Wednesday, July 7

This Week in Healthcare IT

Health IT Business News Roundup courtesy of ihealthbeat.org

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding 

Mercer, a consulting firm, has acquired Innovative Process Administration, a provider of self-service health and benefits administration technology, for an undisclosed sum.

Contracts 

Arizona Integrated Physicians has selected eClinicalWorks' unified EHR and practice management system...Bayonne Medical Center in New Jersey has deployed Picis' ED PulseCheck emergency department information system. 

Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital in California has selected Medicity's suite of health IT services to help the facility  develop a community-wide health information exchange...Virginia HIT, the state's federally designated health IT regional extension center, has selected athenahealth to provide Web-based services to primary care practices in Virginia.

Product Development and Marketing 

Medrium, a provider of medical billing and revenue cycle management applications, has entered into a partnership with RelayHealth that will allow Medrium to use RelayHealth's Results Distribution System to provide LabCorp laboratory test results to physicians through Medrium's EHR system.
Personnel 

John Glaser -- former CIO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston -- has been named CEO of the Health Services Business Unit for Siemens, a provider of technology and services for the health care industry and fields...Monte Gibbs -- former CTO for the social networking platform MyLife.com -- has been named CTO of Private Access, a provider of data and privacy management applications.

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