for children living with treatable disabilities. CURE hospitals provide life-changing care for children suffering from conditions such as cleft lip/palate, neglected clubfoot, bowed legs, burn contractures, spina bifida, brain tumors, and hydrocephalus. In addition to world-class clinical service, CURE ministers to the emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their communities. Since its first hospital opened in 1998, CURE has completed more than 5.7 million patient visits and over 400,000 life-changing surgeries.

For more information, visit https://cure.org

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation. We are over 10,000 people strong across 47 offices in 18 countries. For 30-plus years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology and culture as the differentiator.

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gary.weyel@cureinternational.org

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Michelle Surendran
Head of Public Relations for APAC and India
michels@thoughtworks.com

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Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 Announces “OnChain Finance” Theme, Introduces Institutional Arena

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Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 will focus on “OnChain Finance” and introduce its inaugural Institutional Arena, an invitation-only, closed-door program bringing together senior executives and decision-makers from global financial institutions and the digital asset industry to explore developments in on-chain finance and opportunities for institutional collaboration.

HONG KONG, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The fifth edition of Hong Kong Web3 Festival, co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group and organized by W3ME, will take place from April 19 to 21, 2027, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Under the theme “OnChain Finance”, this year’s Festival will introduce its inaugural Institutional Arena, a fully closed-door, invitation-only program bringing together senior executives and key decision-makers from global banks, securities firms, asset managers, payment providers, insurance companies, family offices, and the digital asset industry to examine opportunities and future developments in on-chain finance.

As asset tokenization moves toward real-world adoption, stablecoin payments and on-chain settlement are expanding into a broader range of financial applications. Blockchain technology is becoming increasingly integrated into core financial market activities, including asset issuance, trading, payments, and settlement. Meanwhile, banks, asset managers, and payment companies worldwide are accelerating their engagement with digital assets, bringing greater attention to the integration of on-chain and traditional financial systems, cross-market collaboration, and regulatory compliance. From financial product innovation to the evolution of market mechanisms and infrastructure, OnChain Finance is driving deeper integration between blockchain technology and traditional finance.

Since its inaugural edition in 2023, Hong Kong Web3 Festival has witnessed the digital asset industry’s shift from infrastructure exploration toward practical applications, alongside growing engagement between traditional financial institutions and the digital asset sector. Previous editions have featured Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, sharing perspectives on digital assets and investment trends, as well as representatives from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), WeBank, and Ant International discussing financial technology innovation and real-world applications. Financial institutions including BlackRock, HSBC, China International Capital Corporation (CICC), and China Asset Management (Hong Kong) have also participated in industry discussions, reflecting the Festival’s continued engagement across banking, securities, asset management, investment, and financial technology.

Entering its fifth year, Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 will build on its longstanding focus on blockchain innovation and next-generation financial infrastructure, with OnChain Finance as its annual theme. The Festival will explore key topics including asset tokenization, stablecoins and global payments, on-chain capital markets, institutional digital asset services, regulatory compliance, quantum computing and cryptography, AI and financial security, as well as open hardware and privacy protection. Bringing together financial institutions, technology companies, and digital asset industry representatives from around the world, the Festival will examine practical applications, market opportunities, and future developments in on-chain finance.

Institutional Arena to Bring Global Financial Leaders Together for Closed-Door Discussions

A major new addition to the 2027 Festival, the Institutional Arena will be held during the three-day event from April 19 to 21. Operating on a fully closed-door, invitation-only basis, it will bring together senior executives and key decision-makers from global banks, asset management firms, payment companies, institutional investors, and digital asset businesses. The program is designed to provide a more focused and specialized setting for institutional engagement, while offering dedicated venues for leading financial institutions to host their own closed-door events.

As a key addition to this year’s program, the Institutional Arena will feature a dedicated networking area for institutional participants. Through keynote presentations, closed-door roundtables, and thematic discussions, it will address issues of particular interest to financial institutions, examining business practices across different markets and opportunities for collaboration. The program will also create a more targeted environment for direct engagement among financial institutions and between these institutions and innovative companies across the industry.

Complementing the Festival’s broader industry discussions, the Institutional Arena will provide a dedicated setting for deeper dialogue on practical business priorities, facilitating cross-institutional collaboration and business connections between global financial institutions and the digital asset sector.

Four Editions of Global Industry Engagement

Since its launch in 2023, Hong Kong Web3 Festival has grown into an international platform connecting participants across digital assets, finance, and technology. Across its first four editions, the festival has attracted more than 150,000 attendees, featured over 1,600 speakers, hosted more than 500 exhibitors, and supported over 600 side events.

Building on four editions of engagement spanning technological innovation and financial applications, Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 will place OnChain Finance at the center of its program. With the introduction of the Institutional Arena, the Festival aims to strengthen connections between global financial institutions and the digital asset industry, bringing together forward-looking perspectives and practical developments in financial innovation.

Further details on the Festival agenda, speakers, and Institutional Arena arrangements will be announced in due course. Follow the Wanxiang Blockchain Labs official WeChat account and Hong Kong Web3 Festival’s official X account (@festival_web3) for the latest updates.

Partnership and Participation Opportunities

Sponsorship Opportunities: https://hongkong.web3festival.org/2027sponsorshipApply to Speak: https://hongkong.web3festival.org/2027speakerapplicationMedia & Community Partnerships: https://hongkong.web3festival.org/2027partnerSide Event Applications: https://hongkong.web3festival.org/2027sideeventContact: w3@blockchainlabs.org

About Wanxiang Blockchain Labs

Founded in 2015, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs (the “Labs”) is a non-profit research institution dedicated to blockchain technology research and development. It brings together experts from around the world to advance research, foster dialogue, and explore the development, applications, and strategic implications of blockchain technology. Through its research and initiatives, the Labs seeks to provide insights and guidance for entrepreneurs, inform regulatory discussions, and support the broader development of blockchain technology and its potential contributions to society and the economy.

Since its establishment, the Labs has built an international presence through initiatives including the annual Shanghai Blockchain Global Summit and Hong Kong Web3 Festival, as well as hackathons, developer programs, incubation initiatives, blockchain publications, research projects, lectures, and academic collaborations.

About HashKey Group (3887.HK)

HashKey Group (3887.HK) is a leading digital asset financial services group in Asia with a global footprint. Founded in 2018, we are building the next-generation global financial infrastructure to serve institutions, retail investors and blockchain ecosystem partners. We enable traditional institutions and blockchain projects to efficiently access global resources and achieve compliant expansion and growth for their products and businesses. The Group operates across four core pillars: Transaction Facilitation, On-Chain Services, Asset Management and RWA Tokenisation.

HashKey Group is committed to driving the large-scale adoption of blockchain technology and delivering dependable and accessible digital asset services to one billion users worldwide.

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