M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
McKesson has completed its acquisition of Per-Se Technologies, provider of financial and administrative tools for hospitals, for $1.8 billion...3M reported a Q4 2006 net income of $1.2 billion, compared with a Q4 2005 net income of $746 million; 3M also reported a 2006 calendar year net income of $3.9 billion, compared with a 2005 calendar year net income of $3.1 billion.
Contracts
Siemens Medical Solutions has selected KNOVA Software's KNOVA 7 for knowledge-enabled customer service to its health care customers...Physicians Plus in Wisconsin has chosen HealthMedia to provide a health, wellness and disease management campaign for its 100,000 members...Princeton HealthCare System in New Jersey will expand its use of Misys Healthcare Systems' technology by adding Misys CPR and Misys Homecare.
Emory Healthcare's Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy in Georgia has installed ZONARE Medical Systems' z.one ultrasound system...Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania has signed a licensing agreement with Diversinet, a developer of mobile authentication security and access tools, for its MobiSecure Wallet and Vault security products...Phoenix Health Systems has signed a six-year agreement to provide IT outsourcing services for JPS Health Network in Texas.
Affiliated Computer Services has signed a five-year, $8.7 million contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare to provide a medical management review system...ValleyCare Health System in California will implement network services from AT&T...Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico has implemented analytics software from Practical Data Solutions...Southwestern Vermont Medical Center has implemented mobile software from PatientKeeper.
Aetna has selected MD On-Line for connectivity to check the insurance eligibility and status of deductibles and claims...Louisiana State University's health care services division has selected PHNS, a vendor of IT and business-process services for hospitals, for health data management consulting services...Inova Health System in Virginia has awarded a $3.4 million contract to QuadraMed for its Smart Identity Management tools...Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico has implemented Practical Data Solutions' data modeling and reporting tools.
Product Development and Marketing
CyberMedx Medical Systems, a subsidiary of EnounterCare Solutions, has partnered with Atlantic Medical Specialties for the distribution of its Electronic Medical Data Exchange, WaveLynx and Verbal-Eyes products to the hospital and home care market... iMedica has partnered with CHD Meridian Healthcare to offer iMedica's EHR and practice management system and patient relationship manager to CHD Meridian's 215 health facilities nationwide.
Personnel
Affiliated Computer Services has named Christopher Deelsnyder, a former senior vice president with a bioinformatics technology company, as senior vice president and managing director of ACS Government Healthcare Solutions...Grasp Systems, a health care software provider, has hired Michael Wellborn, a former employee of Managed Business Solutions, to be its new director for health IT.