M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
EMSystems, a developer of IT systems for ED and emergency services providers, has acquired competitor MedMedia for an undisclosed sum...Eliza Corporation, a provider of integrated health care communication tools, has acquired Sprigley, the developer of a social networking service and multi-channel recommendation engine for the health care industry.
Contracts
Affiliated Computer Services has received a three-year $4 million contract from the Wyoming Department of Health to implement a statewide EHR and health information exchange system; ACS also won a three-year, $4.5 million contract to develop and maintain the Kentucky Department of Medicaid Services' health information exchange...Hamilton Community Health Network in Michigan will implement GE Healthcare's EHR software; Centegra Health System in Illinois also has implemented GE Healthcare's EHR system.
UMass Memorial Health Care has selected Allscripts' EHR and practice management software...Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey will use NaviNet's multi-payer online portal...Prime Healthcare Services in California has extended its contract with Broadlane to use its supply chain cost reduction and operations improvement services for another five years...Caritas Christi Health Care in Boston will use Microsoft's Amalga Unified Intelligence System and HealthVault PHR platform...the Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a contract worth up to $60 million to Document Storage Systems for claims processing.
University of California-Irvine Medical Center has implemented Surgical Information Systems' automated anesthesia information system...Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon has selected Chamberlin Edmonds and Associates' patient eligibility tools...Siemens Healthcare will continue to provide the University of Pennsylvania Health System with 24-hour integrated service management for diagnostic systems and biomedical devices under a new, seven-year, $135 million contract...Eastern Maine Medical Center has implemented Versus Technology's real-time patient flow and patient volume management systems.
Product Development and Marketing
eClinicalWorks has integrated its EHR and PHR software with Healthwise's patient education products...The American Medical Group Association, the Medical Group Management Association and Perot Systems will partner to offer EHR-related training and implementation services to newly established health IT regional extension centers...Allscripts will integrate its practice management and revenue cycle management software with Intuit's Quicken Health Bill Pay to expedite patient bill payment...Health.com and RightHealth.com announced a strategic marketing partnership.
Personnel
The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services has named Lynn O'Mara as the state's health IT project manager...Michael Nauman, senior vice president and CIO at OSF Healthcare System in Illinois, has been named corporate vice president and CIO of Children's Hospital and Health System in Milwaukee...former National Coordinator for Health IT Robert Kolodner has joined Open Health Tools, an open-source health IT community, as its chief health information officer.