This Week in Healthcare IT!

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Mediware, a provider of hospital ancillary software, has acquired Strategic Healthcare Group, a blood management consulting firm, for an undisclosed sum.

EHR provider Allscripts Healthcare Solutions reported a Q2 2012 adjusted net income of $8 million on $370 million in revenue, compared with a Q2 2011 adjusted net income of $15.9 million on $356.8 million in revenue.

PatientsLikeMe, a health information sharing website for patients, has taken in $2 million in equity from 11 unnamed investors.

Contracts

Cape Cod Healthcare in Massachusetts has selected Allscripts' EHR system and health information exchange connectivity platform; Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, a United-Kingdom based health care provider, also has selected Allscripts' EHR system...Montefiore Medical Center in New York has selected Phytel's outreach and population health management tool...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has deployed Prodigo Solutions' electronic procurement technology...Windsor Health Plan, a provider of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, will deploy MedHOK's care management platform for members in 28 states.

SimonMed Imaging, a medical imaging provider with locations throughout the Southwest U.S., will implement Merge Healthcare's radiology IT applications...The Iowa Department of Corrections and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections have awarded a new contract and a contract extension, respectively, to CompuMed for its electrocardiogram remote interpretation system and over-read services...Anderson Hospital in Illinois has selectedM*Modal's clinical documentation and speech recognition technology...Regional Medical Center at Memphis has deployed Surgical Information Systems' perioperative and anesthesiology IT system...Lone Star MSO, a medical practice management services organization in Texas, will offer CareCloud's cloud-based software and services to its medical practice clients.

Product Development and Marketing

Prior Knowledge, a provider of predictive database technology, is partnering with EHR vendor Practice Fusion's research division to identify and analyze new public health trends...Standard Register, a health care communications firm, has partnered with managed care consulting firm Cody Consulting to develop a health plan-specific suite of project management software and services...Hipcricket, a mobile marketing and advertising company, is extending its partnership with ISIS, a provider of technology for sexual health promotion and disease prevention, to provide mobile health resources to teenagers and young adults...Integrated Document Solutions has announced a partnership to integrate Health Fidelity's clinical natural language processing technology with its health IT applications.

Global Health Voyager, an international medical management firm, has entered into a memorandum of understanding to market, sell and distribute Janus Medical Systems' personal health record management system...The William Lehman Injury Research Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has partnered with the Brazilian Olympic Committee on a pilot project to deliver telehealth services to Brazilian athletes at the London Summer Olympic Games...Alere Health, a health management services provider, has partnered with AT&T to develop and offer a mobile health diabetes management tool...Healthland, a hospital software vendor, has licensed and will market 3M Health Information Systems' medical coding software.

Personnel

Edwin Miller -- who formerly held leadership roles with EHR vendors Practice Fusion and athenahealth -- has been named vice president of product management at CareCloud, a provider of cloud-based EHR, practice management and medical billing software and services...Douglas Theide -- former vice president of business development at the Gerson Lehrman Group, a marketing consulting firm -- has been named vice president for business development at Qforma, a provider of marketing data analytics services for pharmaceutical and medical device companies...Dan Welch -- former senior vice president of global sales and operations at Mitratech Holdings, a provider of legal- and compliance-related software and services -- has been named COO at HealthEdge, a health insurance software company.

Randy Fox -- former CIO for GE Plastics, GE Supply and GE Energy -- has been named vice president and CIO at GE Healthcare; Karim Karti -- former regional president and CEO of GE Healthcare -- has been named vice president and chief marketing officer at GE Healthcare...Ralph Reyes -- founding partner at KLAS Enterprises, a health IT research firm -- has been named vice president of sales at ClearDATA, a health care cloud-computing platform and service provider; Jonathan Russell -- who formerly held leadership roles at GE Healthcare, Healthcare Management Systems and other health care companies -- has been named vice president of sales at ClearDATA...Frank Ingari -- former CEO at Essence Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage health plan -- has been named CEO at NaviNet, a health care communication network.

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