This Week in Healthcare IT

from ihealthbeat.org

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

 EHR vendor Allscripts has completed its acquisition of Eclipsys, a provider of EHR products...Health information exchange software provider Availity has acquired RealMed, a provider of revenue cycle management services...Ebix, an international supplier of e-commerce services to insurers, has signed a merger agreement with A.D.A.M., a U.S.-based  provider of health IT and benefits software, for $66 million.
Health IT company Emdeon will purchase Chamberlin Edmonds, a manufacturer of software that helps to determine Medicaid eligibility, for $260 million...Revenue cycle management and software services provider PracticeMax has acquired Medinomics, a practice management and EHR provider...Media company and research provider Thomson Reuters has acquired health care data analytics firm Healthcare Data Management for an undisclosed sum.

Contracts

The American Health Information Management Association has selected Pearson VUE's computer-based testing...Tennessee-based IASIS Healthcare has selected the Quantim Coding software suite from QuadraMed...Maine's health information exchange not-for-profit manager HealthInfoNet has selected Health Language, a medical terminology management company, to assist with a transition from a two-year demonstration project to a full exchange service across the state.

Stanford Hospital & Clinics will join Accenture's connected health IT initiative to develop patient-centered technology...Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Connecticut has selected Streamline Health Solutions' accessANYware document workflow program; Nassau University Medical Center in New York has selected Streamline Health's Enterprise Health Information Management suite.

The Carolinas HealthCare System has selected Medicity's medical information software...McLeod Health in South Carolina has selected cardiology workflow software from Merge Healthcare...New York-based Mount Kisco Medical Group has selected NextGen Healthcare Information Systems' ambulatory EHR, practice management and patient portal programs...The Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in New Mexico has selected Digisonics' DigiView CVIS/PACS.

The Massachusetts e-Health Institute, which operates the state's regional extension center, has selected Allscripts, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, e-MDs, Epic, GE Healthcare, Greenway Medical Technologies, MedPlus, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems and Sage Software as preferred EHR vendors...Affinity Health System of Wisconsin has selected GE Healthcare's Centricity EHR system for its patient care network.

The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati has chosen Courion's AccountCourier automation software...Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System has selected breach detection software from FairWarning...Arizona-based Southwest Kidney Institute has selected athenahealth's suite of Web-based patient care services...Database Solutions -- a software development firm specializing in hospital patient access -- has selected integrated learning and development tools from BridgeFront.

Product Development and Marketing

California-based Sutter Health has partnered with iTriage, a mobile phone application, to provide its patients with data about physicians and hospitals...Computer Generated Solutions has partnered with interactive medical communications agency Simpson Healthcare Executives to generate an interactive communications platform for virtual events and communities in the health sciences industry.

GE Healthcare has partnered with HealthInsight, the REC for Nevada and Utah, to work on education, recruitment and training...Atimi Software and Clay Braziller & Associates have entered into a partnership to adapt iPhone and iPad applications for the health care industry...Imprivata has partnered with VMware to integrate its single-sign-on and user authentication software into VMware's virtual desktop technology.

Personnel

Richard Noe -- former president and CEO of Managed Business Solutions -- has been named CEO of iSalus Healthcare, an EHR software company...Stephan Erberich -- former division director of health informatics at the Information Sciences Institute in the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering -- has been named director of biomedical informatics at the Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

Nancy Brown -- former senior vice president of business development and government affairs at athenahealth -- has been selected as MedVentive's new chief growth officer...Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson (D) has appointed Helen Connors, executive director of the University of Kansas Center for Health Informatics, and Jonalon Smith to the board for the Kansas Health Information Exchange.

Richard Eidinger, a physician executive, has been named to the board of directors at Diversinet, a provider of mobile health care programs…Sheryl Rose -- former vice president of global security operations and disaster recovery at First Data -- has been named chief information security officer at Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives.

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