This Week in Healthcare IT

Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of June 25, 2010
courtesy of iHealthbeat.org

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Health-e-Web, a provider of health care revenue cycle management applications, recently announced its acquisition of Electronic Translations and Transmittals, an electronic data exchange company, for an undisclosed sum...Emdeon, a provider of health care revenue and payment cycle management applications, has announced the acquisition of Chapin Revenue Cycle Management, in a deal valued at $18.9 million.

AdvancedMD Software, a vendor of remotely hosted physician practice management and EHR software, reported that its revenue increased by 29% to more than $8 million during Q1 2010.

Contracts

Riverside HealthSystem in Virginia has integrated ZynxHealth's ZynxOrder evidence-based order sets into its EHR system...Gardner Family Health Network in California has announced plans to deploy NextGen Healthcare Information Systems' NextGen Ambulatory EHR, NextGen Practice Management and QSI Dental System.

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority in Canada has selected Optimed Software Corporation's Accuro EHR software and related services for its 30 regional clinics...Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in California have selected Allscripts' in-home care automation system and EHR.

Product Development and Marketing

Keane, an IT services and health care technology firm, has entered into a partnership with Ormed Information Systems, a provider of health care management software, to develop an expanded IT suite that improves clinical decision-making, financial performance, and patient care and satisfaction.

Personnel

Raj Toleti -- founder of health care technology company Galvanon -- has been named CEO of PatientPoint, a provider of health care self-service applications.


**And the rumors are true: Jim Burgess has resigned as the CEO of Healthland