M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
Hyland Software, a provider of content management software, has purchased Computer Systems Company, a provider of business and clinical health care software and document conversion services, for an undisclosed amount...Conifer Health Solutions, a revenue cycle services vendor, has acquired health information management and consulting company MediHealth Outsourcing.
Telemedicine services provider REACH Call has completed a $5 million round of Series A financing, led by investors Council Ventures, Croft & Bender Capital and Georgia Health Sciences University.
Eli Lilly's private family foundation Lilly Endowment has provided Indiana University with $4 million to study the legal, ethical and social implications of the use of health IT...Dell is making a $15 million investment in computer equipment and services to help launch the University at Buffalo's new Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
Contracts
The Ohio State University Medical Center has selected FairWarning's FairWarning 2.9.2 to enhance the privacy of university health applications...Lehigh Valley Health in Pennsylvania has selected QuadraMed's coder accuracy and productivity program...Deaconess Health System has chosen Omnicell's automated medication dispensing and controlled substance security systems...Tenet Healthcare has selected PeopleAnswers' talent assessment software to help with hiring medical staff at all of its locations across the U.S.
Quinnipiac University in Connecticut has selected a PACS from CoActiv...St. Vincent's HealthCare in Florida has extended a seven-year contract with TeleHealth Services, a provider of health care-grade televisions and interactive patient education programs...The Iowa Medicaid Enterprise has selected a range of products from health care research company Ingenix to reduce Medicaid waste...California-based Sharp HealthCare has selected management software from Aternity to monitor clinician applications.
The Veterans Integrated Service Network, which serves VA patients in the northwestern U.S., has selected telemedicine technology from GlobalMedia...The Ohio Health Information Partnership has selected five EHR providers as preferred vendors: Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, e-MDs, NextGen Healthcare and Sage Healthcare...Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, and Kalispell Regional Medical Center and The Surgery Center of Northwest Healthcare in Montana have selected Merge Healthcare's Anesthesia Information Management System.
Susquehanna Health in Pennsylvania has selected an integrated perioperative information management system from Surgical Information Systems...The not-for-profit eHealthAlign has selected Informatics Corp. of America to help design a health information exchange in the Kansas City area.
Product Development and Marketing
Picis and The Sullivan Group have entered into a partnership to integrate TSG's Clinical Rules with Picis' ED PulseCheck to alert ED physicians when a patient has a high-risk issue...Indigo Identityware will pair its identity management programs with Netgain's data security and delivery offerings...Physicians Interactive Holdings has joined with PDR Network to offer mobile device software with access to FDA-approved drug labeling.
Health care pricing company PriceDoc.com has partnered with Quality Systems -- a practice management, patient record and revenue cycle management program provider -- to incorporate PriceDoc's online search marketing tool into Quality Systems' dental program and NextGen Healthcare's practice management system...Webmedx, a medical transcription service provider, has partnered with NLP International to expand Webmedx's technology and service offerings.
VHA has partnered with Insight Public Sector to offer Insight's technology products to VHA health care organizations...T-System, an IT software provider for hospital EDs, has partnered with Shareable Ink to provide technology enabling physicians to capture clinical and workflow data.
Personnel
Cory Hall -- former director of diagnostic intelligence and health IT initiatives for the College of American Pathologists -- has been named executive vice president for medical informatics of REACH Call, a telemedicine services company...Mohit Kaushal -- former leader of the connected health team at the Federal Communications Commission -- has been named executive vice president of business development and chief strategy officer of West Wireless Health Institute, a wireless health care research organization.
Mark Harwood -- former vice president of Baxter International -- has been named president of RF Technologies, a provider of RFID monitoring systems...Ken Ruby -- founder of health care finance IT developer MCA -- was named chief technology officer of the company, which also promoted Eric Depew from senior vice president to president.
Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/10/1/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-october-1-2010.aspx#ixzz11c6uc8xe
Hyland Software, a provider of content management software, has purchased Computer Systems Company, a provider of business and clinical health care software and document conversion services, for an undisclosed amount...Conifer Health Solutions, a revenue cycle services vendor, has acquired health information management and consulting company MediHealth Outsourcing.
Telemedicine services provider REACH Call has completed a $5 million round of Series A financing, led by investors Council Ventures, Croft & Bender Capital and Georgia Health Sciences University.
Eli Lilly's private family foundation Lilly Endowment has provided Indiana University with $4 million to study the legal, ethical and social implications of the use of health IT...Dell is making a $15 million investment in computer equipment and services to help launch the University at Buffalo's new Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
Contracts
The Ohio State University Medical Center has selected FairWarning's FairWarning 2.9.2 to enhance the privacy of university health applications...Lehigh Valley Health in Pennsylvania has selected QuadraMed's coder accuracy and productivity program...Deaconess Health System has chosen Omnicell's automated medication dispensing and controlled substance security systems...Tenet Healthcare has selected PeopleAnswers' talent assessment software to help with hiring medical staff at all of its locations across the U.S.
Quinnipiac University in Connecticut has selected a PACS from CoActiv...St. Vincent's HealthCare in Florida has extended a seven-year contract with TeleHealth Services, a provider of health care-grade televisions and interactive patient education programs...The Iowa Medicaid Enterprise has selected a range of products from health care research company Ingenix to reduce Medicaid waste...California-based Sharp HealthCare has selected management software from Aternity to monitor clinician applications.
The Veterans Integrated Service Network, which serves VA patients in the northwestern U.S., has selected telemedicine technology from GlobalMedia...The Ohio Health Information Partnership has selected five EHR providers as preferred vendors: Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, e-MDs, NextGen Healthcare and Sage Healthcare...Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, and Kalispell Regional Medical Center and The Surgery Center of Northwest Healthcare in Montana have selected Merge Healthcare's Anesthesia Information Management System.
Susquehanna Health in Pennsylvania has selected an integrated perioperative information management system from Surgical Information Systems...The not-for-profit eHealthAlign has selected Informatics Corp. of America to help design a health information exchange in the Kansas City area.
Product Development and Marketing
Picis and The Sullivan Group have entered into a partnership to integrate TSG's Clinical Rules with Picis' ED PulseCheck to alert ED physicians when a patient has a high-risk issue...Indigo Identityware will pair its identity management programs with Netgain's data security and delivery offerings...Physicians Interactive Holdings has joined with PDR Network to offer mobile device software with access to FDA-approved drug labeling.
Health care pricing company PriceDoc.com has partnered with Quality Systems -- a practice management, patient record and revenue cycle management program provider -- to incorporate PriceDoc's online search marketing tool into Quality Systems' dental program and NextGen Healthcare's practice management system...Webmedx, a medical transcription service provider, has partnered with NLP International to expand Webmedx's technology and service offerings.
VHA has partnered with Insight Public Sector to offer Insight's technology products to VHA health care organizations...T-System, an IT software provider for hospital EDs, has partnered with Shareable Ink to provide technology enabling physicians to capture clinical and workflow data.
Personnel
Cory Hall -- former director of diagnostic intelligence and health IT initiatives for the College of American Pathologists -- has been named executive vice president for medical informatics of REACH Call, a telemedicine services company...Mohit Kaushal -- former leader of the connected health team at the Federal Communications Commission -- has been named executive vice president of business development and chief strategy officer of West Wireless Health Institute, a wireless health care research organization.
Mark Harwood -- former vice president of Baxter International -- has been named president of RF Technologies, a provider of RFID monitoring systems...Ken Ruby -- founder of health care finance IT developer MCA -- was named chief technology officer of the company, which also promoted Eric Depew from senior vice president to president.
Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/10/1/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-october-1-2010.aspx#ixzz11c6uc8xe
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