M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
Roche Diagnostics will acquire assets related to Medical Automation Systems' point-of-care technology connectivity system…Management Health Solutions, a health IT software provider, has acquired Hospital Inventories Specialists, a provider of inventory management programs, for an undisclosed sum...Xerox's Affiliated Computer Services division has acquired pharmaceutical teleservices company TMS Health from private-equity firm Palm Beach Capital for an undisclosed amount...Greenway Medical Technologies, a developer of EHR software for physician practices, has acquired PACS technology and other assets from VisualMED, an imaging conversion and communications firm, for an undisclosed sum.
Contracts
OB/GYN Women Specialists of Georgia has selected an EHR and practice management system from Waiting Room Solutions…the U.S. Department of Defense has selected health care revenue and payment cycle management software provider Emdeon, along with CSC, to provide health IT services on behalf of the agency's Pharmacy Data Transaction Service; DOD also has entered into a contract with Carestream Health, a provider of imaging and health IT applications, to allow the agency to order PACS...U.S. Tele-Medicine, a telehealth services provider, has selected a telehealth device from Intel for its chronic care management programs.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has chosen consulting and business process services firm Vangent for work on several health IT initiatives...HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation has selected Thomson Reuters to develop a secure, interactive research tool to help researchers perform comparative effectiveness studies…St. Charles Health System in Oregon has selected Allscripts' EHR and practice management applications…Illinois Bone & Joint Institute has selected an EHR system by SRS…CDC has selected CACI International to perform some of its health IT infrastructure work.
North American Medical Management California and MSO of Puerto Rico have selected a clinical software platform from AxSys Technology…Parkview Health System in Indiana has chosen communication technology provider Voalte to manage its wireless communication…Alliance HealthCare Services, a provider of advanced outpatient diagnostic imaging services, and Texas Health Resources have chosen Sy.Med's credentialing software…Rebound Orthopedics in Washington state and Kansas Joint and Spine Institute have selected health IT services from Ancillary Care Solutions, which helps overhaul physical and occupational therapy programs...Saint Francis HealthCare Partners in Connecticut will implement care coordination and population health management technology from Phytel.
The New Jersey Health IT Extension Center has chosen ITelagen's EHR software…Evangelical Community Hospital in Pennsylvania has selected IT applications from Keane…Nebraska Medical Center has subscribed to CapSite's online database of health care technology pricing and packaging…Palmetto Physician Connections, a South Carolina-based patient-centered medical home network, has selected software from MedHOK to secure information exchange and improve care quality and coordination.
Product Development and Marketing
Information services provider Ingenuity Systems has partnered with TransMed Systems, a translational medicine software and services company, to integrate pre-clinical and clinical data with analysis tools…C PORT Solutions has partnered with Rubbermaid Medical Solutions and St. Joseph Hospital's Translational Research Institute to unite communication and collaboration between patient data, medical applications and existing health care technologies.
Health care IT company TriZetto Group has entered into a partnership with Edifecs, a health care interoperability program provider, to help payers meet HIPAA 5010 compliance...AirStrip Technologies, a mobile medical software developer, has partnered with telecommunications company Sprint to work on transmitting health care data to mobile devices of medical professionals.
Personnel
Bart Bernstein -- an Arizona pediatrician -- has been named chief medical information officer at Yuma Regional Medical Center…Christopher Mackie -- former program officer for the Program in Research in IT at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation -- has been named executive vice president and chief innovation officer at health care IT trade association Open Health Tools…Telehealth company Teladoc has named Michael King --- former sales executive at Healthways, a well-being improvement company -- as chief sales officer and Peter Bacon -- former vice president of business alliances at insurer Assurant Health -- as senior vice president of business development.
Timothy Mills -- former senior vice president of provider operations with NaviNet, a health care communications network -- has been named vice president of sales and marketing for revenue cycle management software and services provider Avisena…Eric Rosenfeld -- former senior vice president of IT for the wellness division of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee -- has been named CIO of health IT company DrFirst.
Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/10/22/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-october-22-2010.aspx#ixzz13aDlNGK8
Roche Diagnostics will acquire assets related to Medical Automation Systems' point-of-care technology connectivity system…Management Health Solutions, a health IT software provider, has acquired Hospital Inventories Specialists, a provider of inventory management programs, for an undisclosed sum...Xerox's Affiliated Computer Services division has acquired pharmaceutical teleservices company TMS Health from private-equity firm Palm Beach Capital for an undisclosed amount...Greenway Medical Technologies, a developer of EHR software for physician practices, has acquired PACS technology and other assets from VisualMED, an imaging conversion and communications firm, for an undisclosed sum.
Contracts
OB/GYN Women Specialists of Georgia has selected an EHR and practice management system from Waiting Room Solutions…the U.S. Department of Defense has selected health care revenue and payment cycle management software provider Emdeon, along with CSC, to provide health IT services on behalf of the agency's Pharmacy Data Transaction Service; DOD also has entered into a contract with Carestream Health, a provider of imaging and health IT applications, to allow the agency to order PACS...U.S. Tele-Medicine, a telehealth services provider, has selected a telehealth device from Intel for its chronic care management programs.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has chosen consulting and business process services firm Vangent for work on several health IT initiatives...HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation has selected Thomson Reuters to develop a secure, interactive research tool to help researchers perform comparative effectiveness studies…St. Charles Health System in Oregon has selected Allscripts' EHR and practice management applications…Illinois Bone & Joint Institute has selected an EHR system by SRS…CDC has selected CACI International to perform some of its health IT infrastructure work.
North American Medical Management California and MSO of Puerto Rico have selected a clinical software platform from AxSys Technology…Parkview Health System in Indiana has chosen communication technology provider Voalte to manage its wireless communication…Alliance HealthCare Services, a provider of advanced outpatient diagnostic imaging services, and Texas Health Resources have chosen Sy.Med's credentialing software…Rebound Orthopedics in Washington state and Kansas Joint and Spine Institute have selected health IT services from Ancillary Care Solutions, which helps overhaul physical and occupational therapy programs...Saint Francis HealthCare Partners in Connecticut will implement care coordination and population health management technology from Phytel.
The New Jersey Health IT Extension Center has chosen ITelagen's EHR software…Evangelical Community Hospital in Pennsylvania has selected IT applications from Keane…Nebraska Medical Center has subscribed to CapSite's online database of health care technology pricing and packaging…Palmetto Physician Connections, a South Carolina-based patient-centered medical home network, has selected software from MedHOK to secure information exchange and improve care quality and coordination.
Product Development and Marketing
Information services provider Ingenuity Systems has partnered with TransMed Systems, a translational medicine software and services company, to integrate pre-clinical and clinical data with analysis tools…C PORT Solutions has partnered with Rubbermaid Medical Solutions and St. Joseph Hospital's Translational Research Institute to unite communication and collaboration between patient data, medical applications and existing health care technologies.
Health care IT company TriZetto Group has entered into a partnership with Edifecs, a health care interoperability program provider, to help payers meet HIPAA 5010 compliance...AirStrip Technologies, a mobile medical software developer, has partnered with telecommunications company Sprint to work on transmitting health care data to mobile devices of medical professionals.
Personnel
Bart Bernstein -- an Arizona pediatrician -- has been named chief medical information officer at Yuma Regional Medical Center…Christopher Mackie -- former program officer for the Program in Research in IT at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation -- has been named executive vice president and chief innovation officer at health care IT trade association Open Health Tools…Telehealth company Teladoc has named Michael King --- former sales executive at Healthways, a well-being improvement company -- as chief sales officer and Peter Bacon -- former vice president of business alliances at insurer Assurant Health -- as senior vice president of business development.
Timothy Mills -- former senior vice president of provider operations with NaviNet, a health care communications network -- has been named vice president of sales and marketing for revenue cycle management software and services provider Avisena…Eric Rosenfeld -- former senior vice president of IT for the wellness division of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee -- has been named CIO of health IT company DrFirst.
Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/10/22/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-october-22-2010.aspx#ixzz13aDlNGK8
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