courtesy of ihealthbeat.org
M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Ingenix plans to acquire Picis, a maker of clinical health IT systems, for an undisclosed amount.
Contracts
MedWest Health System of North Carolina has selected Allscripts' EHR and practice management software; Erie County Medical Center in New York and Centra, a hospital system in central Virginia, also have selected Allscripts' EHR system.
Vohra Wound Physicians, a national network of physicians, has selected athenahealth's revenue cycle management services; Capella Healthcare, a hospital system operating in seven states, has selected an EHR service from athenahealth.
The Jersey City Medical Center has selected a Web-based diagnosis tool by Isabel Healthcare to help physicians make patient diagnoses...Saint Luke's Health System -- which operates hospitals in Kansas and Missouri -- has chosen services by CapSite to improve its capital expenditure process.
Health care payer and provider HealthPartners has selected Diversinet's MobiSecure Health platform to expand mobile offerings to subscribers...Kingman Regional Medical Center in Arizona has selected Surgical Information Systems' integrated perioperative information management system.
Primary Wound Care Specialists in Florida has selected ExpressMD Solutions' Electronic House Call patient monitoring program...Akron General Health System has chosen to deploy at four emergency departments in Ohio a subscription health information service by My LifePlan…the Individual Practice Association Medical Group of Santa Clara County in California has selected several Health Access Solutions applications to help the network establish care coordination platforms.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has signed a five-year contract with Thomson Reuters for a health care reporting system containing the names of 1.8 million beneficiaries...The University of Michigan Health System has selected Epic Systems' suite of ambulatory and inpatient information systems.
Product Development and Marketing
Tenet Healthcare has selected MEDHOST to help distribute its Care Clock software at multiple facilities across the U.S....HealthStream, a learning and research applications provider for the health care industry, has entered into a partnership with the American Nurses Association to expand the offering and update the delivery of HealthStream's online continuing education services.
CIGNA, a health services firm, has partnered with HealthCompare, an online health insurance comparison portal, to develop an online research guide for health insurance plans...Target Health and LifeOnKey have entered into a partnership that consolidates their electronic clinical tools and EHR software…The American Osteopathic Association and HealthFusion, a provider of EHR and practice management services, have partnered to promote EHR use among AOA's member physicians.
Personnel
Kevin Friedman -- former U.S. Naval officer and aviation medicine physician -- has been named medical director of the Telemedicine Consulting Network, an organization of health care workers dedicated to promoting telehealth technology...Matthew Swindells -- former group managing director of health at Tribal Group, a provider of public sector services -- has been named a senior executive at health IT vendor Cerner's Global organization.
Sarah Bloom -- director of field operations at the corporate office of HCA Midwest, a health care provider in Kansas City, Mo. -- has been named the organization's CIO...Joyce Sensmeier -- vice president for Informatics at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society -- has been recognized as a fellow with the American Academy of Nursing...Deborah Leyva -- a health industry expert -- has been appointed clinical solutions executive at medical device data integration and interoperability program provider Nuvon.
Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/7/23/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-july-23-2010.aspx#ixzz0v0l4URgi
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