M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
USA Mobility, a wireless health care communications systems vendor, has acquired Amcom Software, a similar vendor, for $163.3 million...life-sciences software developer Instem has acquired BioWisdom, a health care data analysis software developer, for an undisclosed amount. Diversinet, a mobile health IT provider, reported a fiscal year 2010 net income of $1.9 million on $4.9 million in revenue, compared with a FY 2009 net income of $1.9 million on $8 million in revenue...Emdeon, a health care revenue and payment software provider, reported a FY 2010 net income of $33.2 million on $1 billion in revenue, compared with a FY 2009 net income of $14 million on $918 million in revenue.
Contracts
The Kansas Foundation for Medical Care, the state's regional extension center, has selected eight preferred EHR vendors for its regional extension center: Cerner, eClinicalWorks, e-MDs, McKesson, NextGen, Pulse Systems, Sage Intergy and SuccessEHS; HITArkansas, the state's regional extension center, has named ABEL Medical Software and eClinicalWorks as preferred EHR vendors; the Alabama Regional Extension Center has named SuccessEHS as a preferred EHR vendor...HHS has tapped Novavax and VaxInnate to develop technology to speed production of seasonal flu vaccines...Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield in Pennsylvania has selected claims validation software from CGI Group.Kane Community Hospital in Pennsylvania has picked EHR software from Healthland...Blue Cross of Idaho has picked collaborative care software from ZeOmega...Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina has chosen Elekta to update its radiation oncology facilities and deploy EHR systems...Saint Francis Health System in Oklahoma has chosen medication and supply management software from Omnicell...Health Management Associates in Florida has implemented CareView Communications software in its patient rooms...Michigan's Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services has selected an EHR system from Qualifacts Systems...Meridian Health in New Jersey has selected a health information exchange platform from Informatics Corporation of America.
North Carolina-based Coastal Connect has selected Medicity software for its health information exchange...the Center for Cancer Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Massachusetts has contracted CLC bio sequence analysis software...Oklahoma's Muskogee Bone and Joint & Sports Medicine Clinic has picked EHR software from ChartLogic...the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has implemented 3M's telemedicine software package on board the International Space Station...Beloit Health System in Wisconsin has chosen educational and entertainment software from TeleHealth Services...five Methodist Healthcare facilities in Texas are using cardiovascular imaging and information software from LUMEDX.
Product Development and Marketing
Health IT software provider MedLink and electronic claims provider Secure EDI are offering an EHR system to physicians in Puerto Rico...Amagine, a subsidiary of the American Medical Association, is designing interoperable health IT tools such as EHRs, e-prescribing software and online continuing medical education materials with vendor Covisint and the Michigan-based health information exchange my1HIE. Personnel
Stewart Davis -- COO of Healthscreen Solutions, a Canadian health IT company -- has been named the company's president and CEO...Keith Salzman -- former chief medical information officer at Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state -- has been named CMIO of the Transformations Solutions Group at CACI International, an EHR developer...Carlos Nunez -- former chief physician executive at Picis, a maker of clinical IT systems -- has been named chief medical officer of CareFusion, an international health IT company...John Robbins -- vice president and director of health care payment solutions at employee benefits software company DataPath -- has been named president and CEO of the company.Thom Blackwell -- former product manager at Boston Software Systems, a provider of workflow automation and integration services for the health care industry -- has been named the company's vice president of technical services...John Grande -- former vice president of the North American surgical division at Haemonetics, a maker of blood-processing systems -- has been named vice president of sales and marketing of MediClick, a provider of hospital software supply-chain products...Mark Thierer -- president and CEO of health IT and pharmacy benefit management services provider SXC Health Solutions -- has been named board chair at the company.
Will Rideout -- former national director of the channel partner program at EHR provider Allscripts -- has been named vice president of sales at Phreesia, a provider of patient check-in systems...Jennifer Shimek -- former director of clinical services and managed care at Florida-based HealthPoint Medical Group -- has been named COO of Doctors Administrative Solutions, a provider of EHR and practice management services.
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