M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
TriZetto has completed its acquisition of Quality Care Solutions for about $130 million in cash...Revenue Management Solutions, a health care receivables processor, has acquired MedRx, a hosted claims processing automation company from Critical Technologies.
Contracts
I-many announced that AVANIR Pharmaceuticals has selected its tool for life sciences to manage its Medicaid managed care rebate processes... FamilyCare in Portland, Ore., has selected RAM Technologies' HEALTHsuite enterprise administrative software tool to administer its Medicare and Medicaid product offerings...Orion Health announced that Spacelabs Healthcare, a global patient monitoring and connectivity firm, has selected its Symphonia messaging and mapping toolkit...Hamilton General Hospital in Texas will implement Optio Healthcare's document imaging and management-based EHR software.
Harrison Medical Center in Washington state will adopt Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager...Galvanon announced that Intermountain Orthopaedics in Idaho has selected its MediKiosk system...the National Library of Medicine has selected Vivisimo's search functionality to help with searches on its Web site...EDS received a $91.7 million contract extension from the state of Kansas to continue to provide fiscal agent services...Sentillion announced that Asante Health System in Oregon has selected its single sign-on application.
Product Development and Marketing
Chartware and Visual Healthcare have entered an alliance under which Chartware will use Visual Healthcare's clinical decision support technology in its EHR and Visual Healthcare will use Chartware's clinical documentation component in its EHR...Misys Healthcare Systems will offer Wellsoft's emergency department information system as part of its Misys CPR, a Web-based tool that provides enterprise clinical management via CPOE.
Personnel
Jerry Baker, former president and COO of Info-X, has been named president and a member of the board of directors at Medical Records Online...Fred Christian, former CIO for Coalition America Corporation, has been named CIO of Navicure...Computer Sciences Corporation announced that Dr. Robert Wah, former acting deputy national coordinator for health IT at HHS, has been named vice president and chief medical officer of its Federal Sector business unit.