This week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

 HMS Holdings, a vendor of health insurance software services, will acquire HealthDataInsights, a claims review firm and Medicare recovery audit contractor, for $400 million...Grant Thornton LLP, a consulting firm, has acquired the health solutions division of IT consulting company Computer Technology Associates for an undisclosed sum.
Perminova, a developer of online software for cardiology centers, has secured $7 million in venture capital funding...AmbiCom Holdings, a developer of wireless medical products, has signed an investment agreement for up to $1 million with Kodiak Capital Group...Comprehend Systems, a developer of data analytics tools, has secured $1.2 million in seed round funding with contributions from multiple investors. 

Contracts

Athens Regional Medical Center in Georgia has upgraded its Omnicell medication and supply management tools and analytics software...Lompoc Valley Medical Center in California will implement Allscripts' acute care EHR system...UC Health in Ohio has chosen Ciena's performance network connectivity platform...San Francisco VA Medical Center has deployed DSS' chemotherapy manager system.
CalOptima, a regional extension center in California, has picked Office Ally as one of its preferred EHR vendors...Conway Medical Center in South Carolina has chosen PatientKeeper's automated physician workflow and clinical applications...the John C. Lincoln Health Network in Arizona has picked iSirona's device connectivity tool...Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center in Kentucky has selected ChartLogic's EHR system.
ProHealth Care in Wisconsin has chosen Epic System's EHR platform...Sedgwick County Health Center in Colorado has picked Prognosis Health Information Systems' EHR system...Lakeland Regional Health System in Florida has chosen RelayHealth's health information exchange platform...The U.S. Army has awarded four contracts to CACI International to provide software for the U.S. Army's Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support System.

Product Development and Marketing

Medicomp Systems has imbedded its documentation and patient management application into MED3000's EHR platform...athenahealth -- a provider of cloud-based practice management, EHR and care coordination services -- will collaborate with Medley Health, a provider of membership practice marketing and communications services for independent primary care providers, on product integration, co-marketing programs and sales outreach initiatives.

Personnel

Edward Shortliffe -- an adjunct professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University in New York -- is resigning as president and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association...Michael Chrissos -- a partner at Ann Arbor Bone and Joint Surgery, a site director for the University of Michigan Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and director of orthopedic trauma services at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Michigan -- has been appointed to the Michigan Health IT Commission; Gregory Forzley -- CMIO at Saint Mary's Health Care and medical director of Advantage Health Physicians Network in Michigan -- has been re-appointed to the board.
Rahul Singa -- former president and CEO of WorldDoc, a provider of health risk assessments, member portals and consumer engagement programs for insurers -- has been named chief medical officer at MedHOK, a vendor of care management and compliance software...James Karis -- former president and CEO of biotechnology firm Entelos -- has been named CEO of CollabRx, a developer of cancer treatment databases...Bharadwaj Heragu -- former vice president of quality for Wipro, an IT services and consulting company -- has been named chief quality officer at Anthelio, a health care technology and business processes company.
Viet Nguyen -- a pediatrician at Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Associates -- has been named CMIO at Systems Made Simple, a provider of health IT platforms...Randall Lipps -- chair, president and CEO of Omnicell, a provider of health IT services -- has been named to the board of directors of Radisphere, a provider of radiology products...Peter Urbain -- formerly of IBM -- has been named senior vice president of partner sales at Merge Healthcare; the company also named Steven Tolle -- former senior vice president and general manager at health IT company OptumInsight -- its senior vice president of solutions management.

Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2011/11/11/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-november-11-2011.aspx#ixzz1duMZsY41