This Week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Xerox has purchased WaterWare Internet Services, a provider of EHR storage and pharmacy database systems, for an undisclosed amount…Private-equity firm SFW Capital Partners has acquired MD Buyline, a provider of strategic information and analyses to health care services companies, for an undisclosed amount.
Computer Programs and Systems, a community hospital information systems vendor, reported a Q4 2010 income of $6.7 million on $43.1 million in revenue…Quality Systems, a health information systems vendor, reported a Q3 2011 income of $17.5 million on $91.9 million in revenue...Omnicell, a hospital medication and supply management software provider, reported a Q4 2010 income of $700,000 on $57.3 million in revenue.

Contracts

FDA has chosen support services from Computer Sciences Corporation for the agency's scientific computing community…Florida Woman Care, an OB-GYN group, has chosen an EHR system by athenahealth…Base Technologies has awarded a contract to Harris to support the development of the Defense and Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry for the U.S. Department of Defense…Denver Health has selected patient portal technology from MEDSEEK…Holy Name Medical Center in New Jersey selected Aprima's EHR and practice management software.
Pathway Medical Technologies, an endovascular treatment developer for peripheral arterial disease, has chosen product lifecycle management software from Omnify Software…Clay County Hospital and Paris Community Hospital in Illinois have chosen patient care automation technology from Healthcare Management Systems…the Saban Free Clinic in California has chosen electrocardiogram telemedicine services from CompuMed…Parkview Health in Indiana has chosen a clinical online delivery service from Zanett.
Nash Health Care Systems in North Carolina has chosen health care-grade televisions and interactive patient education applications from TeleHealth Services…the National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected Exeter Government Services to provide a software application for its electronic user manual teaching HIPAA requirements…Palm Beach Orthopedic Institute in Florida has selected revenue cycle management services from NextGen Healthcare Information Systems.

Product Development and Marketing

GE's digital pathology joint venture Omnyx has partnered with the Government of Ontario to establish the Global Pathology Imaging Centre of Excellence in Toronto…MedeFile International, a provider of portable EHR management technology, has teamed with PrescriptionDrugs.com to offer consumers MedeFile programs…Lumidigm will include its fingerprint sensors in Verimetrics' single sign-on application for use in hospitals and emergency response vehicles.
The American Medical Association has partnered with health IT platform provider Covisint to develop an online application for physicians' quality data reporting…eMix is using VMware's infrastructure software for eMix's cloud computing service for medical imaging studies and reports…AT&T has joined with Acuo Technologies, a provider of medical imaging software, to develop vendor-neutral, cloud-based medical imaging programs…Health information exchange provider Orion Health has partnered with medical terminology management provider Health Language to standardize data between disparate systems.

Personnel

Harold Apple -- former majority owner, CEO and president of Vector Technologies, a business process outsourcer, consulting and software development company for life insurers -- has been named CEO and president of the Indiana Health Information Exchange…Kenneth Kizer -- former president, CEO and chair of health IT company Medsphere Systems and founding president and former CEO of the National Quality Forum -- has joined the board of directors of clinical decision support and analytics provider DiagnosisOne.
Paul Black -- former COO for IT company Cerner -- has joined the board of directors at Netsmart Technologies, a software provider for human services organizations…Benson Smith -- former president and COO of medical device company C.R. Bard -- has been named chair, president and CEO of medical technology provider Teleflex…Kieran Gallahue -- former president, CEO and director of respiratory disorder equipment vendor ResMed -- has been named chair and CEO of health IT products provider CareFusion.
Doug Burgum -- co-founder and chair of Arthur Ventures Growth Fund -- has been named interim president and CEO of health IT enterprise software firm Intelligent InSites…Laura Bailyn -- an attorney and business consultant with Apple -- has been named senior director of health initiatives at the not-for-profit Markle Foundation.


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