This Week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Interactive Technology Solutions, a management and IT consulting company, has acquired the IT services business of NetStar-1 Holdings, a provider of management consulting services, for an undisclosed amount...Computer Task Group, an IT firm, reported a Q3 2010 profit of $2 million on $84.5 million in revenue, up from a $1.6 million profit on $66.8 million in revenue in Q3 2009.

Contracts

The Department of Veterans Affairs has selected CACI International for a five-year, $91 million contract to generate a record-sharing system for the agency's Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record program…CDC has chosen Business Computer Applications for a 10-year, $3 billion contract for its Information Management Services area…Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York has chosen Allscripts' care management software; Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in New York has selected Allscripts' EHR system for its 16 medical groups…MDAdvantage Insurance Company of New Jersey has extended its contract with digiChart, a health care IT services provider.
The Medical Society of the State of New York has designated athenahealth as a preferred EHR vendor...Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has selected Siemens Medical Solutions USA for a five-year, $25 million contract to provide medical imaging equipment and health IT consulting services…American Medical Software has selected Intuit's patient portal application…Methodist Hospital in Houston has chosen Dell Services to help launch an EHR system and coordinate and streamline clinical care delivery…the North Carolina TeleHealth Network has selected MCNC, a not-for-profit communications technologies provider, to establish broadband connectivity to health care sites across the state.
PinnacleHealth System in Pennsylvania has selected electronic documentation  provider Salar to provide health services to two hospitals in the health system…the Tri-State Regional Extension Center based in Cincinnati has recommended EHRs from Allscripts, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, GE Healthcare and NextGen Healthcare Information Systems...Massachusetts-based Northeast Hospital Corp. will deploy PACS from Merge Healthcare.

Product Development and Marketing

Kodak has partnered with MMRGlobal to help physician offices and similar small practices digitize patient records...VitalHealth has partnered with Mayo Medical Laboratories to offer an EHR product linked with Mayo's outreach offering…Vanguard Communications has partnered with Intuit Health to give consumers Internet-based portals for conducting business directly on physicians' websites…Surescripts, an electronic prescribing network, will offer its vendors functionality and services from Kryptiq, a provider of Internet-based secure messaging services…Palomar Pomerado Health in California will develop medication and supply management technologies with CareFusion.
NetCare Administrators has partnered with contractor SoftCare EC Solutions to design and expand NetCare's health IT systems…Practice Fusion's Research Division has entered into a partnership with Microsoft to establish no-cost, de-identified health information for researchers…Health e Practice Solutions will integrate Ignis' EHR lab connectivity tool into its hosted EHR system…Health Access Solutions has partnered with the California Association of Physician Groups to deploy Health Access' multidisciplinary care coordination platform.

Personnel

Angie Franks -- former senior vice president of sales and market development for health care software company Heartland -- has been named president and CEO of Heartland.


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