Wednesday, June 2

This Week in Healthcare IT

courtesy of ihealthbeat.org

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Healthscreen Solutions, a provider of physician practice services and EHR software, reported a Q2 2010 gross profit of $2,784,623 on $4,069,087 in revenue.

Contracts

Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District in California has selected QuadraMed's CPR EHR system and several additional QuadraMed applications...Vermont Information Technology Leaders has selected athenahealth, a provider of Web-based health care business services, as its preferred EHR provider.

St. Luke's Hospital in Minnesota has selected eClinical Works' EHR and integrated practice management systems...Guadalupe County Hospital in New Mexico has announced that it will implement Medsphere's OpenVista EHR system.

Davis County Hospital in Iowa, Paynesville Area Hospital in Minnesota and Renville County Hospital and Clinics in Minnesota have purchased McKesson's Paragon hospital information system, practice management application and EHR software.

Product Development & Marketing

InstyMeds, a vendor of automated physician dispensing systems, has entered into a strategic partnership with DocuTAP, an EHR and practice management application provider, to integrate InstyMed's dispensing system with DocuTAP's prescription order software.

Allscripts, a provider of health care software and connectivity applications, has entered into a partnership with IntrinsiQ to integrate IntrinsiQ's IntelliDose chemotherapy management application with Allscripts' product suite.


Personnel

Eric Demers -- former vice president of operations, North America at Orion Health, a provider of clinical work flow and integration technology -- has been named senior vice president of life sciences at MEDecision, a provider of collaborative health care management applications...Brett Michalak -- former platform developer for Tickets.com -- has been named CIO of Crescent Healthcare, a provider of integrated pharmacy and nursing services at facilities in California and Florida.

Dale Alverson -- medical director at the University of New Mexico's Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research -- has been named president of the American Telemedicine Association, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for telemedicine technology...Eric Rosenbach -- executive director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government -- has been named managing director of national security at the Markle Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that funds policy research and health IT programs.

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