M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
athenahealth, a provider of online business services for physician practices, has completed its acquisition of Anodyne Health Partners, a provider of software-as-a-service business intelligence software...Delta Health Technologies, a provider of homecare information systems and services, has acquired AppointMate, a developer of Web-based appointment, scheduling and alerts systems, for an undisclosed sum.
Contracts
Hoboken University Medical Center in New Jersey has implemented Medsphere Systems' OpenVista EHR system...Health Sciences South Carolina, a collaboration of state universities and delivery systems, has selected Recombinant Data, a vendor of clinical research data warehouse technology, and data management and messaging systems vendor Sun Microsystems to build an integrated research platform.
San Antonio Community Hospital in California has implemented the latest version of the White Stone Group's TRACE suite of electronic communications software...DeSoto Memorial Hospital in Florida has selected Franklin & Seidelmann's remote radiology services delivery system.
Genesis Health System in Iowa has implemented AeroScout's Web-based, real-time asset tracking and management system...BryanLGH Medical Center in Nebraska will implement and integrate Salar's patient notes and billing data management software with its Seimens EHR system.
Product Development and Marketing
Cerner and CDW Healthcare are partnering to provide CDW clients with access to Cerner's EHR systems...WebMD, in partnership with British pharmacy retailer Boots, has launched Boots WebMD, a comprehensive health information Web site in the U.K.
Passport Health Communications and Healthcare Management Systems will continue their partnership to include Passport's patient access management services in HMS' health information systems and platforms...VeriChip and the Diabetes Research Institute have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at advancing the development of VeriChip's glucose-sensing RFID microchip.
Personnel
Joel Taylor, former chief technology officer for Manhattan's Physician Group in New York, has been named chief health care officer of ITelagen, a vendor of EHR products...Jerry Stanger -- former executive director of the Fiscal Agent and Medicaid Management Information System procurement project for California's Medicaid program -- has been named vice president of business development for Consumer Health Technologies' government sector.
Axolotl, a vendor of clinical messaging software and health information exchange platforms, has promoted Glenn Keet from executive vice president of sales and marketing to president, and CFO Lalo Valdez has been promoted to COO of the company...Clinical software vendor CliniComp has promoted COO Alan Portela to president of the company...Paul Carmody -- former vice president of product development at Rackspace, a Web-hosting service firm -- has been named senior vice president of product development and strategy at Broadlane, a health care provider cost-management firm.