M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
SXC Health Solutions -- a provider of health benefit IT services -- will acquire pharmacy benefits manager MedMetrics Health Partners for an undisclosed amount...Z Microsystems -- a computing systems company for medical imaging -- has purchased the intellectual property and product development team of Enhanced Video Devices, a video-enhancing technology company, for an undisclosed amount…GE Healthcare has acquired the assets of Steady State Imaging, a provider of MRI technology, for an undisclosed sum.Streamline Health Solutions -- a workflow and document management services company -- has reported a Q4 2010 net loss of $1.8 million on $4.9 million in revenue, compared with a Q4 2009 net income of $1.6 million on $6.3 million in revenue.
Contracts
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded contracts to six companies to deploy telehealth and workflow management systems: American Telecare, Authentidate Holding, Cardiocom, HealthHero Network, Visual Telecommunication Network/ViTelCare and Viterion TeleHealthcare...Oakwood Healthcare in Michigan has selected EHR and financial information systems from Epic Systems...HealthInfoNet -- which operates a health information exchange and the Maine Regional Extension Center -- has named e-MDs and Ingenix -- which will change its name to OptumInsight in June -- as preferred EHR vendors and endorsed Concordant's planning and implementation services.Ponce School of Medicine Regional Extension Center in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands has selected ABEL Medical Software, Cure MD and McKesson as preferred EHR vendors...California's El Centro Regional Medical Center has contracted cloud-based imaging technology from DR Systems...Montgomery AIDS Outreach in Alabama will implement EHR and practice management systems from SuccessEHS...the Hawaii Department of Public Safety will deploy an EHR system from eClinicalWorks...Methodist Dallas Medical Center has picked disease registry software from RemedyMD...Seymour Hospital in Texas has selected an EHR system from Prognosis Health Information Systems.
Regional Medical Imaging in Michigan has chosen imaging interoperability tools from Merge Healthcare...Loreley Clinics in Germany is deploying wireless networks from Aruba Networks...California's Palomar Pomerado Health has selected health information exchange software from GSI Health...health IT companies Soren Technology, Level 3 MPS and Visions Home Health have opted for medical claims and payment processing tools from i-Plexus Solutions…the Department of Defense has selected a blood transfusion management software system from Mediware.
Product Development and Marketing
The American College of Surgeons and Within3 -- an online health care community networking platform provider -- are launching an online community to offer a range of collaboration tools for surgeons practicing in sparsely populated areas...predictive modeling software provider BioSignia and patient-centered technology provider PatientCentral Technologies are creating a personal health information management system...Dell Services has launched a mobile clinical computing system for hospitals and health care organizations that use MEDITECH's information system...Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has entered into a 10-year agreement with Affiliated Computer Services to manage clinical, EHR and other network support services for Allscripts clients who use remote hosting applications.M*Modal has integrated its speech-recognition technology with WebChartMD's Web-based clinical documentation platform...ClearPractice -- a physician and medical group software provider -- and health IT company Prognosis Health Information Systems are developing an integrated software-as-a-service-based EHR software for rural and community hospitals and their affiliated physicians...CommerceTel, a provider of mobile marketing tools, and medical care services company Magellan Global Health are developing mobile telehealth tools.
Personnel
Kent McAllister -- former vice president of client solutions at Sage Healthcare -- has been named CIO at Medical Electronic Attachment/National Electronic Attachment, a provider of insurance processing systems...James Hill -- founder and former CEO of Achievant, a human capital management service -- has been named vice president of sales for the Indiana Health Information Exchange.
Priti Sahai -- former vice president of health informatics at clinical research company Abraxis Health -- has been named chief strategy officer for the California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization…Alisoun Moore -- director of health systems management of Northrop Grumman's health IT programs -- has been named vice president and general manager of health IT company CSC's North American Public Sector Health Services Division.
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