M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
Compuware, a vendor of hospital software applications, has completed its acquisition of Web optimization firm Gomez for $295 million...QHR Technologies, a health IT firm in British Columbia, will purchase Clinicare, an EHR provider, for $4.7 million in cash and stock...investment firms TPG Capital and CPP Investment Board will acquire IMS Health, a pharmaceutical database firm, for $5.2 billion.
Ingenix, UnitedHealth Group's IT and consulting subsidiary, will acquire CareMedic Systems, a developer of revenue cycle management applications, for an undisclosed sum...VeriChip, a vendor of implantable RFID chips, has completed an all-stock acquisition of Steel Vault, a vendor of identity theft protection systems, for an undisclosed amount.
Health IT firm Eclipsys reported a Q3 2009 net income of $3.9 million on $125.5 million in revenue.
Contracts
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded Northrop Grumman a five-year, $16 million contract to create IT resources for supporting pathogenic virus research...the Catholic Independent Practice Association in New York will implement eClinicalWorks' EHR and practice management software...Trinity Health System will implement seven of Elsevier's online clinical decision support applications.
North Mississippi Medical Center has selected Eclipsys' Sunrise Enterprise integrated suite of clinical software...the Carolina eHealth Alliance has selected TELUS Health Solutions' Oacis HIE system...the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has designated Nitor Group as the sole-source contractor to move the Nationwide Health Information Network into production status.
Product Development and Marketing
Sharp Community Medical Group and Graybill Medical Group in California are collaborating to develop patient management and EHR applications for physicians...Covisint, a subsidiary of Compuware, and Carefx will partner to help doctors capture and share data across different information systems...Telehealth Services strategically partnered with GE Healthcare to offer nurse call monitoring and communications systems to hospitals...DecisionOne, a technology support services provider, will provide maintenance services to Allscripts' clients.
Personnel
The Certification Commission for Health IT announced that Mark Leavitt will retire from his role as chair of the commission on March 31, 2010...Ellie Henry -- former senior director of access at Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania -- has been named revenue-cycle solutions analyst for Passport Health Communications, a developer of administrative, clinical and financial applications for health care providers...MEDecision has promoted Scott Storrer, the company's president and COO, to president and CEO.