This Week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Deloitte has acquired Intrasphere Technologies, a drug safety and regulatory consulting company, for an undisclosed sum...Web-based marketing and health consulting firm M3 USA has acquired Doctors.net.uk, a U.K.-based physician network, for an undisclosed sum...Lockheed Martin will acquire QTC Holdings, a provider of outsourced medical evaluation systems, for an undisclosed sum...PracticeMax, a vendor of outsourced billing and collection services for physicians and a reseller of EHR software, has acquired billing and collection services provider American Billing Services for an undisclosed sum.

Ignite Health, the health care marketing subsidiary of InVentiv Health, has acquired Syndicated Methods, a mobile development firm, for an undisclosed sum...TransFirst, an electronic payment processing company for health care providers, has acquired Solveras Payment Solutions for an undisclosed amount...the Community Health Information Collaborative, a regional health information organization, is merging with the Minnesota Health Information Exchange...Millennium HealthCare Solutions, a provider of various health IT services, will acquire Premier Technology Resources, a provider of medical billing and technology tools, for an undisclosed amount.

Awarepoint, a provider of real-time location services for health care, has secured $27 million in Series F financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and contributions from Top Tier Capital Partners, Cardinal Partners, Venrock and Jafco Ventures.

Contracts

The District of Columbia's regional extension center has selected CapSite as one of its certified health IT vendors...CMS will deploy Terremark Federal Group's cloud computing services for its Healthcare.gov plan finder and components of its state-based health insurance exchange program; CMS also has awarded a five-year, $72.3 million contract renewal to durable medical equipment supplier NHIC...Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital in Mississippi has selected NextGen Healthcare Information Systems' automated health IT applications...Advanced Diagnostic Radiology in Maryland, Reston Radiology Consultants in Virginia, Shady Grove Radiological Consultants in Maryland and Washington Radiology Consultants in Virginia have selected Merge Healthcare's radiology information system.

Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania has selected Altosoft's clinical pathology lab system...Premier Purchasing Partners has renewed its medication and supply automation agreement with Omnicell...Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services in Arizona has selected DigitalPersona's data protection and access security software and EHR and fingerprint reading systems...Delaware Health Hub has selected Aprima Medical Software as one of its certified EHR, practice management and revenue management systems providers.

Product Development and Marketing

GE Healthcare has selected IT provider Clerity Healthcare to provide technical support services for GE's practice management and EHR system customers.

Personnel

Carladenise Edwards has resigned as president and CEO of Cal eConnect, a health information exchange organization in California, and will serve as a senior adviser to the organization...Net.Orange, a data aggregator, has named Rob Beardall -- former CMIO at Exempla Healthcare in Colorado -- as CMO and executive vice president, Troy Roth -- former senior vice president of revenue cycle product strategy for Accuro Healthcare Solutions andMedAssets -- as senior vice president of solutions strategy, and Scott Leach -- former regional controller at AmerisourceBergen -- as controller...George Gellert -- former CMO and executive vice president for Hcorp -- has been named regional medical informatics officer at Christus Santa Rosa Health System in Texas.

Carl Dvorak -- executive vice president of Epic Systems -- has been re-elected as chair of the HIMSS EHR Association; Charles Jarvis -- vice president of health care services and government relations for NextGen Healthcare -- has been re-elected as vice chair; and Jason Colquitt -- executive director of research services at Greenway Medical Technologies -- has been named to the executive committee...David Guzman -- former chief information and technology officer at Acxiom, a provider of marketing and IT management services -- has been named CIO at pharmaceutical wholesaler H.D. Smith...Hal Andrews -- co-founder of Mainland Morgan & Co., a holding company with health care interests -- and Peter Kilbridge -- senior research director at the Advisory Board Company, which publishes iHealthBeat -- have been appointed to the advisory board of Lincor Solutions, a provider of bedside computing applications.

Microsoft named Michael Robinson -- general manager of the  public sector for the Middle East and Africa at the company -- as general manager of U.S. health and life sciences and Dennis Schmuland -- the company's national director of health plan industry solutions and founder and former CEO of health IT company Pointshare -- as chief health strategy officer...Teresa Anderson -- former consultant with the American Nurses Credentialing Center -- has been named chief nursing officer at Voalte, a developer of health care software for smartphones.

Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2011/8/26/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-august-26-2011.aspx#ixzz1WnmjRFuG