This Week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Everyday Health, operator of a consumer-oriented health information website, has acquired online medical news service MedPage Today…Stanley Black & Decker will acquire InfoLogix, an enterprise mobility and wireless asset tracking applications provider, for $61.2 million.
WebPT, a provider of EHR systems for physical therapists, recently completed a Series A funding round totaling $1 million in private equity funding.

Contracts

The University of Washington Medicine will expand use of Microsoft's data aggregation platform…Central Baptist Hospital in Kentucky has selected interactive patient education and entertainment applications from TeleHealth Services…the Beacon Community of the Inland Northwest serving eastern Washington and northern Idaho, and Genesis Health System of Iowa and Illinois have chosen health information exchange software from Orion Health; the Alaska eHealth Network has selected Orion Health as its primary IT provider…Great Plains Regional Medical Center in Nebraska has selected an emergency department information system from T-System…GuildNet, a managed long-term care program in New York, has selected American Medical Alert's medication management system...Pennsylvania-based Wills Eye Health System has selected EHR and practice management systems from NextGen Healthcare Information Systems.
Elliot Health System in New Hampshire has implemented health IT applications from EMC…Ponce School of Medicine Regional Extension Center in Puerto Rico has named NCG Medical Systems as a preferred EHR vendor…Moses Cone Health System in North Carolina has selected cloud computing software from Proficient Health…Dallas-based CHRISTUS Health has selected health information exchange technology from Medicity to drive infrastructure development across Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Utah and Texas…Georgia-based Health Plan Select has chosen an ITA Partners' oncology decision-support platform…Cleveland Clinic has chosen coding technology from 3M Health Information Systems…Washington Radiology Associates has selected authentication technology from DigitalPersona.
Crystal Cruises will implement an EHR system from Emergisoft, the first EHR system designed for cruise ships…South Florida Regional Extension Center has named Sage Healthcare as a preferred vendor…St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Louisiana has chosen RelayHealth to help build its health information exchange…Colorado Regional Extension Center announced its list of 14 preferred EHR vendors…the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has chosen a patient management platform from Upp Technology…the Department of Veterans Affairs has selected CSC for a $33 million contract to provide software development services...Vantage HGT Regional Health Information Organization, an information exchange for western Pennsylvania, has selected Verizon's health information exchange technology.

Product Development and Marketing

Cymetrix, a provider of revenue cycle management applications for health care organizations, has partnered with Siemens Healthcare to provide Siemens clients with financial system conversion support…WellDoc has integrated its diabetes management platform with AllScripts' EHR system…CDW Healthcare has partnered with Greenway Medical Technologies on a comprehensive EHR system.

Personnel

Melissa Rutala -- associate director of the Arizona Health-e Connection -- has been named the group's CEO…Daniel Wisniewski -- former CIO of home medical care provider CCS Medical -- has been named senior vice president, business operations of CardioNet, a provider of wireless medical technology…the Certification Commission for Health IT has appointed three new members to its board of trustees: Richard Campanelli, director of government relations for health and human services for Washington operations of Lockheed Martin; John Derr, senior vice president and chief technology strategic officer at Golden Living, a health care provider for elderly individuals; and Andrew Wiesenthal of Deloitte Consulting; in addition to 11 commissioners.
Greg Wingrove -- former vice president of corporate accounts, Ortho Americas, for Smith & Nephew, an R&D firm for orthopedics and wound management -- has been named vice president of corporate accounts for RF Technologies…Doug Duskin -- former CFO of Brambles Industries' document management division Recall North America -- has been named CFO of Outcomes Health Information Solutions...Marc Holland -- former president of Systems Research Services, a health IT market research company -- has been named vice president, market research of HIMSS Analytics...David Robinson -- executive adviser for health IT company athenahealth -- has been named to the company's board of directors.


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