M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
GE Healthcare has agreed to buy the core laboratory diagnostics business of Abbott Laboratories in Illinois for $8.13 billion in cash...Affiliated Computer Services will purchase Albion, which specializes in integrated software for the health and human services markets, for $30 million...Hospital information systems vendor Document Storage Systems has acquired Sage Health Management Solutions, a vendor of radiology computerized order entry software.
Contracts
The Atlanta VA Medical Center has licensed injury detection and prevention systems from TheraDoc...Spectrum Laboratory Network in North Carolina will implement Thomson Healthcare software to enable physicians to access test results and other lab data via smart phones and PDAs...Resolve Health Plan Administrators in Florida has awarded a three-year contract to MphasiS Healthcare Solutions to manage its employee claims...Talecris Biotherapeutics has implemented three l-many products to optimize rebate, chargeback and accurate pricing revenues.
The Greenville Health System's University Medical Center in South Carolina is adding Agfa Healthcare's IMPAX Radiology Information System to its existing IMPAX image management system... Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital in Texas has upgraded its MEDHOST ED information system by adding the vendor's physician documentation and order entry software modules...Avera McKennan Transplant Institute in South Dakota has implemented HKS Medical Information Systems' software to track the medical history and progress of patients undergoing organ transplants.
San Jose Medical Group in California has signed a contract with Medical Present Value to manage its payment variances and improve cash flow...The Central Florida Regional Health Information Organization has selected InterSystems' HealthShare tool as its health data exchange platform...Samaritan Health Services in Oregon has selected Quovadx to power its financial-interoperability tool...Phoenix Health Systems has chosen Diagnostic Laboratory Services for IT disaster recovery planning services.
Product Development and Marketing
Plexis Healthcare Systems has partnered with Centro Information Systems to provide new and existing Plexis members with custom business forms, member ID cards and checks...Healthwise has partnered with vielife, a vendor of global health and performance management tools, to help improve people's health decisions...CME Pilot is partnering with the Brain Trauma Foundation in New York state to launch a new e-learning portal in 2007.
Pulse Systems will integrate its combined practice management and EHR system with IntrinsiQ's IntelliDose chemotherapy management software to facilitate the management of chemotherapy patients...Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has partnered with Wolters Kluwer Health, a vendor of medical and drug information services, to deliver Wolters Kluwer Health's clinical content to users of Allscripts' EHR tools...Cedara Software and InSite One, a Storage Service Provider, have partnered to provide online radiology services.
Personnel
VersusMed, a medical information provider, has named Bob Kinder, a former employee at Passport Health Communications, as vice president and CFO.