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Contracts
Christ Hospital in New Jersey has selected ITelagen to provide it with electronic health records as part of a back-office suite of health IT applications...Central Penn Management Group, a management services organization in Pennsylvania, has selected Allscripts' EHR for its affiliated group Physicians Alliance Limited.
Lehigh Valley Respiratory Care, an oxygen and medical equipment company in Pennsylvania, has selected Authentidate Holding's Inscrybe Healthcare service to allow physicians to process care orders electronically…Westbury Hospital in Houston is implementing Prognosis Health Information Systems' EHR system...The Iowa Health IT Regional Extension Center has selected Greenway Medical Technologies' PrimeSuite integrated EHR and practice management system.
Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital in West Virginia has selected Eclipsys' Sunrise Enterprise suite of clinical and revenue cycle programs, as well as Eclipsys' Enterprise Performance Management application suite...Sharp HealthCare in San Diego has selected the Allscripts' Allscripts Community Record EHR to provide connectivity across its facilities...Millennium Pharmaceuticals: The Takeda Oncology Company in Massachusetts has selected HumanConcepts' OrgPlus work force decision support software.
Product Development and Marketing
Imaging company Kodak has partnered with MedCo Data, a health care office technology provider, to establish a scanning application for converting paper-based patient charts into electronic data for the MedCo Data Vault...StoneRiver Pharmacy Solutions, a prescription billing services provider, has entered into a partnership with out-of-network specialist Progressive Medical to create a combined electronic service that would identify payers for out-of-network pharmacy benefits.
Axolotl, a provider of browser-based products and services for secure health information exchange, has partnered with Anakam, a provider of security technologies, to provide a secure user authentication platform for the Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange...Medrium, a provider of independent medical health IT tools, has partnered with Thomson Reuters to incorporate Thomson Reuters' Micromedex evidence-based medication information into Medrium's newly released EHR.
Health IT provider TriZetto Group has entered into a partnership with professors A. Mark Fendrick and Michael Chernew of the Value-Based Insurance Design Institute to integrate chronic-condition templates into TriZetto's value-based benefits application...Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions, a provider of medical billing verification, and cost-containment firm TC3 Health have entered into a partnership to provide insurers with more offerings for hospital billing applications.
Michigan Avenue Immediate Care in Chicago has joined with Healthagen, a developer of health IT software, to offer the iTriage smartphone application, which provides users with medical resources and specific facility information…Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Cook Medical have entered into a partnership to create i2iconnect.org, an online service linking investors and technology transfer professionals with firms looking to develop health care innovations.
CMS Telehealth, a provider of telehealth services, has entered into a partnership, allowing it to market MedApps' Mobile Health Monitoring System in New York and New Jersey … Henry Schein Medical Systems, a provider of practice management and EHR tools, has joined as a participating vendor in the AmericanEHR Partners Program, an online tool allowing physicians to compare EHR choices.
Personnel
Trace Devanny -- president of health IT firm Cerner -- has been selected for a new position as CEO of TriZetto Group, a provider of integrated care management applications; Cerner chair and CEO Neal Patterson will take on an additional title as president of the company following Devanny's departure.
Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/7/16/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-july-16-2010.aspx#ixzz0uPkqyUMR
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