This Week in Healthcare IT

as always, courtest of ihealthbeat.org

Contracts

Swope Health Services in Missouri has selected eClinicalWorks' unified EHR and practice management system; Iowa Foundation for Medical Care, Iowa's regional health IT extension center, also has chosen eClinical Works' unified EHR and practice management system...Wichita Clinic in Kansas has selected GE Healthcare's Centricity EHR system for all 12 of its locations.

St. Cloud Medical Group in Minnesota has selected a database from Greenway Medical Technologies to implement practice management, EHR, patient portal and remote mobile access software...New Jersey-based Capital Health Systems has selected Aprima Medical Software's EHR application...Community Health in North Carolina and South Carolina has deployed a cloud computing application from technology provider Peak 10.

Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania has implemented Aethon's MedEx electronic tracking and documentation system for its hospital-based pharmacies...VHA, a national health care network, has selected athenahealth's Web-based EHR, practice management and patient communication services for its physician practices.

Product Development and Marketing

Spring Medical Systems, a provider of software applications for small- and medium-sized physician practices in Indiana, has entered into a partnership with NoMoreClipboard.com to integrate NoMoreClipboard.com's patient portal into Spring Medical's SpringCharts EHR system.

Personnel

Colleen Woods, former CIO of the New Jersey Department of Human Services, has been appointed New Jersey health IT coordinator for Gov. Chris Cristie's (R) administration...Mark Trigsted -- former vice president and general manager at health IT vendor McKesson -- has been appointed executive vice president of health care for mobile health software provider Diversinet.

Dev Ittycheria -- former president of the Enterprise Service Management division of BMC software -- has joined the board of director's for athenahealth, a provider of Web-based health IT applications...David Fairbrook -- a physician and former medical director at two nursing homes -- has been appointed president of the user group and chair of the clinical advisory committee for ClearPractice, a provider of health IT services for small physician practices.

Jeff Segal -- former CEO of image technology firm intoPIX of America -- has been named chief technology officer of WellAWARE Systems, a provider of wellness monitoring applications.