M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
Hill-Rom Holdings, a vendor of hospital equipment and location-tracking and communication devices, will acquire Volker, a vendor of health care furniture, for $85 million...Scott Silverman -- former chair and CEO of PositiveID, a developer of diabetes management and molecular diagnostic systems -- will acquire the company's personal identification chip and PHR system under a deal that includes a $200,000 note, a 10% interest in Silverman's VeriTeQ Acquisition and possible royalty payments...iMedX, a provider of health care software and services, has acquired transcription services firm Abacus Transcriptions for an undisclosed sum.
Contracts
The Crescent City Beacon Community in Louisiana has selected Mirth's interoperability and care management applications to connect health care providers and organizations...the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has selected Cognosante, a provider of health IT services, to help the state upgrade its Medicaid Management Information System...St. Vincent's HealthCare in Florida has selected Orion Health's health information exchange system.
The East Tennessee Health Information Network, a collaborative group of health systems, has selected OptumInsight's health information exchange system...Shannon Health, a health system in Texas, has selected Rothman Healthcare's patient surveillance system...Baystate Health, a health system in Massachusetts, has selected Atlas Medical Software's physician outreach and connectivity applications.
Product Development and Marketing
Allscripts and DiagnosisOne, a provider of clinical decision support and analytics services, have entered into an alliance to offer clinical decision support and performance measurement capabilities to users of Allscripts' EHR services.
Personnel
Nathan Goldstein -- former executive vice president of the Gorman Health Group, a provider of software and professional services -- has been named CEO of the company...Elizabeth McNamara has been named senior manager of the Healthcare Information Technology Division at ECG Management Consultants, a health care consulting firm...Ian McGuiness -- former senior sales executive at consulting company IMS Health -- has been named vice president of business development at Qforma, a health care analytics and predictive modeling company.
Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2011/12/22/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-december-22-2011.aspx#ixzz1i2acq0gI
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