This week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Ingenix, a health care information management company, plans to buy A-Life Medical, a medical coding software manufacturer, for an undisclosed sum.

Contracts

Saint Luke's Health System and Esse Health in Missouri have selected LogRhythm's platform to automate and centralize log management...The Chesapeake Regional Medical Center in Virginia, Knapp Medical Center in Texas, Nash General Hospital in North Carolina and Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in New York have selected McKesson's robotic medication dispensing and integrated pharmacy applications...FDA has awarded a $31.8 million contract to ICF International to provide IT and scientific support services to the National Center for Toxicological Research.
VHA, a national health care supply chain network based in Texas, has selected Greenway Medical Technologies' integrated EHR system; the Central Jersey Health Information Exchange Project also has selected Greenway Medical's EHR system, as well as products from Advanced Data Systems and MDTablet...The Spalding Surgical Center in California has chosen MMRGlobal's Web-based MMRPro application for converting patient records to EHRs...Dow Chemical has deployed an EHR from Medical Informatics Engineering...HHS has provided a $169 million contract to Verizon Business to support a variety of network infrastructure services under the federal health reform law...Pennsylvania-based Holy Redeemer Health System has selected health information exchange services from MobileMD.
Amerinet -- a national group purchasing organization -- has selected Prognosis Health Information Systems as its supplier of EHR systems...The New Jersey Health IT Extension Center has selected Nit Health to provide IT support for clinical and financial applications...The Great Plains Health Alliance has selected Wi-Fi services from Xirrus to support EHR systems in Kansas health care facilities...Lancaster Health Group in Chicago has selected Socket Mobile handheld computer technology.
Saint Barnabas Health Care System in New Jersey has selected EDIMS' emergency department information system...Texas-based CHRISTUS Health has selected athenahealth's remote practice management and EHR software.

Product Development and Marketing

Navinet's health care communications network will deliver communications programs from Prematics to mobile devices...Golden Helix, a provider of genetic analysis software, has joined with the Harvard School of Public Health to update the school's software for evaluating disease heritability...Hewlett Packard, Intel and McKesson have entered into a partnership with WebMD to launch a new website -- www.PracticeReadyEHR.com -- providing independent physicians with information and resources for adopting EHRs.
Telehealth provider Honeywell HomMed will integrate its platform with the clinical patient record from HealthWyse, a home health and hospice agency automation software provider...Health Language will use HCL Technologies' conversion software in its Language Engine to develop ICD-10 coding software for health care providers...NextGen Healthcare Information Systems has entered into a partnership with VHA to provide ambulatory and inpatient care providers with integrated clinical and financial applications; VHA also has expanded its partnership with CDW Healthcare to deliver health IT products and services to the VHA-supported Mid-America Service Solutions consolidated service center.
OmniMD, a provider of health IT products, has partnered with Ace Medical Software to offer services for Ace's U.S. marketing network...iMDsoft, a provider of hospital-wide clinical information systems, will jointly offer products with Medical Web Technologies, a Web-based medical information systems provider.

Personnel

Diversinet -- a provider of mobile health care applications -- has named Ivan Boyd senior vice president of U.S. sales and Gene Ridge and Jon Smith vice presidents of sales...Eric Collins -- co-founder of MediSens Wireless, a wireless medical device company -- has been named senior vice president of commercial engineering of the West Wireless Health Institute and a member of its management committee...Richard Sommer -- co-founder and former CEO of De La Cruz Occupational Healthcare and Medchannel -- has been named CEO of Rothman Healthcare, a health IT marketing company.


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