This Week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Health plan Aetna has acquired health information exchange services provider Medicity for approximately $500 million…NaviNet, a health care communications network, has acquired Prematics, a mobile care management program provider, for an undisclosed amount…IT services company Computer Sciences Corp. plans to acquire Image Solutions, a privately held IT outsourcing company, for an undisclosed sum…Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a unit of business intelligence provider Wolters Kluwer Health, has acquired iCare, an EHR vendor...Verge Solutions, a health care software developer, has acquired Peminic, a provider of patient safety and risk management software, for an undisclosed sum.
OnShift -- a health care staff scheduling and shift management software vendor -- has raised $2.3 million in a round of venture capital investment.

Contracts

South Carolina Oncology Associates has chosen Kryptiq's online bill pay program…Lutheran Medical Center in New York has implemented an EHR system from Medsphere Systems… Dunlap Community Hospital, Wooster Community Hospital and more than a dozen physician practices in Ohio have implemented GE Healthcare's information exchange system with the aid of central Ohio's health information exchange eLINCx…the University of Colorado Hospital has chosen an integration and development platform from InterSystems…Scottsdale Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system in Arizona, has selected e-health services from Stat Health...GuideNet, a managed care program, has selected a medication management system from American Medical Alert.
Providence Care in Canada has chosen an EHR system from QuadraMed…Berkshire Health Systems in Massachusetts has deployed EHR and practice management systems from Allscripts…Ohio-based Children's Medical Center of Dayton has selected Medicity to run its health information exchange…Mission Hospital in California has selected workflow technology from CenTrak…Central Baptist Hospital in Kentucky has chosen interactive patient education software from TeleHealth Services...HealthCare Partners Medical Group in California has selected RIS/PACS technology from DR Systems...Iowa Health System has selected LUMEDX's cardiovascular image and data management software.

Product Development and Marketing

iMDsoft's integrated perioperative application will offer technology from Anesthesia Business Consultants…Surrex EHR Solutions, a health IT consultancy, will implement gloStream's EHR platforms at U.S. physician offices...lifeIMAGE has integrated its medical image exchange network with PHR technology from Microsoft...Nuance Communications has combined its radiology report databases with Montage Healthcare Solutions' search and performance analytics technology.

Personnel

Amy Gibson -- former assistant director of the Boys Town Institute for Child Health Improvement in Nebraska -- has been named COO of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative…Michael Meehan -- former health care sales representative for Sunnyside Design Group in Illinois -- has been named Midwest regional sales director for health IT network provider Curaspan Health Group…Joseph Heins -- former executive vice president and COO of anesthesia information system provider DocuSys -- has been named vice president, global product management and marketing of First DataBank…William Sorrells -- former senior director at Evolvent Technologies, a health IT services firm -- has been named executive director of the Alaska eHealth Network.
Interactive Technology Solutions, a management and consulting firm, has named Todd Stottlemyer -- executive vice president of corporate services for Inova Health System in Virginia -- as CEO and Tom Weston -- former CFO of technology provider QinetiQ North America -- as CFO…Brian Tyler -- current president of McKesson Medical-Surgical unit -- has been appointed president of McKesson U.S. Pharmaceutical; John Figueroa -- president of McKesson U.S. Pharmaceutical -- has been named CEO and company director of pharmaceutical company Omnicare...John Wallace, former senior vice president at patient payment vendor mPay Gateway, has been named to the business development team at MED3000, a health care management and IT company.


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