M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
The Federal Trade Commission has approved TriZetto's proposed $133 million cash purchase of Quality Care Solutions.
Contracts
St. Luke's Health System has selected EHR and practice management software from eClinicalWorks...Harrison Medical Center in Washington state will implement Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager...Amarillo Diagnostic Clinic in Texas has selected Allscripts Healthcare Solutions' Healthmatics Office EHR; Florida Health Care Plans has selected Allscripts' TouchWorks Practice-Management system...Florida Healthy Kids has selected Affiliated Computer Systems for a five-year, $87.3 million contract to administer Florida's Child Health Insurance Program.
John Muir Health in California will implement VISICU's eICU program...Grove Hill Medical Center in Connecticut has installed SRS Software's Chart Manager software...St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in New York has selected Meta Health Technology's software for the hospital's information management department...Wolters Kluwer Health in Pennsylvania has selected Netazza, a vendor of global data warehouse appliances, to provide analytics that can enhance the delivery of market data to pharmaceutical companies.
Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia has expanded its e-prescribing contract with Zix...Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Ohio has selected Wyndgate Technologies' SafeTrace Tx as its transfusion-management system...Siemens Medical Solutions will implement its health information tool at Virginia Hospital Center.
Product Development and Marketing
Workscape, an outsourced benefits and compensation tools vendor, has partnered with WebMD to provide an integrated tool that helps employees make decisions about benefits, treatments and providers...Thomson Micromedex and A.D.A.M., a consumer health information tools developer, have partnered to provide consumer health, drug and lab information to hospitals, health plans, health Web portals and pharmaceutical companies...Olympus will market PortBlue's PracticeSense medical practice business optimization software to its customers.
Personnel
Health Net has hired Linda Tiano, former senior vice president and general counsel at WellChoice, as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary...BidShift has named David McCaslin, former principal of McCaslin Consulting Group, as CEO...Healthwise has named Jim Giuffré, former Healthwise senior vice president for new products and custom solutions, as president and COO...Merge Technologies has hired Steven Norton, former senior vice president and CFO at Manhattan Associates, as CFO.