This Week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

PerkinElmer, a human and environmental health technology company, will acquire Caliper Life Sciences, an imaging and detection company, for about $600 million...Automatic Data Processing, a business process outsourcing and software company, has acquired Asparity Decision Solutions, a vendor of decision support software and consumer behavioral data analytics services, for an undisclosed sum...ImpactRx, a prescription market research and IT company, has acquired TargetRx, a provider of physician market research services, for an undisclosed sum.

Computer Sciences Corp. has acquired AppLabs Technologies, a software testing and quality management services provider, for an undisclosed sum...the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has acquired so2say, a provider of customized media products and communications services, for an undisclosed sum...MD On-Line, a provider of data exchange tools, has acquired health care communications company Strategic Edge Communications for an undisclosed sum.

Telehealth provider Teladoc has raised $18.6 million in funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Cardinal Partners, HLM Venture Partners, Trident Capital and New Capital Partners.

Contracts

The Oregon Health Authority, the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Corporation and the Oregon Department of Human Services have selected L.R. Kimball, the engineering infrastructure subsidiary of CDI Corporation, and subcontractor Science Applications International for cyber-security analyses and planning for the state's health insurance exchange...Royal Caribbean Cruises has selected eSeaCare's EHR system for many of its cruise ships...CMS has chosen 3M's ICD-10 medical coding transition tool...North Clinic in Minnesota will deploy eClinicalWorks' EHR application...Wasatch Pediatrics in Utah has selected Phreesia's automated patient check-in system...MedCenter One in North Dakota has picked Elsevier/CPM Resource Center's clinical decision support and documentation tools for EHRs.

The University of Michigan Health System has chosen Connexall USA's clinical alarm and alert data integration system for medical and communication devices at the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital...Via Christi Health in Kansas has selected QuadraMed's EHR identity management system...the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies, a Medicaid managed care plan in Pennsylvania, will deploy NaviNet's mobile clinical care alerts and e-prescribing services...New Directions Behavioral Health, a behavioral health care company serving four states, has deployed ActiveDocs Opus' document automation software...MidMichigan Health and California-based Citrus Valley Health Partners will use Allscripts' technology to connect and coordinate patient care and will offer Allscripts' EHR system to affiliated physicians.

Product Development and Marketing

Inland Northwest Health Services' Physicians Services technology division will offer Greenway Medical Technologies' integrated EHR and practice management software to its hospitals and physician practices...PhoneFactor has formed a reseller partnership to provide phone-based authentication services to Imprivata customers.

Personnel

Scott Kantor -- former senior vice president and CFO at BackOffice Associates, a provider of data migration and data governance tools -- has been named senior vice president and CFO at Advanced Health Media, a provider of digital media, sales support and compliance management tools for health care...Lynne Thomas Gordon -- associate vice president for hospital operations and director of the Children's Hospital at Rush University Medical Centerin Chicago -- has been named COO of the American Health Information Management Association...Richard Nevins -- former medical director at National Health Enhancement Systems -- will oversee GlobalMed's expansion of clinical telehealth applications.

Geeta Nayyar -- former principal medical officer at Vangent -- has been named CMO at AT&T...Patricia Mechael -- former director of strategic application of mobile technology for public health and development at the Earth Institute Center for Global Health and Economic Development -- has been named executive director of the United Nations Foundation and mHealth Alliance Partnership Board...Hon Pak -- former CIO at the U.S. Army Medical Department's Office of the Surgeon General -- has been named senior adviser to AirStrip Technologies, a provider of mobile medical monitoring systems.

Leon Rodriguez -- former chief of staff and deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division -- has been named director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights...Michael Freeman -- former business development and government contracts official at Taylor International Services -- has been named business development manager for NuPhysicia's medical services brand...Jean-Marc Edier -- former vice president of health and human services systems for MAXIMUS, a provider of consulting and program management services for government health programs -- has been named vice president of federal programs for Cognosante, a provider of health IT to state and federal governments and regional organizations...Charles Fazio -- former CMO and senior vice president at Medica Health Plans in Minnesota -- has been named CMO of Gestalt Health, a health IT services company.

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